The San Francisco call., 1899-04-09
PRUNE-PICKERS
PLAY IN HARD
LUCK AND LOSE
Oakland Colts Cap
ture a Game.
BOTH TEAMS BAT FREELY
SAN JOSE LEADS IN FIELDING
BUT IS UNFORTUNATE.
Fireman Fitzpatrick Has the Wat
sonvilIe Leaders at His Mercy
and Uncle's Men Win
in a Walk.
BOTH TEAMS BAT FREELY
SAN JOSE LEADS IN FIELDING
BUT IS UNFORTUNATE.

With the season only two weeks Old
Unhappy ]. McGucken finds his cup of
sorrow stacked up and stopping over like
a schooner of sharp steam drawn by an
amateur. For the wretched young man
journeyed up from San Jose with his CO.
horts yesterday and the bunch went
down to defeat before the Oakland Colts,
the last bulletin giving the list of causal
ties as to 4, with the Gardeners on the
wrong end.
Defeat in itself is not so bitter to I'm
happy-that is, honorable defeat-but to
lose such a contest in the manner in
which it was lost was too much for him.
He and his pals batted just as hard as
the others; they only committed one er-
ror, while nine able bodied bungles were
divided among their opponents. In the
matter of bases on balls presents were
evenly divided. and, besides, two of the
visitors were Soaked in the slats,'' get
ting their base in that manner, yet not
Withstanding the chances all seemed in
their favor, Oakland got the runs and
the game. Eleven San Jose men left on
bases to five for Oakland tells the story
in part.
The other part is explained by drive
L. Harde, champion clam digger and
chowder concoctor, touched off in the
third inning, which ordinarily, would
have been a single, but the ball took a
high bound over Dalrymples head, let
ting Moskiman home from second and
placing Hardie on third, from where he
tailed moment later on a strong arm
throw by Kleiber, who has closed up his
sausage factory and appears to have been
reveling on his stock. That, together
with another of the San Jose shortstop's
plays later on, when he reached second,
played well off the bag and became so.
badly foundered that he couldn't get back
and was tagged out, completes the tale of
disaster to the prune pickers.
Borchers did the pitching for San Jose
and had fairly good control, though less
speed than he usually uses. Dalrymple
in left field and at bat showed up strong,
but his great hit was on the coaching
line, where he gave a fine imitation of
Joe Storms singing the Toreador song
from Carmen at the Chutes Dalrym-
pie shattered the roof of the grandstand,
as well as the nerves of the lady spec
tators. with his voice, but he can play
ball all right Anderson at second put
up better game than he did when here
with Seattle, while kleiber goes after
everything in sight with never thought
Of his record.
Oakland presented somewhat of a mis-
fit aggregation, the team being materi-
at first and the substitution of Moskiman.
Murphy is fine ball player, but he has
a commercial position which prevents
him from playing during the, week. and
before the season is much older Mana
ger Ewing will find he is badly handi-
capped in having to play his change
pitcher at first on Saturday.
In the third inning Donovan sprained
his ankle and was compelled to retire
from the game in favor of Dunleavy.
Each team did all its run-getting in
two innings. Oakland plucked three in
the second when l.. Hammond, the first
man up, worked Borchers for a pass.
Borland sent a hot one down to Hanlon,
which caromed on his shins and rolled
back Of second. Anderson got 1t and slid