The morning call., 1893-11-26
THE BOSTONS WIN AGAIN
Van Haltren's Absence Weakens
the Oaklands.
BAD WEATHER FOR THE BOYS
Little Enthusiasm DispIayed-Mana-
ger Gilbert Decides for
Monday Games.

What with the disagreeable weather and
the ragged play yesterdays game between
the Oaklands and Bostons did not go far
toward warming the slim crowd that at
tended into any great degree Of enthusi-
asm. The result was an easy victory for
the visitors by a score of 6 TO 4
By far tile greater part of the incident
was furnished by Il. Pace, the bow-legged
wonder who daZZleG the baseball world
two seasons ago by playing right field for
Hank Harris on two unlucky occasions.
He was afterward reported to have died
on the burning sands of the Mojave Desert.
but his presence on the diamond yesterday
gave the lie TO this malicious report. For
some reason, known only to himself, u.
Van Haltren failed to materlaliZe yester
day, and, as a last resort, Pace was pressed
into service to play short. As Van had his
uniform locked up in safe on the other
side of the bay it was necessary to dive
into the FriscOs' wardrobe in order TO fl
C0me-to-life Pace with professional rig.
The spotless bablliments that usually
grace the manly form of Our RUDE were
pronounced a perfect TT and thus atlired
the wonder" made his bow to the
populace.
The rains of the past few days had
made the infield extremely muddy and in
few short moments Rube's beautiful
white knickerbockers were covered with
mother earth. AS the game progressed
Mr.. Pace gave exhibitions In gymnastics.
de would start for a ball, slowly and
gracefully at first, and then. without ap-
parent effort, he would do the split" OF
skate for few yards on his knees or some
other more convenient portion OF his
anatomy. The crowd was amused, but
Rube has not yet been heard from.
Tom ParrOtt. Jiggs' brother, was cast
for IaadinO RI hn haunpd MIA Of
Strike0uts and a few snakelike contor-
tions he did nothing to distinguish himself.
j. Frank HOrner. who performed in the
box. seemed to have had a relapse also.
Though only five hits were made Off his
delivery he made up for 1t by giving bases
on called balls and making some rank
fielding errors.
The Colonies were first to bat but failed
to score. For the Champions, Hay was
given his base on balls and scored on
Longs two-bagger. Duffy flew out to
Treadway and Long scored. McCarty hit
to Pace and was out at first. Beckley
ripped off single and took third on
HernOn's muff of Davis fly. Nash hit to
PARROT and was thrown out at first, retir-
ing the SIDE
In the second PARROT hit to Long, who
threw wild and the runner took second and
scored on Browns two-bagger. Cantillion
fouled out TO Kittridge. Pace struck out
duu DiO"u oCOiou Cpoci
ner hit to Long and Speer was forced at
second. For the Bostons Kittridge aud
Nichols each got base on balls. Hoy
flew out to Hines and Long flew out to Can
tlilion. Duffy was presented with base
on balls. McCarty hit to Pace but Brown
fun bed the throw and Kittridge scored
Nichols scored on Horner's wild pitch.
Beckley tore off single which scored Nc
Carly and Duffy. Davis made safe hit
and Nash retired the side by knocking
grounder TO PARROT. who threw him out at
first.
Neither side scored another run until the
sixth inning, when two-bagger by Par
rott, a single each by 81 eer and Horner
and an error by Nash brought in two runs
This ended the run getting for the game
Following Is the score: