The San Francisco call., 1909-08-13

It's bad policy to leave a ball game
until the last man has been put out
of the way. Many fans have got this
habit lately, and many of these were
cured of it. yesterday. The Senator'S
furnished splendid object lesson on
this particular phase of the game. They
impressed it strongly upon the minds
of everybody at the ball park. and
now perhaps they will all remember it,
Any time a ball team comes on and
ties up the score in the ninth by maxi
ing four runs after two are out and
then wades in and wins in the tenth,
it deserves to be looked at while 1t has
a man on the field.
This is the way those Senators went
after the gaff yesterday. Such a finish
has not been seen on any mans ball
field for many a moon. Apparently
they were through. That is, most of
the fans thought SO, and began to
figure out that Oakland was making 1T
five straight games. They had the
Commuters percentage all figured out
in their minds. and they all felt sorry
for Sacramento. A to / beating
looked bad.
After the Oakland infield had exc
agan took walk and House bit off a
single to left. Nobody thought much
of this, however, for two were gone.
Even when Heister took advantage OF
the wildness OF Boice and was passed,
filing the bases, the fans did not
worry. Just a few of them frowned
as Boice hit Graham in the Stats in
stead of putting the ball over, for this
forced Flanagan through
But the worst was to come. Here
the Senators were with three eager
Graham wisely off1ced Heinie lansing to
take hold of the big stick in place OF
Ehman. Bingle. The first one that
Boice tossed Heine slapped squarely
on the beak, dispatched it out between
right and center for a double and
cleaned off every bag.
Such a wallopl Ere the fans realized
that the trailing Senator's had taken
a speed capsule, the score was tied up
all. There were wild cheers of de-
light from the Senatorial bench, while
a pail of gloom spread over Billy Reidy
and his Commuters. They had the
game sewed up in the sack. yet their
pitcher got weary and allowed the
enemy to sneak four across on him.
But the lighting spirit was still burn
ing in the breasts of every Senator.
They all came up full of pepper in the
ninth. With one to the bad, Gandil,
Myers and Flanagan all bingled in a
row, filing EN- up once again. The
Indian was also there, for he raped
hard drive into the right garden
on which Gandil came tearing home.
Here little frisky work on the part
of Myers robbed the Senator's of prob
ably a flock of runs. He was caught
mapping between the bases. But Heis-
ter the next man up, drove a grounder
to Terry McKune. and the Oakland
shortstop made a bad peg OF it after
gathering the ball in nicely enough.
This gave Flanagan q chance to regis
ter. making it two for the inning.
The Commuters had no come back
All of them were suffering from head
aches, heartaches, or frozen extremi-
ties. Jimmy Whalen was called in to
take up Ehman's burden, and he did his
work well. Carroll got his fifth hit
in the ninth, but was crushed while
others were glad to be retired. That
rally beat them all.
Up to the sensational ninth Boice
pitched a splendid game and the men
behind him worked like so many well
oiled pieces of machinery. They seemed
to be able to take a ride on the OFFER
ings of Ehman any time they pleased,
and nobody ever thought there was
any danger. But the old motto. "A
ball game is never over till the last
man is out" held good once more.
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