The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-12-19
SAN JOSE SHUT OUT.
Portland and Pitcher WadsWOrth
Did the Deed.
Colonel 7. Prosecuted Robinson INDICATED at
Last on Els Own Preserves at Emeryville.
Charity Game To-Day.

fans have been crying out in their sleep and
also during waking houIs Tor one ball gams
which should be free from any RObinsOnia
influence whatever.
This much maIigned and pestered Colonel, |
they said, had Just everlastngy ruined the |
national game i'll their town. SO they stayed |
away, though lots OF people were actually |
aching to see some ball played at Emery
vile.
AS long, however as Robinson was mixed
up in it they would have nothing to do with
baseball and much genuine heartache was
the result Oakland was one of the best
ball towns on the Coast, too.
From time TO time they intimated that the
spirit OF appreciation was not dead, and
openly stated that il some enterprising
managers would sail across the bay with
base. ball attraction from which the Colonel
was wholly eliminated, the Oakland cranks
would fall over each other in wild stam-
pede for the ball park and also burst boards
Of the grand stand with the weight of their
presence.
Yesterday afternoon Messrs. Finn and
Rockwell turned their champions loose in
tile mud-nice, soft, black. juicy mud-at
EmeIyville and babe them play for the sole
edifcation of the highly apprecative fans
of Athens. They played.
One hundred and forty people, supposed
to constitute the anti-Robinson party in
Oakland, paid their way into the park. Few
of them looked or acted like ball cTankS
They were mostly farmers who drove into
town because it was too wet to plow, and
sQuandeTed four bits just to pass the time
away.
Is Colonel T. Prosecuted Robinson vindi-
Gated or is he not? Tha is the question.
THOSE QUEER OAKLAND BOYS.
In order to advertise tie game the sc hool-
boys Of Ga kland were given half hol iday
and free ticket each to the show.
This was good for the boys but bad for
the financial end Of the popular demonstra-
tion against the Colonel, as it enabled the
parents, who were gradually plning away,
to remain at home and listen to glowing
account OF the game at the supper table.
About 2CU0 boys turned ont TO keep the
140 relOrmers company. Quite number of
little girls came also, carrying family con-
nectlcns that ere most too small TO walk
or hang onto the hand-rails Of an open car.
Some forgot or lost their tickets. but that
made no difference. They all got in.
So unaccustomed were some of the young
sters to the novelty OF the situation that
they got small pieces of board with knot
holes in them which they held before their
faces while sitting on the bieachers
Ii is somewhat OF a shock to one unfa-
mIiiar with the Oakland school-boy to see
him en- masss. According to cur best poets
over in Oakland the SchOol-boy attains an
altitude, SO TO speak, which is positively as
founding. Some Of them also acquire whis-
kers before graduating from the second
reader, but this phenomenon is probably
Que to the climate which IS favorable to all
kinds of vegetation.
At least 500 of those boys bore a striking
resemblance TO a full-Rrown man, and had
they spoken it would have been painfully
apparent that their voices had long since
passed the turning point in life. In many
instances clean shave would have done
much TO heighten the expression of childish
aTtlessness with which they handed over
their tickets. bur, alas! it has been many a
long day since some Of those Oakland
school children saw payday.
1t would be unfair TO accuse the distsibu-
tors Of the passes with having made mis-
takes. y 0 one even thought of such thing.
Indeed, it would be more charitable to sup
pose that lot Of hands from the boiler
Wof Ks hard by got tangled up in the line
while the tickets were being dealt out and
passed uunOticed in the rush.
JOHN LoRTNG WADsWoRTH
had the Emeryvile diamond been one
halt or even quarter as dry as Il raiu-ma
ing experiment in the State of Texas, the
COlOnei's 140 enemies and those precocinus
Oakland boys would have seen beautiful
game Of ball. As II was the contest was |
fair TO lock upon, presumably because Rob- |
Inson kept his hands OFF.
San Jose confidently expected to make a |
few runs OF course, but unfortunately every |
tally they started got stuck in the wind, |
and not one of them saw the plate. In fact /
but one man succeeded in wading as far |
around as second base 1t was the most |
complete shut-out the Dukes ever exper- |
fenced.
a red-cheeked young man named John |
Loring Wadsworth, of Ohio, was the cause |
of the Dukes discomfort, and it is real |
pity that his name is too long to fit into the |
head lines, because it is worthy a place |
there If John Lorng Wadsworth ever |
II hnnas n he fav in
ner lie should lose no time in putting COM |
press on his name.
John Loring is a pitcher who has been |
studously kept in the background because |
lie was thought TO be too young and tender |
for this wicked baseball world of ours. |
His first performance, however, proves that |
John LOring Nadsworth of Ohio is no |
spring chicken.
He rolled up his trousers yesterday after |
noon, rubbed a little saliva on his point |
finger and pitched straight fast balls across |
the plate. In nine innings Fnn's young |
men tore off two soggy, mud bound singles |
that wouldn't have counted for hits on a |
fast diamond. John LoKing also had fine |
control and gave but one base on balls. He |
twice struck Dooley out on three deliveries, |
and Otherwise conducted himself in man
ner q startle the spectators. We were |
about to say patrons, but stopped just in |
time.
Take him as he stands, either in the mud |
or on dry ground, j. LOring Wadsworth is |
quite pitcher. At least he created that |
impression yesterday. The large letter ''C'' |
on his left breast stands for Cleveland, in |
which team he used to pitch
CHAPPIE's DIRE MISFORTUNE.
To correct any erroneous impressions that |
might arise, it may be well to state. in |
Justice 10 the young man, that the letter |
''C' is on the breast of his shirt instead OF |
his own breast. Some people might sup |
pose that the Cleveland club was in the /
} habit of branding its players with a hot |
iron. AT last accounts the National League |
had not reached this high state of perfec- |
ton, but the managers are still in session.
Chapple Graft supported Wadsworth in |
his usual felicitous manner Poor Chappie |
met with an accident and endured the NOR |
tifcation of appearing in Emeryville with |
nothing but the stumps OF his once percep- |
tibe whiskeTs. II was all the fault of a |
laundering barber.
Yesterday morning Chappie went in to
get shave. While doing the job the bar
Der thought the whlskers were a few ire
sponsible wild or volunteer hairs that had |
grown downward FROM Chappe's caput. SO |
lie chopped about half of the crop down be-
tore discovering that they were real whisk-
ers. With what was left the barber trim
med out neat little pair of hat straps with
box borders that look like the Tugs on a new
top boot.
Nicholas Lookabaugh twirled for the |
Duke, but did not make very good lob of |
il. He was wild, giving seven men first on |
called balls Portland batted him freely, |
knocking out ten singles, from which they |
scored four runs.
Owing 10 the condition Of the grounds the
managers decided to call off the champion-
ship part OF the affair and play an exhibit
ton game. Therefore it does not count in
the schedule. San Jose seems to be playing
in poor luck in the last two games, the re-
suits Of which, SO far as they are concerned,
is three hits and one run.
This afternoon the charity game for the |
benefit of the Orphans Christmas Fund |
takes place at the Haight-street grounds. |
Game called at 2:30 o'clock. Following is
the score: