The San Francisco call., 1898-12-11
FR|SCOS GO
 DOWN AGAIN
 ID DEFEAT Ran Up Against 1t in
 the First. SOME VERY YELLOW ERRORS AFTERWARD THEY RALLIED. BUT TT WAS TOO LATE. Oaklands Played Flawless Game. To-Day's Contest With Watson
 vile Should Be
 Great.
SOME VERY YELLOW ERRORS
THEY RALLIED.
 BUT TT WAS TOO LATE.
By doe Corbett.

| The "Friscos,' poor things, as usual, | presented an unrecognizable collection of | ball tossers yesterday at Recreation Park. | and during the course of the afternoon 1 proceedings met with the same sort of
 defeat that has graced their efforts in | the past on occasions innumerable.' I had been told the night previous by the | ''Frontable" Colonel T. F. Robinson that | the Friscos were going to play their full team and that they intended giving the | best Saturday exhibition ever witnessed | in or near Recreation Park. For the ben 1 eft of those not acquainted with the fact. | 1 wish to state that the reason the Colonel mentioned Saturday games was because 1t has become the fad among the differ ent teams to take things rather easy on Saturday and to put their best work in
 order on the ensuing Sunday. This all
 becomes a reality, owing to the scarcity
 of the populace in and about the stands
 and bleachers. Despite the Colonel 8
 statement, however, things were not as represented. The team contained new faces, and the new faces. combined with the old ones, gave another one Of those
 exhibitions which generally land a team
 on the wrong end of the score.
 In justice to the new and old, however,
 I will say that after the first inning they
 played good baseball. Nothing came their
 way that was not dallied with to an
 advantage, except the ins and outs of MT.
 Moskiman. He was a huge stumbling
 block; the kind that appears quite easy at
 times, yet turns out, Tor some reason or
 other, to be a very perpleXing proposi- tion when base hits are needed badly. But in the very first inning. the boys went to
 pieces, as it were, and their yellow er-
 TOTS, intermingled with the opportune
 base hits made by their opponents, put
 the game out of their reach entirely.
 Big Truck Egan, the pride of Manager
 CnffrnTh ha nlnNar trd
 base man, were the principal offenders in
 the opening inning.
 Trucks, error alone let in two runs,
 and the other three that occurred in the inning, while they did not admit of runs
 in the manner of Egan's, yet put men on the bases, and these men were batted
 ment ago.
 Not a misplay was visible in their work
 after this bad opening. Shea. pitched
 did all that could be expected of them
 with the new faces and small crowd
 None of the players will be laid up from overwork. l am certain, but hard labor is not supposeu to be on the programme in these Saturday games. Occasionally some layer will let out an extra link when hard pushed, but it Is only when l the situation is close that any of the men
 are expected to move faster than the cold
 weather allows. Those few who. sat isfied The game was a good one after an inning had been played, and as the lead secured by the OaklandS at the out set was not such large one, interest in the outcome prevailed to the end.
 The Oaklands played an errorless game
 and superb one. It is supposed by them and others that they have chance for
 the pennant, and. of course, it is but natural that they manifest more interest
 than the ''Friscos," who from the latest accounts will finish in fifth or sixth | place despite the ingenuity of 'Fairest" James. I entertain the belief, however, | that the Gilt Edges are beyond the reach of any team. The protested games will
 make many changes and half of them have yet to be distributed, but the Oak | lands cannot catch the leaders unless l
 am sadly mistaken. They played yester- 1 day. one of those easy-going, sure kind ] of games, and if they can do as well to- day in their contest with the Watson | villes the programme should be glori- | ouS one.
 The features of the game were the si- | lence manifested by both teams and the pointing out of Mir Dugdall of Seattle | as the Pride of Peoria
 The score is as follows: