The morning call., 1893-05-26
COULD NOT LOSE.
Uncle Is Riding a Tidal
Wavelet to Victory.
SEVEN CAME IN A CLUSTER.
Yesterdays Game Was by Home
Talent Won Because the Ball
Was Often Hit.

Before the ball game at the Haight-
street grounds yesterday afternoon Henry
! Harris was circulating around among the
assembled crapks explaining the details
OF the good work done by his hired men
at Los Angeles.
Nothing can stop US now," he would
add at the end of each explanation.
I'VE are riding on tue crust of great
tidal wave that will land us way up out of
sight"
These may not have been Henry's
exact words. but they contain the burden
of his song.
It seems like Henry was right; least
wise the Oakland talent couldn't stop the
tital wave yesterday and didn't even swat
! it hard.
Why, way along at the fag end of the
game. when HenTy's side had already sew
erai talies to throw at the birds, those
mereiless hitters pulled seven talies out
of one inning with apparent ease. That
was more than the Oaklands got in all the
game.
Griffith was doing the pitching for the
Oakland side, too The late Colonel Rob-
finest pitcher in the business.
The pitching he did yesterday was not
up to the scratch by several rows of apple
trees.
1t was in striking contrast to the work
Of L. BalSZ, who learned his trade at
Vallejo, where he used 10 pitch ships, they
say.
Uncle Henry turned the inmates of his
hospital loose oH the public Yesterday and
they acted first-rate. Mcguire still has an
inpediment in his gail and his running on
the base lines was painfui-for the specta-
tors at least-but he hit the ball for three
hits out of a possible five. and had his legs
been able to keep within hailing distance
OF the rest of him while he was Ell route
some of the hits would have been more
than singles. Spies appeared to be all
.. X. once again.
The Oakland team appeared without a
change. Cantillion is still doing good
work around the second sack and yeSter-
day his stick work was above his usual
average. That is to say, he made a hit,
the lone two-bagger of the game.
Little Jack Horner did not appear at all
yesterday, but his place was taken by
young Campbell of Oakland and else
around bench-holders in the State. Some
day he may pitch game for Oakland and
then people can tell what else he can do
The game itself was lot rapid except In
spots and was rather faultless. The play
ing was close throughout and the runs
that H6nry's men got they made on hits.
Nine out of their fifteen runs were earned.
Ebright brought insthe first run of the
game in the second inning, and also got a
box at the Tivoli by hitting the sign, thus
killing two birds with one stone, to coin an
expression for the occasion. He was
assisted in from third on a single by Spies
Earle. who was recently appointed CAP
tain of the Oaklands and is a little new in
the position, got it into bis head that he
ought to do like Captain Ebrght does, so
he dittoed Ebright's triple in the last half.
He was allowed 10 score on it by an error
| of Peck Sharp's in throwing the bail wild
| TO bird.
But in the third inning San Francisco
opened up gap IN the score that never
! was closed but kept on widening until the
| last
After the one tally secured in the second
Oakland didn't score until the seveni tn,
! and not even 4 long hit was made in all
that time. The Oakland batters just poked
the atmosphere full of holes, and when.
perehance, ball did happen TO connect
with the bat it went out to Sharp, or some
body else just as keen, and the runner died
at the first stnppng-place.
/ he fifth yielded three for San Francisco,
r2a1e after the two men were out.
Then in the sixth and in the seventh San
| francisco pulled out tally.
Lately every game has its big inning.
1t always comes along toward the last of
the gnme. Yesterday it was the eighth.
San Francisco got seven tallies out of it
and Oakland three.
That San Francisco's half was lust a
series OF hits. There were FIVE singles.
coming right along one after the other.
and later on more singles and a double
Work opened the singing. Ebright.
Power Spies and Mcguire followed One
play seemed 10 be just repetition of the
last. Griffith would pitch over the ball.
the batter would bat il. the fieIders would
chase 1t and runner would come in over
the plate. This sort of thing Continued
until after Levy singled. Then Carroll
threw his weight (210 in his stockings) onto
the first curve that came over and the
mOnotony of the singles was broken by a
double.
Then Ebright sent ont long high fy
over into deep center Hank Hines was
out there. He waited so long for the ball
with his gaze glued on the course of IL
through the high heavens, that corns
actually began TO grow on his eyes But
! he was there when it came down, and he
! gathered it gracefully in.
Cantilion had the temerity TO make a
| run the last half of the ninth, and that left
! Oakland shy only nine runs of winning the
/ game.
Tomorrow the unpleasantness will be
renewed over at Piedmont 1t is expected
/ that the Oakland popuIace will flock 10 the
scene in unprecedented numbers. Horner
and Knell will pitch.
The score of yesterdays game was as
! follows: