The San Francisco call., 1908-10-23
Nelson Blows Up When
the Beavers Start
Fatal Eighth Inning Brings a
Headache TO Van HaIfren
and His Crew

Van Haltren and his band of base
bali men again visited our fair city
from that benighted land of Oakland
yesterday afternoon and were taken
into camp by the Portland Ducks. to
1. Somebody called it ball game, and,
as the weather was too languorous for
disputes. no one denied the allegation
II was, lnoeed. but sorry show. There
was little snap or ginger to the con-
test. and the only. ones who enjoyed it
We're the few lucky bugs" who went
10 sleep and dreamt of other games.
team from the ancient ladies' rest
could have equaled the efforts that
went into the game as though they
hated TO play ball worse than to labor.
and droned through the nine innings
like so many martinetS.
Van Haltren selected his longest gun
Nelson, TO do the artillery work for his
team. The slender boy did all right for
seven innings, but in the eighth he
dropped through a crack in the ground
and out of the game. During this
spasm the Portland pestiers clouted his
delivery for three hits and grabbed a
them two tallies. Van Haltren was an
interested spectator and from center
Held he sent 8 wireless to have Nell
son wrapped in cotton batting. placed
on the bench and marked held for fur
ther use.
Christian took up the work where
Nelson left off, and did better than the
human string bean, but his advent was
too late.
While Nelson was awaiting the oak
lands ship Of state. Kinsella was pitch
>ing nice, steady. workmanlike game
lor the beavers, and was very Stingy
with his hits. During the afternoon
kinsella showed himself to be the big
voltage in the baseball current and he
let Van and his tired tossers down with
four meek hits, which netted the ferry
chasers Just single run.
Portland crushed through the run
column in the fourth inning. when they
tailed once. With one gone, Raftery
shot nice single TO left field and took
second on Johnson's out, McCay to
Cook Danzig poked a tap at McCay
and Bernie tried to break the hammer
throw record by tossing the leather a
mile out of Cooks reach. Raftery
trotted home on the erratic heave and
Ryan ended the inning by going out,
E2gan to Cook.
The Athenians evened it up in their
half of the fourth. With two gone,
Heitmuller committed a terrible as
sault on the ball rapping it down along
the third base chalk line for a half
homer Eagan then ripped off sting
ing single to center, which scored Heit-
muller. 1t was up TO Lewis to do some
down.
In the eighth spasm the Beavers got
real busy. Bassey, the first up, walked
trambes poked outt a neat single to
left field. 1t was Kinsella's day to get
ms annual single and he made good
rapping out a neat poke to center
which sent Bassey over the pan, Franz
bes moving along to third on the play
-Puerl" Casey had the lemon suueezer
working we'll and he dropped one right
in Nelson's lap. The tall boy stepped
on his own feet handling the ball, and
Frambes rolled in with another run.
Raftery and Johnson ended the inning
with soft outs. DanZig's single his
steal of second and Ryan's double
brought the Beavers the last tally of
the game in the ninth spasm. Score:
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