The San Francisco call., 1899-07-31
Now Well in the Lead
for First Place.
LOBSTERS ARE SORE AND SAD
IMMENSE CROWD GATHERS AT
RECREATION PARK.
The Wasps Devour the Shell Fish in
a Match That Evokes the En-
thusiasm of Halcyon
Days.
San Francisco s, Santa Cruz 3.
San Francisco 5. Santa Cruz 4.

Streams Of humanity on baseball pleas
urc bent poured into Recreation Park yes
terday afternoon TO sec the Wasps sting
the LobsteTs unto death. ON Saturday
the local men ate Lobster la Neuberg;
yesterday morning they whetted their
appetites with Il lobster poulette and in
the afternoon put an end TO the whole
species by sponging il off the menu
Not for many years has San Francisco
seen such a large concourse of people at
a baseball game. and it was an enthu-
SiaStiC crowd at that something very
much like the old days when there WASH
an unOCcupied bench within the fences.
Hank Harris wore a smile that sounded
on Mission street and Truthful Looie
looked pleased when the game began
Even after the game was in progress
spectators came and came. filling the
seats on the fdr-On sides of lhe field. The
Wasps had the mob with them, and they
were cheered again and gain. although
good playing. by the visitors was never
unattended by an appreciatiVe acknoWl-
edgment. To intensity the small-sized
bedlam, Tip O'Neil indulEed in a Fourth
Of July play with ftrecrackers. the papers
of which would blow in the faces of the
LObsters and the smoke straight in their
eyes. In their dying groans The sheIlhsh
made this secret confession.
The game was an interesting one to the
spectator. for there was a-DlentE of hit
ting ana exciting moments which ended
in a catastrophe. Eleven hits by the local
bat-swlngers assisted by some fulsome
errors on the part OF the visitors gave
the game to San Francisco. In the fourth
inning the LObsters We're being mixed in
stew They yy,,> Went to pieces ana GT9Se ii,3 s
menJ and careless work came near TO
their ultimate ruin at TINS carly stage OF
the game. The Wasps played good ball,
but TWO errors showing against their
record.
In the first inning Streib was sent across
the plate for the LoUSters, the second in
ming was a blank for both teams. Then
the WaSpS got out their feelers and began
working. Pyne WhaCked the leather out to
left and scurried TO second when o Neil
craftily tipped the ball that Clark dropped
at first, Tip holding the bag Fitzpatrick
at the plate made kidney mark Tor
Balsz s curves and he crawled 70 first IN
fierce but happy pain. A long fly 10 lett
by Hilderbrandt, who went out. gave Pyne
d chance to score and he took 1t. Muller
was next up. and he hit on the ground to
brennan who returned, but the ball
bounded past Pace and O'Neil scored.
That was the sum total OF runs TINS IN
ming
With lamps aflame with. heat and terri
BILE determination. the Lobsters came up
for the third inning. DeVereauX and VIII
liams coursed the bags and placed their
team once more in the lead. But San
Francisco had a special inning of its own
in the fourth, when they batted the sphe-
roid around the field and played havoc
with all the Lobsters in the bay. Pace
threw bad ball to bases, the infeld forgot
diamond truths and the team became dis
organized Muller and ONeil scored in
this inning after there were two out. The
runs for the local team came in punches
Of two In the fifth inning another pair
was added to the list. and in the ninth
a few pieces of fireworks were handed to
the I.obsters and two runs marked down
on the San Francisco tally list.
The morning game at Oakland was an
other victory for the all-devouring Wasps.
Except for the fifth inning, when the
fielding of the local men was clothed in
moth-eaten fringe, tho game was interest
ing and exciting. in that inning Iberg
went up against some heavy hitters, and
his support was of the forgetting kind.
In the first inning the local men scored
once and repeated the dose in the second.
fourth. when the Lobsters began to pick
themselves up and fly around the bases.
O'Neil made a brace of errors, and lbeTg
was found to his undoing. Five times
they raped his untwisted curves over
foreign territory, tearing the cover off the
ball After much leather chasing the in
ming came to a close The score now
read A. in favor Of the beach prOmen-
aderS.
The sixth inning brought another run
to Frisco and the seventh won the game
for the local twirers. Muller hit to left,
followed by a hit by Krug. Then Sullivan
went out. but Riley whacked the spherOid
for a single and Muller scored. After
bit of play with the stick by Swndells
Krug scored, making the last run of the
daV and the winning one for his team.
These three victories Of the Wabsters
over the Lobsters place the local tossers
well in the lead. The scores in the two
games yesterday follow:
MORNING GAME.