The San Francisco call., 1908-07-15
Transbay Team Makes a ShOw
of Itself on Its Home
Grounds
STANDING OF THE CLUBS.
RESULTS OF GAMES
San Francisco II, Oakland =.
Les Angeles q, Portland 3.
By w. J. Siattery

II was the general belle1 IN iahuOlil
that the Oakland baseball team played
the fiercest ball il knew how last week
against the Angels, but this was mis-
take-a very grievous mistake. in fact.
1t would have been impossible for any
nine men to have made bigger "zoos
out of themselves than did the COM
muters Yesterday afternoon on their
own battle-ground against the seals
II Oakland had any friends IN the
graudstand or bleachers neiofe tue
game. it is better than an even money
bet that they were all transformed into
enemies.
Twelve runs and Ii hits were strewn
all along the line of battle, not TO say
anything about the bone headed plays
and errors and other unseemly Things
that are charged UP against the Com
muters. None of them seemed TO care
how many runs the Seals made so long
as the game was over for them in time
to get supper, which they did not de-
serve.
Dellar started in to pitchs but three
innings held him. The Seals got one
run on Williams double and Zelders
single after two were out in the open
ing period. This one was legitimate
enough and caused no adverse comment,
but the fans set up an awful wall IN
the next inning when the game was
transformed into a laughable burlesque.
With one down, Dellar walked Nc
Ardle. Then the rest of the Seal gang
went right down the line and grabbed
everything. Hits and bases on balls
and errors and other things were all
mixed up till IL looked like a cross
between mullgan stew and a cricket
match. two days old. Five runs We're
put over during the mad turmoil. which
did not even end there. for another
pair was added in the third, after which
Dellar stepped down and out.
A lad named Neeker, fresh from the
brush of an UP country team, was
brought out to be moved down under
the steady fire of the Seals bats in the
fourth. He surprised everybody by
cleverly weathering the storm of that
one inning. but that was just as far as
he went.
The lad began to go In the same
groove with the rest of the Oaks in the
fifth. He got in bad by walking a
pair of men, The fielders behind him
| then proceeded to do the rest. Every
thing that skipped over the field was
booted by somebody and the Seals took
great delight in slamming that ball and
running over the paths Five of them
came in. This one inning held them
for the rest of the game.
Van Haltren evidently figured that he
would make a grand joke out of the
game Dy putting Jimmy smith IN the
/ box during the sixth, but here Jimmy
| put one over on him. Smith, though
/ he had not pitched a game all season.
seemed to have the sign on the Seals
! and not one of them got through the
lines while he worked. 1t was his good
pitching that saved any honor there
| was.
In the meantime. the Oaks were about
as helpless at the bat as they We're in
| the field Once the Seals grabbed off q
couple of runs, their opponents figured
/ that they did not have a chance to dc
any good and acted accordingly. Slivers
/ Henley very charitably let up bit in
the seventh round and allowed two rnus
| to register. 1t looked as though he
could have blanked the Oaks just as
well as not, had he felt so disposed.
The Seals played good baseball al
the time, showing by their actions that
the Portland trip did them a lot OF
! good. Their work in the field was nice
and clean cut-Mohler's boot of a very
hard chance in the earlier stages O.
the game being the only error charged
against them. The score: