The San Francisco call., 1896-10-26
WERE BUNkOED
At BASEBALL
The Tufts Lyons of Los
Angeles Were Sadly
Abused.
Pitcher Harvey Was Thrown
Out of the Box by the
Managers.
A TWELVE INNING GAME.
The Score Being a Tie the Portland
Lads Were Given Another Chance
TWELVE INNING GAME.
The Score Being a Tie the Portland
Lads Were Given Another Chance
to Win.

The Monograms and the Tufts-Lyons
baseball teams met yesterday at Central
Park in the interstate series of games.
They made an interesting showing, con-
sisting of some of the worst and an equal
share OF some of the most exciting play ing
ever witnessed on the local diamond field.
The poor showing was made early in the
game. when the Portland boys simply
batted and outplayed the Los Angeles
team to a standstill. Think of ito to
in three innings, and the Tufts apparently
demoralized But the change came in the
fourth inning, when Meath was substi-
tuted for Farrell in the box ana the goose
egged side showed up with seven home
plates.
In the fifth inning, however, Portland
came back with three runs, the last they
made during the afternoon, but their ad-
mirers took it for granted that with their
second wind they would keep piing them
up. In the seventh the Tufts made two
and three in the eighth, evening up the
score.
At the close of the twelfth inning Dun
ovan went to the bat for the Monograms
and struck hot one to second base. but
was put out at first.
1t was at this stage of the game that the
business acumen of the managers of the
games were struck with the idea that
postponement would result in tremen-
dous audience at the next meeting of the
clubs.
Mcdonald, the referee, was called from
the field and handed note instructing
him to declare the play off on account of
darkness.
He did as he was instructed.
That there was some kicking and howl
ing goes without saying, but nobody was
killed, punched or kicked; there were but
few benches and fen ces broken. The vast
crowd simply took the hippodrome good
naturedly because it was done for
charity.
The Los Angeles team feels sore. 1t al
ways intended to play Harvey in the box,
and was prevented from doing so on
manager, overlooked presenting Harvey's
certificate of birth TWO weeks ago. and
when it was produced yesterday, showing
he was not over Is years of age, it was laid
on the table as being entirely out of order
Los Angeles wanted to play hard enough,
although they made sort o. a bluff that
they wouldn't if they couldn't have
are the Cars in the case, held the Ala
media Alerts in hand ready to take their
place, and the Los Angeles crowd gave IN.
That was their first setback. The last
blow they got was the worst. When,
after playing an uphill game from the
third inning and tying the score they
were the fresher of the two teams, the
umpire allowed the Monograms to go to
bat. Dunovan might have made a run,
although he was put out at first, but still
he was given chance before the manipu-
lators suddenly discovered it too dark to
play bali.
Had Dunovan made that run, for in
stance, would the hour have been found
too late to play longer? No; the full
thirteenth inning would have had 10 be
played out. Why not then have gone
through and given the Tufts as much ad-
vantage as the Monograms got of going to
the bat and taking chance?
As regards the age of the players, Har-
vey being barred because he did not prove
soon enough that he was less than IS, it
was the general gossip about the bleachers
that the Portland lads-unquestionabI
the bigger and heavier players--had to get
late Sunday shave to look within age.
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