The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-05-06
HITS And KICKS BY TURNS.
There Was Lots of Grief in the
Game Of Ball.
Fanuing's Timely swat in the Ninth De-
feated ths Dukes Oakland Lest in the
Sunny South.

Timely hitting In the ninth inning tore
tied score asunder and gave the game 10
Frisco by score of to 1t would oe
hard TO select a more cherries day Tor Dali
playing. The wind blew in seven different
directions at once. and ii was so cold III the
mark that even the street-caF men WIN their
double-breasted coats couldn't stand II.
Threatening rain kept the crowd away,
and the Young men performed 10 smaller
company than at Oakland on the previous
day.
But 1t was an interesting contest fol-. all
that. full of long hits, errors, kicks and
and ether advertisement, with an excit-
ing finish to top off the whole. The
FIRST kick was registered By Captain p.
Sweeney in the second. y hen Mcdonald
called him out on play at third. Pete im-
mediately got Up, brushed some dirt of him.
self, slammed his cap on the ground and
asked the umpire what was the matter with
him. That official made reply which was
swallowed up In the whlTllng winds and Is
therefore lost TO On anxious world. Sweeney
then requested Macdonald to go ana SIT
down, but jim said he preferred TO stand'lI
it was all the same 10 Pete.
UNHAPPY JOSEPH M'GUCKEN
]. McGucken, who used to own a white
experienced more or less poignant grief
every time he came to bat. The rat died
last summer and Joe has never had any
luck to speak Of since. Joseph McGucken'
great speciality yesterday was knoc king foul
IWO-baggerS so close to the line that he
thought they were fair and went to second
every time. He always came back across
lots beating the air with his nSts. When
not doing this Mr.. McGucken was striking
himself out with little snappy foul tbs
which Mcdonald couldn't hear on account
of the wind blowing in the wrong direction.
Altogether Mr.. MeGucken had most dole
full time. which he wound up by mufhBg two
flies in the last inning:
During the game q runs were totally
ruined by being left too long on the bases.
OF these a belonged TO Frisco aTd the rest
10 the Dukes. The faYOrite mode Of bro
ceduTe was TO I'LL up the circuit with hits,
generally Texas leaguers, and then the next
man up would fan out or bunt to the inheld.
lie the fourth and eighth innings Frisco
raped Mr.. Harper Tor three hits in each
and then failed 10 tally, leaving a trio Of
shiyering young men stranded on the bags.
The Dukes were also unlucky in this re-
spect, until the fifth. when Mr.. Denny
clipped eff a two-bagger that sent Messrs.
Everett, McVey and DOoley home. These
were their first tallies. and were produced
with great ease and rapidlty.
THE DUKES EVEN Up.
In the eighth ClaTk was sale on ReitZ.
wide throw TO first, aud Harper followed
with short hit back of first, Clark sprint
ing on 10 third during an argument as to
whether the hit was foul OF fair. He then
fooled round aud got himself put out while
Mir. Harper was purloining second. Then
MeGucken knocked one of his perpleXing
foul two-baggeTs, after which lie came back
and struck out. Harper finally scored on
Sharp's tumble of Everetts gTouuder and a
bad throw to third. This tied the score.
Frisco having tailed four in the second and
third innings on q combination of hits and
errors. all of which runs we're made before
= the Dukes had got started.
Two battery errors, McGucken's two
muffed flies and a beautiful bGngle by Big
Bill gave Frisco three runs IN the ninth.
FannIng's two-bagger to left drove in a
pair and Jack scored on McGucken's muf.
In the Dukes half they got two men
started before a hand was out, but an unex-
peeted double took the ginger out Of them.
There was some nice hitting on both sides.
The fielding WAS not so clean as il might
have been. ReltZ made some clever Stops
and Peoples work at short was particularly
brilliant, III spite Of hs three errors. They
play at Haight street this afternoon, with
Lookabaugh and Hoffman in the box. The
scores: