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The San Francisco call., 1908-08-23
Butte Races

BUTTE. Aug 22--Forty ninth day; weather
clear; track fast.
FIRST RAcE-Five and half furlongs. SELL
ing, 2 year olds:
Odds. Horse and Jockey. VT. St. Str. Fin.
6-I-Cayallena (Otis) ..1O6 2h II
-semproella (NIcLaughlin)Io5 4 l 2A2
7-1=Jim Hanna (Shriner) ..102 y u
Time. 1:OsA Jolter, Ponciana. Egotist, Harry
Standhope, Electric Light, Willie Loagan, Light
ming Flash. finished as named. Winner. b. T.
cieveriy Second and third driven Jolter not
much. He hand ridden all the way.
SECOND RACE-Five furlongs, selling. year
odds. Horse and Iockey. VT: st. Str. Fin.
7-1-Daisy Frost. (v. Burke)1f7 I III
lo-1-L. Rossing ten tTaplinl. IL I S2 "a
3-5-Goldena (Aubuchonl. III 3 )
Time l:01Y BIZ Bagwen wheatstone. Ray
Carlo Bonnie Briar Bush, George w Tuthill, IN
Hash HasSrouck Tuieiiies. Start good Won cieveriy
Second driven. Third easily Frost lost much
ground BY wide turn but but 1EosD was pest horse.
THIRD RACE-Six furlongs, selling, year
olds and upward:
Odds. Horse and Jockey. VT st. Str. Fin.
T-l-Canopus ii (EIobart) .-.107 2z2
10-1 1-Eudora ivan Dusenl los 9 8
Time, 1:15A. Maid Of Orleans, Hand Me
Down, BY Play. June Time, Akbar, Dick shan
ley, The Monser Kamsack. finished named
Winner. grs g., s, by Captive-Leora start good.
Won driven. Second and third same. Lynch
got OF nicely and had enough left at the end
to stall OF Canopus. The latter bothered
bothered badly at last turn.
FOURTH RAcE-Five and a half furIongs.
purse, year olds and upward:
4-5--Lord Nelson (Aubuehon)1o9 I
9-5-Ellerd (Tuliettl -.--.-.ll2 IA
1o-1--Jim simpson (Otisl- -l09 ga
Time. 1:07l5. Margie d, Special Delivery,
STRAIT Martin. Piquet, Beaver Dam Lad. Balreed.
Susie Gregg, finished as named. Winner, ch. g.,
). by st. Carlo Goodhope. Start good Won
easily. Second driven. Third easily. Nelson
best horse. Piquet viii improve soon.
FIFTH RACE-One and a sixteenth miles,
handicap, year Olds and upward:
Odds. Horse and Jockey. VT. st. Str. Fin.
le-5-Eoyai Ben tHiIdehsandl q 9 PAL 8
12-1-Dick Redd (standersl -. 97 s IL
Time, 1:4a1a ChippsEa. Lucy Marie. Daring,
Royal Flush III Bendoretta. Start good wo1
easily Second sand third driven. Royal Ber
raced Chippewa into submission and easily
enough. Dick Redd bothered badly hrst turn.
mile and a furlong before race and was pulled
up early.
SIXTH RAcE.-Five furlOngs. selling. year
oids aud upward;
4-1--Jas. A. Murray tPost) ia 1 1 11s1 q
S-1-Jillette tNelsOn) .--... 1O7 y
15-l-Malrina (van Dusenl ..1l2 4 s 81
uium, Redan, Sid Silver, Misty's Pride finished
PlumerIa start good. Won eisveriy. Second second
rina ran a clever race. Curriculum almost left.
SEVENTH RACE-one mile. selling. year
olds and upward:
odds. Horse aud Jockey. W.T. St Str. Fin.
7s1o-Himalaya tsroiesw0rthl 1o4 5 I i
I5-l-yinton (Heatherton) .-.1O9 50 3 f1s
Time. I:421z. Tarp. L. q. widrig Meadow.
g. by Free Knight Elia Martin Start lrnss GOOD. &
Won driven. Next two same. Tea Trnv ran
over the leaders last so yards.
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.O'COnnOr Says Players
Live Too Fast Now
Veteran Catcher Lays Down the
Law to Youngsters Breaking
Into the Game

TT isn't how long you live but how
fast" said Jack OConnor. the veteran
catcher. to a ST. Louis sporting writer
the other day.
I've known plenty OF ball players
who at 80 years of age. when they
should have been in their prime. were
as old as most sedate citizens Of 40.
Their best days as ball players were
past simply because they had lived too
fast.
II keep my machinery geared AT
about six miles an hour and do my
best TO take things with the smallest
amount of worry. And yet some OF
the fans wonder why il is that / last
so long
A good many ambitious young ball
players can well prOht by the advice
OF this ''old man" or baseball. Who
caught his first professional game In
st. Joe in 1884 and is today one OF
the steadiest backstops In the game
and unequaled in breaking in yOung
pitchers OlConnor has learned truly
that lit isn't how long you live but
how fast" that counts
Rube Viekers. the former coast
twirler, wants TO vie with Rube Wad-
dell as the greatest baseball freak in
captivity. Vickers latest stunt would
have landed him in the insane asylum
in any other city but PHILADELPHIA.
Just to show that he could. the Rube
insisted on giving three balls TO each
of three Cleveland batters in one game iISs'
with the sacks f1ll. and then struck
them out he actually pulled 1t on.
= With three wonderful hitters Cobb
Rossman and Crawford. in superb form.
Detroit appears to have the American
league pennant pretty well in hand.
Crawford 299 What chance has a
pitcher against trio like that?
Looks like Andy Carnegie will have
to pin one Of his hero medals on the
shoulder of old Cy Young. who for IS
years has been defying Father Time
and getting better every year None
Of the big league pitchers has it on
Cy this year. Cy; old boy. has grabbed
1s games and lost six
| This is what a Detroit paper has 10
say about Bill Killifer. Danny Longs
latest find. behind the bat:
| '.Hughey Jennings was somewhat put
out when he learned that San Francisco
had secured Bill Killifer. the Texas
catcher. brother of Wade. Well he
just beat me to It. said Hughey. I
most judges have written to me that
he is the most likely looking youngster
the Texas league has ever had Catch
ers are mighty scarce these days and
I the team which is Fortunate sTo1s-f,1
Strengthening itself a whole lot"
sponberg. the touted Utah wonder.
has got his unconditional release from
/ the Chicago Nationals. SpOnberg pitched
his only game against the Boston Bean
eaters and they devOured the Mormons
shoots as IL they had been nice plates
of juicy pork and -.
President r. l. Hedges Of the ST.
Louis American league baseball team
has put the lid on the free admission
| of women without escorts ON ladies'
day. Hereafter the fair ones viii get
in only when accompanied by a man
with six bits for a seat. The heartless
mani
With Pitcher Schlitzer the Athletics
ought not TO suffer from thirst on a
j hot day. NO-Yes?
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Baseball Notes

Pa Van Haltren pulled up. lame while run
ming down 10 first base in the seventh inning
and was forced 10 retire Pitcher fischer went
into the right garden and Heitmuler took up
his station in center.
fischer incidentally furnished the sensation Of
the afternoon In the ninth. with Raftery on on
second, Ryan lined hot one that seemed to be
making for the fence. fischer. however, was
there with one mitt and after spearing the
BAH. doubled Ryan at second. This was the
closing play Of the game.
So Tar Cleveland has not taken up its option
on Raftery: The open date expired yesterday
50 it would appear that he big league nine is
not going 10 grab OF the Portland center fielder
II Cleveland does not get Tom, some other bis
league outfit surely viii
Danny Long yesterday sold southpaw Theo
bold 10 the Nasau team Of the Wisconsin
league Iheooold was farmed out TO winnipeg
Of the Northern league month or two ago,
but that organization has blown. the players
hnd themselves scattered al over the east and
west now
It is likely that Nelson and Hardy will dc
the twisting for Oakland today. The tall boy
the short the local diamond. II Oakland
lands twice today il gets the series, SO Van
= & gong 20 make Ssrenuo's enort 70 Turn m ro M
in the box for the Beavers.
Beginning next Wednesday ladies viii be ad
mllled Iree 10 ine games ON wednesdays. IhurS
days and Fridays. Manager Jack Gleason be
lieves that he viii make great fans out Of the
fair ones OF this city and he takes this means
10 entice them TO the games Los Angeles and
Portland leading IN the number OF
gentle rOoters, but we have hopes.
Umpire Bull Perine was back on the job again
after day or two Of Illness The layoh
did not seem 10 affect his eagle eye at all,
though the bleachers yelled long and loud at
several OF his decisions Stulz did good work
in Perine's absence and deserves another try
out Both he and Flynn look Ike the makings
Of good men,
The hearts Of the bleaeherites beat for joy
when Truck Eagan was seen back at his old
Job IN short field. This is where Truck figures
and is where Van should keep him. Truck has
been on this job for 50 long that he IS lonesome
When they station him elsewhere Slattery
played first and indulged in more exercise than
he has known since be Joined the team. An
derson was out OF the game on account 81
injury.
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Big Buck Killed With
Small ParlOr Rifle
Captain FerneH and Wife Have
a Novel Experience Near
Monte Rio

To see four deer in one bunch. TO
kill a fine 50 pound buck and perhaps
fatally wound another with a parlor
rifle was the exciting experience of
Captain f. F. FerneI and his wife the
other day while huekleberrying a mile
up the river from Monte Rio.
The deer, three bucks and a doe, were
calmly resting under the shade of some
brush when discovered by Mrs Fernell
She quickly communicated the fact to
the captain, who got busy and put three
bullets into one and broke the right
foreleg of another before he got out of
range. One buck and a doe lay con-
cealed while the firing was going on.
but broke for the foothills when 1t
ceased.
The killing is remarkable when the
fact is considered that the deer We're
fully 100 yards distant and the bullets
went clear through the body OF the
buck.
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SAN JOSE 2, FRESNO
spE(sI AL. DISPATCH TO THE CALI

SAN JOSE, Aug. 23-San Jose beat
Fresno by score of 2 to 1 in II in
nings of the most thrilling baseball
ever witnessed in San Jose. Each ag-
frame and for the next nine innings
neither was able to get a man across
the plate, although both teams ad-
vanced runners to third, and in the
tenth Fresno filed the bases with but
one out. In the eleventh San Jose
scored on Eager's single and Reid's
three sacker.
VOTERS pitching was easily the
feature He allowed but one hit in the
first nine innings and struck out IL
men. Fresno's run in the first was OBJ
tanned on two errors, a sacrifice and
Crolfs single to right Score:
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CHAMP LIoNIzED

During his recent trip east Nelson
was lionized wherever he went. A
knight of the plumed age had nothing
on the modern knight of the mitts.
When he reached Chicago a delegation
from the Danish sharpshooters met him
and escorted him in state to his hotel.
Later he was banqueted and given a
handsome diamond medal by his admir-
ing countrymen.
Everybody in Hegewisch was at the
railroad depot when the conquering
hero arrived in his own town. A brass
band headed the procession to the Bat
tiers home and a sort of general holi-
welt been on the job the same day he
could not have been more royalty en-
tertained than Nelson.
After doing some exhibition boxing
with the old middle weight champ
Tommy Ryan, Nelson set out for O'Bar,'
n. M, to visit his pal, Billy Benner Ar
r1ving at the town at in the morning,
the Bat was awakened from his Pull
man bunk by the crack of pistols. When
he rubbed the sleep out of his eyes he
was confronted by gang of COWBOYS.
which formed the reception committee
appointed to meet him.
big dance was arranged for the
champion and he was the real hero of
the night. He was the reigning sensa-
ton as far as the girls went, and did
the waltzing around work with no less
than As of them, breaking the terrific
rial record and firing himself out more
than he did when he put the crusher
OIL GdlS. AS token Oh LuelI dppreC1a-
ton, Will Snyder and Charles Eddy.
leading citizens of the town, presented
Nelson with two corner business lots
and a residence lot in the city.
long clipping in the local paper an
nounced. that Nelson had lost his heart
in the town and would return after
beating Cans and make his home there.
The Livermore folks expect the same
thing and so do the residents of Hege-
wisch.. The Battler seems to have them
all going.
After fling 100 acre homestead hext
to Benner's ranch, the Durable Dane
made trip to Tucumcari, nearby
town, and attended a political meeting.
be was cheered and called for SO often
that he had to make a speech and
created quite an impression. Shortly
after he was created a deputy sheriff of
the county by Sheriff Street who pre-
sented him with a handsome ..45 pearl
handled revolver which the citizens had
formerly given to the sheriff.
After bidding farewell to New Mex
leo. the champion found fresh triumphs
awaiting him in Los Angeles. 1T was
there that he took part in a benefit ball
game and acted like a big Lacquer. He
played an errorless game at short, came
10 pat three times, got walk, nied out
and scored a run for his team.
Now Bat thinks that he has been
UP against every sort OF game and made
good with them all.
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BIDS FOR FEED REJECTED

ALAMEDA, Aug. 22.-The city council
has ordered that all bids submitted re-
Gently for supplying feed for the horses
of the fire department be thrown out
and has authorized the fire commits
sioners TO buy feed in the open market
The city councilmen believed that there
was combination formed by local feed
dealers to charge the city exorbitant
prices. Some of the prices asked in
the BIDS were found to be nearly one
third higher than the open market
prices,
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Nelson and Cans Begin
Hard Work Today
Durable Dane Is Received Like
an Ancient Gladiator in
the East

Now that both Nelson and Cans are
PACK among their old friends interest
In the third meeting between the pair
at Coifroth's Mission street arena on
Aunlsslon day grows apace. Though
the card is really a warmed over one,
II is nevertheless attracting wonder
Iul amount of interest in the sporting
world, not only here but wherever the
hghting game is popular. AT present
indications are that larger crowd
than ever will be at the ringside when
Billy Jordan cuts in with his Let
er CO.
For the first time since he has battled
Tor the championship which he now
nolds Nelson will enter the ring a
did TO Cans the last time they clashed.
fThe trend of public sentiment at pres
enl would make it appear that the Dane
VIII rule at least 10 to choice over
the ex-master of lightweights and it
Is barely possible that the price will go
even lower than this.
There are few men who follow the
game closely who believe that Cans
ever will come back again. They all
believe in the old adage that boxer
never can regain his lost prestige after
having been knocked out once. Many
have come on and won after losing a
decision or losing on foul, but the
man man who who regains 9 his championship
never lived, within recent years, any
how.
II he beats Cans there will be no.
oOuy ltIC IOr the CHdinplOl save
"Packey" Mcfarland. and these men
will surely have to mix it within the
next year or so. This is really the
most attractive lightweight card that
can be seen by any of the promoters.
1t is the one that the people want to
look at, and it is the one which is COM
ing to them
The idle tongue of gossip has it that
Packey" never will be able to make
the lightweight limit within the next
SIX months. He is only boy at pres
ent and is growing very rapidly, so this
looks plausible enough. Good judges
of the fighting game say that when
Bat is ready to give the Chicago boy
chance he will be running for the
welter weights
If this be So then Nelson can pre-
pare to retire from the ring If he gets
away with Cans He can place himself
in Jeffries class and gracefully step
down and out. He could, of course, tie
himself UP with the welters and. Incl
dentally, beat most of them without
turning a hair. but when man works
for years to earn championship title
he does not like to go out of his class
and take a chance of being beaten,
simply because there is nobody of his
weight hanging around 1t might be
all right for man to do this if he
needed money very badly, but the
champion has enough to last him.
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BAT KILLS DEER

Nelson and his party, Willis Britt and
Jack Grace, returned from the noun
tains near Cazadero yesterday morning
after a successful hunting trip. Guild
ed by Erastus Chapman and Kid New
ton, two of the experts on game for
that region, the trio traversed the best
sections and had lot of fun and plenty
of good exercise.
The first day out brought nothing,
but on the second trip Bat killed
brace of nice little bucks. He was
crazy TO remain away a few days
longer, for nobody loves the hunt bet
ter than he, but he was forced to get
back and start training for his great
match which, by the way, is only d lit
tie over two weeks off.
Nelson will start work this morning
at his old favorite resort, Joe Millett'S.
near Colna. Willie Britt, as usual, will
act as master of ceremonies around the
place, while Jack Grace will be chief
of the training staff, and Red Cornett
and jeff Perry will again fill in as the
human punching bags. Both have been
training for the fray.
1t is likely that big crowd will turn
out to see the champion Timber up this
afternoon. He likes to satisfy the pub
lie and always does his best when
there is a large aggregation in his
gymnasium. He extends a cordial in
vitation to all his old friends to call on
him today and see for themselves IL he
is right or wrong.
The San Francisco call., 1908-08-23
CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY
OF B'NAI BIRTH LODGE
Members of Ophir Chapter Hold
Social Evening in Honor
of Event

At the close of it's last meeting ophir,
the mother lodge of the Independent
order of B'nai Birth of this state,
of institution by social eveninr in
the lodgeroom in B'nai Birth hall.
William Saalburg. nestor of the
lodge, was the chairman and called
dent; Edmund Tausky, grand vice
president. /. ]. Ascheim. grand secre-
tary; BENJAMIN Schloss. William Rein
stein. 5. Weiskopff and others to sssav
a few words for the old LODGE, This
was followed by supper.
The B'nai Birth club. composed of
members of the several lodges Of the
/. Q. B. B. of this city, went on a
sprinting tour TO a grove four and a
half miles from Fairfax, Marin county
on the third Sunday in the current
month. The club is ARRANGING for n
whist Tournament :
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CANS AND ATTELL TO BOX

For the first time since he was
bowled over by Nelson more than two
months ago. Joe Cans will don a pair
of boxing gloves this afternoon over at
Crolrs gardens, Alameda. His opponent
in the warmup bout will be none other
than the shifty little Abe Attell These
men have long been rivals in the SPAR
ring game so it is likely that they will
give nice exhibition.
Cans has been working out quietly all
week and, according to his own admis-
has been for many years past. He
claims to have plenty of excess weight
to work upon and that his strength is
coming back rapidly after his long So
journ in the Lake county mountains. A
few tryouts should prove these asser-
tiOnS
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MOTOR BOAT is SPEEDY
Dixie ii Runs Thirty Miles in
Eifty-nine Minutes

oGDENSBURG. N. Y, Aug. 22.-In
a stirring race on Chippewa bay today
the Dixie II, champion of motor boat
racers, won the third and final contest
for the gold challenge cup. defeating
the Chip II, the defending boat entered
by the Chippewa yacht club, in the
fast time of SO minutes for the so miles.
The Dixie recently won the inter-
national cup at Huntington, L. l., and
by winning today she gains the undis-
puted title of champion motor boat
racer. The Dixie is owned by E. j.
Schroeder of New York
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HOME OF INCURABLES
OFFERS TRAINING COURSE
Young Women Will Be Given
Opportunity to Qualify as
Trained Nurses

In order to afford an opportunity to
young women to qualify as trained at
tendants for invalids. the San Francisco
home for incurables has made arrange
ments to give course of instruction
under the direction of a physician and
qualified nurse to a limited number of
prospective students
Young women between 30 and 90
years of age applying for the course
must present satisfactory references be-
fore they will be accepted. They will
then be taken into the home at 1924
Franklin street for the training course.
Lodging and laundry will be given free
and a small salary paid and at the end
of. year a certificate of qualification
will be given.
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Champions the
Alameda TOSSerS
DR.. MOskinan Is i'm Rare Form
and Allows Only One
Run

ALAMEDA Aug. 22.-The Alamedas
were easy plucking for the champions
from Stockton at Recreation park this
afternoon, and the home players were
able to send in but one run while
Moreing's minions were changing the
bell nine times. Moskiman was on the
firing line for the visitors. and easily
kept the local batsmen from punching
hits. Every man on the Stockton team
Davy Walthours got one or more safe
swats at the sphere. The same teams
will meet tomorrow afternoon. The
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American League

BOSTON. Aug. 22.-Hard hitting by the visi-
tons and poor base running by the locals gave
Chicago tOdsy's game. Young. Burcbeu and
Smith were batted out Of the box. Score:
Chicago ..................7 Is -
Docto1 . o
Batteries-Smith. Walsh and ". Sullivan:
Young Burcheil. CycOtte and Criger.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug 22.-CleFeland won
easily by punching bits on Vickers and Dygert.
Score.
R H. E..
tleFelano ..s.s.--.----. il o
Philadelpbla ------- ..------.--.
Batteries-Chech and \. Clarke; Yickers, Dy-
CERT and Schreck.
WASHINGTON. Aug 22-Detroit batted
Hughes out OF the box IN the seventh inning
and defeated Washington. Summers was ef-
fective but wild. Score:
w.sb;nr,on o. o =; 7;
MaeuiletvA s------s-s---- ---F-.----- s
Detroit .-....--....-.......-- II 0
Batteries-Hughes, Gates. johnson and Street;
KehOe. Summers and Schmidt.
NEW YORK. Aug. 22.-New York-St Louis
game postponed; wet grounds.
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POLICE COMMISSIONERS
AND MAYOR AT BANQUET
Celebrate the Anniversary or
Taking Office at Festive
Board

In spite of the strained relations be-
tween Chief Of Police Biggy and some
OF the police commissioners. all united
in a banquet at which the only otner
person was Mayor Taylor last evening
at the ST. Francis. The occasion or the
celebration was the fact that Yesterday
was the anniversary Of the taxing OL
once by the police commissioners Be
sides the mayor and chief of police. tne
others present were Commissioner
Cutler. Kyle. Swaggert and Lesgett-
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SAY SLOT MACHINE CHEATED

OAKLAND, Aug. &c. T. McHaIe
and James Hurley. proprietors of a
cigar stand at the northeast corner of
Eleventh street and Broadway. were
arrested today on misdemeanor charges
for the alleged operation Of a slot ma
chine SO manipulated as TO ,defraud the
customers who played it. The machine
was confiscated by Policeman =. Feely,
who made the charges. Both men gave
bail In $50.
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ALAMEDA
SUMMARY

Three base hit-Shay. Two base hts-Snith
(2), Pierce, Moskiman. Sacrifice hits-Camp-
base on called balls-on Pierce 2. Struck out
BY Moskiman 6, by Pierce 1. Hit by pitcher
Joyce. Double play-Joyce to Shay to Henderson
Moore.
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WATER ORDINANCE PRoPosEn

ALAMEDA, Aug. PAN ordinance
has been introduced by Councilman M,
w, Brown, which will, IL passed, re-
quire all house holders to shut off
in. The object of the proposed measure
is TO increase the pressure in the
mains when the water is needed for Are
dghting nurDoses - :
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SACRAMENTO Ia, SAN FRANCISCO o
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL

SACRAMENTO. Aug. 22.-The locals
day by a score of ii to 0. Henderson,
San Francisco's new twirler was hit
hard, while WhaIen's curves were puz-
Zlers for the visitors. Joe Corbett is.
scheduled to appear in the box tomor-
row for the visitors. The score:
SAN FRANCISCO
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SUMMARY

Home runs-Jansing. McCaffery. Three base
hits-Doyle. Hooper Two base hit-Jansing.
Sacrifice hits-Byrnes McCaffery. First base
on errors-Sacramento 3. First base called
balls-0f Henderson 4. off Whalen /. Left on
bases-San Francisco 2. Sacramento Z. Struck
out-By Henderson 2. by Whalen Z. Double
Dlays-Whalen TO Doyle to Graham; Doyle to
Graham: Enwright to Graham. Passed ball
Bailey. Wild Pitch Henderson Time of game
l hour and 2S minutes. Umpire-Schroeder.