The morning call., 1893-05-20
Robinson's Star Has Set
at Last.
OAKLAND'S NEW MANAGERS.
Stockton Wins the First Game With
out Colonel by Curious
Sort of Score.

forms took part; hut the colonel-Colonel
Tan Picturesque Robinson-did not Off
ciate in the capacity of manager. He was
there merely as a spectator-iust a plain
baseball crank, looking meekly on.
A sudden change has come about The
colonel IS no more; the Oakland folks
have let him out-his baseball days are
Ger.
At the hushed hour of midnight-the
solemn hour that lies between sle day
that has gone and the day to come; when
the great world lies wrapped in slumber
and the pulse of earth is stilled-the man
tie fell from him. Stripped of its ample
folds he stands to-day revealed to all the
world as just the plain, everyday citizen,
the ordinary man. the private Individual
T. p. Robinson of Oakland.
The mantle has fallen upon the per-
sonality OF Colonel Edward knoblett a
wellknown and popular young business
man of Oakland. Associated with him is
Louis Geischen, one of Oakland's capt.
talists.
In passing it will surely not be out of
place to dwell for tiny period upon the
rise aud fall Of the worlds greatest Colonel
Robinson.
Six years and more ago this bright, par
tlcular star shot athwart the cerulean ex-
pause of the California baseball sky.
The first faint rays of its splendor
streaked the dawn of California profes-
slonal baseball. There was no herald of
its coming; ii came like. the glimmer of a
far-off lighthouse through the miS!s of the
sea.
There was then one great baseball team
in California. 1t was known as the
Greenhood Il M0rans. There was no
manager for it. II managed itself.
Aar- al xs-iH I,
habit of talking to whomSoever would listen
to him, came over from Oakland and asked
for the position of manager OF the Green
hoods & Morans. tie said he had once
swept off background aud felt that he was
perfectly competent 10 handle a team.
He got the job There was a movement
on foot at the time TO form California
Baseball League, and the projectors
thought they saw something in the make
up of the tall young man from Oakland
that would be useful tn them.
The name of T. p. Robinson appeared as
one of the directors of the league along
with J. T. Moran, Will G. Hawkett, Ed
O'Brieu and George Suoe6.
The STAR that had risen so unostentatiously
was destined 10 shine with luster never
equale In the California firmamsnt The
splendor of il palsd the lesser lights almost
TO insigniieance. The attraction OF 1t gath
cred numerous satellites that reyUlved
aTQuDU 1t IN lueit regular OTpllS.
In the first DAYS of its rising IL settled
over and above the fair city Of Oakland
and shed its effuigent rays all around and
about the fair Athens of the West until
The darkest corners and remoteSt nooks
were 4 'Oded with its light
The zenith of its flight was reached in
the wear 1889 Then Oakland won the
But from that time on its splendor be-
gan TO waHe steadily. though none the less
surely. 1t paled and faded ana hiekered
and spuitered and at last its light has
gone cut.
The brightest star in the constellation
has set. Ii has sunk behind the hills of
adversely; soon IL will pass the horizon
and bs forever lost 10 human sight. Alas,
and alas some more. Alas three times and
out.
At12 o'clock last night articles of agree
ment were drawn up ana signed, convey
ing the ownership Of the Oakland baseball
team from T. ?. Robinson, party of the
first part, to Edward kn0biett and Louis
Gerschen. parties OF the second part
The consideration was intended TO have
been kept secret. Il is no secret not
withstaBding. The consideration was
S125.
The new managers made haste to settle
all the sffalrs of the team. which were
rather complicated, and the team PLAYED
ball all the afternoon.
bate last nigh: word came from Oakland
that Tip O'Neill had been given his re-
lease and CaatillioH 81 gned 10 play in his
place Temporarily. Earle has been Sc
lected by the new management TO captain
the team.
But the game; that was very peeulia T
Read:
Stockton made nine runs in the first five
innings and Oakland only made one in the
nrss eight innings, and then nearly won
the-game in The ninth.
That half Of an inning was ball game
all by itself. Nothing like it was ever
seen on tbs Piedmont inclosura before.
1t was simply series of hits and runs
he hits came with the same regularity
that death, taxes and the Fourth of July do.
But let US first go back and review the
scenes and incidents that led up to this
remarkable inning.
The team that the Duke de Santa Clara,
now OF Stockton, alias Nike Finn, pre-
sented for the inspection of the public
yesterday showed up in tiptop shape
Some changes are noticeable. Mr.. Rob-
erts has been released from the hospital
aud took the place of MI McVicker, who
has been released from the team.
Mannasau has been made captain in
place OF Pete Sweeney. The Duke ex.
planned thai MannEsau can talk faster and
louder than Sweeney. and so he worries the
umpire mere and thus makes better cap
taiR.
There was only one kick Injected into
the afternoons exercises. Professor Grif-
nth. Oakland's pitcher (how natural it
would have been 10 have said. ''Who was
pitching for the eolonel?'0 stepped away
from his plate and threw out nan run
Ring from the initial sack
Nell, there was big howl The whole
thing hinges on how that measiy rule
about pitchers positions Is interpreted,
and 10 two people have ever interpreted il
exactly the same from the time it was
made up TO the hour of going to press.
Pete Aeegan's decision was forEin Il
Stockton, and Stockton wouldn't play for
while. But Mr. Meegan finally divided
up the thing. and sent the runner from
second back, and callsd the other man out
and then Stockton played soma more.
Oakland didn't get any tallies in the
first.
Stockton did. Sweeney got first on. n
swipe that forced Mannasau, who had a
base on balls, out at second. He got third
on Whitehesd's single and came in on an
error of Cailopy of klopf's weak hitlets
Oakland got one in the second, when
Calliope Callory got base on balls, stole
second and came in on Hernon's single.
Stockton tore of one more in the third.
Sweeney started into life on Earle's error.
got second on Whitehead's plunk in the
short ribs by the pitcher, and In on throw
that Mr.. Callepy should have headed oil II
third but didn't.
Then Stockton made q cluster of six on
the strenth of three hits. Four men were
presented with first base on called balls
and three of them scored. Then Peoples
stngled. Whitshead hit out q double, and
what do you suppose happened all at
oucap Mr. Klonf-EuS.avpe