The San Francisco call., 1908-04-26
Portland Off Oakland the Ninth Inning
COOney'S Wild Throw TO First Base Lets
Two Commuters Score and Battle Ends
By w. j. SIattery

The Beavers gave another grand ex-
nibition Of winning a ball game and
then tossing it away to the Oaks in the
ninth round, with the bases full and
two gone. 1t was Cooney who
sApped the necessary cog this time
ana II happened on a very simple play.
Cooney had been tearing off the grand
est brand Of baseball all the after
noon. but just at the critical moment
when he was expected TO come through
ne Tell down and the shouts of JOY
which the Beaver rooters were ready
10 unload were transformed into groans
Of sorrow
Every sack was occupied with a
Commuter and two of them had been
safely slowed away In that agonizing
ninth and the score was to 4 in
FAVOR Of the Beavers Truck Eagan
was UP and little Bloomfield had two
and three on the big fellow when he
shot a nice one right over the oyster
and Truck sent it down to Cooney.
The little shortstop came dancing in
on the ball and picked it up as clean
as a whistle. Good night, Oakland"
yelled the crowd, but the shouters for
got 10 look where Cooney tossed the
ball. Instead Of heaving it true into
Danzig's nitt the shortstop pegged IL
wide at the bag. Both Slattery and
COOK, who were on the paths, tore
right in and the game was over.
Portland deserves never to capture
another ball game after dropping that
one. Time after time ii seemed to have
the sign on the Oaks. who would al
ways come back and invariably profit
by the bone headed work Of their op-
ponents It was something awful the
way those Beavers acted once they had
lhe game pocketed. 1t looked like
case OF deliberately slipping to Oak
nd -
stewards in the grandstand- they would
have ruled the team of the diamond
for life.
With the score to in the eighth
inning the Beavers took after the
benders OF Wright and apparently
broke up the game, capturing two
runs. Danzig opened the rally with
a single to center and Johnson slapped
one over second. advancing to second
on the throw in to catch Danzig at
third Danzig was nailed at the pan
on Cooney's grounder TO Hogan, but
Madden responded with his fourth drive
into the right garden and both john
son and Cooney came right along home.
With two IN the hole in the same
inning the Commuters managed to
come within striking distance Of
tangling up the score again. Altman
hit into left and Bassey funbled the
ball. Altman going TO third Haley
Pearl could not handle and in the
meantime Altman put on a few extra
pounds Of steam and beat IL to the
pan
Believing that SIattery would swing
in with q wallop Van Haltren sent
him in to bat instead Of Lewis in the
ninth period And Slattery made good
with a bingle against the right field
fence. Wright sacrificed and Cook
landed IN InfnSor'S rr1r1hle
Van Haltren came near ending the
game right there with hot liner, but
Johnson speared 1t with one mitt and
Portland's chances looked brighter.
Then Heitmuller was given ticket.
filing up the sacks. and then came
Cooney's wide peg, so IL ended in Oak
lands favor anyhow and all the Beav-
ers began to crab over their III luck,
The game was another one of those
regulation tedious affairs which both
teams have been handing out all week.
Though there was plenty of action
throughout and many close and excit-
ing plays, the slovenly tactics of most
Of the tossers robbed the game OF the
interest it deserved. Bloomfield was
very wild issuing eight bases on balls,
while Wright was pounded for fair
every time he stuck the ball over the
rubber
Oakland got its start Of two runs IN
: the second. when II should have been
retired runless. Hogan was passed and
Bloomfield was too late in fielding
Altnan's bunt Haley sacrificed both q
peg and Lewis brought them in with
a hit that barely cleared the inf1eld.
Truck Eagan got the only long
drive Of the day. q two bagger against
the right field fence in the sixth Sew
eral OF the players on both sides man
aged to line the sphere near the same
spot, but they all suffered from hard
luck and got but base on these. The
score:
AB r BE- sB. Po A. E.