The morning call., 1892-08-14
DROPPED ANOTHER NOTCH.
The Tailenders Lost Again Yes.
terday at Haight Street.
Hanks Warblers Win With a Heavy Handi-
cap in the First Half Of the Game by
Bunching Their Hits.

The tailenders once again showed their
ability TO uphold their reputation, and
gracefully slid down another round in the
ladder of baseball fame at the Haight-
street grounds yesterday afternoon. when
they presented Hanks warblers with their
second consecutive game with TO score at
the finish.
On the whole 1t was well-played game.
but the rejuvenated Athenians, despite the
efforts of the imported talent, failed to cap
ture the game. The new men appear not
to have had sufficient practice TO play
sharply together yet. and Cantilion fur
thermore disappointed his new owner by
retiring from the game without base hit
to his credit on Hoffman's delivery, although
ne has good batting average.
Lester 2. German OF Baltimore was not
quite as fortunate as bis contemporary in
the box, and although his delivery was good
he was swatted for nine hits against the
formers five.
The game was opened In a rather dull
way that did not enthuse the fair crowd in
the grand stand 10 any extent, as the PLAYS
and outs were too rapid and the errors too
few to please their fastidious tastes and
cause excitement Hanks warblers opened
the performance by sending p. Sweeney to
the plate, who singled with swat In White
heads direction, but just beyond the lat
ter's reach, aud made the only hit made by
either contingent in the first two bouts.
His support al the plate, however, was poor,
and although Lester p. German of Balti-
more allowed swatting the fielderS played
good hy-catchng game and allowed no
tallies, by catching out Sharp. ID. Sweeney
and ReiZ IN shorter time than it takes to
write il.
The Athenians made still poorer show
ing at the plato in their half by retiring ig-
ANONYMOUSLY without even a hit. CantilliOn
opened for them with fly into p. Sweeney's
hands at first, which the latter held on to
affectionately. Hutchinson tapped light
sphere to Hoffman and died at first. fol-
lowed by McQuaid. who flew out to Sharp,
retiring the Athenian amid the yaWns Of the
already tired cranks.
The second was almost as slow, Levy,
Hanley and Spies going out in succession and
Carroll, Morrisey and Whitehead retiring
their side in similar style and order, neither
club scoring as much as base hit.
In the third Oakland nearly had their
owner swoOn from surprise when they ran
in two TALES on one hit made by O'Neili
and three simply beautiful errors made in
the field that sent Hank and his blackthorns
squirming all over the bench for anger and
disappointment Alas, poor Hank! it was
only the foTerunner of the next inning,
when three more of his songsters lost their
voices ana proves by retiring without
either runs or hits on Testers work in the
box, and the Athenians ran in their fourth
tally in their half on CAROLS home-run
swat down the center to the back fence,
and everythin Indicated a whitewash score
In their favor
But the Athenians were not built that
way. and although they had a beautiful
start to win the game in with the to
nothing score they refused to hold it down,
and let the s0ngsters run in three talies in
their half of fifth ON good swatting aud poor
field work.
In thu next three h0uts the Colnnels
retired with goose-eggs and allowed
Hanks contingent 10 run in four more tai
lies. one in the sixth and three III their half
of the eighth.
1t was the latter inning that really decided
the game. and finally brought sunny BEAM
ing smile TO Hanks former pain-drawn and
woe-beg0ne visage.
Peek Sharp esquire opened out with a
swat 10 ONeill. took the second bag
on Whitehead's error of an easy Que from
ID. Sweeney's bat, and both runners scored
on ReitZ's sacrifice. Levy swatted over to
the right field sending in two tallies and
scored himself on singles by his successors.
The Colonels shut out their adversarieS in
the ninth. but only succeeded in rolling in
one tally In their half, and fell two short of
the required number.
1t was fair ali-round game with some
healthy bungles and fairly good plays, but
that the Colonies should have won it with
start they had up to the fourth, was the
general verdict of the cranks The same
clubs play at the Haight-street grounds this
afternoon. The following is the score:
AT SAN FRANCISCO AUGUST IL 1892