The morning call., 1893-04-30
UNCLE'S SAD DAY.
A Victory Snatched From
His Grasp.
A THROW SETTLES THE GAME.
Yesterdays Game Was Henry's Till
the Nintfl-Two Hits for
Colonel Wins 1t.
A THROW SETTLES THE GAME.

The nemesis of ill-fortune seems to be so
close upon the trail Of Henry Harris. mag
nate, that there Is danger Of it eolliding
with Henry's feet. 1t is pursuing him with
a seemingly relentless and Tesistless pursue.
Once more a victory has been snatched
from his unwilling grasp just as it seemed
to perch upon his banner. Again has de-
feat in the ninth inning. The score was 3
to in the colOnel'S favor.
If defeat would come by easy stages. If it
would give some sign of its coming even,
or come while yet there was chance to
ward off its sudden attack, then it might
not be so hard to bear, but bursting full
1pon its unsuspeetng victim while yet the
sunshine of success is all around-thaCs
what gets to Henry's collar.
But the game that they played yesterday
out at Haight street was gorgeous. 1t was
ruseale with gorgeOusnesS. 1t was full Of
excitement from the time CantilliOn picked
up the first bat until O'Neill laid down the
last one 1t only lasted an hour and thirty
minutes, but it was rs full of ball-playing
as McCarthy's mine is full Of cinnabaf and
promise.
Canullion was out there in place of Ma
Guire He stole a base, put two men out,
assisted four times, and, in fact, dlstin-
guished himself generally. MIR. Mcguire
will be on the drydock about ten days III
hll tAObab4ill anu II III Sahbttlloh Nah w
as well as he did yesterday he is good for
ten days job al least.
After all the game was featureess.
That is TO say there were no startling situa-
tions or remarkable plays that protrude
themselves out from the general whole far
enough TO be especially noticeable.
Things just went along smooth and
steady for eight innings, and the last Of
the eighth found the colonel with r serious
look in his eye and two tahies shy of a
victory. His hired men went in and dug
out those two TALES Just like finding things.
and your Uncle Henry now wears that
serious look.
In the tabulated statement you will notice
that long hits are cons picuously absent.
Powers three bagity swine required great
deal Of stretching, and if Umpire Mcdonald
had called HIM out at third the populace
gathered in The grand stand and on the
bleachers would have offered no murmur
Of dissent. The decision was very close.
OF course when the long hits are few and
far between it signifies that tile pitching
is good az general thing.
LOUIS BalsZ and Professor Griffith handled
the delivery yesterday, and both were eff
fectiYe in keeping the hits down to little
ones. BasZ had the honor of registering
the only strikeout.
4 detailed account of how the runs came
in is interesting. 1t will serve to make
some Of the good field work apparent.
San francisco scored not in the first. Oak
land got one. McGueken singled and was
forced at secOud by the presentation of a
base on balls to Irwin. He scored on Cal
lOpy's single later on. Irwin was hit by a
baued bail. Hines few out 10 Work and
O'Nelll was thrown out ct first by Cantil-
lion.
In the third Oakland made two more
Iney were the result Of singles by Hines,
Earle and CAllOpy. Hines few out to Work
and double play on 0'NeIlfs fy to Carroll
nut ont ONeill and Callouy
San Francisco got one tally across the plate
IN the fourth. Reuben Levy was the author
of il. He prefaced it with single and got
10 third on CAROLS two-base hit Work
was collapsed by live hit held by Irwin.
Sharp's hit TO O'Nel put the gentleman out
at first but brought in Reuben with his tally
intact Spies flew to McGucksn.
San Francisco tied the score in the fifth by
getting two TALES. BasZ singled, Canti-
lion and Power went out at first ana then
Levy and Carroll recognizing the demands
Of lie situation, contributed twO-baERer
each. Balsz came IN on Levy and Levy on
CAROLS. Work flew out 10 his field oppo-
nent, Hunky Hines.
Then Uncle Harris men brought cut one
more in the seventh. That was the result
OF Powers three base hit over to the rlght
pasture, lrwln's error in fumbing a ground
hit by BalSz let in the run. CantilliOn fired
BalsZ out It second. Levy few cut to Griffith
and Work was thrown out at first by
| ~ NGtlls
The eighth inning was short and sweet.
Six hands went out in a row. Hunky Hines
was The last man up for Oakland, and Balsz
could not think OF any other scheme, so he
| struck Uunky out.
Now ii San Francisco had worked little
| harder ia the FIRST Of the ninth. perhaps the
| smile would stil be visible on your uncle s
| brow. Bur, alasl once more they went
| down, three in row.
The Coloneps men never played all OF
/ their half They played just enough TO get
| in :w0 runs and then jumped the job.
Earle got a base on balls. Calopy hit a
| long ground ball to Carroll Earle was
| ploughiug along on the line to third. " hen
| Carroll got the ball and Carroll let drive a
| swift one. That throw lost the game for
| Uncle. Ebright let it 90 past him and Earle
| scored while Callopy got to third. ONeill
| hit Il single ana Call0py crossed the plate
with the winning tally. Do you wonder
| that Uncle is sad
There will be the usual two games TO-
morrow. The morning game will be at
| Piedmont and the afternoon game will
| commence at the Haight-street grounds at
| 2 o'clock.