The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-06-02
BASEBALL WITHOUT BALLS.
That Was How the Poor Colonel
Expected to Play.
But He Sent for Some Peck & snyders With
Which the Angels Batted Out
Victory.

While baseball may be practically dead in
oakland, still the colonel has not yet gone
so lar as to play the game with mourning
balls. though it looked that way at the be-
ginning of the obsequies yesterday.
When McDermOtt called time the painful
discovery was made that the colonel had
neglected to furnish the balls--a mere trifle
IN themselves, still they are sometimes used
ID playing the game in these parts. A long
argument followed this discovery, but Glen
alvin at length con ;ented TO proceed.
80 the citrus beIters and the COlonels
worried through a couple of innings with
two dull, black and extremely doleful prac-
tlce balls While awaiting the arrival Of a
trusty messenger, who had been sent to
town for a package of brand new Peck &
Snyders. With these the belters jolted
Lester p. German for II hits and won the
game by score cd 9 y.
After all the colonel is not to blame for
such trifing oversight when all the facts
IN his case are made known. Only last
week, while prowlng around his ware
house, large box of prunes fell off the top
row and struck him on the head.
AN UNLUCKY HEAD.
few of the prunes were saved and so
was the colonel, but since the accident his
head has been lanced and stitched then
lanced again and probed--for prunes-poul-
tlced and plastered with ill-smelling drugs
ana daubed with salye, until he doesn't
know whether he is the proprietor OF a ball
team or the reception-roem in an emergency
hospital. Not only did this unfortunate
man forget to bring the balls, but the for
malIty OF advertising the game also slipped
MS mind. However, be Iustled around and
tipped 1t of TO a few OF his friends, who
came and stayed, while the colonel, wearing
an artificial scalp, circulated among them
and spoke feellngly OF his baseball prospects.
oakland came very near winning the
game. so near in fact that before the eighth
inning was completed Genalvin yanked
Louie BalsZ Of Vallejo out of the box and
placed j. Stafford therein. Previous TO this
Change the COlones had saluted Louie with
seven hits, which resulted in two tallies.
Louie had also abStained from bases on
balls, but In the eighth lie sent two men on
walk and hit Cousin Park a resOunding
swat in the tenderloin district besides
which Turner the Terror tore off a home
run sWlpe In one chunk, O'Bren hit for
TWO sacks and Whitehead and 0'Neil for
one each, all OF which netted the Colonies
hye TALES and tied the scnTe SO uneX-
pecfed was this turn Of affairs that two little
boys 1ell out OF eucalyptus tree.
ANOTHER NEW COLONEL.
j. Stafford then took hold of the job, fin
lShlng that inning and pitching successfully
10 the next Oakland got no more runs or
hits, but in the visitors half of the eighth
two singles and three-bagger by Haesamer
drove in the winning runs. Louie at first
fels much detected over his mshap,
but frightened up later on and felt
much better than Lester p. German, who
was not feeling first rate himself. Lester
had nice control. but the Angels would hit
the ball when Lester p. placed it within
reach. Even Louie Balsz, who wasn't sup
posed to be able to hit the ball with
handful OF sand, touched off a couple of
single-cushion shots.
Though suffering excruciatug pain in the
head the colonel could not refrain from that
habit, which is almost passion with him,
of hiring new men for his team. He has
drawn from the apparently inexhaustible
supply of Sweeneys in the business with
the result that Charlie Sweeney is now
custodian OF the first bag, Turner the Ter
ror having been restored to the middle pas
ture. Lou Hardie sat on the bench. Rob
inson has already fired Hardie twice this
season and he probably hasn't the heart to
fire him again so soon. Sweeney was given
hearty reception, and played the position
in good shape besides making a hit. The
same teams play at Haight street to-day,
Stafford and Horner pitching The score;