The San Francisco call., 1909-11-05
Big Leaguers
Play the Game
Like Bushers
Seals Pound Curtis All Over the
Field and All But Blank
the Nationals

There was sudden and decisive
switch in the cut at the Valencia street
lot yesterday afternoon and the All
National stars seemed content to have.
themselves shown up by the Seals.
The finish was Z to 1, but these figures
do not come near telling of the bushy
work performed by the visiting talent
from eastern climes. We could have
sent in a bunch of our sand lot per-
formers and beaten them just the same.
Vernon at it's worst never slipped the
fans anything worse than did the big
'uns yesterday.
NOT A FLASH OF CLASS
If they were pulling and working in
an endeavor to make it more even by
giving the Seals a game, they proved
very bad performers. 1t is cinch
that no talented stage manager ever
drilled them, for the work was too
rough.
They could not even show a flash of
class at any stage of the battle. They
were off to bad start and they never
could get by. The fans were all jerry
to them, too, and it is likely that many
goat jumped over the fence before
the game was finished. This is the
way it looked anyhow.
Brownie Browning might have made
it a clean blank had he so desired. but
his heart seemed to soften in the eighth
inning and he grooved the ball long
enough to allow the leaguerS to ham
mer out three clean hits, which netted
their lonesome run. Up to that time
Browning's work was perfect. He had
everything on the ball and he seemed
able to do what he pleased with the
visitors. They never even figured to
hit him hard.
CURTIS POUNDED TO PULP
Pitcher Curtis of the Boston Nation
ais. who opposed Browning, was an
awful ham. Outside of smile and
bunch of hope, he was absolutely with
out protection. In the six innings that
he worked, Curtis was nailed for seven
runs and a dozen hits and then he
faded away in favor of First Baseman
Konetchy who did very we'll for the
next two rounds
Curtis was easy, but he surely would
not have been so badly beaten had
speed now and then They dropped
flies in the outfield, booted the ground
ers all around the infield and dogged
1T at each and every opportunity. 1t
was so bad that the fans stood up and
Kissed and jeered in the stand and
bleachers. They are not used to that
kind of work.
After getting their start by putting
a run over in the third. the Seals
waded into the game in the fifth and
copped two more. After Davis had sin
gled and Mohler had walked. Zeider
forced Red at the pan. Mohler got to
third and he and Miller worked the
double ,;;tes steal Bliss pegged the ball
quickly registered him by slapping a
nice one to the left field lot
PUT on BIG CRUsHER
This was bad enough but the big
crusher was applied in the next round.
Then the Seals went for four runs and
five hits and Curtis was bowed out of
the game. Everybody on the team
seemed to be for taking ride on the
ball, while the Nationals went star
gazing.
Tommy Tenant started the boys
with two cushion clout against the
right field fence Doyle booted the re-
turn toss and Tenant pulled up at
third. Nick Williams hit one right on
the beak and Tenant arrived. Then
McArdle bingled safely and Davis tore
off a two cushion drive TO left. whic-
on the squeeze. but Mohler got another
pass and Zeider brought him and Nc
Ardle in with right field smash.
This was the finish of Curtis. The
next inning saw Konetchy in the box
and big Chief Myers on first base Ko
netehy t simply put the ball oyer oF + the
only one single was made off him in
the next two innings. His fast ball
was very effective.
SEALS FIELDING POOR
Though the Seals were there 40
ways from the jack with the big stick
their work in the field would not have
won any medals even in a brush league.
All of them seemed wobbly and un-
steady, and but for the grand pitching
of Browning it is likely that the Ma
tionals would have been close up at
the finish. Browning, however, never
faltered, no matter how weak his sup
port was He famed four men and
issued but two passes.
The one run which the big leaguers
did grab was the result of three very
healthy wallops in the eighth. Myers
drove a hot one down to third and
Egan hit the right field fence. Mitch
ell brought the big Indian through by
lacing a great two sacker into the
left field bleachers. The score:
NATIONALS
ABB. R. BH Po. A. E.
Doyle, 2b. ............. o.