The morning call., 1893-07-21
ON HITS IN TIME.
UnCle'S Men Take Still
Another Game.
RUNS IN CLUSTERS OF FOUR.
The Fiercest Baseball Battle OF the
Season Was Waged at Haight
Street Yesterday.

One of the fiercest baseball battles ever
seen on local diamond was waged
Yesterday afternoon at Haight street. The
opposing forces were the Oakland and San
Francisco teams.
1t was rather tame and one-sided AFFAIR
up to the last half of the fifth inning, but
from that time on il was hot. Toward the
end of it the local team got to making runs
in clusters of fours and the last cluster
was one run too many for Oakland--Just
one run, that was all.
This second defeat of the Oaklands was
a little tho fault of Jack Horner. Oak
land had set out to play an errOriesS game
and was nigh to doing that same when
Horner muffed high fly at time when
two men were out, and then two runs
a!terward came Then it was Horner who
presented the home team with one com-
plete run on bases on balls.
But these minor incidents were not cir
cumstance TO the batting of the home
talent. Talk about your opportune hits !;
Carroll hit ont a home run when the bases
were full. Four runs by one swlpe OF the
bat. There is a batter TOR yon. And one
of these three-basger's you'll notice down
in the tabulated statement for Eoright
came when the bases were full too and
thus netted three rnns That's Opp0rtune
hitting with whiskers on it,
Colonel Geschen's men play In hard luck
without a doubt. Fox the first four
innings they worried along without I.,y any
runs at all, not anything that looked like
run. One hit in an inning was all they
could do. Then out of their next four
innings they pulled their ten tallies. On a
com mbination of errors, bases on balls and
one single by Collopy the first four runs
came. Levy's mutf Of long fly by Earle
let in two.
new find. McGreevey's work was uni
formily good, though he too has acquired
touch of that fatal base on balls habit.
Along the second inning San Fran
cisco scored the first run OF the game.
Magure lit double. On throw to
second he scored after getting third on
Ebrights swatlet
Maguire also made the second run of the
game, which came in the fourth. A base
on balls he GOT, and then came an oppor-
tune hit by Ebright. Ebright played ex-
tremely good ball yesterday. His hit was
a three-bngger. and from third he scored
on single by Spies.
1t was not Pitcher McGreevey's fault
that Oakland made four ruus in the fifth.
He only gave base on balls to Cody
Horner got first on Sharp's error. Irwin
and McGucken went out and things were
looking good for another blank inning
when Hines got base on balls Then
Earle sent out his long fly. Levy, old
relia Bile Rube Levy. got under the ball and
mutfed it. Then, with two more men on
bases. Callopy singled and the four runs
We're made.
Clusters Of four came for Frisco in the
seventh ana in the eighth. II was
Ebrjght's three-bagger in the seventh and
CarIOli's home run in the eighth
You would have though. that Oakland
would subside after such treatment as
that, but no. Oakland persisted in play
ing good ball and after that last four went
in and made two runs TO the tune of two
hits, a throe-hagger by CollOpy and a single
by Human. That put the score at IL to 10
in favor of Unce's men and there il stuck
until all was over.
The fact of the matter was Uncle's men
just batted too hard for the Oakland team
10 win. But it was a great game and
good crowd was there, Notwithstanding the
state of the weather.
AT Piedmont to-day the same teams will
play. Griffith and Balsz will pitch.
The score of Yesterday.