The record-union., 1899-09-03
ANOTHER FOR SACRAMENTO,
LOCALS A PEG NEARER THAT
PENNANT.
A Big Saturday Crowd Witnesses a
Good Ball Game of Ten
Innings.

Sacramento D, San Francisco s.
1t was nip and tuck and tuck won
The dust rolled up in clouds and
sWarms, and in the thick of the murk
the locals and Henry Harris picked
men played ball. There was no doubt
about the grit in the players On them,
too, for that matter Real estate was
flying around in all directions and none
SO poor but that they got a corner on
lot of it.
Regardless of the mixed conditions of
the earth and the ether the article OF
ball offered to the big Saturday crowd
was high class. There was nothing
slow about it, and Uncle" Harris men
gave the hard Uniting locals a race for
their money.
Five and one-half innings were fought
out before anything of Importance hap
pened, though IN the first, the visitors
pulled out of the nine-hole in a man
ner which befuddled the cranks. 1t
looked like cinch that the Sacramento
people would do something, but they
didn't. Mclaughlin drove a safe one
to right field for two bags, and ad-
Vanced to third on Harvey's safe bunt.
O'ConnOr dropped a hard one to Sulli-
van and was out, and Harve was
pinched between first and second.
Eagan rolled one to Krug and was out
at first, and Sprinter Mclaughlin made
a comfortless die Of it at third, and the
chance had vanished.
AS heretofore stated it was not until
the sixth inning that anybody pressed
the button, and it was San Francisco
that did the trick Hilderbrand, the
hard hitting right fielder, hit a safe one
to Eagan and took second on Muller's
sacrifice. Krug added variety by flying
out to Mclaughlin, and Sullivan came
to the scratch with a base hit to CEN
ter field, scoring Hilderbrand.
In the next inning, the seventh, the
locals tied the score like this: Iberg
gave Eagan free transportation to first
and Stanley struck three times and
out. Doyle was out to Hilderbrand,
and the chance looked like skim milk.
Eagan started to second and SWindells
pumped the ball out into center field in
his efforts to head him off, and Eagan
kept going until he landed on the third
cornerstone. 'Old Hoss" Shanahan is
a great pinch hitter, and he pinched.
He tore the ball out between Joshua
Riley and Carl Krug for a base, and
While he was doing the act Eagan
crossed the plate.
And then, just to show what they
could do, the Gilts took a squirt in the
eighth and brought in two tallies. Shee-
han hit safe to right field for a base
and went to second on Hilderbrand's
bad throw to the initial Mclaughlin
dropped one to Swindells and was out
at first, but Sheehan camped at the
third station. Then Iberg gave Harvey
a base on balls, purposely, and O'Con-
nor hit an easy one down to Krug, who
missed it, and Sheehan scored, Harvey
on third. Harve came in on Eagan's
long fly to Pyne and the crowd yelled
long and loud.
But in their half of the eighth the
visitors returned the compliment
Brockoff drove one to Stulz, who threw
high to O'Connor and the runner was
safe. Iberg did the right thing-struck
out-and Hilderbrand. the hard batting
right fielder picked up one of Doyle's
curves and lifted it over the bulletin
board for home run, rounding up
Brockoff and tieing the score.
In the ninth inning neither side
scored, but in the tenth the locals won
the game. McLduSHlln look a DdSe on
balls and slid down to second. Harve
bunted safe and Mclaughlin was on
third. Harve went down to second on
a passed ball, and then O'Connor and
Eagan succumbed to Ibergs curves and
warmed the bench 1t was left for
Matt Stanley to save the chance and
he responded. The old fellow smashed
the leather against the left field fence
for two bases, and Mclaughlin and
Harvey romped in, and the game was
won. The visitors failed to cross the
tape in their half of the inning.
Iberg and Doyle both pitched good
steady ball, and it was hard to choose
between them. Jack O'Connell umpired
a good game, though at times a triae
raw on balls and strikes All in all
the game was a good one, and gives an
idea of what may be expected this aft
ernoon when Harvey and Fitzpatrick
do the pitching. The official score
keepers record of events. looks like
this: