The morning call., 1893-06-23
ON MANY ERRORS.
How Stockton Lost One
at Haight Street.
PITCHED LIKE THE PRETZEL
There Was One Large Inning for
Oakland and Then the Play
ing Became Listless.

The fact that the Stockton team lacked
talent yesterday on account of the absence
of Harper might have been used as an eX-
cuse for the loss of the game by that team
had not nine large bungeS been made by
the felders Errors lost the game for
Stockton and made it the rather punk
game that is was.
And the 0aklands were not far behind
when it came their turn to make errors.
for they made seven, most of them costly.
Jack flaming had pitched at Piedmont
on Wednesday, so be was not in the best
Of form when he started in to twirl them
over yesterday. But Tor three innings be
did fairly well, Stockton being one run
ahead at the last of the third.
In the fourth, however, the aspect of
things changed materially. Oakland
brought seven runs out of that eventfu
half, most of them earned. The ball was
welted nearly every time it sailed up the
aisle. It looked then more like question
of how many runs Oakland would be salts
fed with-nOt how many they needed.
After that disastrous inning Gustavus
Adolphus Klopf was given the job of send
ing up the balls to be hit, while Lawrence
was brought in and placed at second and
flaming sent out to guard the right pas
ture.
Gustavns Klopf belongs 10 the school of
pitchers known in California as "Pret-
Zels." His style of action reminds one
very much of the late lamented Otto
"PretzeP Young. His pitching offered no
more opportunities for seven-run innings,
but the Oaklands kept right on gathering
runs and won the game, II to g.
Fanning's location in left field permitted
him To make sensational fly catch from
Twins bat in the last of the fifth inning
Int / a TO- oI,i
secOud-baSe work.
1t was the best day for long hits that San
Francisco has known for some time.
Earle's nome run came in the first inning.
a ground-hit ball, passing through the
opening between short and second base,
made directly for Mannasau at second,
and just before it reached him and while
he was In the act of reaching down to in
tercept it, the ball struck something and
bounded high over his head. Earle had
paused at first but the eXtraYagant gyra-
tons and howl of Hernon on the coaching
lines decided him to keep right on, and he
passed the plate about one length ahead of
the ball. That is, ore length of Earle. not
the bah.
Whitehead's three-bagger in the last
half OF the first came when there was a
man on the line, and thus Stockton tied
the score in this inning.
Hunky Hines played prominent part
in the heavy batting also, but for steady
continuous and robust stickwork Pete
Sweeney led them ali. In five times at the
bat he made five hits, one of them a three
Dagger
In the midst of the confusion of that
seven-run inning there was a mixed-up
mess resulting in two runs coming IN and
one man going to third while no errors
were made.
Cantillion had made a two-bagger and
Cody was on first through an error by
hlopf. Homer struck a single to Law
renee. Lawrence threw the ball to White
head too late TO catch CantllioD; White
head threw too late for Cody at second
hiopt threw home too late to get Canti-
lion at the plate, and Speer got it back to
hlopf TOO late to stop Horner. Then Cody
started for the plate and Horner for third,
and both landed safely. After that inn
Ing the playing was listless.
commencing al o'clock. The score of
yesterday was as follows: