The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-22
FOR
THE PRICE OF
MEAL TICKETS
Seattle Defeats the
Athletics.
BASEBALLAND PYR0TECHNICS
ONE OF THE PRETTIEST GAMES
SEEN AT RECREATION PARK.
Four Double Plays Added Consider
ably to the Fervor
of the Proceed
ings.
BASEBALLA AND PYROTECHNICS
ONE OF THE PRETTIEST GAMES
SEEN AT RECREATION PARK.

Nine young men from Seattle, athletic
of appearance and action, albeit they may
have been trained down a trifie fine, owing
to the long spell of duck weather, ca
Yorted around Recreation Park yesterday
afternoon and illustrated to the small but
select crowd of spectators what they
could do in the way of ball-playing with
a fresh supply of meal tickets in sight.
Their opponents were the Athletics of
this city, and though the locals put up
a fast game from start to finish and
outbatted the northerners, the holes they
tore in their fielding were responsible Tor
their defeat. The game was for the bene
fit of the Seattles, who have been brought
to a strange city and grief through over
confidence in Mr.. Doyle, baseball impre
sario of the Queen City, and exhibition
games, as rule, are not interesting. But
yesterdays conte>t proved an exception,
and had there been enough people pres
ent to have made a noise over the emo
tional episodes that marked the contest
from start to finish, they would all have
gone home with sore threats.
For instance, there was Rabbit of Sc
attic, and Billings of the home team. The
way those two lnfielders worked their re-
spective garden-patches was astonishing,
and when in the third Babbitt put the
center ornament on his playing by going
up in the air several feet and pulling down
with his left hand what ought to have
been half-miIe dash from McCarthy's
bat, those who witnessed the perform
ance went wild with delight.
Meany out in center for the Athletics,
duplicated Rabbits catch, when in the
sixth Clark cut one loose that sailed out
and up like q hot-air balloon without the
parachute attachment 1t looked good to
clear the fence, but Meany glued his box
ing mitt to 1t and would not be divorced.
Four double plays added to the fervor
of the proceedings, and altogether the
spectators received a dollars worth OF
sport for a quarter. The Athletics were
first up and scored two runs, Mccarthy
reaching first on half blocked hit, and
completing the circuit on Meany's double
to left field fence. Meany went to third
on McLaughlin's out at first and scored
on Kleibers tumble of Hidebrant's
shot That was all they could do for the
balance of the game.
Seattle broke the ice in the fourth when
PARROT uncorked a good thing. Clark
drove one at Whalen, who threw wide to
second to head off Parrott, and '"racks'
continued on to third, scoring a moment
on Kleibers hit to short, which forced
Clark at second They took one more in
the fifth, when Rabbit was presented
with a base, stole another and reached
third on Anderson's punch to short, which
got away from Mclaughlin. Meany's
muff of Josh Rileys fly let him home.
Matters ran along with the tally list
tied up until the eighth, when Seattle
won the game, Anderson making the cir
cult on a base on balls, two sacrifices and
Hanley's error of Clark's drive. The
score: