The morning call., 1891-07-03
FORTY-FOUR DEFEATS.
Oakland Again W0rsted " the
Husky Gardeners.
A Close but Long rawn-0ut Affair Full Of Joy
and Other Incidents-Game
To-day.

Laugh and the world laughs with you,
weep and you weep alone, for this sad old
earth must borrow its miIth; 1t has sorrow
enough of its own.
Ono Monday forenoon Ella W. Wilcox sat
down in the fullness of heart and dashed
off the above truthful statement few mo-
ments after the clothes-line broke and
dropped her washing into the mud.
Ii Colonel Robinson has any poetry in
his soul he can doubtless appreciate the
sentiment expressed by the passion poetess:
One greattrOuble is that the C0lonePs laughs
are so short that he is bathed in tears again
before the world has time to catch onto the
joke and join him In the hearty guffaw. He
received his forty-fourth installment Of
genuine grief yesterday. afternoon at the
hands of the Duke and is now weeping
| alone in the Oakland jungle.
INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.
The performance was full of stirring cpl
sode and fog, which did much to offset the
| dull monotony of the regular defeat. Danny
Long stole six bases but slipped while pur-
Joining the last and unhinged his ankle
| joint. Bill Stevens thought he got hit with
pitched ball but The umpire talked him out
| of it.
Hanley of the San Joses did get hit. BE
butted the ball so hard with his forehead
| that it rebounded out to short right field.
The conclusion dislocated Mr.. Hanley's
thoughts for several minutes and he could
not tell whether lie was playing ball or fall
ing out of balloon. Dooley and Pete SOM
merS both hit two-baggers and each fell
down twice IN their mad endeav0rs to reach
second.
Dale, the new Colonel, several times told
Harper to his face that he had an eye like
an eagle. Robinson signed a new pitcher
and also discovered another hoodoo. Pitcher
BalSz grew weary and stopped in the third
inning Tip ONeil sat in the grand stand
taking notes for an Oakland paper. and the
whole affair lasted about two hours and
half.
A SURE ENOUGH JONAH.
IL what Robinson says is true, Ire has at
last found the hoodoo. This is Old Barney,
the ground-keeper at Emeryville. He used
to be an able seaman on the bounding brine,
and, according TO the CoionePs tell, he
made five trips to the Arctic in search OF
whales and never got bite, bone or grease
spot. This certainly was tough luck.
There is one consolation for the Oaklands
and that is they came nearer winning yes
terday's game than any of the forty-four
lost TO date Stallings got round with the
winning run in the fifth, breaking tie
score Of to s. That was the last tally
made. Twice in the latter part of the con-
test the COlonels had a chance to score, but
the base hit that they longed for never came
Once in the sixth, with a man on second
YOungMan made three breakneck swipes al
the dripping atmosphere, and Dale did the
same in the eighth.
Phenomenal Balsz lost heart at the end
of the third inning and retired in favor of
S0mmers. AT this stage San Jose had six
runs and Oakland three. The hits were not
numerous enough to appall any pitcher, but
Balsz said he didn't care to stay in it.
EXHAUSTED HIS REPERTOIRE.
A faint tinge of color came into the
ColonePs pale cheek when the lettering
ruins OF his once proud band of pennant.
winners scared up flock of five runs in the
fourth inning, making the score tie They
developed latent batting streak in this
inning and scratched out three doubles
After that, however. the ball slid over the
plate with perfect impunlty, and not SO
much as scratch took place in the last five
innings.
MIR. Dale of Rockford seems to have ex-
hausted his repertoire of encouraging re-
marks for use in the coacher's box. When
he first appeared he was something new,
ana the people laughed at his funny talk
The first time lie told a runner to I" show
them how Paddy stole n rope with his cake
of toilet SOAP" the remark provoked tidal
wave OF merriment. Ii had never been
heard here before. Now it goes floating out
across the diamond about forty times each
game. and if Mr. Dale doesn't compose a
nsw verse pretty soon, he win find that lie
is losing caste as a poet. Following is the
score
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