The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-11-13
ELEVEN IANINGS---NO RUNS
GREATEST BALL GAME THIS
SEASON.
Both Teams Were on Edge, and
Neither Gould Gain a Point
Over the Other.

| 1t looks like a record
Eleven innings.
| No runs.
Game drawn to allow the San Fran
cisco people to catch the late train.
! That was baseball at Oak Park yes
terday afternoon-the kind of a game
seen once in a lifetime and no oftener
The game the baseball public has
waited for through the long, weary
drift of years arrived yesterday. To
call it a great contest would be tame
1t was decidedly the greatest effort ever
put up on a local diamond, and eclipses
any game played during the season OF
1899, East or West
A racing man would have called the
diamond SLOW" and it is barely posi-
BILE that the ball, after touching earth,
Jagged the millioneth part of a second,
but to all intents and purposes the
whiskery, smoky ones were just as
whiskery and smoky as in the days
when the diamond had known no trace
of moisture for broiling, blistering
months.
The game was good to see, and for
once the pessimist joined hands with
the optimist, and the smile-krinkles in
the face of the rooter were a sight to
| behold.
The locals tried long and hard to
down the husky gang from the land of
fogs, but neither Harvey's shoots and
curves = complex to a degree seldom
equaled-nor O'Connor's generalship-
and nobody doubts his ability in that
line-could coax the eagle bird of vic
tory to roost upon the ridgepole of the
tent of the children of the House OF
Sacramento.
And on the other side, the people en-
gineered by Uncle Harris were un
able to wrest a victory from the sturdy
Gilt Edge tribe, even though Ham
Iberg worked his underhand shoots and
slow drops as only he knows how to
work them. Little Brockoff's war
whoop did much to nerve his people,
but did not unnerve his opponents to
any appreciate extent, and Jimmy
FitZpa trick, coach as he might, and
did, could not manage to squeeze out
| a single measley, little run, which
would have meant so much.
Just three little hits. That was what
the Frisco people did to Harvey in
eleven innings. Thirty-eigh men faced
the silent blonde from the horned toad
district, and out of these thirty eight
three landed safely. Harvey struck out
four men and gave a like number free
transportation to the initial, but at the
end of the eleventh inning he had more
speed than in the second and in that
inning chalked up two of his four
strike-outs.
And Iberg was also a puzzle. His
underhand up shoot was awfully eff
fective, and when he used it on local
the latter was out of the game. Forty
four times did the locals send in man
to face the boy, and just eight of the
number touched him for safe hits. He
gave two men bases on balls and struck
out nine, and showed himself fit to
travel in the very fastest company.
Both pitchers received excellent sup
port from the men behind them. The
locals played an errorless game while
for the visitors Krug, the erratic, slip
ped up on two of his easiest chances,
and little Brockoff, he of the perennial
smile, missed one which a High School
boy would have blushed over, and over
threw second in his anxiey to make
neither error was costly, and Iberg
kept his hits so well scattered that
nothing, indicated by big, juicy goose
eggs resulted.
In the fourth the local people had 4
chance. 1t was like this: "Truckerino'
Eagan was safe on Krug's error, and
Stanley hunted to Brockoff, who owing
to his anxiety to double up, SHE'D the
sphere over Joshua Riley's head, and
''Truckerino' landed on third. Stanley
stole second moment later. Then
Iberg presented Benedict" Doyle with
a free pass to first, and the bases were
full with nobody out. But Iberg worked
his underhand up-shoot on Shanahan,
and Sheehan popped an apparently safe
bunt, which Iberg scooped in, and
s.Truckerino,' who was making sprint
| for the plate, died ANONYMOUSLY when
Brockoff at third dug his heel into the
bag and squeezed the ball Iberg sent
! over to hirn-a very neat double
| Again in the fourth inning the locals
had two men on bases with one gone,
when Iberg shot in some underhanders
! and scalped O'Connor and Egan, two
! of the hardest hitters of the home
( team.
Two other doubles were made by the
visiting team, one each in the sixth and
seventh In the former Stanley was safe
| on Brockoff's error, but was out at sec
ond on Doyle's bunt. Shanahan poked
one to Riley, who caught Doyle at sec
ond, and Tim was nipped at the initial
via Krug and Courtney. In the latter
! Sheehan drove one between short ana
third for a life. and Stulz flew an ap-
parently safe one, which Krug got I'M
der and shot Sheehan out before he
| could get back to first.
Timothy Shanahan early in the argu-
ment sent a three-bagger to the far
/ corner of the lot, but subsequent to
that effort the hits were all infantile.
The scorekeeper's account of the
game is appended: