The San Francisco call., 1898-12-27
Short Stop KIaiber's
 Dimensions.
VISITORS BADLY CRIPPLED
UNABLE TO MAKE ANY
 SHOW AGAINST ATHLETICS.
An Uneventful Game at Recreation Park for the Coast Championship Gathered In by the
 Locals,

Mir. Doyle of Seattle turned loose an aggregation of cripples against the Attn letics at Recreation Park yesterday after noon, and when the 5000 spectators filed out of the gates at the conclusion of nine full innings the lopsided score of 14 to 8 was posted on the blackboard, the locals being on the long end
 Some jeering remarks were made about the ability of the Northwest champions to distinguish the difference between the scientific baseball of the present day and the juvenile game of ''one-old-cat" of the days of our forefathers, but these re- marks were entirely uncalled for. The fact is, the Northwest League season closed in September, and none of the Seattle men has done any playing since then They arrived here last week en- tirely out of condition, and Sundays game with Oakland put them out of it com pletely for the time being.
 Iacks' Parrott, who tore the cover off the ball the day before, went into yes terday's game with a hand swollen to the size of boxing glove. He played first for six innings, and in the seventh went into the box to finish out the string, when he ought to have had his arm in the hos pttal. Babbitt, Clarke, Anderson and. in rom Spratns, bruises or stiffened muscles, so 1t is not to be wondered that they were unable to hold their own against the Ath- letics.
 However, the visitors having found some better teams here than they had any Idea of meeting, will devote the pres ent week to good, hard practice, and by next Sunday will be in something like their normal condition.
 1berg was a mystery to the visitors rom first to last, five widely scattered hits, two of them of the scratch order, being all they could make while Rabbit and Parrott divided sixteen safe shots between them. klaiber made his initial bow to the San Francisco shouters-that is, he would have made his initial bow were 1t not that his frontispiece precludes any such form of gymnastics Klaiber is built on the Fatty Blodes plan, with few notifications. "Fatty's" breadth of beam is greater than his depth of hold whereas klaiber is more spherical in his formation. Then, again, Blodes is tongue as it were-while the Seatteite is able to cover lots of ground and can play an inield position with any of them
 Aside from klaiber, who, not having participated in the game of the previous day, was comparatively frolicsome, and scored two of the three runs made by the team, there is little to be said of Seattle's
 The Athletics, on the other hand, spanked the ball unmercifully, ran bases as they pleased and fielded nicely. They started right off in the first inning with four runs, three hits, including two doubles, two passes and a passed ball, doing the trick, and then drew four blanks.
 In the sixth two more on two singles, a double and a bad error by Rand. By that time Babbitt had outlived his useful ness as pitcher, but he went in again in the seventh, passing them up until four hits and three runs had been scored, when he gave way to Parrott. Hits and runs kept coming right along, though, and ''Tacks" wanted to retire also, but could find nobody to take his place. When the trouble finally terminated the Athletics had marked up eight runs for the inning That ended the run-getting, and the score closed as follows: