The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1908-04-17
Hogan's Hit Starts
Oaks to Victory
Seals TaEe The Short End of a
Hard Fought 4 10 3
Battle


The Seals cant win every day and
yesterday IVES one OF the cant DAYS.
They did their best al the time. but the
Commuters Offset these game efforts b.
pulling on E rally in the ninth inning
and putting over the run that broke
the deadlock which was in order from
the fourth period On II was q gr5Rt
game and z great finish and the shy
ness which the Seals displayed In going
after the ball with the stick put them
ou1 OF the running.
With the boards reading three all.
Happy Hogan did & nice piece Of work
for Oakland by tnaugUrattng the ninth
with q hard tvo cushion slap against
the right field fence. After bunting
twice al the bail without success HALEY
got away with the third one and Hogan
pulled I'D az third The little hit which
Scrrggs pushed down the first base
line. aided by Jones wide hea~e 10 VII
1ians, allowed Hogan 10 score and WIN
the game
The Seals did not start wei al all
Rube Gaddy was sent ont to work his
or side soup bone for the first time this
season and the Commuters found his
assortment lust what they wanted
Cook started II off with q single, Van
HEltren followed with sacrifice and
HeitmuIler with another wa3lop. land
ing the run before Gaddy had chance
10 S-lL Oh lis LEndS LCT LUCK
OAKS LAND on GADDY
The bombardment ceased IN the sec
ond. only 10 be renewed IN the third
with added vigor- This time Cook was
passed and Van beat his hunt Heit-
muller varied the nonotcny with nice
sacrifice and EagAn produced a nv that
was good enough TO score Cook Ho~
gans healthy bfngle 10 center regis
tered the venerable leader Of the Oaks
In the meantime Hardy. the new Oak
land southpaw. was moving down the
Seals with machinelike regularity He
used 2 slow balk something entirely
novel for q left handler 10 spring. Dur
ing the first three periods not & Seal
found his way 10 first and Il looked Ike
coat Of white for the boys
However. there was 2 switch in the
fourth and il came after TWO had been
declared down and out Williams
caught one Of the slow boys right and
rode il for q long single into left This
was SO much Of surprise TO Hardy
that he slipped MeIchoir the only psss
he issued all day. zeider caught the
southpaw mapping and walloped aHoth-
er Of his LEGISLATORS 10 thu far corner
Of the left garden for two sacks Both
runners got z grand start and came
right through Mohler prolonged the
Joy with q single over second and Eel
der Joined the run gstters-
HARDY HAS THE GOODS
Everybody thought that once the
Seals got & line on the stuff that Hardy
was passing cut they would continue
to office up 10 his delivery and grab of
q few more rms But there was no
chance for anything like that The
south wingsr had only one bad inning.
He became even better as the game
progressed. each moment acting On his
bender like each year acts upon fine
blend Of wine He had slow ones and
q few with smoke on them and the
Seals fen for everything he offered
from the fourth inning on.
Though they could not gather any
more runs, the Seals kept on trying
all the time. On several occasions they
managed 10 put men on the bases, but
they invariably landed after two were
out and Hardy was always sure 10 get
the third one up Though the Oaks
erred frequently, none Of The boots
counted against them in the run col
umn OF the locals.
The way the Commuters commenced
TO tear into the twisters that Gaddy
was bending over the plate Convinced
Manager Long that the big left handler
would be duck soup for Oakland II he
remained in the box. Gaddy was told
TO go and dress himself in his best
clothing after the batting fest OF the
third inning.
JONES STOPS THE HIT FEST
Oscar Jones. who had been warming
I'D for 1e OF 5 minutes, went TO work
at this stage Of the game and hits i'm
nediately became very scarce on the
Oakland lineup. In fact. Jones had al
he needed TO put the rollers on the boys
from over the pond till Hogan started
after him in the ninth That two bag
ger proved the most precious hit OF the
DAY. The score.