The morning call., 1893-04-20
Well Up in Front Rides the
Colonel.
TWAS OAKLAND'S GREAT DAY
The Procession and the Press Carriages
Become Realities and Pass Into
History.
"Dat's 'im"
E.nFa gg

colonel. see ??
dat jag? l thought he was goin' to ave
uniform on. wild brass knobs and gold
trimmin's. Wots de matter wild i'm? He
amt no circus"
II bet he is. all de same; him an Tip
O'Neiil is de biggest people in de United
States, 'ceDt Anson and mugs like dat"
1t was the colonel-Colonel T. Pyrotech-
meal RObinson-and he was way up in
front of the grand parade, while as far as
the eye could reach there was a surging,
seething mass of small boys and other PEG
pie too numerous / o mention.
Opening day at Oak land had come again.
The parade was in motion, the long line
OF carriages was passing through a sea of
uptnrned faces, the band was at the head
OF 1t playing SOut-strring ump- pump-ta-ra-
dum-dles, and the colouei-COionel t. Pros
porous KoOlnS0H-was way up in front and
bowling right and left, while happy smile
oyerspread his features. causing them 10 be
slightly aJar like Zante during an earth
quake.
Ii was staving good parade, too. A
Dang up, magnificent. regular T. Popular
h0DlnsOn parade, that left a long trail of
enthusiasm in its wake. The colonel was
everywhere, except when he was somewhere
else. lie would seem to be standing right
before you; look again and there was a
laint nash OF sunlight on white vest a
SH'.NN"- ueu0lLe enough
10 De real, and then-only the place where
lie Was-the colonel was everywhere.
he parade started promptly short time
after IL had been announced to start. The
llne oil march was up one street and down
another, thence across to the next and up
Inc opposite TO the point OF intersection,
thence to the ball grounds. The order Of
procession was as follows:
Seventh Regiment band playing a tune.
- carriage containing Colonel Robinson.
Mr. Llhdley nt Los Angeles and a driver i'm
ported from DahOmey for the occasion.
O.. PIess eaniaees with press reporters.
0tieet Car NO. 81 Piedmont Cable Company,
about hail full.
Citizens on foot, full.
carriage containing prominent citizens OF Oak
land
Carriage containing enlerprising capitalists OF
Oakland.
MIX wagon from dairy containing milk
Carriage containing Oakland baseball PLAYERS
Contractor and builders wagon containing ex-
c. tracts Il ON lnmber-yard.
carriage containing Los Angeles baseball
players.
There was not seat to be had on the
grounds when the band ceased playing that
beautiful selection entitled The Gallant
Colonel" composed for the occasion by
DeSormes. Over 2OOO peopie were on the
grounds, according to the coionel's own
statement, and the colonel would not exng-
gerate things on opening day" under any
consideration.
Not very far behind the colonel and the
parade in the way of attractions of the day
was the game ITSELF IL vas never over un-
til the last play was made and then it was
added 10 the cOlonePs celebrated collection
OF rare victories and costly orening days.
When the hired athletes of Mr.. Ltndley
spread themselves around overtime pasture in
the frstinn!ng ii was observed that one mo q
picture has been turned toward the wall.
Mr.. Van Dyke, who plays ball that reminds
one OF harvest Woodworking by the month
was not visible TO the naked eye, His place
was occupied by Lytle ana the pasture
where Mr.. Lyitle was once wont TO skin and
play had youthful Willie NicOl, who is
worth considerable more than his face value
in it.
The pitching Of Mr.. Borchers, who was
once The author of fifteen bases on balls in
one game not long since. proved to be a
mid surprise for the fans yesterday. 1t
was also a surprise for the Oakland batters,
for although Oakland won the game it was
not the fault of Borchers 10 any extent, and
lie shows up in the tabulated statement with
four sirikeouts, while Homer only put one
Angel to sleep.
Horner also pitched remarkably good
game, holding the lungless Los Angelenos
down 10 four hits. Be was not so wild as
BOrchers. ana sent only three men 10 first
on called balls, while BoIchers' record was
eight
inning. though O'Neill's error on hit from
Hulen's bat but q man on second, but the
second chapter netted oakland one and Los
Angeles two. CaIlOpy brought in the run
for Oakland by single. move up on
O'NeilPS base on balls and HernBn's hit to
Rulen. a double play on HeruUn's nit put
out HernoD, and ONeill and Cody were
caught in the act of trying to stretch a
single out to a two-bagGer.
In the Los Angeles half, after Lytte had
gone out on fly 10 center, LOhman with a
supreme disregard for expenses showed an
almost new ball way ont over the lef.-feld
fence. IL was oEe vi those alright home
runs which greatly resemble q cakewalk.
Nlcol was given base on balls. Brochers
hit ina ball down into the right field and
made the first station easy enough. But he
wasn't somehow. He longed to hold down
the second bag. so he started in that direc-
tion. As he WAS seGdding gayly along, and
when about half way there he CHANGED to
notice that the ball was already there and
waiting for him. Instead of rising to the
emergency, however, he laid down to it and
slid out the other half. The umpire called
him safe. Wright hit a slow one to Tip
ONeill. who fell down just as he was about
10 do something else and us Mr.. Wright
nearly got 10 front, and Mr.. Nicol carried
his score across the plate. Hulen retired
the side at first on a weak little swatlet to
short.
Oakland added one more in the fifth.
Cody made it with n base on balls. second
and third ON passed bali and n wild throw
to second by Bohman and on HOrner's fly to
NicOl. Nlcoi held the ball, but Cody beat
1t to the plate.
Three more came to Oakland in the SIXTH
Earle opened the engagement nicely with a
two-base chug. Callony flew out to Wright
O'Neill hit to Hutchinson, who threw low
TO first. giving Tip life on the swatlet
Hernon singled, it brought in Earle, and
Cody followed with hit past Nic0l that
yielded only one bag; and during the at
tendant excitement Captain Tip was caught
between second and third and nipped
HorBer now raped out a very appropriate
two-station hit, but Mr.. MeGucken was
again unhappy in his eh dice of Mr.. Lytle to
send out fly to.
The Angels secured their third tally in their
bali OF this inning on account OF the large
amount OF gray matter which Mr. Lehman
carries concealed under his hat. Hutchin-
son had singled and Glenalvin and Lyle
gone out Oh fly TO Irwin and "a putout at
hrst by Earle, the man with hinge in his
back. MIR. Earle was assisted by himself.
Lehman got his base on balls and soon
after started for second. He got there, and
during The tTacas hutchinson went over
the home plate. That was all, except that
NicOi went out on fly to Hunky Hines.
Oakland took one more home in the
eighth, and there Is no telling how many
more might have been piled up If Borch-
ers had not struck out Messrs. Hines and
Earle when the bases were chuck full. Cody
made the score 10y hitting to Borchers what
turned out TO be single. getting advanced
80 second on McGacken's base on balls and
10 third on ditto for Irwin. He came in
when Hutchinson failed to get in the way Of
throw from Lehman.
To-day's game will pc played at Haight-
street grounds between the same troupes. It
will not be an opening day unless the
colonel changes his mind. The game sched-
uled for Friday Of this week will be post
poned until Sunday morning, when it will
be played at the Piedmont grounds. Here
after there will be no Wednesday games !;
all the games scheduled for Wednesday will
be played on Sunday morning.
Some general IDEAS Of the results of yes
terday's game may be extracted from the
following tabulated statement: