The San Francisco call., 1908-09-20
Busher Brings on
Prize Bonehead Play In !
Ninth Inning -
STANDING OF THE CLUBS
By w. ,. Siaffery
Ter. distance runner. /.

The Good Samaritan OF biblical fame
never displayed a more generous spirit
than did the Commuters yesterday aft
ernoon. 1t was apparent that they
did not want the victory. The Angels
did not like to take il. but 1t was
thrust upon them In such a peculiar
way that they could not help accept
ing. Mr.. Duffey Lewis, late OF Ala
media. was the chief donor. he having
learned to be charitable In his home
town. Perhaps after the local fans
become philanthropi5ts they will not
say such harsh things about .Duffey,
but right now they all have him on ths
pan-
Here's the way it all happened: The
ninth inning when Lewis sufficiently
showed ingenuity to grab or a pass
for himself Pa Van Haltren saw a
face and went in to bat for Nelson, get
ting away with a pretty sacrifice hit
and raising the hopes Of the Oakland
rooters. Cook could do no better than
advance Lewis to third on an inheld
out, but this helped some. Truesdals
came along with glancing bounder TO
koestner. who booted the ball and
tossed wide to nrst But Lewis. like
third. Apparently he believed that he
had been appointed it's elisOr and must
not leave IL He stuck like leech-
GLOOM IN THE BLEACHERs
A pitiful wall went up from the
what was coming off, Almost every
body was pulling for Oakland, and
when the r0oters saw that the game
had been tossed OF they became as
pleasant as so many wet hens. Heit-
muller, the next man up. faded away
by the short to first route and the An
gels were in, when the best they
should have had was an extra inning
battle
This was only one instance where
Oakland slipped something to the
champions They were leading 3 to
in the seventh and allowed Los An
geles to break in with two DeImas
opened the inning with scratch hit
70 Nelson and pulled up at second on
Wheeler laced the ball down 10 Eagan.
who tossed 1t away and let Delmas in.
tying il up. Trucks peg to Miller
was so much OF color that even ;. .aeeler
was able to reach second on II. He
took chance and. started for third.
but should have been nailed city
block. Lewis overthrew. AT this
hit to third that was too hot for smith
to handle and Wheeler was home In
Jg time.
Oakland. could not break in until the
fifth. Then. with two down, Smith BIT
on triple. to left and Lewis came on
with a Texas that sent him in. Dur
ing the seventh Oakland went for two
dale beat out bunt and Heitmuller
scaled the right field fence with fast
one. giving his team a lead which it
held only for an inning.
ANGELS BUSY AT START
The Angels started right in the open
Ing inning. which Bernard usnered in
with drive TO the right garden. Sac
rifices BY Oakes and I1ilon put him on
third He made "A daring dash for the
plate and -cleyerly got away with the
steal. because Nelson took a skyWard
trip and could not put the bah over the
pan
The game went along from that time
until the fourth without incident Then
the southern stars assumed a busy air
again. Oakes was passed and Dillon
long fly, which advanced Oakes to
third. The hit and run office was passed
and Smith laid down a pretty bunf.
which squeezed Oakes over the route
Throughout the same Oakland hit
the ball just three times as hard as
Los Angeles. but all this lne stickwork
went for nothing Los Angeles. with
It's four little bingles. managed to go
through with the victory Had Nelson
the support which his work
the Angels would have been
fortunate inNlanding a single ta1ly
Briswalter same In for quite a ham,
nering all the time. but the work be-
hind him was great. and IL saved his
lie ON several occasions He seemed
to be in badly during the eighth. and
In order to save the day Captain Dillon
put Koestner at work and for the re-
naming two innings he held the Oaks
without a run or q bit, thanks to Mr.
Lewis The score.