The San Francisco call., 1899-07-06

The games scheduled for this week
promise to be unusually exciting. Wat
sonville will try conclusions with the
home team at Recreation Park and Golden
Gate, and if some new material the Wat
sonville management is expecting arrives,
Harris men will have to hustle to take
g. majority of the series. A battle-rOydt
will be fought at San Jose between the
Dentists and Lobsters. So far this season
San Jose has not won a game from Santa
Cruz. but before returning home Tuesday
night DR.. McGraw declared his Indians
would make it two straight this week.
Oakland will go to Sacramento, and as
both teams are picking up there VIII be
hot fight on between them.
Oakland has signed Steffan to alternate
with Moskiman and Shea in the box and
last Tuesday, will have no trouble In hold
ing his own. He has a good assortment of
curves under control and even such. ghost
dancers as Dalrymple and O'Dea fail to
disconcert him Ford. Oaklands new
first baseman shows up well in the field
but is weak with the stick yet. Last year
Ford ranked with the heavy batterS, and
he thinks that with a little practice he
will regain his batting eye. One excellent
change that has been made in the team
is the revision of the batting order. Why
Schmeer. who Is a weak batter, has been
kept at the head Of the list and Hardie,
one of the best stiCkers in the league,
placed eighth in the list was something
that not even Cal Ewing himself could
explain. It is all different now. Peoples
and Hammond. both good average bat
ters, lead off and old Automobile Lou fol-
lows with his bludgeon to drive them
home. Oakland will win games under the
new order.
The new managers of the Watsonville
team deserve great credit for the deter
mination they have shown to place q win
ming hall team in the league, and best Of
all TO enforce discipline. Mccarthy, who
trouble breeder, has been Indefinitely sus-
pended for insubordinatOn. His suspen-
sion has already been telegraphed on to
Nick Young and now Mccarthy cannot
get a job with any national agreement
team in the country until the suspension
IS raised. 1t took nerve to do this, for
ping Of the team, but the managers were
determined to enforce discipline even If
it cost games to do it, They are now ne
gotiating with several Eastern players
who are said to be cracks in their par
ticular positions, and when the weak
spots are patched up the team will be
up with the leaders again.
Watsonville pays good salaries and the
patrons of the game IN that town de-
mand q winning team. This the managers
are determined they shall have.
Anderson of San Jose doesn't create
much excitement. but he goes about his
work in quiet. determined manner that
has placed him in the front rank Of sec
ond hasemen. In the series with San.
Francisco last week Anderson accepted
thirty out of thirty-one chances and some
of them were corkerS.
Leake. the San Jose shortstop, has got
down tc his gait and is now Hlaying great
ball. besides hitting nicely. Last Tues
day his work was clean as could be
asked for However, the yOungster will
not be with the team a great while longer,
will return to Santa Clara College. DR.
MCGTaW is already casting about for
man to fill the vacancy and has opened
UP correspondence with several first-class
Eastern men.
Manager Harris has made a slight
change in his batting order. Hilderbrandt.
off Pyne being fifth in the list. Both
Pyne and Riley have dropped off sur
prIsingly in their batting of late
Since Manager Ewing has been away
on his vacation the Oakland team has
braced up wonderfully, and now the boys
declare that Cal is their hoodoo. They
games hereafter altogether. Ed Johnson
Is manag ging the team with marked ability
during Ewing absence.
Doyle of Sacramento is causing Hank
Harris hair to break off. Doyle does all
sorts of things TO the locals whenever
they 60 against him. He is also keeping
Sacramento is coming up with a rush.
Doyle and Harvey are both doing effective
box work and the team is giving them
great support, besides sIugging like fiends.
The Senators are nov playing the kind of
ball that won them the pennant last year.
Even Donlin, the last time he faced
Kripp's men, was batted all over the lot.
Iberg. who was the star twirler Of the
league last season, Is having d hard time
of it this year @In the last five weeks the
locals have lost every game he has
pitched.
Andrews is doing magnificent box work
for the Dentists. With Borchers holding
up his end the club will be a prominent
factor in the championship fight.
With Donlin gone it would occasion no
surprise If the I.obsters struck the chutes
DR. McGraw is determined to make
engaged Champion Jeffries to umpire next
Saturdays game with Santa Cruz and to
spar four rounds with Jim DAILY his spar
ring partner, at the conclusion of the
game. The champion will receive $500 for
his services.
There is not a league in the country that
is plaving such even ball as the Califor-
MIA league. 1t is very seldom that a op-
sided score is turned out, while efforts to
nick the winners have proved most dis
tressing. San Francisco has been particu-
Iarly fortunate in having exciting con-
tests.
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