The San Francisco call., 1896-04-23
The Cardinal Wearers From Palo
Alto Victorious by a Score
of "a to 8.
BERKELEY CATCHER DISABLED
First Game of the Trio of Intereo!le.
giate Contests on the Diamond
on the U. C. Campus.

Wo1hCd OlI tHC utd1lIOAo tllo
afternoon, after having defeated the Uni
versity of California team in the first of
the series of three games for the season of
'96 by score OF Ia to s.
There was keen interest in the game and
big crowd on the campus. AT the out
set and until the fifth inning things looked
as though they were going Berkeleywise,
but the tide turned when the game was
almost exactly half through, and from
that point on the Stanford men had things
very much their own way. The disabling
of Wheeler did much to turn the tide in
favor of the cardinal bearers, as he ap-
peared groggy from that point on.
McLaine did distinguishing work from
the pitchers box during the greater part
of the game, but toward the last he grew
somewhat erratlc. The Berkeley men
batted him much more easily than they
anticipated. His extraordinary quick ness
in playing did much to balance up his
work. Morden was steady throughout,
but showed signs of weakness toward the
last The summary shows that he gave
only four men bases on balls, while Me-
Laine gave eight. IL is difficult matter
to decide which of the two pitchers did
the better work. Wherein one failed the
other did not, and vice versa. As Tor the
catchers. Jeffs did the better work, after
the disabling of Wheeler, as a natural
consequence.
The outheld work of the Stanford men
was somewhat better than that of Berke-
ley without doubt. The game seems to
have been lost in the fifth inning, when
Wheeler failed to catch from Krug and
when he was fouled by Taylor. The odds
were much in favor of Berkeley, and
doubtless the victory would have gone to
her but for the ill-fortune of the fifth in
ming. Berkeley took the bat, and within
ten minutes after the call of time had
scored two runs. These were made by
Wheeler and Johnson. When the Stan
hard-sent ball, but was caught out on first.
In attempting to make first he fouled
Hennessey heavily. Jeffs came up next
and scored run for the cardinal.
Harris is put out on first and Young on
second.
In the next Krug sent the ball far into
the right field and was caught out.
Proctor struck out and Hoag was thrown
out.
Following is the complete summary of
the game beginning with the inning: In
the second half of the second Sharp struck
out, Thompson fouled to Catcher Wheeler
and Stanbury takes his base on balls
and is caught by Hoag and the Berkeley
men come to the bat again.
The inning opens. Elston takes his
base on being hit by the pitcher. He is
thrown out on second. Young on first
makes brilliant stop from the shortstop
and right here the Berkeley men COM
mence their good work of scoring, though
| it lasted for but a short time.
Hennessev takes his base on error of the
| first baseman, who missed pop fly,
Wheeler and Hennessey botn make bases
! on strike of Johnson. Wheeler scores
his second run, and Immediately after
ward McLaren knocks single and scores
Hennessey. Morden takes the bat and is
struck out, with McLaren and Johnson on
bases. Hoag is put out on first and leaves
Johnson on third, when Stanford comes to
the bat again.
Pitcher McLaine few out to Johnson
and Taylor takes his base on balls. Jeffs
is next to strike. Morden assists to
Elston, and Taylor is put out Harris is
Three men out, and Berkeley takes the
bat for the beginning of the fourth.
Krug flew out to the shortstop and
Proctor strikes to left field and is missed
by Stanbury. Elston is next up, and
Proctor is put out on second by an assist
of McLaine to second baseman. Hem
nessey few out to second and Wheeler is
left on first.
Stanford again. Young few out to
Hennessey and Sharp few out to McLaren.
Thompson takes his base on balls and is
put out on first by very clever left-hand
catch of Morden.
When the U. G. men come up again
Johnson flies out on the second strike ;
McLaren is put out also by an assist of
McLaine to first. Morden knocks high
center fielder out and takes the first bag.
Hoag makes first on his second strike and
Krug flies out to the catcher. Three men
out and the cardinal again at the bat.
Sharp makes base hit and brings in
two men. The game is Just half through
at this point. with the score standing
eight to four in favor of Stanford. The
old time "hoodoo" strikes Berkeley and be-
fore the close of this inning Stanford
scores seven runs, which win for the Palo
Alto boys the game. Freeman follows
Sharp and makes first on an error of
McLaren. McLaine now takes the bat and
reaches the first bag. Then came the
crisis, which ran up the score of the cardi-
nal and laid out Berkeley's catcher. Krug
throws from third to Wheeler at the home
plate on a strike by Taylor, tor the pur-
pose of putting out Freeman who was on
third.
| The ball came low and Wheeler muffed.
This error cost Berkeley just two runs, as
Freeman and McLaine both came home.
Jeffs comes to the bat and makes two
base hit. Morden throws to Wheeler
again at the plate, but before the ball
reaches him he is heavily fouied by Tay-
lor. which laid him out for eight minutes.
Jeffs gets in also at this break in the
| game. Wheeler in a half-dazed condition
stands up and works like Trojan warrior,
but despite his efforts to hold up mis- end
| of the battery Stanford scored three more
runs before their third man was put out,
| thus making the score to 4 in their
favor, having had only one run when the
| inning began.
| In the first of the sixth Proctor went up
and was put out by an assist from Sharp
| to Young. Wheeler few out to second I;
Hennessey makes second on his last strike
and Elston makes home from second.
Johnson strikes to third and is put out by
third while waiting for third to throw the
ball to first. A clever play was registered
at this point for Sharp on third.
In the second of the sixth McLaine
knocks to Johnson in left, who makes one
of the most costly errors of the day. Nc
Laine goes down one base with Taylor at
the bat. Taylor takes his base on balls.
McLaine gets home on the strike of Jeffs,
who is himself put out on first by a
brilliant throw from Krug.
Harris comes up and brings in Taylor
Harris gets on third, when Young takes
the bat. Harris runs in and Sharp is