The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-05-31
LOVE LAUGHS
AT BASEBALL.
Scene From "R0meO and Juliet"
at Yesterdays Game.
The Senators Retaliated for That Defeat at
0akland-Playing Under Difficulties
To- Days Games.

1t is claimed by those who know that love
laugh at locksmithS. However this may be
the divine passion gives way to its risibili-
ties in the presence of ball players, which
fact was established by an osculatory DEM
onstration during the game at the Haight-
street grounds yesterday afternoon.
Before taking up the subject of love VS..
baseball ii will be well TO state incidentally
that the Colonels lost the game with Sacra-
mentO by score OF 10 10 Z. Winning that
contest at EmeTyvile the other day was
simply one Of the C0lOnePs little jokes, and
now that the people have found it out ne is
ready and willing TO make ample apology.
Mistakes Of that kind, he said, will occur in
the best regulated bail clubs He really did
not mean it, and viii take good care that it
does not happen again.
ROMEO AND JULIET"
1t may have been the rain that hoodOoed
the 0aklandS, or perhaps it was that touch
ing little scene from Romeo and Juliet"
enacted in one of the boxes. Along about
The middle of The game some one in the
grand stand discovered the sinlpering, sad
eyed lovers in the act of plightiDg their
troth in the box.
They had evidently wandered in from the
alfalfa-girded regions round about MilpitaS
to take in the DecoratiOn-day exercises.
Then somebody steered them out 10 the
ball park, where they placed themselves on
exhibition in their great two-hearts-that-
beat-as-One act.
In plain sight Of 1000 people and the play
eTs, they sat, lovingly clasped 10 each others
arms, thinking thoughts ton utterably utter
for words. First he would raptnrously kiss
the maiden, and then gaze down into the
sweet, soulful depths of her lOvelit eyes, ana
she would bury her face in his celluloId
collar. and sigh like Dath-tub exhaust.
Does her love her little tOotsey?" he
would eXclaim, with all the ferYency OF
which a strong man is caUable.
We'll l should gurgle, Petite" and the
listening winds waited the answer 70 the
5000 eXpectant ears in the grand stand.
WHERE IGNORANCE Is BLISS.
They took no interest whatever in the
game as they sat in silent bliss utterly Ob-
livOus TO the shouts Of shut the door" and
"break away" Both audience and players
forgot the game for three innings while
watching the unconscious young couple In
the box.
Once, while the upTOaT was at its height,
ROmt tore himself away from Juliet's side
long enough 10 SO out on the balcony and
ascertain, II possible, the cause of the eX-
score board. thinking. perhaps, that some
important news had just arrived from San
Jose. he then returned to the impatient
maiden, who had not been kissed for nearly
two seconds, and made it as pleasant for her
as he could.
Not until the game was over did the young
folks learn that their sacred Seance IN the
box had been exposed to the vulgar gaze of
a cold, unteeling world. As they were
leaving the park some one exclaimed There
they are! and the crowd gave them Wig
oTOus round OF applause. The girl wound
a veil about her CRIMSON cheeks and Romeo
inStlnctiYeiy felt in his glrdle for a dagger
with which to stab himself to death.
STOPPED BY THE RAIN.
The game was called at the end OF the
fourth inning TO give the players a chance
10 go in cut Of the rain, which they did
without being told. There was also a wild
scramble among the bleachers to get under
cover, ana when they were safely housed
the wet ceased.
At the time of the TEMPORARY suspension
of bOstilities the score stood to l in favor
of the Senators. CantillOn Tailed for the
Colonies on a single, assisted by Peoples
Oriental juggling at short. Sacramento
scored one III the fist, again IN the third
and thr ee times in the fourth. After the
rain th game was played with difficulty,
owing 10 the slippery condition Of the ball.
1t Wig gied away from tue feeders, and the
pitch eTs were unable to decide whether To
put be bail over the plate or over the roof.
Much valuable time was spent in grooming
the sphere. Each player who handled it
alter a trip in the wet grass rubbed 1t down
on his wardrobe or anOinted 1t with dry
dirt dug from under the bases. McGu ink
had the pockets of his red blazer filed wit b
saw dust, and every time he got hold Of tile
ball be gave it dry shampoo.
PHILLIPS SENSATIONAL SLIDE.
In the fifth for Oakland Phillips gave a
highly entertaining imitation of a toboggan
slide without the tUboggan. He reached
second Oh an error, and started 10 third on
YOungman's grounder to Hutchinson. The
ball and Phillips reached third about the
same time. O'Neil. who was coaching,
yelled slide" and Phillips slid. He struck
the moist grass on his doye-colOred trousers,
with his heels IN the air all OF twenty feet
away from the bag. Small boys on the
bleacheTS thought Phillips was wearing
single skate. If O'Neil had not gone out
and stopped him he might have collided
with the fence and broken a leg.
The COl0nels made dying effort in the
eighth 10 win the game, running in four
TALES But the lead was too great to be
overcome in one day. Both sides batted the
pitchers freely, the hOnOrs in this line being
equally divided. StapletOn, formerly with
the FresnOs, pitched for Sacramento. He
kept the Colonies well in hand uutil the
eighth, when they touched him up for four
singles. Stephen was in the box for Oak
land. Two games will be played to-day be-
tween Oakland and SacrameBto-one in the
morning at Eineryyilie, aud at the other at
Haight street in the afternoon. The score !: