The San Francisco call., 1899-04-02
HOTTEST GAME FOR YEARS
SACRAMENTO VICTORIOUS BY a
*:.* *:.* SCORE OF 4 TO 8.
Home Team Bats Hard, but Is Finally
1. Defeated Through a Brace of
..'+.. -Fumbles-Sane Teams
.......:: Meet To-Day.
Sacramento, 4.
San francisco, 8.
Fourteen. Innings.

:. That was the outcome or yesterdays $
ball game. at Recreation Park. If that
does. not develop more new cranks and
= >reSurreet the. old ones than anything else,
then: the Tenerat4on for American institu-
:tions is..deGd Two and half hours Of
s5yats: and strangled basehits, Of desper-
= ate chances and phenomenal catches un-
til there threatened 10 be more cases of
heart failure developed than the Morgue
wagon -Couid cart away. Jack Bonnet be-
came: hys$erical as early as the eighth
Timing and trotted up and down the
stairs to the press box under the impress
sion. that he was climbing the magic
stairs at the steeplechase.
= When ii was all over Hank Harris stole
down TO his cigar stand and exhausted
his stock in settling up his bets on the
game.
Such a game! Scorer Joe Stapleton grew
retrospective and recalled to mind u bit
Of ancient history when an fS-inning game
was. played at the old Haight-street
grounds, when Uncle Hank met Billy In
cell at: the hench every time the twirler
came in from the box and soaked his
arm in whisky; 1t wasn't necessary to
soak Fitzpatrick's arm yesterday, though,
for THE giant pitcher soaked them in with
.-wenderful effect from start TO finish and
had 1T mot been for two fumbles by Krug
in .the..fOurteent inning the game would
Nave gone on indefinitely and might have
broken the .Haight-street record for eX-
ira Ynnings as IL did in the matter OF fast
Nv hile Sacramento scored a victory il
:lSi possible that the game. Will be given TO
Harris men, for. the visitors played
-Hughes' who is under reserve by the Bal
timore team. in right field. This is clear
.:ly in viola ton of. the national agreement
and Harris fled i. protest on: that ground.
Sacramento was cTippled.' one of. Its men
beiITg. sick, and. Hughes, although d. Ma
jional:Eedgue player, did not add any ma
terial. trel gJh. to the team: ON the con
1rarys: lit lis the general. verdict that the
big tell0w learned many points in yester-
day. 5. game that. VIII be: Of %alue 20 MIN
when he joins: the Orioles. y Nevertheless,
he was fnehSibfe and somebody else ought
TO have Eeen secured. .'-
=. Tie spectators We're kept in a constant
state- If excitement from Jhe start for
:theTe=Wa& iot a mQment during the entire
: fourteen innings that was mot fraught
with :intefLse interest There are many
SOrii thr08tS in town tQ-daH, due TO the
unusual. vocal. exercise yesterday. There
>Will;:be many more ball games played IN
this city. but Shateof yesterday wall stand
out in memory beyond all. the others for
many days =. .:..
:: II he: game developed many things be-
sides heart: failure. First, # proved that
although. THE California may be classed as
n minor league it hands. OUT q quality of
the article THAT the big organization would
:Hnd it hard to"surpaSs. Seeond,'lt showed
what the. men who haNe~been playing
ball here for Years are: capable of doins
when properly. handled: Last season the
.sanfe. PLAYERS performed rheIr work, as
rule, in a fstless,. 'shpshod manner, little
calculated' to favorably impress the pub
= Almost. perfect fielding on the part of
the: visitors is alr that kept the Locals
doayn~to- three 1allies. The friscos hit the
bail hard and often. but the work OF the
SacramentOs was of. the sensational or
e der. Hughes was the only member OF the
. team TO makes a misnlay. Once he let a
D. base hit roll past MIN; and at another
tinf he stepped on himself when he start
ed after a tiy and. fell down, the batter
scoring a double on Hughes attack on
himself
Kid Peoples was the bright particular
star of the team, and for that matter, of
the DAY, His work at ihird was hawless
and nothing was too: difficult for him TO
20 after. He: was. ably aided and abetted
ramento product who has been PLAYING
ball on the vacant lots in that city ever
since he. got through playing with
bottle and its. rubber attachment not so
many years ago. This is. his first season
as a professional. and: he gives every
promise of becoming a wonder
He handles himself like. veteran is
quick as a cat, cool-headed, and eats
everything that comes his way. Meaney
played center. field and the Sacramento
management is Ito be congratulated on
is one of the best helders iIi the State and
intended To go East this season, but was
persuaded To- &gn with : sacramento.
Walker, IN left field, showed up rather
weak at bat, but a foul fly he pulled down
after a. sprint Of thirty yards earned for
him a round of applause: every time he
showed himself fot the balance of the
afternoon. Doyle, On the whole. pitched
splendid game He was touched up
rather hard at first, but he kept on plug
ging the sphere oyer the plate, becoming
more and more effective as the game pro-
gressed, ,%until during the last four innings
he was inv!Ecibei Stanley. LOckhead and
ShGnahap: played the best they are capa-