The San Francisco call., 1898-04-17
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 SHUTOUT Berkeley Drops a Game to the Stan
 ford Team. Crimsons Develop Great Speed and Score a Dozen Tallies. Two Runs in the Eighth by Merest Chance All Cali
 fornia Gets.
FEsSIONALs AT BAT.
A Lopsided Contest at Central Park League Games in Interior
 Cities.

Over in the northeast section of the grand stand at Recreation Park yester- day half a hundred young demons with heavily armored lungs and magazines filled with ammunition touched off large assortment of unintelligibe yells and evidently intended to convey the inn presson that they were to jolly" along nine young men in crimson sweaters out fin the field and to strike terror nine other young men in blue and gold who were opposing them in the great national game.
 Down in the southwest corner of the stand was another band of insurgents similarly armed and equipped. who were performing like service for the blue and gold. That is they were for a tme-say until the close of the second skirmish- but after that their ammunition gave out, or their lungs were pierced, or they got cold feet, or something; anyhow they seemed to lose interest in the game and were only heard from once in a while when they fired a desultory volley more by way of defiance at the sympathetic expressions that were sent to them from the enemy. They didn't want any sym pathy of that sort. What they longed for was the shades of night and solitude.
 To add to the discord were some in- fiammatory decisions by Weyler Gagus, but after being threatened witht execu- ton he, too, subsided, and no casualties occurred.
 Aside from the din and the fireworks there was much in the contest to interest the most bIoodthirsty crank. The Stan lords went on the diamond determined to wipe out their defeat of the week be- fore, and they did. Although they played the same team they had in the field the preceding Saturday, one could hardly realize 1t, for the improvement the men showed was astonishing. Perhaps their defeat did them good. at any rate they discarded the idiotic idea that they could bunt and beat the ball tt first; instead they swatted 1t with all the vim and vigor of heavyweight professionals. Their fielding and base running was fully in keeping with their batting, and altogether they conducted themselves like real ball players.
 Their cannonading of Eaarsburg. who a week before they could hardly touch. was so effective that in the sixth he retired from the game in favor of Sims. But the improvement was not noticeable.
 Berkeley, on the other hand, let down woefully in the speed it showed at the opening game, nine errors being ample testimony as to the raggedness of its work. Then, too, five scattering hits were all Beckett could be found for. But while the score was topheaVy, and for seven innings it looked as though Berkeley would get nothing but goslings in the shell, it was a pretty contest to watch. There was some brilliant fielding on both sides, and many professional game has been played here that would bear no com parison with that of the collegians.
 Stanford scored three runs in the sec ond on combination of hits and errors, and added another in the fourth. Three more fell to them in the fifth and one each in the sixth and seventh. Then at their final turn at bat they took another bunch of three, making total of twelve.
 Berkeley got their brace in the eighth by a f1uke With one out Hoag rapped out a double. Cheesbrough hit the ball to the pitcher and Hoag beat the throw to second. Bride got soaked in the slats filling the bases Sims dropped the ball at the pitchers feet and Hoag was caught at the plate. Then Collins plunked out a nice single to center, scoring Chees- brough and Bride. But Sims went to sleep a short distance from second, and when he awoke Gagus informed him that something had happened during the in terval.
 Both teams having won a game. the final contest next Saturday will be a