The San Francisco call., 1908-04-08
By w. j. SIattery

Well, it's four in a row now for the
boys without a setback yet The task
of trimming the Portland Beavers on
the Oakland lot yesterday afternoon
was so simple that Manager Danny
Long hopes that Portland wifi stay
right around here for the balance of
the season. The finish was II to 3
and had IL been possible for the Beav-
ers to come In worse than second they
sure would have got the show money
or possibly have run unplaeed.
The game was a bloomer which no.
body who saw it can deny. From the
very outset the Seals were there and
the Beavers seemed to be in bad. The
Seal stickers welded their bats like
nine Hans Wagners. and TO add to the
distress of Manager McCredie two of
the pitchers he sent against the ma
tives were wild and bad on fielding
bunted balls.
FIVE STRIKEOUTS
Pinnance, the Carlisle Indian. was
the only Beaver who showed any class
at all. He worked during the last
three spasms and the best the Seals
did was a pair Of hits. Five out of
nine of the men who faced the redskin
were whisked to the bench on three
counted against him were very lucky
ones at that
Both teams began to land early. the
Seals putting a man over by judicious
hitting and base running In the sec
ond and the Beavers coming back with
| theirs in the third. Then San Fran
cisco forged ahead during the same
period on two bagger from the bat
of Sutor and Pipers neat bingle.
But it remained for the fourth to
break up the game and take all the
fight out of the northern tribe. Rube
Kinsella, the pitcher who was expected
to make monkeys out of the Seals,
was hammered for q fair ye well and
| the entire team seemed to sink DOWN
ward before the awful round was over.
Nick Williams started it all with a
two cushion clout into deep left field
and Melchoir dispatched the ball over
| the right field fence. Next came Zeider
with a bingle past short. after which
Mohler was passed. They started to
pull off a double steal, but went even
| further. for Madden pegged the ball
away at third and Zeider beat it home.
Mohler got to second, where he tarried
only till Sutor lifted another hit into
center.
TRIES BLOOMFIELD
McCredie was satisfied that Kinsella
had got his, SO he switched to Busher
Bloomfield in the next period. What
would best be told in a funeral notice.
| He walked Piper and Williams, let
Melchoir beat out a bunt and then
tossed such pretty one to Zeider that
the little shortstop transformed it into
a two bagger, registering two more tai
| lies. Then McArdle laid down a bunt
and Bloomfield tossed the ball away at
| the first station. That's how the others
made the trip over.
Southpaw Sutor made his bow as
pitcher for the home team and
showed the fans everything. He got
in rather bad in the third inning when
he walked Kinsella after Madden had
| hit, with nobody down. but a fast dou-
BILE play followed and Sutor got out
of the hole with but one run scoring
against him. In every other inning he
was all to the good.
The game was one of those regular
Oakland affairs--long drawn out and
devoid of the sparkling work that
makes the fans toss their hats into the
air. Outside of some fast work by
Zeider, the fielding on both sides was
Of the slovenly, struggling order. The
score: