The San Francisco call., 1908-09-14
Oaks Drive Four Seal
Pitchers to Woods
Fans See Locals Crushed in the
Greatest Smuggling Match
of the Season
By w. j. SIaffery

VISIONS OF the sOoO Old Gays Huen
the Cincinnati Red Stockings ruled the
baseball world ioated UP before the an
cient fans who watched the Seals and
the Commuters mix ii yesterday after
noon For time the old boys dreamed
on and imagined that they were watch
ing something at the Recreation
grounds in Harrison street so odd year,
ago. Why not? Both teams were lac
ing away at the ball and driving pitch
ers to the bench as fast as they were
line on the sphere in the eighth and
hammered nine runs over.
The fans never saw anything like II
all this season and 10 seasons may
tacle. Just picture four Seal pitchers
who have been twirling close games
all week being soused GROUND the lol
of them as clean as ever left bat
Nobody could beat It
And while it was al going on the
yelled. 1t was something OF an inno-
walton to them and they enjoyed every
inch of lit. The harder the boys wal
loped the ball the higher arose the en-
thusiasm of the spectators. The batting
seemed TO I'll them with sort OF hys-
terra, and they were not satisfied even
with nine runs in the eighth.
SEALS LOSE BIG LEAD
1t was something of a genuine slug
fest up TO the eighth, but what oc-
CURED in that inning eclipsed anything
that the ordinary fans imagination
could conjure up san francisco vas vas
waxed fast and furious. but with the
Seals three runs to the good and Sliy-
ers Henley evidently doing well, Oak
Henley got in badly at the outset Of
the eighth Three bingles netted run,
and Cook and Hogan were on the paths
when Tex" Truesdale walloPed one far
to the center field for three bases, just
as Sutor had been called In to take up
the burden which had already proved
too heavy for Jones-and Henley Heit-
singing 10 left and chasing Truesdale
This was the Office for Manager Dan
his way and call for another volunteer
Griffin was the only man who looked
right and straightforward, but what the
a record that is likely to stand for
some years Briefly, they tapped him
for FIVE runs and just as many hits.
1t was slap, bing, bang and bingle
and few more with everybody who
grabbed hold of the club Oakland was
simply bent on hitting that ball. and
had Christie Mathewson been in the
box he would have come in for quite
as heavy a lacing. The faster the
pitcher worked the harder the Oaks
slammed him and the louder the fans
howled-
OAKS TIE UP THE SCORE
punches. with the Seals leading to 0
in the fifth, Van Haltren's boys went
far enough to tie the score in one
right and the rest of the boys followed
his example right down the line until
| four men had been shown the way home
This did not put the crusner on the
Seals at ALL Right back they went
after Loucks for as many as five runs
in their half of the round. These were
fast work on the paths. The game
surely looked in for San Francisco
then, but just see what Oakland did
in the sixth-four more runs of the
reel.
Henley was working IN this round
and with Van Haltren and Cook on
the paths Heitmuller sent over the
center field fence a bingle that is be-
/ lieved on expert authority to be on its
way to China via the Cliff House. site.
Before this came off another Oakland
run had been added early In the in
ming, SO the Commuters were only one
San Francisco did not mind this at
inviting twisters of Loucks- After two
men had crossed the deadline on four
smashing singles and doubles to the
/ began to yell for assistance Billy
Hogan responded and San Francisco
was held runless for the balance Of
the game and Oakland compromised
with nine in the eighth spasm-
TWO HOMERS IN ONE INNING
The home team had its over the fence
/ hitters also, but unfortunately they
did not do any of this work with men
on the sacks. Both Melchoir and Beck
| found the right field fence easy In the
fourth, apparently cinching I'D the
game, but what good can two home
runs in an inning do when a team can
come back with II in three innings7
The game was well played one, for
all its wild appearance. The felders
seemed powerless to do any effective
work once the batters got q line on
the brand that the pitchers were US
j ing. Errors were few and far between
and figured in but two or three OF the
runs-a very small percentage when
| the work of the batsmen is taken into
consideration. The score:
AFTERNOON GAME
OAKLAND
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