The San Francisco call., 1898-03-28
Oakle nd Defeated by San Francisco for the League
 ChampioaShip.
A Circus Game Replete With Brilliant Plays and Hard
 Stick Work.
Ewinq's Colts Show a Surprising Burst of Speed, but Fail to
 Land in the Lead.

y was strange proceeding in one Of the | dressing rooms at Recreation Park Man acer Cal Ewing rounded up his drove or | colts and after a careful inspection to see | that they were properly groomed, drew | from his overcoat pocket box or those little speed lozenges that have been the cause of many bad upsets of favorites at | the race track and administered three to each of his band. Then, in succession, he gave them an extra charge from gaIVanlc battery after which he turned them out into the yard.
 Over in the first corner was lightning Jack Donovan, the phenomenon with the revolving breast bone which enables hlrn to go the entire circuit without touching his feet to the ground.
 At the half noisy Tip O'Neil was sta toned. He is noisy no longer, but IS as full of ginger as he was the day he made his first appearance at the old Halght street grounds years ago. Though charged with a couple of misplays, they were all eXcusable, and he gave those who thought he had long ago lost his speed a surprise by the force and accu- racy of his throwing.
 Big Fred Lange at third was another player who has been resuscitated and en- tered in the yearling stakes. Lange has just recovered from a severe attack or illness and has not touched a ball before Il, up against him were due to lack of pre- paratory work.
 Away out in the right pasture that in fant prodigy, Lou Hardie, who plays ball although he has not grown a full head or hair yet, performed one of the star teats of the day in shooting line drive that was sent out by special delivery over to third ahead of Murphy, who was at sec ond. Besides that and a skyrocket catch of long fly, Lou touched OH uouple and a single out of four times up, all of which tends to prove that he will be world-beater when he is full-grown.
 Of the others in Ewing's string Mosk- mon, perhaps, attracted the most atten- tion. He is built somewhat upon the plan of a pair of scissors and Is quite luggIer with the ball. He was found for ten hits, three of which were. of the scratch order. but he has absolute con better acquainted he will prove a mys- tery to the best of them. But where he shines particularly bright is in watching the bases. Four of San FranciScos best men were caught mapping not six feet from the bag, two in rapid succession, but he snaps the ball across with such rapidity when seemingly he IS looking Tn another direction that the runner IS tagged out before he realizes what has happened.
 termed an illustration of a human sieve, but he goes for everything in sight, Is hard sticker and fast base-runner.
 Peters is a good man behind the bat and a safe batter, while Dean and Shea are both good men. On the whole. Ewing surprised the cranks with the strength Of his team fully as much as did Manager McGlynn of San Jose.
 With the exception of Monahan, who played center. and H. Krug, who pitched, San Francisco presented the same team as on Saturday. The changes were bene- fcial, for the locals put up such game as won the championship for them last year. krugS box work and Brockhon play at third until he twisted his ankle and had to retire from the game, were the brightest spots in the teams bril- liant display, though no fault could be found with any member of the team.
 Four to three with the home team on the long end was what the scoreboard games played here in years. Nine full innings in an hour and twenty-five min utes is what may be called speedy ball. And there was not a dull spot in all that time. Even the errors added to the in terest, for they only tended to increase the uncertainty, owing to the neck and third and last man up in the ninth, sent out a comet to Hearty, which that young man deftly pocketed, that the locals were certain they, had won the game. game Base CTS. double and triples picked out Of the sky by animated flying machines, two double plays by the Krug brothers s and by other members of the double company constituted an afternoons entertainment that is not likely to be discounted this season.
 But the star feature of the day was con tributed by Henry Krug in the ninth in ming. O'Neil, who had been sending up sky-rockets all day, changed his tactics when he went to bat for the last time and drove a liner that would have sunk a Spanish battleship had 1t struck broad muzzle velocity of 300,000 feet a second. Krug didn't have time to dodge it., but fortunately his hands were still raised af- ter delivering the ball, and as it came back 1t struck his palms-and stuck to them. It was a wonderful catch and 1t set the spectators into howls of applause.
 It is small wonder that with such base ball dished up to them the cranks had lit- tie time to devote to admiring Pugilist mond by the Colonel and assisted Jim Mcdonald in umpiring. Jeffries only gave one decision; he called a runner safe at first, which met with such marked dis Iavor from the kindergarten that he dis creetly retired and watched the rest of the game from the players bench;
 San Francisco was first up and scored on Langes low throw to first of Mona hans hot grounder, which he fielded in double to left field fence, sending Mona han home Karl Krug popped up a fly which Shea dropped, but recovered in time to cut Murphy off at third and al- though Krug got around to Lange's cor ner on Hearty's single, Brockhoff could not get home.
 two infeld hits that were cleverly fielded and fly to left. In the last half of the second, though, the Colts evened up matters when Hardie drove hot one to short, which Kelly partly blocked but couldn't get. Lou was sacrificed to second and scored on Deans long single to right.
 There was no change in the score until the sixth. when the locals got a man around after two were out. Karl Krug drove double to right for two cushions, and Hearty was safe on Smeer's tumble of his grounder. Krug was held at sec ond, and the ball was returned to Moskl- mon, who snapped 1t down to O'NeiI, catching Krug asleep. Tip threw the ball back to Muskimon, who whirled and played the same trick on Hearty at first. Then lie doffed his cap in response to the cheers. Brockhoff was safe on Lange'S low throw to first after making a great pickup of his grounder, and scored on kellys double to right
 Oakland took the lead in its half, Sheer making a single and Lange being given his base. Hardie smashed out a double, Smeer scoring, and Lange came home when Monahan dropped Shea's fly.
 In the eighth San Francisco won the game, when, with two men out, Brockhoff reached second on Smeers tumble Kelly hit to short, and Brockhoff started to third. The ball beat him there and he turned back to second. He made the bag hut -1-N-