The morning call., 1893-07-22
HOW HENRY LOST.
Colonel Geischen Wins a
Ball Game.
POWERS HEAVY STRIKE-OUT
The Game Was Full of Excitement,
but the Score Leans All
One Way.

The hired men who do ball-playing for
Henry Harris OF this city had an offish day
at Piedmont yesterday and dropped
game into the basket of Colonel Geisc hen
of OAKLAND. The score was to 3.
Something was wrong with the eyes OF
Henry's men. They could not tell bad
balls from good ones. They batted at all
sorts OF curves and shoots and drops, and
did not hit hardly any OF them.
Perhaps, now. come to think of it, the
trouble was not all in their eye. May be
the fact that the shoots and curves they
were trying so hard to hit were sent uD by
Clarke Griffith had something to do with
the difficulty. People generally seemed TO
think that Griffith was doing some won
derful pitching all along through that
game.
Furthermore every man in the Oakland
team seemed to be playing for all he was
worth, and you could not quite say that OF
Henry'S men.
1t was good game for all that. The
almost errorless playing OF the Oakland
men made that part OF 1t interesting, and
the frantic efforts of Buck Ebright 10 in
lect ginger into his dishear;ened associates
at opportune times made the rest exciting.
Oakland had five tallies slowed away
before San Francisco made even one hit.
One of these FIVE came in the second when
Earle singled and went all the rest Of the
way around on two gigantic errors by
Peck Sharp.
Then in the third came group of four.
Part of thOserunS were the result, directly
or Indirectly, of errors.
There never was a much more promising
situation on a ball field than that pre-
sented by San Francisco in the fourth
inning. Sharp, Carroll and Mollie Mcguire
had all singled and the bases were full.
Meantime two men had gone out. Up
came the man who made that beautiful
nome run at Piedmont las. Wednesday,
big, energetic, reliable Tom Power-a sure
batter and heavy one. A single would
have done heap of good and double
would have done wonders: while home
run--say, a home run would have almost
tied the score right there. The crowd had
its mind set on a home run; that was evil
dent from Ihe noise.
81 when Griffith sent up the first ball
everybody looked to see it sail up through
the deep blue sky and be lost To view be-
yond the horizon-or at least beyond the
back fence. Power swung the bat; the
ball buried itself in COdy's nit, and a
slight murmur of astOnishment was
drowned by Ebright's coaching voice as he
let it out in a few choice expressions d.
recleu al rover,
Again there was deep silence as Griffith
put the right kink in his backbone prepar-
atnry to sending up the second ball.
Power put on just trifle more force this
time, and just as the bail got even with the
plate he gave Il terrible lurch and-ni issed
it again. Ebright thought OF few more
things to say then.
The silence was as thick as Cliff House
fog when Griffith rubbed down the ball for
the third pitch. He dug his toe deep into
the earth, put TWO extra kinks into his
verteblR and let it come. Power struck
out.
Well. there was another inning after
that, when Oak land made run or singles
by Sorruwful McGucken and Elongated
Fare, and then came the inning. when
San Francisco made three runs. That was
the only time when Oakland did not play
good ball. Two hands were already out
when Power singled. There was base on
balls to Carroll, q passed ball by Cody. two
runs by Irwin, avid throw by Cantillion
To first, ana the deed was done.
San Francisco never made any more
runs; only got two hits in the three inn
ings after that, and on two hits, one sim
gle by CaliOpv and the oti:er smash over
the riGnt-field fence by Cody. Oakland
got its last two in the seventh.
Out at Haight street to-day these teams
will play again, with McGreevy and Horner
pitching. Yesterdays score was as fol-
lows.