The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-06-12
Baseball Such as One
Dreams About.
THREE HOURS OF THRILLS
HANKS HIRED MEN PLAY BRIL-
LIANTLY, BUT LOSE.
Each Team Scores a Run in the Thir-
tenth Inning After Two Men
Are Out-The Morning
Game.

For the second time this season San
Francisco and Sacramento have played a
fourteen-inning game at Recreation Park
and both times the long end of the score
has gone to the Senators. Yesterday 1t
was TO ..
When those two teams put up their
great exhibition on All Fools day the pre-
diction was made that another such strug-
gle would not be seen here this season.
but the game of yesterday equaled it in
every respect. In fact, the closing scenes
were the most exciting ever witnessed on
a California diamond.
Before the opening the outlook was not
promising for brilliant baseball. The
teams had just returned from Golden
Gate. where the Statesmen had sustained
a crushing defeat mainly through their
own misdeeds. Nine errors were charged
against them, and in addition two of their
men We're in a bad way. Big Ed Hutch
inson was hobbling around on a charley
horse or a sprained tendon or SPAWN
or something of that sort, and Fireman
Fitz sent a terrific inshoot into Harvey's
back just over the kidneys that threat
ened TO put him out of the game. He
pluckily pitched the string out however,
and played right field in the afternoon,
though suffering severely all the time
and hardly able to break into trot. But
despite these drawbacks the Senators
went in and played a fielding game that
would have won from almost any team,
the only place they showed to disadYan-
tage being on the paths. Their base run
ming could be materially improved upon
without giving them undue advantage
over the other teams in the league.
Doyle did up the little packages for the
visitors and put such awful knots in
them that Hanks hired men had terri
BILE time OF 1t in trying to undo them.
Seven hits in fourteen innings is a Won
derful performance for any twirler He
struck out five men and gave four passes
His support was almost faultless up to
the thirteenth inning, when Sheehan, who
had played a fine game at third, grew
oVer-anXiOus and made brace of bungles,
letting in a run. The disaster only pro-
longed the agony of Hank Harris and
Jack Bonnet, both of whom gave signs
of Succumbing to heart failure before the
game was over.
"Old Hoss" Hutchinson may well say
he has finally got back into his old form,
for with the exception of little trouble
with his leg he is as good as ever. He
played first base yesterday as the bag
has seldom been played here.
The locals bad their share of hard luck
as well as the visitors for during the
morning game Sullivan sprained his ankle
going into third. and though he tried to
play the afternoon game, he was COM
PEELED TO give it UP in the fourth inning@
Fitzpatrick had been permitted to go
home, so the game was delayed until
Billings, who played a few games with
Frisco at the beginning of the season.
could get into a uniform, He was sta
toned in right field, Hilderbrandt going
to center and Pyne taking SulliVans
place at first. The doctor accepted seven
teen chances without an error and played
the position as though he had been raised
there. The work of every man on the
team was almost flawless, particularly up
to the ninth inning. After that Iberg let
down trifie and seven of the thirteen