The morning call., 1892-05-22
LESTER P. Was LAMBAS4RD.
He Grew Weary and Retired
Early to Rest Himself.
Frisco Then Hammered Horner, and Colonel
7. Paroxysm Robinson Had Another Of
HIS Bad Spells.

Colonel T. Paroxysm Robinson had an
other Of his bad spells yesterday, superIn-
duced by the hysterieal performance Of his
subordinates in the third inning. 1t was
simply awful, so much so that the specta-
tors. Injured as many Of them are 10 scenes
Of baseball devastation and ruin, turned
their grief-lined faces to the wall, and after
awhile got up and went out where the cool
iDg breeze that has been enjoying fye-day
layOff could strike them.
And they never came back.
Il was large and joyful crowd, too, that
turned out TO boost the C0lonels on their
weary uphill way, but the young men from
over the bay had an off-day and nothing
would stop them. To begin with, Billie
-Gimmel Of Santa Rosa had his skates on and
Lester ?. Germans constitution was COM
pletely undermined In one inning. When
not mufing fly balls Billie lost his feet while
chasing gTOundeTs, and went tnbogganng
over the bright green landscape on the rear
platform Of his pearl-gray pantaloons. BIZ
lie was not used TO playing in the presence
of such a large crowd, and 1t had an eneT-
waiting effect on his legs. Poor Billie.
LESTER WAS LAAIBASTED.
In that inning-the third-where the bot
tom fell out of the game with dull sicken-
ing thud, Lester 7. was lambasted sOr six
sWfpes Of different lengths and attitudes.
One Of them was very tall, thln Texas
Lacquer, which came down nall way D.
tween the pitchers box and the plate.
When the ball returned to earth il was
completely surrounded by Lester +. Ger
man. Z. Hutchinson, Cousin Park and the
Tacoma Terror, but still IL got away. LOIS
disaster, together with Billie GimmePs mun
earlier in the inning, produced seven tallles
and made Lester feel bad. he knocked of
work for the day, turning the job and tools
over to his partner, Mr.. HOrner.
This change made no difference to Harris
men, who kept right on swatting as hereto
fore. All told, they got II hits, nine of
Lester and the rest from Horner. When
the latter went to work there were eight
runs on the taIly-sheet FIVE more came in
dribs, making nice little wad Of Is. The
colonel squeezed out with five and it was a
hard scramble for those. Hoffman had the
Colonels at his mercy. The old man simply
dallied with his victims. Eight OF them
were retired without hitting anything but
the ambient air, and six struggling swats
was the sum total Of their exploits with the
stick.
A FEW BRIGHT SPOTS.
Taking it all round il was an extremely
bad day for Oakland. Their hardest hitteTs
seemed 10 have completely lost their batting
eyes VIII lie they were tanning, and the other
fellows whacked the ball like hends. Still
there were some bright spots In the game.
Cousin Park madea circus catch Of foul fly
while gyratirg in midair and Hutchinson's s
work around third base and all over the dia-
mond for that matter brought out great vol
umes of weil-merited Dlaudits. Hatch rose
still higher in public esteem by jarTing loose
a home run in the seventh, which scored the
last two talles for the Colonies.
Oakland had registered nothing but one
punk bit until the fourth. @hen Easy O'Neil,
who wears the cali of his right leg in front,
cot on the line and started his pipes to go
ing. Turner the Terror Immediately broke
off a double, which, with couple Of bungles
and Cousin p ark's hit, scored three talles.
Pete Sweeney is back on first, HaTdie hav-
ing been released after three days trial.
KID Peoples resumed bis position at short,
where he had but one chance, but he made
up for the scarcity Of work here by knock
ing out three singles. One OF the great fea
lures of the game was Blockers' startling
feat of throwing Homer out at first On
grounder to right. They play to-day at
Haight street at o'clock, O'Neil and Far
ming pitchers. The score:
AT SAN FRANCISCO, NAY Il, 1892.
SAN FRANcIscos. AB. r. B.H. SD 70 A. T.
heFy' 2; Sweeney. 9,'a.i.. G r.. 3 / Z Q 8