The morning call., 1892-06-16
PLAYED TO EMPTY BENCHES.
Hank and Mike Put Up Nice Ball
at Oakland.
Frisco Won the Game and Is Pressing the
Dukes Hard for Second Place
Honors

Slowly but surely Hank Harris Is over
hauling bis Royal Attitudes Duke Finn for
second place honors. Frisco Is now but
one game and half behind the two-time
champions, and il, during the rest Of the
week. they nut up the same kind OF ball
they did yesterday at Oakland, Hank will
be chasing the leaders by Monday morning.
Both teams presented a nice article Of ball,
buterrors crept in on the DukeS.at the wrong
time, and they lost by a score Of 10 :.
If the size Of the crowd IS any cTiteTi on,
the Oakland IODulace is not carried away
with baseball as a heGlthtul form OF Tecrea-
ton even when their own team Is on the
diamond. With two visiting teams the at
tendance is even more diseouraging, and
Yesterdays crowd MAS so slim that FINN
and Harris had TO sit in the grand stand in
order 10 give the place the appearance OF
being populated, ana also to prevent the
structure from giving forth hollow, mock
ing sound when hit by foul tips.
THE DUKES NEW MASCOT.
However, the young men sailed in and
PLAYED as If they were entertaining an open
ing day assemblage before tailenders were
ever thought Of. Ii was a pretty contest
from start TO finish, marred only by few
unavoidable bungles contributed by the
Dukes They brought a new mascot along,
In The person Of a nice little boy wearing a
white uniform and a large wad of cotton IN
his left ear. The mascot alternately mas
cotted and t0ted bats 10 and from the bench.
These bats were used freely. but IN a scat
teriDg way against Mr.. flaming, who was
touched up for II sWats.
Frisco lid not smte Harper so hard as he
mas been smOte, but they PLAYED an almost
errOrless game, ReitZ's wide throw TO first
base being the only lapse from the narrow
path OF perfection. Neither side scored in
ha fr fur n IL % 2
way when Peck Sharp started of with q
double. He tried to score from second on
HaTvey's single 20 left, but was thrown out
al the plate by Unhappy MeGucken, who
had no cause for complaint yesterday.
ReitZ came next and thought be Was sale en-
Texas Lacquer 10 center, but Cool McVey,
whose brother IS not with the circus this
season, put on r sprint and made one OF bis
Justly celebrated catches
FINS FIRST TALLY.
The Dukes got the first run in the third
when McEucken started on a single. Two
sacrifices and Handsome Dooley's swat 10
center brought him home In the next
occurred a neat double play. Clark tore of
a Dagger and McVey sent q line shot to
Peoples, no stopped tue ball, dropped It.
but made another grab and saved himself
and retired Clark before he could return TO
q place Of safety. Frisco scored two iu the
fourth OF DOOley's mulf Of EveTetts assist,
& base q balls and singles by Peoples and
FsDnn9. The Kid tried 10 tally on the last
swat, but MCGuc6en Hipped him al the
plate 2 another Of bis long throws from left
Another tally appeared for Frisco ia the
seventh, when Sharp again started with a
double and scored Oh ReitZ's second two
base drive over the fence. III the last Frisco
filed the bags without a hit. and then a
couple Ct bung.es and one single produced
the last two runs. The Dukes last run was
made ia the eighth, when Everett reached
second on bis single and Relz'S throw and
scored on EbrRht's drive To right
Whitehead was fred from the Oakland
team, but O'Brien cult his job again and
Milt was taken back for the Los Angeles
San Jose play an exhibition game at Sacra-
meDto. This afternoon they play at haight
street, with LoOkabaugh and Hoffman in
the box The score: