The morning call., 1893-05-05
WON BY THE DUKE.
How Four TaIIies Came in
One Inning.
San Francisco Lost the Game by Plav.
ing Imitation Baseball All the
Afternoon.

Duke Finn brought his herd of tail
euders over from Stockton yesterday and
. watched them wrest game from the hire
lings of Uncle Harris with comparative
ease. Score TO 3, with half an Inning left
over.
Aside from Mr.. Ebright. you couldn't tell
but what Uncle's men were playing ball.
but 1t seems that they simply hypnotized
the audience into thinking so, and in reality
they were doing nothing but wearing out
their uniforms.
Mr.. Ebrjght only has two errors regis
o tered against him, but those two errors,
trivial as they may seem, were the cause of
several Of Stoekton's tallies. In fact, they
: responsible in great measure for the
loss OF the game.
The Duke has been signing players right
, and LETT lately. and when he counted up be-
fore the game yesterday he found he had a
fielder too many. And so picturesque MI
'Blockers" Hanley sat IDLY on the settee
by the side Of his employer all of the long
aftern oon, while his salary grew apace.
HE new man from "uD country" arrived
in time to enter into the festivities. and was
placed IN charge Of the second bag. His
name Is Augustus Ad0Ipbus Klopf. and he
brought II with him. He had two turns {
TIE bat, but he didn't even make hitlet.
He didn't have much opportunity to show
M44hL. lt Eeu U U III Hblu hUTh. he VIII DlaY
again today, and then perhaps he will have
letter opportunity to gather some laurels.
Whitehead welded the bat with the pre-
cislon OF tTp-hammer all the afternoon.
lie came up four times, and SO the number
OF. his hits are naturally limited to just that
number, but half of them were doubles and
brought In runs. On three occasions Mr..
Whitehead crossed the plate himself. Next
to Ebrights errors nothing gave Mr.. Finn
SO much Joy yesterday as Whitehead's peri
ogical swipes. He always did have tile
reputation Of being confirmed hitter, any
way.
A slight diversion was offered Yesterday
by the efforts of Mr.. Meegan, umpire. to
compel the pitchers to keep both footies on
p the ground until after they made M their
minds to send the ball up the lane.
That's new wrinkle. 1t just arrived on
She overland. Il is new version OF an old
rule which says that the pitcher must de-
liver the ball after he has lifted one foot
. from the ground or else he will be charged
up with balk. That is calculated to make
base-stealing more Of a pleasure trip than
anything else. The pitcher must throw the
baltic the bases with both feet squarely
upon the ground.
The Delsartian grace of Mr Meegan as
he gave ocular instructions to the pitchers
was Of itself well worth the admission price.
When Mr.. Meegan gets his long protector
buckled around his buxom waist his general
outline is much like that of the hired
girl, but OF course he knows more about
baseball than the hired girl ever did.
The painful details of the game yesterday
may just as well be omitted. 1t was in the
thiJd inning that Stockton piled up four tai
lies in Il row, and the last one came in on
Ebrighrs egregious tumble of nice little
sW3pelet from the bat OF Professor Tanning.
After that Stockton got right in and
manufactured runs out of singles and
doubles aid such things until the end.
kneu pitched for Uncle and struck out
two hands, while Tanning, for the Duke,
ALLOWED the San Francisco athletes to 20
unstricken.
To-day the same teams will play at Pied
mont, over forninst Oakland, and Louie
BalsZ aud Mr.. Harper will twirl.
Yesterdays score was as follows: