The San Francisco call., 1908-05-23
Baseball BuHesque
Makes Fans Cv
Seals Tdkc an Is to II Genl,
That Brcaks Al Former
Records
B. ". j. SIatfery

The finest exhibition Of genuine bur
lesque baseball that the Pacific coast
league has ever known was exploded
before the admiring throng at the
Valencia street lot yesterday Afternoon.
To class IL IS q sample of the great
naIional pastime would be u crime.
IT would not even figure in the an
mails CT sand lot performances But il
counted in the averages just the same,
ana so long as the Seals got away with
It. le TO y, they left the neld salts
neC and the crowd had its laugh SO
lhlngs Were about even up.
Ine only man on the lot who dis
tnguiShed himself was Mickey. the
seal mascot lie was a star simply be-
cause he had nothing TO do. he did
not make any errors because he did
not handle the bail He simply stuck
around and took on q wise expression
ana TINS Ieat won him the hero's title.
me Seals piled Up TWO runs in the
Irst inning on 4 couple OF glaring
errors aud in the fifth they put three
more across. aided by more bad field
managed 10 squeeze one through in
the fourth. and in the fifth il began
70 4ook Ike live game Of ball, Tor,
with two men down and the bases fun,
kitty Brashear lifted d two bagger
against the center neld fence and
chased everybody home ahead OF him.
That made the score 3 to-4 IN favor
OF the Seals. but even then the Angels
more rough work Increased the Seais
lead by another tally in the fiEth. But
here another surprise was awaiting
TIE DoEs, Tor the Angels asSailed the
offerings OF ~SliVers' Henley with ter
rlble nerceness and hammered three
more runs over, putting them into the
leao by a score Of TO o.
However. il was the same old story
when the southern crew went into the
HELD. They invariably booted every
tllng that came along and the Seals
began 20 do many q hotfoot around the
paths While the crowd laughed itself
loarse the Seals kept running and the
Angels continued their booting and
posing tactics While TWO more Of the
seals rushed home.
This was but the beginning of the
nnlsa- Long quickly yanked Henley
on ne mound and put Willis 10 work
with machine like regularity in the
seventh and ali seemed well.
cap Dillon thought that he, too.
might improve his opportunity by
sWllcning pitchers, SO he gave big
Ihorsen the Office TO come in and take
Up Red RandolpL's burden. But Oh my.
what = change. Before the big fellow
were Jerry 10 him. Ihat ball went
skipping and hopping around the lot
and the Angel fielders did not care
when or where i stopped. Every one
Of the Seals stole bases as they saw
II, and when the nightmare had ceased
the seals were just four runs stronger
Did il end there? Not at all The
eighth inning had even worse things
IN store Ter the Angel crew. This time
the Seals went for six runs, and il
might have been 60 or 500 for ali their
guests cared. II was . case OF around
and around and around again and then
some more iii the boys were sore
from doing the hoffoot and the crowd
from laughing at the Angels
Los Angeles did make four more runs
IN the last inning. but nobody was
looking at them. Willis knew that the
game was H. 50 he. did not care much
how things progressed. II took nearly
Two hours and a half TO enact the bur
lesque and even the Angels were glad
when il was over. The score:
los .NeFT ~