The morning call., 1891-07-19
THE COLONEL'S
PALSIED PLAYERS.
They Have Lost Three Straight
Games With Frisco.
Otto Young Presented Them With Five Runs
in One Inning, But It Did No
Good-Games To-Day.

Going to see Oakland play ball is like
eating liver and bacon in a cheap boarding
house for sixty or seventy-fve meals in sue
ceSslon. You know beforehand what 1t Will
be, but you keep IN going in the forlorn
hope that the landlady may some day be
seized with enlargement Of the heart and
set out ham and eggs.
Be il known among men that this palsied
remnant of once proud and naughty team
of bal-tossers yesterday accomplished its
fifty second defeat ont of q possible sixty
seven. Twice was victory within their
grasp, but they had 10 go and spoil these
golden opportunities with punky plays that
gave the other side more runs. That is what
makes the game so aggraVating.
) For the first time in three days the Colonel
was present. Doubtless he thought it was
about time TO win, so he appeared in new
ice-cream suit and jaunty smile TO jolly the
boys up a bit for one of those Garrison fin
iShes ne has read about But it didn't work,
and the team played worse bali than when
the Colonel is away.
Another new man bobbed up in place of
McHale, the center fielder who played an
engagement with the Oaklands on Friday
lasting fully one hour and fifty minutes. A
man by the name of Dextrage worked in
center field yesterday. The name of the
gentleman who will occupy thai position to-
day has not been announced yet. If signing
men and letting them go again will win the
pennant the Colonel is certainly entitled
to il.
GOOD INDUCEMENTS OFFERED.
When the game ended the score stood ~
to 10 in favor of Frisco. At the end of the
seventh inning Oakland was one run ahead.
With the chances offered they should have
had dozen with any kind of luck, but the
hOOdOo came and they fell down again in
the ninth, when two Frisco men crossed the
plate on Il bad mixture at first.
In their first turn the locals got enough
runs 10 win an ordinary game. Phenomenal
BalsZ couldn't 10 ate the plate, Youngman
was somewhat hay in his ideas at first and
Hunkey Hines WAS entirely too strong in
throwing down 10 second. Five talles re-
suited, which were hung up on the beard to
haunt the unhappy Colonies.
RUDE Levy got his eyes fail of sunlight in
the first for Oakland, and CantilliUn reached
second. Hines sent grounder to Smith,
who slammed the ball into the clouds in
stead Of CaTtwrghT's hands, and Cantllli0n
scored The home team captured two more
in the third, as they were offered good in
GuCements to scoIe by Phenomenal BalSZ
and adjutOr Mr. Hines.
In the fourth inning Otto Young got an at
tack VI vertigo, or TaZZle-daZZle, which gave
Oakland beautiful chance. He started
g
walk 10 first, pushing IN one run. Then he
it phenomenal Balsz, who was glad of any
excuse for getting safely away from the
plate. THIS crowded another man to the
Plate.
HE WAS BADLY RATIFIED.
By this time great clouds of steam were
Issuing from MI. Oung, who knew that
crisis WAS approaching. For once he didn't
smile as lie started in to pitch few balls TO
DeXtrage, the sixth man up There was no
one out and THIS tended to increase his
nervousness. He gave the batsman two
4 balls and then called Peck Sharp 10 the
rescue.
Sharp took hold Of the cratic ball and
soon had DeXtrage safely on first before he
could get The twjTlS out of it. CantilliOn hit
grounder TO Sharp, forcing O'Neil out at
the plate, the batSman being retired al first.
Phillips two-bagger scored Balsz with the
fifth run.
\ oung felt better during the next two in
nines, but in the seventh the Colonies made
another rally and hammered out four runs
by punching hits. This was last despair
lag effort as Frisco tied the eighth and put
q ellncher on the game in the last.
he greatest feature of the game was
C!ark's assist from right field to first re-
firing the basman. In the two games TO be
played today Lawson and Young pitch at
Emeryvilie. Sommers and Cobb will do
the twirl Ing in the afternoon. Following is
the score: