The morning call., 1891-08-03
He Fixed a Fourteen Inning Game
for The Steers.
DID IT WITH Els LITTLE BAT.
Plenty Of Baseball for The Money IN The After
loOl-A Pitchers Contest That Lasted
Over Three Hours, Ending With a Score
Of IL to ll-FriGO Won The Morning
Game Oakland Lost at San JOSs-ClUb
Standing.

The shades OF night were falling Hast
when through the park a base-hit passed,
emblazoned with this strange device, " I've
lost the game and won it twice."
What the base-hit said was true in every
particular. Twice had it come to the rescue
of McCloskey's deeply distressed mavericks
and placed them in the lead.
Then one of Harris men would get
around this same accommodating base-hit
and caiule it into tying the score up into
knot that nothing short of home-run could
divorce. At one time it looked as if it would
be an all-night session, but there is an end
TO all things. even tied scores.
Finally a man by The name of Sunday,
who hired cut to McCloskey early last
spring, get the base-hit interested in his
case again. Mr.. Sunday was spoken of very
highly to McCioSkey by some gentlemen
who had known him in former years, and
that is how lie happened to get his job.
McCloskey hired him simply on account of
his winning ways, he said, otherwise he
would have engaged some one else. Who
the other man was McCloskey failed to
state at the time, hut ii is a lucky thing for
Sacramento be didn't take him in place of
Sunday though Harris wishes he had.
SUNDAYS WINNING WAYS.
Sundays winning ways are due mostly
to the habit he has of lamming out base hits
at Opportune times and not to his manifold
beauties of mind and person as many sup
pose who have never seen him. He didn't
do much in his special line until the four
teenth inning. when he kindly obliged and
was greeted with the hoaTse huzzas of the
people.
II may be well to state before going into
further TLapsodieS over Mr.. Sunday and his
exploit that 1t took fourteen innings TO set
tie the fuss. This is about the longest game
ever played here. If it isn't it was long
enough, and any man who felt that he failed
10 get his moneys worth would kick in the
hereafter if his halo didn't fit, provided he
was lucky enough to draw one. Still few
excited individuals wanted 10 lick the UNI
pire because they had gamblod on the
wrong side.
When Sunday made his winning hit the
score stood II to II. There were two men
out and runner on third. His name was
France-Oscar France, a young man who
writes home to his folks with his LETT hand.
When Oscar shakes with a friend. or even
total strangers, he Goesn'tgrin idiotically and
say IT'S the hand nearest my heart, you
know" like right-hauded people when they
extend the left. This little trait of charac-
ter endears Oscar to all wherever he goes.
Oscar is dead on to the requirements of po-
lite society himself.
A PITCHERS BATTLE.
1t was George Cobb who pitched the ball
that Sunday hit for the winning run which
France-OScar France-toted home. Tote
Is word used extensively in the South aud
means TO carry. At the time Cobb pitched
that ball the Jumps on his powers of endur-
ance could be seen from the grand stand.
But it was no wonder Cobb was tired. He
had pitched long and faithfully and was
SILL pegging along full of fog and fond de-
sires.
Sunday swatted the first ball pitched and
sent il down to the score board, ending the
hatdest-fought game Of the season. 1t was
a pitchers battle throughout, and the last
five innings were the most exciting ever
seen on the grounds France pitched
magnificent game, striking out men at crit
zeal times and smiling at their misery
Though he didn't strike out so many men,
was simply a toss-up as to which pitcher
would win his game. Each gave but two
bases on halls during the entire game.
Umpire Bill Stevens was Kissed long and
loud. He thought however, that the noise
was produced by a dummy blowing off
steam just outside the park and went right
ahead with his business. Stevens gets
slightly mixed on balls and strikes, but be
tries to even things, and therefore makes a
fair approximate umpire. In the fourteenth
inning France was caught mapping at Sec
9nd, but the umpire didn't see the play.
France afterward scored, and it's well he
did or they might be playing yet.
THE SCORE TIED TWICE.
Frisco was like the hare in that story old
man 1Esop told about. 1t had Derby to
run with turtle and took things easy. The
result Of it was the turtle got under the
wire first Harris men had six runs before
The Steers could get runner across the
plate: Then Cobb eased up slightly in the
fourth and they batted in four tallies. Three
in the sixth put them one ahead, and two in
the eighth made McCloskey feel like a sure
thing man.
This feeling did not last long, as Frisco
broke loose in the ninth and tied the score
Peek Sharp opened with triple and scored
on McGuirk's error He slipped and fell
While trying to field ground ball. He fell
again On Sweeney's fly back of first and
Clark,s single scored both runners and tie
McGulrk first thought his center of grav-
lily had shifted, but later found that his heel
caulks had worn down. So he took off his
shoes and dug his toe-Dails into the gravel
while going after the ball.
Inc next three innings were fruitless.
In the thirteenth Pop SWEET popped out a
timely drive and scored Cartwright, Swee-
ney having previously crossed the plate on
the big captains double. But tue end was
not yet, for in the next inning Clark
dropped fly which would have made the
thlrd man out, and two runs came in later.
again tying the score. Frisco's half OF the
fourteenth was blank. Then came Oscar
France, who reached first on Smiths wild
throw, and Sunday did the rest with his
winning ways. Following is the score: