The San Francisco call., 1908-04-27
Thirteenth Inning Brings Victory to The Oaks,
as COOney Throws Wild Again
IsN w. j. SIattery

weeks work yesterday with a double
header, in which the honors were split
After invading the stronghold of the
/ enemy on the grounds across the bay
in the morning and getting away with
the game. TO 0. the Beavers came
back and put up stubborn 1S inning
. fight in the afternoon. AS on the pre-
vious day. Shortstop Cooney tossed on
the game with bad throw TO first base
and Oakland emerged with the honors.
; Score. s to 4.
The big Sunday crowd that witnessed
the struggle saw more great baseball
than has been its luck on any other
holiday this season. It saw Truck
Eagan and Heine Heitnuller hsmmer
the ball over the fence in success
sion in the sixth. IT saw Haley steal
home unaided IN the next period. It
saw the Beavers make a grand rally
and tie up the score in the eighth.
Finally - saw cooney peg the ball
away. and IL went its way sorrowing
for Portland.
Pinnance. the war hooper. and Deller.
the new Oakland star. did the slab
duty. and both were pounded 8 bit.
Neither showed the batsmen up as they
have in previous performances, but at
that both pitched nice baseball, espe-
cislly in the tight places. Both were
well supported till cooney broke it up.
Two HoMERs IN A ROW
FOR FIVE innings the pitchers were the
big chiefs OF the field. Everything they
shot over seemed good enough to de-
ceive the best batters on each team.
| Hits were as scarce as snowballs in
/ Los Angeles. snd some OF the fans were
willing TO bet that one run would about
win the game.
Portland broke the monotony by cut
ting it with a pair in the sixth. The
reliable Casey grabbed a pass for him
self. and Raftery was there with a safe
bunt. Ryan sacrificed 'em both along.
and Bassey's nice little scratchy one
that passed Haley put them past the
last jump.
With Cook on first and two out of the
way, Heine Beitmuller swung on a fast
one and lost It on the other side of the
+ right field fence in the sixth. The last
echoes of the cheers were about dying
away when along came Truck Eagan
with the twin brother 10 Heines homer.
/ Everybody was shouting then save the
Portland players. who figured that it
was about all over for them.
In the next inning the Oaks went for
another. that looked good enough to be
QeCl1ItO NeiNet f16ley EOl away Win
a bunt. Slaftery sacrificed and Dellar
went out. Haley landing on third. AS
+ Pinnance was winding up for one Of
his scslp-'em- clean twists Haley did a
hotfoot for the rubber. He had q nice
start and he beat it out clean.
COONEY'S FATAL ERROR
That ever popular rally was waiting
for the fans in the eighth. Once
again Casey was slipped the fatal base
on balls and Raftery took a slap in
the Stats. Ryan sacrificed. after which
Danzig was retired short to frst,
/. Casey in the meantime sneaking in.
BaSsey registered Reftery with a clean
drive into the right garden and the
score was tied for five rounds.
Heitmulier made a two headed hero
out OF himself by opening up the
Knocked at the door Of the clubhouse.
but was refused admission. Eagan
spit on his hands for luck and dis
patched a grounder TO Cooney. The
little Beaver shortstop helded IL clean,
Just as ne did the fatal one of Saturday,
and then he tossed it In the same way.
Heitmuuer tore over the rubber and
the great game was at an end
A grand piece OF fielding saved the
lives OF the Beavers in the tenth Van
Haltren got pass and advanced on a
passed ball. Madden's wide peg put
him on third. Casey ofhced the Indian
TO walk Heitmuller and he obeyed.
Esgsn lined one down to Casey and he
quickly whipped the ball to Cooney,
who IN turn winged IL to Danzig and
great double play resulted
RAFTERY CAUGHT POSING
As usual the Beavers threw away
many chances TO gather runs. Had
they been at all lively on the paths
they could have broken IT up in the
tenth. But Raftery was caught nap
ping off first a moment before Ryan
sent one out 20 deep center that would
have put the winning run through
The Commuters played nice baseball
at all times. Dellar made HIS first start
before a local crowd and the business
like way in which he pitched impressed
everybody. He has good control and
: nice benders. The score:
PORTLAND