The morning call., 1893-06-26
ALL THE SERIES.
Oakland Wins Both the
Games Yesterday.
JACK FANNING'S LONG ARM.
The Mornings Game Was Close and
Fine, but the Afternoons Was
an Awful One.

One remarkably good game and one just
as remarkable for being poor was the out
come Of the league ball playing in these
parts yesterday.
As usual. the good game was played in
Oakland and the poor one at he Haight-
street grounds. But the Oak land audience
was larger than usual-larger perhaps than
any seen there since the day that Colonel
Robinson sprung his last parade on the
Oakland public.
1t was hardly to be expected that either
game yesterday would be brilliant Mis-
fortunes always come in groups. and so
along with the absence of Harper from
the Stockton team comes the indispositlon
of Hernon, the human foghorD, and White
heads absence.
The Stockton team felt the disruption
more severely, and besides having to press
a new man into the service in right field
and change the players from their regular
positions, Jack Tanning was compelled to
pitch both games. L hat makes five games
out of the six of the series that Tanning
has pitched.
THAT right arm of mine feels like it
was made of glass and was block long"
remarked Tanning before the afternoon
game.
during the afternoon bore out the state
ment
But all the blame for the defeat rests
with Tanning. however.
Klopf figured prominently in the list of
those who helped to lose the game. and so
does PEBBLES. Kopf made errors when 1t
seemed as though 1t would nave been far
easier to have made good plays. His
record for the afternoOn game was i've
errors, and more bungles0me buDgies than
some of them were can hardly be
imagined. Peoples only failed to Guido
him making errors for The very good reason
that he lacked chances.
The new face in right field belonged to
George Sharp, welI-known player who
has appeared here before in San Francisco
and San Jose uniforms. He played with
Stockton yesterday. and generally speak
ing played good ball. He is lair
batter and rapid fielder. but yesterday
one counted. That was double.
Hprner took Hernon's place in the
morning game at Piedmont. He didn't
distinguish himself. chiefly because there
was no opportunity offered
Seldom have California lovers of the
game been treated to finer exhibition of
the game than was given III the morning.
For six innings the score was a tie. one
run having been scored by Oakland in the
first ana one by Stockton in the second.
Neither run was earned. There were no
long hits in the game to earn runs on, and
no punching Of short drives. The entire
game was made up principally of innings
with one hit and no runs.
The outfelding was nearly perfect
throughout. MCGucken and Hines are
credited with the only two-bRggers of the
game. and there were no longer hits made.
Then the fact that there were twenty-one
men left on bases. in a game whers only
three runs were made, goes TO show that
some close plays were made. Oakland
won, to l.
The game was devoid OF startling Incl
dents, unless some circus stops by Irwin
and some fine catches in the field by Rob-
erts could be called such.
A pretty stop and throw by Mannasau
put out Irwin in the first inning. Then
Joe McGueken knocked a two-bagger out.
He stole third and scored on Earle'S sacri-
fee hit to Klopf at second.
In the last half Stockton was retired
with neither run nor hit, and in the first
of the second Oakland failed to score,
though Cody and Irwin each singled. But
in the last half of the second Stockton
was allowed to pct man around the cir
cult on errors and single by Chick Speer.
From that on things ran along even and
smooth until the seventh. Stockton got a
hit in the fourth by Roberts, but a slrike
out by Tanning retired the side soon after
without a run. In the sixth both Klopf
and Roberts singled and Speer got to first
on force hit. but a line drive by Peoples
to Irwin again retired the side.
BY ringing In two singles continuously
in the seventh Oakland got Griffith across
the plate with the winning run,
The eighth and ninth innings were
closely played. Stockton made strenuous
efforts to bring In run, but failed for
want of ability to hit Griffith's curves.
The score: