The San Francisco call., 1909-10-31
Famed TOssers
En- Route Here
To Play Seals
Fans All Anxious for Glimpse
al Connie Mack's PhIadeI-
phia Americans

Connie Mack, the dean of baseball
managers. win lead his great Philadel-
phia Athletics into this city bright and
early Tuesday morning. and the re-
nowned tossers viii be the guests of
thos Seals at the big benefit game at
Recreation park in the afternoon. The
Athletics come as the advance guard
10 the big league barn storming ag-
gregation that has played from coast
10 coast since the close OF the season
This is the first time in seven years
that an All star National and American
league crowd has visited the coast for
postseries. The last one 10 come
here was the crowd headed by the late
Winnie Mercer whose tragic suicide in
The old Occidental hotel startled the
whole country.
The Philadelphia American team is
one Of the gfeatest aggregations of
IOssers in the world today. 1t was the
1Gnner up with Detroit Tor the Amerl-
can league championship this year and
snd was just nOsed out in the last
week of the great championship race
Included on the list is every player who
fought the battle for the pennant dur
ing the whole season.
Among the most prominent members
ri the crew are two Californians, Har-
~ hrause, the former 81 Mary col
leEe pitcher, and Heine Heitmuller, the
N-Oaklands outfielder Both these boys
took the east by storm this season and
are reckoned with the great big stars
of the American league. .Krause led
1he American league pitchers and is
considered the greatest southpaw n
The business today.
Harry Davis, the veteran first base
man Of the Athletics, is wen known 70
the local fans having played here with
Mercer and his stars. Davis is one of
the few remaining veterans in the
American league. and incidentally one
of the best first basemen IN the busl-
Fn =
= great favorHe all over the eastern
circuit
At second base is the sensational
Noungster. Eddie Collins, who gave Ty
Cobb such a tussle for batting hOnors
in the American league. Collins is a
youth just out Of college, but he IS
rated as one of the best infelders IN
The business. Baker, who plays third,
IS the man whom Cobb spiked, and
This incident furnished one of the SEN
stations Of the season.
Tn the Out6eld. besides Heitmuller,
are Strunk and Oldering, two fast,
clever fieldeTs and heavy hitters. The
other pitchers besides Kra use are the
famous Indian, Bender. Coombs and
Morgan. All of them won their share
OF games for the Athletics this sea
son. Bender is fun biOOded Indian
and has been pitching big league ball
for several seasons.
Thomas and Livingstone are doing
the catching for the Athletics. Like
most Of their teammates, they are also
youngsters, but they have made good
from the start. Outside of Bender and
Davis the entire team is made Up
mostly Of young blood, and the aggre-
cation has been picked by experts TO
win the flag next year, barring accl-
dents.
After taking part in the benefit with
The Seals Tuesday afternoon. the Phil
adelphia Jossers VIII leave for Los An
gelos to open weeks series with the
southerners. in the meantime. the all
star National league club viii arrive
here and open series of six games
with the Seals Wednesday afternoon.
The Nationals play Sacramento tomor-
The local fans viii have a good
chance TO get a line on their champions
when they 90 against the big leaguers.
II they can hold their own with the
Nationals and the Athletics, it goes
without saying that the Coast league
is pretty fast organlzaUlon-much
faster than the eastern critics are will
ing TO give III credit for being.
Called for Rain
PORTLAND, ore. Oct 30.-Rain in
terfered with d sharply contested game
here today between the Philadelphia.
Americans and All-Star Nationals and
necessiJated it being called in the sixth
inning with tie score ! 20 J.
The athletics score resulted from
Collins home g7ln. Doyle's single, fol-
lowed by a sacrifice by Egan and a sin
gle by Mitchell gave the All-Nationals
their run. Mitchell is a former member
or Portland's Coast league team, and
when he knocked the safe hit that
scored Doyle, the audience went wild.
The score.