The San Francisco call., 1908-03-11
White Sox Should Be Chased Back
to Bushes for Good of Game
BY William j. slattery

If the grand jury is still in session
1T would be doing the baseball COM
munity a great favor by indicting the
alleged White Sox on 92 counts for
treason against the fans, playing bush
ball and stealing divers so and 75 cent
pieces. If the foreman is in need of
any evidence, all that he has to do is
to take look at yesterdays score.
1t was Is to 2, and the Seals did not
have the 9
Imagine a baseball team masquerad-
ing under the name of the Chicago
White Sox allowing a wild west bushy
aggregation like the Seals are supposed
to be, to hang it on them like that.
Imagine two pitchers who hope to fig
ure in worlds championship games
being walloped for Is bingles and then
coming in for the wrath of the sungods
in the bleachers Tip O'Neil and CO.
miskey surely should be proud of that
mottled gang. The vigilance committee
of Los Angeles would do we'll to meet
them at the train tomorrow and warn
them to keep on their way.
The few hundred fans who made the
trip to the ball park were yelling for
their money back before the first in
ming had spent itself for the Seals
landed no less than six times in that
period. 1t was hoped that the game
would improve with age, but instead it
grew more awful as the innings rolled
by. The Seals formed a procession and
marched around the bases, and the Sox
sulked and grinned foolishly.
If the visitors were pulling to the
locals 1t reflects no credit upon them.
If they were playing their best they
should be barred from organized base
ball and relegated to the Honolulu
league. They need not worry, for they
will soon beat it out of our village.
But the game will suffer. and the fans
who willingly gave up to see the joke
Will become wise next time and take
to some other place of amusement.
The Seals played good baseball. The
Hoag brothers, Tracy and Ollie, fresh
from the bushes, formed the first bat
terry and worked as nicely as any pitch
er and catcher who have been tried out
thus far. The visitors could not score
run off them. Infeld and outfield
performed nicely
Southpaw Skillman trotted out on
the slab in the fourth and Immediately
got in bad, walking man and allow
ing pair of hits, which quickly pro-
duced two runs, the only ones which
the Sox could negotiate during the
afternoon After this, Skillman settled
down and pitched true baseball. The
SoX filled the bases on him during the
next inning, but he was there at the
critical moment and shooed them away
from the plate.
Gums, the husky busher from Vallejo
served EN- up for the last three periods
He had more speed than any other man
who has performed so far He also
had nice control, walking only one man
and winging two to the bench or
strikes. AS sticker he showed a BIZ
of class, leaning up against the bal
for pair of clean bingles out of two
trips to the rubber.
The Seals fielded nicely all through
the game. Curtis made the only error
and 1t came on hard chance which
he overthrew to the first bag. Piper
did lot of fast work out In the center
garden, while the infield got away with
neat double play. c-e1choir was the
only man on either team who could
steal base. The score: