The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-07-13
GREAT BASEBALL.
Few Errors Came to Mar
the Game.
RULES WORKING BOTH WAYS
How a Muff Narrowly Averted Some
Extra Innings and Allowed Oak
land to Win.

Oakland's the place to see great base
ball played. Occasionally. but not any
too often, cal good game is played at
Haight street; but the great majority OF
the good games take place IN our sister
city across the water.
Yesterday afternoon the first game OF
the Oakland-Los Angeles series was
played and it was brilliant from beginning
to end. There was not whole lot OF
great long hits because, for one thing, the
grade of pitching done by Jack Homer
and Phil Knell prevented that sort OF
thing, and then there were lew errors
fewer than usual by several.
Perhaps the hand of pitching controlled
by HOrner was just shade better than
| that of Knel. because Oakland. Horner's
side. won the game. but kneits was
good-good enough to keep the score
down to for Oakland and was what
Los Angeles got.
A score might run way up above those
figures and still there be as few errors II
! the hits were ODpOrtune and robust, out
Yesterday. when there were men on bases
and the time came when even hit would
have thrown things wide open. not hit
came. More likely was it 10 be strike
out.
| Only for the muff of an easy fly ball by
| Hutchinson 10 the third inning, when two
runs were made, there might have been
| another thirteen-inning game. After that
| happened and gave Oakland the lead the
playing was so close all the way to the
finish that it is doubtful if nine innings
would have been enough to make WIN
| ming tally In.
| A feature of the Oakland games has
| come to be the regular kick over ground
rules. The Piedmont grounds are not AS
| expansive as the league rules call for. Con-
| sequently there are numerous whltewashed
| boards in the fence along on each side of
the field, and set of rules and regulations
are supposed to 60 along with the marks
| on the fence.
| These rules and regulations are for the
guidance of the umpire in determinin
| the extent of hit over the fence and the
number Of bases runner can take on
| passed ball. From time to time these rules
| have been changed and rechanged ard
| fixed and refxed and corrected until now 1t
is utterly impossi BILE for an umpire to re-
member more than the fact that ball
| over the fence or passed ball requires
| some sort OF special legislation, aud he
never makes just exactly the right decis
| ion. A least he never makes one that
suits both sides.
| Yesterday the decision over a passed
bail was in favor of Los Angeles and Cap
| tain EhTl6 OIL LUe OdkIdUuS WIdppcu tUc
ear of the umpire around his arm and
poured into the depths Of it such tale of
woe as would have changed the mind Of
mule in the employ of the Government,
seemingly. But it didn't move Umpire
Sweeney just trifle. He stuck to that
| decision like ten tons OF melted glue.
run that Caliopy had made on passed
bail had to be made all over again. Per-
haps some day this thing will all be settled
satisfactorily for both sides, and the pub
lie will be spared the spectacle o.! these
! little unpleasant tits; but you can't tell.
| Such things are uncertain.
From the manner of opening the game
by Oakland it looked as If Los Angeles
had it cornered. Oakland did not get
| hit, much more a run. Los Angeles opened
with hit contributed by Rasty Wright.
And Immediately old Pap MeCauley 0Der-
ated double that Rasty wiggled around
| TO third on. whence he scored on Sacri-
fee by Hutchinson.
| After Earle flew out to Lvtle Call0py
swung for single in the second He stole
a base ana then Lohman had a passed
ball and he sailed in over the plate only to
find that he had jolted up against the
ground rules and regulations. 1t was un-
pleasant. o. course, and Callopy took the
occasion to say so within earshot of the
umpire. but he had to 90 back to third and
wait until Hernon sacrificed before he could
make the score count.
That might have been what stirred up
| the Oakland sphere-chasers so. Anyway
they played awful hard after that. KneIl
! was caught with his batting eye aslant
yesterday and struck out four successive
times Someone was unkind enough to
refer to him as "wind-shaver" after the
game was over. He wound Up the last of
the second with u strike-out.
Cody singled over to deep field in the
third. He was followed by Hernon, who
ho ho do in oh bo
place. A wild pitch and then an error by
Hutchinson by mufiina McGucken's little
fly let in the two runs.
Only two long hits were made in the
game. both by men from Los Angeles.
Wrights double opened the last of the
even get away from second base until
three men had gone straightway out.
1t was in the last of tile fifth that Los
Angeles did exc out another run. Rasty
Wright got that one. too. Hines muffed a
fy he sent out and let him get TO second,
and single by McCauley boosted him to
third. When Hutchinson singled to right
field he scored
Lots of great playing was done all along
here until the game was ended. For IN
stance, in the first of the eighth Knell
struck out Irwin and Hines, two men who
sometimes slam the curves Of pitcher
until his head aches. Then this same
Knell threw out SOrr0wful McGucken at
| first.
Another mnff of fly ball by Hutchn-
son let Earle get to first in the ninth. and
after stealing second he scored on a single
down the left foul line by Callopy.
| 1t was easy work to- put out Los Angeles
| in the last OF the ninth, because Knell was
I'D to strikeout. Wright couldn't work out
Horn rs curves into anything but a little
wee turk down to Irwin land the front door
! Of the game was slammed in the face of
Los Angeles when McCaulev hit the ball
into long-jninted Earle's territory.
To-day at Haighl street these same teams
will play again. and in order to do what
Pete Lohman saws Los Angeles is going to
do, i. e., leave Oakland in last place, Los
Angeles will be Obliged to win the game.
Borchers and Griffith will pitch. Yester-