The morning call., 1891-08-23
WILD AND WOOLLY
BASEBALL.
A Weird Affair That Caused the
People Pain.
Oakland Eciipsed AL Previous Records and
Played Game That Should Be
Packed in Ice.

1t is highly probable that Colonel Robin
sons young men feel bad enough now,
without being prodded with that Archime-
dian lever that is said to rule the world and
which is popularity supposed to make and
unmake the destinieS of men and baseball
teams
For that reason the sheltering veil of OBJ
security will be drawn over the more harrow
ing details of the wretched affair in which
the Colonies took part yesterday afternoon,
even though the enemies of the good
Colonel come out and say he has subsidized
heretofore unmuZzled press, but which we
emphatically say lie has not.
Even though lie missed the worst part OF
1t, the Colonel freely admits that what he
did see was as wonderfully weird as the
widest phantasmagoria ever turned out by
the celebrated KiraIfy Brothers. The work
of the COlonels was so different from any
thing they have previously performed that
the audience looked upon the play as a
pleasing variety, which some authors affirm
is the spice of life.
IT NEEDED ICE.
In view of the hot weather, it is consid-
cred remarkable that the game didn't swell
up and spoil along about the third or fourth
inning. As it was, some of the more deli
cately nurtured among the audience got up
though they We're sitting to windward of
the performance, and rs they passed sadly
out OF the gate they hummed the sad re-
frain. ''GoVd-by, my two bits, good-by."
To begin with, the Colonies were out of
condition, and, TO make matters worse,
everything went wrong from the time the
gong sounded to play bail until the last man
was out. Instead of baseball they played
horse, and very poor horse at that The
Outted bungied, Pete SommerS couldn't
Inplap froxr 70 NxvaN tn MAJ NO
melancholy which marked him for her own.
In the first three innings Frisco piled up
eleven Iuns. Oakland piled up one. Then
Cobb Went to right field for his side and
SOmmers pursued the bounding ball in left
f ffts Id Cantllion and SWEET pitched the re-
naming innings. Hurley continued TO
catch for the Colonies, but his heart was
not IN the work. You could see that by the
way he Groomed his leaking brow from time
to time with his shirt sleeve.
ovERTAKEN BY DISASTER
Three untoward disasters occurred that
discouraged the Oakland battery The first of
these was when Sweeney scored in the first
inning. The little man was third when
Smith hunted the ball to Sommers. Peter
fielded it and caught Sweeney between the
bases. He gave chase and was on the point
of touching him with the ball when Peter
fell down. He threw the bali to Hurley,
but hit the runner and Sweeney got home
with the second tally.
IN tlt ueAl luulllS the HISI man I'D ueM
out to 0ungman. SWEET got base ON
balls and Cobb hit single TO right which
O'Neill The only Tip. fumbled, and SWEET
scored, Cobb reaching third on the play.
Then Hurley walked out to the box to
hold a wins pered conversation with SOM
merS leaving the plate uncovered. Cobb
executed flank movement on the Colouers
battery, and walked home with none to
modest or make him afraid.
This had a dampening effect on the battery
and Peter gave the next man a base. Hur-
ley helped him along with passed ball and
Rettz's muif of fly allowed him to score.
= 1t was Sweeney who Knocked the fly. He
stole second ana Cartwright sent Il grOunder
to center field. Long came in to meet the
bail, but IL got tangled up IN his jacket, which
was lying back OF second base. AMI Sweeney
scored.
CANTILLION'S HOPELESS JOB.
A few more errors and hits and the inn
Ing closed with eight more runs added to
the score. The third resulted in one run
for each side. From this on the play was
eXcruclating and all records were lost, but
the final result showed a score of 10 to ).
Cant:llion pitched the string out after Som
mers left the box. He was hammered un-
mercifully. SWEET did much better and
was only found for FIVE hits.
CahtlliIen doesn't claim 10 be a pitcher.
ana Tor that reason he is eXcuSable for what
he DID. but the audience had 10 suffer lust
the same. He labored' and perspired over
the job, and the harder he worked the worse
the FrScOs hit him. They scored in every
inning but the last and could have rounded
up few then, but were completely tired
out with running around the bases.
1t was retrlDutIya- base bail for the
Colonies on account OF the way they served
the Steers in that - to 10 game about a
week ago. Two more breaches of the peace
will take place to-day, one at EmeryviIle
and the other at Haight street. Following
Is the score: