The San Francisco call., 1898-07-24
SW ATTED THE
 OAKLAND BOYS Good Politicians Make Poor Ball-P Players. MANAGER EWING'S CAUCUS DECIDED THAT VOTE MAKING WAS OUT OF ORDER. One of the Hosts Almost Persuaded Will Church to Break
 Most Solemn
 Pledge.
DECIDED THAT VOTE MAKING
 WAS OUT OF ORDER.
Oakland onice San Francisco Call.

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 90S Broadway, July 23
 Pleasanton was gay this afternoon. The Red Cross ladies were out in force to well come the Married Men of Ruby Hill and the County Officials, who arrived at noon to play baseball for the benefit of the society's funds
 The occasion was very suspicious and very opportune. There was less difficulty in getting together a good county team than there would be if the November election were three months past instead of three months away. Manager Cal Ewing knows considerable about base ball. He knew enough year ago to aid materially in breaking up a league that was not run entirely in the interest of pure sport. The team he took to Pleas anton was a strong one. It consisted of J. r. Cook, a Deputy County Clerk; John J82i1I F. Somers, courthouse engineer; VIII Church, Supervisor; c. Schweer, a deputy; A. G. Harms, a deputy; Frank Jordan, County Clerk; J. Bardellini, Dep uty Recorder; and John Mitchell, Su- pervisor. This team is a very formidable Ruby Hill, where much of Alameda's $ famed red wine Is made and where it is said that the air is so pure and healthy that to breath it is to add ten years to anybodys life.
 AS the County Officials were going to Pleasanton on the train a little caucus was held, at which it was mutually agreed that no one was to do any politics while at Pleasanton.~ Everybody deprecated the idea that the mere fact that one or two candidates for office were going to play baseball for noble charity should be turned into vote-making expedition. | This was solemnly ratified and all the members of Cal Ewing's team kept their word.
 On their arrival at PIeasanton the la dies of the Red Cross met the players and guided them to luncheon tent J. Crellin, the manager Of the Ruby Hills, wondered what had come to town. h. cidentally he said to Will Church: Well, how are politics in Oakland? ?' MT. Church assumed a vacant look something similar to that which he puts on when his broth CT Supervisor Roeth makes an eXplana- tion before the board that needs explain
 9Pontics?" said Church, niusingly, T wonder if I can find dictionary in Pleas anton? I don't know what politics means" And as he spoke he looked at Frank Jordan with one eye and at Cal Ewing with the other, and they both winked.
 played good ball and earned as much ap- plause from the crowd as the men-out-of- politics that went up from Oakland. The E. Harms, J. Richards, J. Heggerty, F. McDougaI Charles Graham, pr. W. A. Herrisher and Professor w. Donohue Unfortunately the County Officials could
 
 politics should be done in connection with charity The ladies of the Red Cross and the spectators were so well pleased with the attendance and the quality of the playing that they just swarmed around the Oakland boys and promised them that if woman suffrage were a fact in Ala meda County every lady in Murray Town ship would vote for them.
 As they cannot do this they promised that their brothers and sweethearts and fathers should do so.
 Some of the Populist candidates for the county offices started a malicious story this afternoon around the Courthouse They said that the boys had gone to Pleasanton for no other purpose than to do politics They sustained their argu- ment by saying that if the Oakland team lost they would lose for the purpose of making friends of the winners, and if they won 1t would be an argument that such capable, alert fellows would make the best kind of county officers. This mean story was denounced as utterly un- true by Mrs Hattie McDonald, the mat ron of the Receiving Hospital, who was one of the very few county officials to be found around the buildings this after noon.
 The game was very evenly, contested; and resulted in a victory for the Married Men by a score of 20 to 23.