The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-17
PLAY BALL WORSE
THAN "BUSHERS'
Democrats of House Defeat the
Republicans in Laughable
Contest
Game Lasts Seven Innings Be-
fore the Statesmen Are
Exhausted

WASHINGTON, July 16.-With Uncle
joe Cannon looking on and powerless
to call the minority TO order. or bring
in a special rule shutting on basehits.
the Democrats of the house of represen-
tatives wa1loped all sorts of tariff
schedules out of the Republicans at
American League park today. and won
the most famous congressional base
ball game on record by the thrilling
score OF rs to 16. The minority
wanted to make it 1s to 1. but the
Republicans defeated that proposition
again.
The crowd which witnessed this game
was as weary as the players-from
most of the government officials. Pres
ident Taft did not attend; he was at
Chevy Chase with VIce President Sher-
man playing golf.
The Democrats put up a rafting
game in the feld-some times. Repre-
sentative Hef1in of Alabama, playing
in one of the outer gardens. once had
a chance to be hero. The Repubi-
cans came to life in the fifth inning
and were scoring s or 3 or 10 runs
when a line fly went winging out into
left field, straight at Helm. The port
ly Alabaman cast one eye at the ball
and another at his bare hands, and
"duoked." The hit ought to have been
good for home run. but Representa-
on the second sack and yelled for
somebody to come On out and finish
the run.
NICK'S POOR PERFORMANCE
Representative Nicholas Longworth
n fn al
vance notices He presented a natty
appearance in his golf trousers, but he
"Caseyed" out twice with two men on
bases, got a base on balls once, and
then in the last half of the seventh
showed a flash of rare speed when he
beat out tiny little infield hit His
only other acquaintance with the ball
was couple of foul t.ps and several
long runs after two naggers, slammed
out by the Democrats.
The republicans stuck to their orig
inal line up throughout, but the dem
ocrats wore themselves out making 10
runs in the second. and after that sub
stitutes were called upon with ever-in-
creasing frequency and the batting
order was shifted every inning. The
nearest the newspaper scorers could
come to the basehits and errors was
TO give the democrats % of the former
and five of the latter. The republicans
| are credited with 20 safe hits and 9
errors.
COLLIDES WITH GAINES
Representative Burke of Pennsyl-
vania, who was at the receiving end
for the majority, is of slight build and
when he crashed into Pitcher Gaines
of West Virginia the little catcher was
sent heels over head to the ground. He
picked himself up undaunted. and then
while he and the pitcher were doing
an "Alphonse and CASTOR" three dem
ocrats, with warped idea of chivaI-
rous courtesy, raced home and added
| three runs to their already opuIent
| total.
| The republicans were captained nv
Representative Tener of Pennsylvania.
| who played short. Representatives
| Gaines and Burke were the battery.
The democrats leader was Represen-
| tative Kinkead of New Jersey, who
played second. Representative Webb
! of North Carolina pitched for the DEM
ocrats and Representative OIdfeld of
Arkansas was the catcher Rev
Father James Reynolds of Red Bank,
N. j., was umpire. The score:
R.HE
P PswGShssa 80 - Go la % 8
The line up:
Democrats-AIdfield (Ark.) }, catcher; Webb IN
| c., pitcher; Hughes IN. ~. first base; T. Kin
kead IN. -. second base and catcher; Garrett
/ (Tenn.). right field: McDermott (Illl left field
and center field: Robinson ARK, right field:
| O'CcnneH Mass. shortstop and third base
Dan Driscoll en- ", shortstop and third base:
| Republicans-Burke pa, catcher; Gaines
| wv. Val. pitcher; Dawson tai second base
Longworth co.. center field: Cole (0.}, right
| field; Ames (Mass.l, left field; Tener Pa,
| shortsfop: Rowland (O0. first base. Thomas