The San Francisco call., 1908-10-10

George Van Haltren and his band
from Oakland We're repulsed in their
laughable attempt to take Jack Glea-
sons redoubt yesterday afternoon.
When it was all over San Francisco
had the better of the comedy OF errors
and won. Z to 4. Both teams played
as though they had been released from
the blind asylum. Vans noble '.brows"
made seven errors during the after
noon, while Danny Longs lads kicked
in with five ripe and full blown boots
Jimmy Cooke. at third base for Oak
land, was the worst offender. While
the comedy lasted he made four errors.
The rawness of the atmosphere
heiped to make the game more gloomy,
ana every fan in the bleachers resem-
pied a living model Of the Gloomy
Gus family.
Van Haltren exhibited a new twirler.
which he scared up in the vicinity Of
Alameda. The new pitcher showed
himself 10 be docile sort of lad and
answered 10 the name of johnson. The
Alameda boy was unable to hurl the
ball over the plate. and after walking
four of the Seals and making a wild
pitch Van Haltren whisked him out
and escorted him to the coop. John
son explained his wildness by SAYING
that Mike Fisher kept looking him in
the eyeballs and that he could not To-
cate the plate.
Tex Christian succeeded Johnson. and
while he a slight Improvement on the
Alamedan he was far from being a
lone star, although he halls from the
Lone Star state. Christians support
ing cast was very poor.
After the Seals had rolled Johnson
through the sausage grinder in the
opener and scored two runs off his
delivery, Christian went in. The Seals
didn't get busy again until the third
and IN this spasm they tailed one.
Hlldebrand, first up, pestled out a sin
gle. Mohler was safe when Christian
booted his bunt Hide and MohIer
advanced a base each on a successful
double steal. Williams dropped a neat
grounder in Christians lap and the
latter tossed Hildebrand out at the
plate. Mohler and Williams worked
the double steal and Mohler crossed
the pan. Beck ended the agony with
high fly TO Van Haltren.
For brief moment the Commuters
came out of their trance, and 1t looked
as though they might do such an un-
usual thing as win when they scored
four runs in the third spasm. La
Longe broke into the iimelight with a
scorching single. Christian offered an
easy out to Mohler. Van Haltren drew
a base on balls. Truesdale tried hard
to make a hit, but died on strikes.
Then young Lewis swatted the bail for
a double, scoring LIZ Longe and Van
Haltren. Heitmuller raped an easy
one al Nick Williams, but he passed
NICK the uiSlTeSS signal ana NICK let
the ball slip through his spacious paws
Heine stole second. Truck Eagan kept
up the good work by rapping a hit
over short, on which Lewis and Heit-
muller scored. Cooke ended the inning
by flying TO Beck. Four runs all in one
inning proved too much for the Oaks.
and after that spasm they refused to
make any more runs. no matter how
serious the provocation.
San Francisco tied the score in the
fourth. when it pushed a tally across
the pan on Killifer's single, McArdle's s
sacrifice. a pass TO Curtis and a double
steal engineered by Killifer and Curtis,
on which Killifer scored.
In the seventh the Seals crushed
/ Christian for two runs. Hildebrand
was safe on Cookies error and went to
second on Mohler's out. Bodie famed,
but Williams uncorked a half homer,
which sent Hildebrand across the plate.
Williams scored on Beck's single.
The Seals scored rne final tally of
the game in the last inning-a base on
balls to Griffin. Curtis sacrifice hit and
an infield tap by Hildebrand and Moh-
ler's single paving Griffin's way to the
nan Score