The morning call., 1891-10-05
Only Six More Short Weeks Of
Baseball Misery.
HARRIS men LOSING THE LEAD.
They Are But Half Game Ahead Of The Gar
dHlsrS Now, After a Disastrous Series al
SaCTameHt0-Ths Steers ATP Ont for The
PelHaHt, Winning Three Straight From
Frisco Oakland Breaks ETSl-Duk6
Finn Satisfied with What He Got

Few folks on the outside ever can or ever
will know the exquisite mental torture en-
dured by that unfortunate member of soci-
ely whose business cOmpels him to remain
seated until the game is over or suffer re-
lapse in his salary.
To him alone is denied the priceless boon
of making graceful but haSty exit over
the backs Of chairs to the open air in which
ever inning his better judgment tells him 1t
is time to go. He cannot seek the cramped
seeluSiOn of his hall bedroom, where bases
on balls and hit by the pitcher never enter,
except in troubled DIRE ans.
Neither can he HE himself away to the
somnolent shades Of the adjacent park,
where the discordant blat of the coacher,
softened by the harmony distance lends,
luls his aching soul into sweet oblivion. 10
him the swinging doors of the hot sausage
grotto are closed until after the paper has
gone to press, and the harsh refIai Il of the
milk-cart carols the dawn of newborn
day.
Week after week. month after month,
adown the schedules weary length he sits be-
hiud wire screen in sunshine e, wind and fog,
enyled by penury's legion mob because he gets
a front seat at each and every game fol
nothing. Little they know of his inward
workings; Of the endless conflict betwe en-
three meals per diem and surcease from
caTkiug care , and which is always decided
from day to day in favor of victuals.
SOME INSIDE FACTS.
They wot not of the moments when he
Iapses into a reverie Of the happy past, long
before he aspired to doubtful Journalist
and car fare to and from the grounds, only
to be yanked back to the dull routine of his
Job by the vicious swat of a hot ground ball
and the imperative duty of thinking for the
public rrints some seIntiIlating baseball
bon mots that have never been thunk before.
Then. after a neat but not gauty dinner
in an obscure Joint unknown to fame. he is
once more thrown in the conyulsye parox-
ysms of labored composition. These are the
moments that make his tired ache, as it
we're, and extends the hairless area he is
cultivatlng at the apex of his dome OF
thought. Quaint qualifying adiectiyes and
felic.tious SMILES that appear from time to
time in the obituary notices of ball games do
not flow with that spontan-ity which char
acterizes the acceptance OF an invitation to
have something with man who has credit
or the price. They might oecar in one OF
two gam-s, but not ad indnitem that any
body knows Of.
If these inside facts were generally known
those who take an interest in baseball as
she is played here would @ to the park nd
think for themselves, provided they cou Id
hold ND under the strain. This would con-
fer great favor, besides saving much valu-
able space that could be turned to good &C
count for advertising purposes or the expose
Of shady municipal transactions But never
mind, good people, for we arc nearing the
grand release, November 22d, when Colonel
T. Punchiuello Robinson will retire to his
warehouse 10 ponder over past misdeedS
and regret, in his poor weak way, the needless
anguish caused a confding public during
the season of 1891.
A BRIEF SYNOPSIS.
Exceedingly refreshed by the foregoing
confession and strengthened somewhat in
our purpose to continue TO the bitter end
November 22d-we will now proceed, gen.
tie reader, to briefly alIude, jucOsely and
otherwise, to what happened yesterday.
As nothing occurred aside from the ordinary
spectacle furnished by the Colonels, re-
marks of an extended nature will not be
aprup0s, with a silent S.
Those who we're there are satisfied with
what they saw without having it flung in
their face again in gaTbled state this morn
ing, and those who were absent Will never
regret their inability to be present.
Score 10 to l in favor of San Jose.
From the above figures it is plain to be
seen that Oakland was not in it. Why these
des Iving young men were not Incorporated
in the national paslime is question asked
ami answered oft before. Duke Finn's tally
grabbers secured a first mortgage on the
output. They scored eight runs in the first
two innings, and consequently the interest
dropped with that dull, sickenfng thud
which has dOEe much to make executions by
hanging a success in this and other portions
of the Inhabited globe.
a few more brief illusions and we have
done.
Louie Balsz did the pitching for Oakland,
his understgdy. young Strand. having gone
to join tie starving majority. Robinson has
another man whom he says he will take out
on the bay one of these mornings and lose in
the fog. Harper occupied the box for the
Dakes ana puzzled the Colonels not little.
When they did hit him they lost the good
results that might accrue by stupid base
running C.. DoOley, the talented, hand
sOme gentlemanIy and highly cultivated
first baseman made home run, which
would have been worth So on the San Jose
~TCunds. Following is the score: