The record-union., 1899-04-10
LEADING THE BAND WAGON.
GILT EDGES ARE BLAZING
THE WAY.
Defeated the Santa Cruzans by a
Score of 6 to Yes
terday.


cranks agreed that the baseball dished
up at Oak Park yesterday was of the
Simon pure variety. 1t was top notch
article by top notchers 1t had no
flies on it. 1t was, withal, rather spas
modic, and the spasms struck the Gilt
Edges early. They jumped upon Balsz S
curves with both feet in the first and
second rounds and when the spasms left
them they were six runs to the good.
But the spasms did not recur. They
fired their big gun first, and through
out the remainder of the game they
fired blank ammunition.
However, the best the visitors could
do was to get in four runs, the score
being six to four in favor of the home
talent.
The spell did not strike the visitors
until the fourth inning, and it struck
when the crowd was willing to wager
dollars against suspender buttons that
they would draw another blank. But
they didn't. With two men out, and
two men on bases, Clark, the husky
first baseman, caught the ball on the
point of the jaw and sent it spinning
ten feet clear of the right field fence,
the only time this season that fair
ball has dropped over any fence, and
the spasm was over, with three but
tons ON the BeachcomberS string
Again in the sixth the boys from the
village by the sad sea waves made
squirt and carried one, but that was the
end of the run getting.
Our Jay Hughes was so honored
when he went to the plate in the first
inning that he forgot to take off his
hat and make a courtesy to the crowd.
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floral piece with the words 'Our Jay"
beautifully traced in vioets. 1t looked
like a small-sized funeral, and that is
probably why Jay did not pull off his
cap and scrape his feet at the crowd.
He however braced UP, spat on the
other hand and then, just to show that
he was very far from dead, swashed the
first ball pitched against a pre-empted
knothole in the left field fence for two
bases. In passing it may b. noted that
Jay started East last night and will
work with the select lot who represent
the City of Churches the coming season.
And Matt Stanley did some neat
work. He picked up several apparently
impossible foul tips, his last and great
est effort in that line being to gobble
up an ugly one which wanted to drop
among the crowd in the bleachers. 1t
was the last ball of the game, and Stan
ley, after he had vaulted the fence and
captured the ball, kept on sprinting and
headed the rush for the cars for down
town.
Kid Peoples got out for practice
work and when the bell tangled he did
not get another pain" and thereby
leave Tommy Sheehan and Eddie Retz
to again bear the brunt. The kid"
batted nobly and carried off his share
of the glory.
And Sheehan did we'll. He is i'm
proving. and one of these days some
body will get a call East, and his
name is liable to be Sheehan. He will
carries Charlie Doyle and "Old Hoss''
Shanahan, and when lightning strikes
that trio there will be mourning in the
Gilt Edge camp.
Becllwith, the Texas acquisition,
showed the fans that Saturday was his
day off. He made several grand-stand
catches in the right potato patch, and
employed the south-arm movement and
shot ugly ones out of reach of the tribe
whose tepees are pitched by the sea.
Doyle pitched a steady sure game, as
is his wont and the other players did
equally well.
But there are ball players among the
Santa Cruzans There is not a weak
place in the line. Even Williams, the
nimble shortstop, put up a wonderful
game, regardless of the fact that he has
a glass" arm. Clark at first base puts
up a good, if not a brilliant game. and
he demonstrated his ability as a bats
man by sending out the first over-the-
fencer of the season. Streib. called
Germany by his brethren, did great
work in the field and at the bat. while
Arrelanes at second and big Bill Pace
behind the bat did nobly. Arrelanes
picked up the only error made by Santa
Cruz, and the chance was a hard one.
Louis Balsz. old veteran that he is
was as steady as clockwork in the box,
and very effective. Brick Devereau
while not general favorite here, is 4
king-pin, and plays ball from the drop
of the hat And, besides all this. there
is not a weak man at the bat in the
whole team. 1t may be we'll to warn
the fans to watch Santa Cruz toward
the close of the season.
In the first inning Peoples hit to Will
Jams and then watched the game from
the bench. Doyle tipped one to Clark
and stopped running before he started.
Our Jay" was bouqueted and then
poked one to deep left field and went
around to second. Stanley was struck
on his lunch basket and hobbled to the
initial, and Pop" Lochhead hit safe
along second and Jay romped home:
Stanley on third. Tim Shanahan welted
the horsehide into the left meadow and
Stanley and Lochhead rang the bell
In the second round, Sheehan popped
an easy one to Clark and took a hack
seat, and Beckwith lashed cut a two
bagger into left field. Peoples tried
Devereau, but was shut out at first.
and Doyle hit to second and was safe
Jay was given a base on balls. and
Stanley poked a whiskery one into left
field, bringing in Doyle and Jay. And
so ended the run getting of The Gilts