The San Francisco call., 1898-12-12
AN ELEVEN
 INNING GAME
 YESTERDAY Watsonville Wins at the Finish. THE PEOPLE GO MAD AT LEAST THEY GAVE THAT IM-
 PRESSION.
By doe Corbett.

If remember correctly, my article
 describing the contest of Saturday be-
 tween the Oaklands and San FTanclscos
 contained the statement that teams re-
 serve their best efforts for the Sunday games. I am now convinced that my con lectures in this regard were tainted with unusual yeracity, for yesterdays game al
 Recreation Park was the grandest ana most beautiful of all games played in that vicinity, and cannot in any manner De compared with the sleepy performances presented of late at the same grounds It took just eleven innings to decide the contest, and the Watsonvilles were vic torious by the score of to O. It was ln the very last inning, with the score to 5, that they sent three runs over the plate through the errors of the Athletics and one most opportune hit. In the tenth inning, with the score to 8, they batted in two runs, and, as every one supposed. cfnched the game. But the contest was scheduled to be heart-breaker and bril- liant. In their half of the tenth inning the Athletics sent but two men to the plate, and these two tied the score amid the greatest excitement imaginable.
 .6erg the first man up was was safe safe on on ready in a previous inning caused the multitude to take their hats off, owing to phenomenal catch in deep left field after run of at least 100 feet or more, hit the first ball pitched over the fence for a home run. One unfamiliar with the spirit that lies in oblivion and prompts the baseball fan on to acts becoming the wild est kind of maniac might have fallen dead from heart disease at the outburst Of approval that greeted McCarthy's s second grand feat of the game. Why, they actually threw their hats in the air and
 ripped those carpets up," together with a few other things, in manner that was startling. In the excitement l thought I saw people throwing their watches and silver dollars on the field, but recollected the hard times and bit myself on the finger. The scene was a glorious one, just the same, and l dare say will not be wit messed for days to come
 Up to this interesting moment the game mad been slow and provokingly even I sat, with others, hoping that either one side or the other would make enough runs to end the monotonous affair, but Iberg and Balsz kept the batters guessing to such an extent that it was a case of one side taking the lead and then the other neither, however, being able to score enough runs to close the game until the memorable tenth put in an appearance, and at this stage, owing to the brilliant playing of some players and the excite ment that prevailed I was prepared to stay all nlght, Tor the scenes, with the score even and both teams playing as though their lives depended on the result. were the kind that fill a lover of baseball With strange fascination for the seat he occupies and present to him a realization of the fact that such situations seldom occur. The fatal eleventh, with It's three large runs for Watsonville, put a stop to pleasant reveries, and the expected fifteen or twenty innings, as a few figured tho game would go The Athletics, spurred on by their success in the previous inning feught hard to gain at least a tie, but the fates decreed otherwise, I presume Hun dreds pulled and rooted for them. but the end must come at some stage and the stage had been reached. I cannot say that the game from baseball standpoint was faultless. There were many errors and misplays of very yellow order: there were runs and situations where runs might have been scored thrown away; but all this Is forgotten in view of the grand and truly beautiful finish.
 The greatest offender was Stultz. and his playing was miserable, as was his batting; At one time in the eighth inning he could have decided the game had he made a hit, but the boy failed in this instance as he has in others Balsz out pitched the great Iberg, but Iberg did good work, and might have won had his support been better
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