The morning call., 1893-07-23
ONE CLOSE GAME.
How Oakland Took a
Game From Uncle.
IRWIN'S GREAT STICK WORK.
Oakiand's Threat to Explode a "Phe'
nom'' and What Came of 1t
Yesterday Afternoon.

When Jack Horner operated single in
the last of the eighth inning OF yesterday S
bail game at Haight street he virtually
won the game for Oakland. There were
then two men ont; the score stood to 3
in favor OF San Francisco. and would nave
remained so till the end. no doubt. II II had
not been for that single. The single was
followed by double by Irwin and single
by McGucken and then the score was
changed to 5 to in favor OF Oakland.
There it stuck.
Several days ago Colonel Geischen gave
it out that his aggregation OF talent had
decided to explode Your Uncle Henry Q
''phenom," tha. boy McGreevey. They
choose yesterday as the proper time Tor
doing that same. 1t might be stated. sub
rosa. that their desire to accom- pllsh the
task was intensified by the fact that they
tried to do it last Thursday-and didn't.
They made better stagger at 1T yester-
DAY, however. than ever before. for In every
inning of the game Oakland made MIS-
thirteen in all, one home run and a1to-
gether just enough TO win the game. But
the hits we're not OppOrtune. Ihey came
one and two at time. and scattered ut
that, so that it was not until tile NTH
inning that the first run resulted.
On the other hand what lew hits the
home talent got were made IN bunch.
and it was this fact that made one inning
as full of excitement as 1t would stick and
nearly won the game.
All this explanation of tho batting is
necessary, because it was the batting tnat
won the game. Errors were few and far
between and never costly:
The fly catching of Hunky Hines in
center field for Oakland was something
wonderful. Twice what might have been
home runs we're made over INTO putouts by
Hines on chances that few ielders would
have accepted.
The game had few incidents besides the
continuous good playing. lrwin'S home
.un came when the bases were empty. but
1t so encouraged McGucken that he imme-
diately drove out double and scored on
an error bv EbriRh..
Ehr;ghts two errors proved to be the
costly ones of the game. They both con-
sisted Of wild throws to first.
In the second inning San Francisco sue
ceeded in connecting two hits and Ma
guire was at third when Spies retired the
side with weak hit to Irwin.
Oakland had made five scattered hits
but no runs when the last of the fifth
opened. Then. after two men were out,
came hits by Irwin and Earle, and one
run.
ln the sixth San Francisco gathered four
runs. the four that make up the total of
the side.
McGreevey had misca lculated the extent
Of thres Of Horner's curves and struck
out. Sharp began the entertainment with
double. A single by Levy scored him
after he had stolen third. Then Work was
presented with tho only base on balls San
Francisco got. Carroll singled and scored
Levy. The outlook just at that period was
little hazy for Oakland. and when Ma
center aisle and out against the Tivoli
sign for box at the opera and q two
Dagger the haze Increased. Power and
E6right tlsw to Hines and HernOn re-
spectively and ended the thing.
EbriIhts wild throw over first base in the
seventh inning after Irwin had slammed d
out lone run and McGucken a two-bag-
GER evened up things almost
In the next inning with two men ont
Jack Horner's single, followed by Irwin's
double and McGucken's single more than
evened things. l: gave Oakland two runs
and the game.
Twins batting all through the game was
something wonderful. He came to bat five
times and made tive hits. one home run
and two doubles.
Both teames have won two games of the
present series now. and to-day's game at
Haight street will be hotly contested at
every turn. just as tho present situation
IS the TWO games to-day at Sacramento
and in this city will make a great differ
ence in the percentage. By losing to-day
San francisco may drop down into third
place and Sacramento take the lead. with
Oakland second. Yesterday's score was
as follows: