The morning call., 1891-06-13
ONE FOR OAKLAND.
The COlOnel'S Men Braced Up and
Played Ball.
It Was q Close and Exciting Contest, Won
by Hits, Errors and Base
Stealing.

Those who accused the Colonel of mu tier
ing through his hat when he spoke of brac-
ing ND the Oakland team made grave
mistake. 1t is stronger now than the man
in the sidesbow who can balance with equat
ease ANYTHING from a sOd-plow to feather
Ne one is better acquainted with this fact
than that man Harris, who has been urging
The Colonel to rejuvenate for several weeks
mast. He ran up against the new Oaklands
Yesterday at the Emeryville grounds with
his bottle green aggregation and came to
eriaL 1t took two hours and half of trouble
and turmoil to settle the question of SUI
premacy Oakland won by a score of u to
9. and the idea of giving that team handi-
cap Of ten runs on the board before the game
begins has been abandoned.
At the conclusion of the contest the
diamond looked like buffalo wallOw. This
was caused by the Colonel's young men
travelling from bag to bag on their shapes.
All hands, with the exception of Cabill,
Stevens and O'Neil, stole bases. Some Of
the steals, however, could more properly
come under the head Of petty larceny.
Eleven stolen bases, together with Frisc0's
ten errors, not to mention the fifteen base
hits made by the ColoDeIs men. had won
uerful influence in the matter of vi tory.
Peter SommerS, who unshipS the ball
from his port side. pitched for Oakland,
Harris released Peter last Saturday, and the
Colonel, who knows good thing when he
sees il. gave the young man job. Som
mers looks vel in q dOVe-cOl0Ted uniform,
but he viii have TO stand out in the rain
awhile before the suit fits him. Baltz the
Vallejo twirler, was to have been in the box
( or Oakland, but before signing to pitch for
the Colonel he had been pitching ships at
the Mare Island NaYY-yard, and went up
there % get mis- pay. lie viii play in the
game this afternoon.
1t was not until the ninth inning that
Oakland could call the contest its own. At
that time the score stood TO in favor Of
the Colunels On four different occasions
had the score been tied, the runs coming IN
small lots all the way through. Both Young
and SOmmeTs were batted freely the Oak
lands leading in the stick " oTk Excitement
IAN high, a delegation from Vallejo that
came down TO sec BaltZ pitch coming out
strong in favor OF Oakland,
Hardie opened the ninth for Oakland
witt q tWo-bagger TO right. Swetts miss
If Phillips gUOuhdeT gave the ba;Smau
bag, ana Stevens got MS with pitched
bali. CantIllion forced HaTdie out at the
plate but Phillips scored on NOungman's
single O'Neil reached second on Sharp 5
tumble Of a GrOunder, on WI ich Stevens
and CantiliiOn scored Then S0mmers
punched out single that brought Young
man home. and Longs line drive TO center
scored O'Neil and SoEmeTs. Cahiu died
at fist On an assist from short. and Hardie
followed suit, making two put-OuLs TO ais
credit Ia one inning
These SIX runs put a lead-pipe cinch on
the game for Oakland though they were
not sure Of it until the last man was out.
Frisco braced up in It's half of the ninth,
and pushed in four runs with the stick be-
fore a man was out Then their luck de-
serted them, and Sweeney retired the play,
leaving Sharp on second, where he had
placed himself with a two-bagger. Follow
ing Is tile score: