The record-union., 1899-10-30
QUIT IN The NINTH INNING.
THE OAKLANDERS BALKED AT
THE UMPIRE.
Though They Had a Chance to Win
the Game, They Quit With
Their Score a Cipher.
Gilt Edge 9, Oakland o.

| Gilt Edge y, Oakland 0.
That was the result of yesterdays
game as announced by Umpire Jack
| O'Connell, when at the end of the first
half of the ninth inning the Oaklanders
refused to play the game out
1t so happened that at the beginning
Of the ninth and last inning the score
| stood to l in favor OF the Oakland
tribe. 1t looked a whole lot as though
| the game was lost, but when the locals
went to the bat the crowd woke up
and did some tall roofing. There was
continuous roar from the beginning to
the end OF the miX-up, and when 1t
was over the rooterS hugged themselves
and gloated over the victory without
stopping to analyze it.
| Not since the second inning had the
locals pegged, when they faced Harper
in the ninth. Then big Mike O'Con-
nor dug his spikes into the earth.
ground his teeth and sailed the ball
into the left field for starter Truck
erino" Eagan rolled grounder to Har-
per, and the trouble commenced Har-
per saw a great chance for a neat
double, but he was too anxious He
SHE'D the ball toward the second stop,
|
stretched paws, and big Mike went on
to third while Truckerino'' f1uttered
down to second, and the ball was on.
Stanley popped one into Moskiman's
hands, and then Harper, for some rea-
son unexplained and unexplainable,
purposely gave Doyle base on balls.
and the corners were all occupied.
Doyle has not of late been finding the
ball with any degree of certainty, and
after he was safely anchored on the
initial Timothy Shanahan faced the
music.
| Tim bunted one down to Harper, and
the old man, still working for a double,
or better, shot O'Connor out at the
plate. Hammond sent the ball to
Hutchinson to nip Shanahan, but it was
a little low, rolled off a few feet and
stopped. "Old Hutch" was after it
like a flash and returned it to Ham
mond to shut out '"Truckerino,'' who
was on the home stretch
And then came the end The crowd
and Umpire O'Connell said the runner
was safe. The Oakland people and a
few unprejudiced people who had a
good view thought he was out. The
tribe from Oakland gathered about the
umpire, protesting, gesticulating and
kicking generally, and while they were
! doing it Doyle, who had been kindly
assisted to first by Harper, kept agi-
tating the gravel and finally crossed
the plate before the Oakland people re-
membered that he was in the game.
Timothy Shanahan followed Doyle at
his best clip, but Hammond spotted
him before he reached the plate, and
the side was out.
But the OaklanderS were riled all the
way through. They insisted that Eagan
was out and clamored at O'Connell to
change his decision. This O'Connell re-
fused to do, and the Oakland people
announced that unless he did so they
would withdraw from the game
O'Connell still refused, and O'Connell
declared the local people winners by a
score of 9 to o, the game was over,
and the crowd hugged itself and howled
! with delight
Twice before had O'Connell been crit
icised. Once when Stanley was ap-
parently out at second, he was called
safe and once when Dunleavy was
caught at the same station, he too,
was called safe, the only difference be-
/ ing that the locals expired before Stan
ley scored, while Dunleavy, owing to a
studied grouping of the locals about
a batted ball, which nobody took, was
allowed to score.
The game was fast from start to fin
ish. Both Doyle and Harper were III
fine form and very effective, and the
support on both sides was par excellent
The game was a good one, even though
marred by a choice specimen of O'Con-
nor's long suit language, and by
| kicks" timely and otherwise.
The following is the plot of the
trouble as furnished by Scorer Griffin:
SCORERS NOTE-On account of a
dispute over decision rendered by the
umpire the game was called during the
| first half of the ninth inning, after two
men were out The visiting team refus-
| ed to continue playing and left the field,
| whereupon the game was forfeited to the
home team by Umpire OConnell by
score of nine to nothing.
The ninth inning was thrown out and
fog that reason the players records in
the tabluated score following are for
but eight innings: