The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-06-22
NGCl0SkGy's Bovine Paradox Twice
Taken Into Camp.
ONE SHUT-OUT AND one CYCLONE.
A Game il Which The MIfed PUNK Of The
Base Hit Mingled With The Loud Snort
Of the UltamGd Home RIl-Oaklad Lost
Again and the Band PLAYED q PlailtVs
Scotch B8llad-H9W the Clubs Stand

lover, the Hills and Far Away" was the
merry little roundelay hummed by the base
ball Yesterday as it danced Ger the sun
kissed plat. keeping step in tuneful time
with a sort of mimic rhyme to the tintinna-
bulatlons of the bat bat bat.
All the afternoon they kept dropping
thicker than hailstOneS in a Western COZ
respondents account Of storm. Large, lus-
cious singles followed each other in sudden
succession, the irrepTessible two-bagger
cropped up in the most unexpected manner
and the long sad wall of the hOme-run drive
was heard in the land
This all happened in the Haight-street
Baseball Park, where Professor McCIOskey
and his bovine paradox. sometimes called the
Texas Steers, assisted by Harris cowboys,
entertained a large and enthusiastic gather
ing. Each and every PUNK Of the ball, as
it c0lNded with the bat in the hands Of
Frisco man, sounded a death-knell to Nc
Closkey's hopes; and before the game was
over his spirits dropped so low that he had
t. wear suspenders on them The specta-
Gle II q man keeping his spirits up with
pair of galluses Is An incident seldom wit
messed except in ball park.
TIE STEERS ROUNDED UP.
It was a complete roundup for the Steers,
but not quite 50 bad as the morning game
al Emeryylle. At the conclusion OF that
contest the bovine paradox was turned out
10 Craze without a run, and that after win
ming two StTaightS. Too bad, too bad, IN
deed it IS 10 be denied even one tally with
which 10 SOOthe their savage breast ana
drive dull care away.
A more enjoyable game has not been seen
al the Haight-stTeet park for many a day.
The news If Frisc0'S TWO defeats at the
hands of the Steers must have aroused the
people and they wanted 10 see Il out. AT any
rate the contest drew Ike free lecture on
anatomy with co!0red maps. Ggand stand
and bieachers alike were packed with folks
who smiled to see the runs come in and bent
a willing ear TO the mutf1ed swat OF the base
hit
From carefully compiled table of the
casualties 1t will be seen that Messrs Cobb.
Hoffman and Stapleton, - no are esteemed
contemporaries in the twiTling business,
were touched up for grand total OF thirty
enc hits. This list includes two home rams,
one triple and five doubles. They were
about evenly divided, but Harris men re-
fused TO make an equal diYyy on the
TWENTY-FIVE runs resulting therefTOm Har-
lis trck sixteen and left the rest for Me-
ClOSkry.
THE SHAREHOLDER FOUNDERED.
bits are what makes a game popular
wirh the average spectator. and particularly
tie women folks, who cannot fully appTe-
ciate the scientifically beautiful strike-out OF
this progressive age. They love 10 follow
the ball as ii takes lis bounding Side-lgmps
across the emerald plain aud then lean back
and watch the lumpy-legged runner as he
piunEes from bag 20 bag. And when the
moist and happy man crosses the plate she
jab~ her paTasOl on the floor TIL be grabs
handful Of his cap ana removes It Ike
cook lifting the cover OF a dinner pot.
Some men are also enthusiastic and be-
hoo had In hot for
get everything else. Two of this kind came
over from Oakland, bringing a nlne-year-
old boy along. They took seats on the
beacheTs. ami, being OF sporty dlsposi-
tion, each man wagered i've 6a2s Of pea
nuts on the result of the game; then, with
the utter tnoughtlessness Characteristic Of
some men, the boy was made stakeholder
and told to hold the bets
lie dId So but held them in such a way
tIat they finally gave him pain. Along
about the eighth inning, just after the Steers
had handed N i've runs, the boy uttered
loud, remOTseful gI0an and doubled up like
q iacE-kuife. The man who had bet On
Frisco Immediately commenced to hunt Tor
JLc peanuts, while his companion attended
{ tie stakeholder, who showed uumiSta6-
able -icus of founder. He denied, however,
that he had eaten the nuts, but contTadcted
himself by stating, IN an angulsh-stricken
voice. that " his trousers clicked him"
hich tLey undoubtedly did, poor boy! At
last account, re Was better.
SOME OF THE FEATURES.
Il would require too mucn time and space
10 give tie pedigree OF those twenty-five
runs individually, together with the hits.
IN .eSs the matter could be gotten out in
pamphlet form or run in the nature Of
serial story. to be continued in our next.
Cobb and Hoffman were the only men who
failed TO bit the ball, but they have the
sweet satisfaction Of knowing that they
WIRE IF great assistance to those who did.
Both pitched their usual game, but some
Low or other the batSmen would land up
against tie ball with grieYOus force. At
the beginning OF the seventh inning Staple
ton came in to twiTi, Hoffman going TO short.
Tire boy pitcher held the hitteTs back for a
minute OF two, then, in the last two innings,
he was whReked for home run and four
singles Rube Levy was the author Of one
of these. He evolved 1t in the eighth, with
two men Oh the circuit. Work hit out the
other four-bagger in SscTament0's half of
the eighth, with Hutchinson waiting for
chance to score.
Clark made a phenomenal throw from
right field to the plate of Works single in
the seventh, and on which Hutchinson was
retired. Levy and Sweeney played an ex-
Celient fielding game, and Sharp, as usual,
Whacked the ball hard and often. He got
four singles out of five times up.
Nick Smith made q wonderful stop OF
base Int in the first which headed off two
runs. W it'll two men out and two on bases,
McClOs key sent low ground ball to Smith,
who blocked il with one hand and threw the
bats man out Big Bill Hassamer played
beautiful game at short, and also touched off
q couple of singles. He Is a sure man on an
luhrld fly. The Steers made hard fight for
victory, but the other side had too many
runs Following is the score:
AT SAN FRANCISCO, JUNE q, 1891.