The San Francisco call., 1908-07-18
Hopkins TwoBagger
Saves The Oaks
Little Johnny Wins His Opn
Game When Extra Innings
Seem Certain
By w. j. SIaftery

A good old time ninth inning rally
stopped the onward march of the Seals
yesterday afternoon and gave the Com
muters the second victory achieved in
the last II games here and on their
home lot. 1t was the heroic stick eff
fort of little Johnny Hopkins which
blasted the hopes of our boys. Prior to
the critical moment, the game looked
like one of the assets of the home team
and, in the earlier stages, Oakland
did not figure to have an even break
But you never can tell in baseball
Everybody settled down with the
expectation of feasting their eyes on a
few extra rounds when the ninth
dawned and the Seals failed to break
the deadlock, which stood . to 5. But
Dutch Altman very niftily laced out a
two bagger over third. Lewis died and
then little Johnny tore one right over
first that may be going yet and the
game was finished.
Most of the men on both teams
clouted the ball many times and hard.
1t was a sweet exhibition for those
who like to see basehits and runners
tearing over the sacks. Several times
the score was. tied and as many times
did both teams threaten to break it up,
but nobody was there till Hopkins
came through just in time to save Oak
lands life.
kansas" Skillman started out on the
San Francisco slab, but he lasted only
three innings, when the Oaks drove
him back to the clubhouse. Kansas"
could not put a thing on any of his
offerings, and believing that his only
chance to cop off a victory was to get
another pitcher, Danny Long put
'Slivers" Henley TO work, but he, too,
looked soft and rosy to the Oaks
The Seals were the big chiefs in the
early innings Before the game was
five minutes on it's way, Zeider regis
tered Mohler with clean triple TO the
score board. In the third, Mohler
walked and stole and Hide came
through with double TO left. Then
Zeider and Melchoir bunted nicely and
the third run was rung up for the
home team.
The Oaks made no noise till the
fourth. Then the resounding wallops
could be heard all over the Mission.
Van was passed and Cook placed one
safely into the center garden, which
Curtis booted and allowed Van to get
to third. Heine Heitmuller perished,
short to first, but scored the old boy
by his effort.
This let Skillman out. When Long
spotted Truck Eagan fondling that
new club of his he hollered for help
and Henley responded. But Truck was
not TO be denied. Leaning against the
first ball pitched. he sent it on its way
to the clubhouse for as nice a three
sacker as any one ever saw leave a
bat. He had just time to draw three
long, deep breaths when Hogan tied
the score by singing to deep left.
The Seals made their last stand in
round six. After Curtis had worked a
base on balls, McArdle forced him at
second. He stole and arrived on Berry's
grass grazer over third. Berry took
second on the throw in. He. in turn,
was saved by Henley, who dropped a
long one against the right field fence.
The Commuters went for another in
the sixth, but their favorite old inning.
the seventh, saw them even up with
their opponents. Lewis smashed for
half the distance and Hopkins put him
up a notch with bunt. After Papa
Van had been passed again, Cook put
Lewis through with a we'll placed sin
gle past Mohler. 1t looked bad for the
Seals right here. but Henley steadied
down before any further serious dam
age resulted. The score