The San Francisco call., 1895-11-18
Olympic Athletic Club Defeats
the San Francisco Team
at Baseball.
C0oNEY UTTERLY INvINCIBLE.
Professionals Thought They Had a
Pudding San Francisco's and
Oakland's Poor Game.

Victory perched upon the banner of the
Olympic Athletic Club yesterday afternoon
at Central Park.
1t was the occasion of game of baseball
between the Olympic Clubs team and the
San Francisco league nine, and nearly or
quite 5000 people were in attendance and
witnessed the Post-street amateurs trounce
the professionals by score of to g. and
the amateurs were not obliged to play the
last half of the ninth.
There were two games played during the
afternoon, the Oaklands and San Francis
cos coming together after the game be-
tween the Olympics and the home team of
the league; that is, two games were played
if the spectacle of an aggregation of pro-
fessional ball-players playing horse with
each other for an hour and a half, to the
utter disgust of the best crowd of the sea-
son, can be called a game of baseball.
Comiskey was in the box for the visitors.
That was one mistake. He, of course, is
not to blame for being deaf and dumb, but
he can't play ball and has no business in
such responsible position, even though
he is the brother of the great Charley. OF
course the home team batted him ridicu-
lously, and the San Franciscos seemed as
hard up for pitchers, and they put Wag-
ner a new man, in the box at the begin
ming. but he couldn't throw ball over a
ten-acre lot and was replaced by Frank in
the third inning. He did little better, and
so the game went-bad pitching, bad field
ing and wild throws-unti the big crowd
left in disgust.
The game between the Olympics and
San Franciscos was better, however. The
professionals changed the players about
with the result that Fraser, who was in
the box, was not properly supported, and
the tapioca was all devoured by the anna
teurs. Fraser's work was not good, but it
was better than his support. and this fact
and the further one that the San Fran
ciscos could not hit Cooney explains the
amateurs victory.
The game opened with Lally at the bat. He
hit to Cooney and was thrown out at first.
Frank hit roller to Beckett, who let it roll be-
tween his legs, and Frank reached second be-
fore the ball was fielded. Werrick struck out
half Monihan opened with fly to Fraser. Nc
Carly went to first on balls. Wilson was also
presented with his base and McCarty started to
steal third. Stanley threw wild to third and
McCarty sprinted home. King went out at
first while Wilson scored. Beckett was thrown
out trying to steal second.
San Francisco got another goose egg in the
first half of the second. Then the Olympics
scored by Cooney's two-bagger.
Neither side scored in the third.
Beckett made bad tumble of an easy oppor-
tunity when the professionals came to bat in
the fourth, and allowed Straus to go to first.
Beckett was again unequal to the emergency
when Straus tried to steal second, and the base
runner reached third as the result. Straus
scored on Fraser's out at first. Harper hit for
double and was scored on Stanley's single.
This ended the run-getting of the professionals
for this inning. Beckett retrieved himself for
his disastrous errors when the Olympics again
came to bat. He hit promptly for two bags
and scored while Guimel was lodging between
first and second, after getting his base on
Powers error.
San Francisco again failed to cross the plate
in the fifth, as did also the Olympics
In the sixth, with one out, Otram got first on
Monihan's error and scored on Fraser's single.
The Olympics failed to score.
Again San Francisco was goose-egged in the
seventh. The Olympics sort of played horse
with the professionals in their hall of this in
ming. Monihan got first on Lallys error, stole
second and went to third on another of Lally S
failures. He scored when McCarty went to
first on error by Power.
Cooney was again invincible in the eighth,
and San Francisco was obliged to retire once
more without honors. The Olympics also
failed to score.
This was Sar Francsco's last opportunity,
this first half of the ninth, but two men went
out as fast as they could walk to the plate, and
although two safe hits were made later they
proved of no avail. Following is the score: