The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-06-26
OAKLAND WENT TO PIECES.
They Bungled Badly and Lester
Was Lambasted.
It Was the Giddiest Exhibition of Baseball
Seen in These Parts for Many
Moons

Winning two games and making a hard
fight for q third seems to have fatlgued
the Oak lands to an alarming degree. They
are either suffering from that tired feeling
or else looming up In their old 1891 form.
The game they played yesterday was not
only giddy 1t was simply awful. Before
the first inning was fairly under way the
tailenders knew that they were beaten, but
they went ahead and played the game out
anyhow, just to verify their suspicious.
Score, II TO g.
In addition to these figures Oakland
stacked up IL heartbreaking errors. besides
committing few indiscretons that do not
appear in the table of contents, such as
stupid base-running and other wasted OPP
portunties; also some subdued euss words
Poor Lester 2. German was not feeling
well and suffered accordingly. Not only
was Lester freely lambasted but played a
disastrous part in other ways. lie was I'M
usually liberal in his distribution of bases
on-balls fayors, made q very dinkydink
throw, and, at a critical juncture, Lester
went into a trance, which enabled Carl Nc
Ney TO make the shortest two-base hit on
record.
THE CROWD GREW WEARY
Oskland's early successes this week have
ter attendance was the result A big crowd
was present at the opening, but the nj ser-
able exhibition on the part of Oakland and
the mamma s-bllght baDy-bOY antics OF a
lot of young men In one of the boxes made
the people very weary. These youths were
armed with campaign castnets, with which
they kept UP continual rafting much to
the annoyance Of the spectators. OF course.
there were moments when noise was IN
order, but these young men gave an exhibit
tiOn of endurance instead of enthusiasm. 1t
was too bad that in addition to their rattles
they did not bring nursing bottles With
these they might have luled themselves to
sleep and given their tired auditors rest.
Firms men secured mortgage IN the nrSt
inning by piling up four tallies, and the
manner In which these were obtained as
sured the people that there were more to
follow. Unhappy McGucken was made glad
with base on balls, but evil results might
have been ayerted had not Lester Z, made
a bad throw. Bunglesome Bill bunted and,
in sending the ball TO Terrible Tom. Lester
threw wide. He was afraid of hitting Bill,
not being aware of the fact that lots OF
people would have enjoyed seeing Bill get
crack on the oceipltal bone, not too hard,
but just hard enough to make him dance.
Bill made safe on the throw while McGueken
galloped ON to third.
LESTER IN TRANCE.
Unhappy scored on Ebright's force OF
Bill Mt second and Dooley flew to left All
might have been well at this stage. but
Hutchinson made a miserable failure OF an
easy out Mt first on Denny's grounder,
which sent Ebright home. Clark and Nc
Vey tore off hits and sent in the other pair
OF runs. The second passed without mis-
hap, and two hands had persisted in the
third, when Lester gave Clark his base.
McVey hit tall TeXas Lacquer, which came
sailing down directly on top Of Lester Ills
chums thought lie was going to take it, but
lie was thinking OF something else at the
time. The ball struck the ground at his
feet, SHE'D violently to one side, and rolled
away over TO the bleaehers. Cousin PARK
retrieved the ball, and threw to the plate
TO stop Clark, but Lester missed 1t, and Nc
Vey, who had reached second on this prize
two dagger, sprinted on home. Lester then
filled the bases, but the side was retired
without further damage.
These spectacular performances gave the
Dukes lead Of six runs. but Oakland put
on sprint in the third and hauled up
within one. They scored five men before a
hand was out on five swats and McNey's
muff Of hard chance. -Four OF these hits
were of the scratch variety, but they counted
just The same. In the seventh for Oakland