The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-30

Inc seals can not win ball games
every day in the week, and yesterday
certainly was not their day TO break
snt6 the victorious column. At that
they made a hard tight OF it and rar
the Senators 10 the last ditch, but the
ever necessary basehit was always
lacking save on one occasion. when the
good bat sof Nick Williams produced a
three sacker and saved the home team
from the humiliation OF = white coat
iRf outside of that round the Seals
hsd as much license 10 score as the
dos catcher had Of being elected mayor
q he city.
sacramento deserved TO win on its
merits alone The Senators had the
edge on the Seals in each. particular
line of the game except base running.
and this weakness cost them three or
sour runs They were there with the
y ab and fast in the held, and they had
= pitcher working who seemed to
know the number OF every seal who
faced him in those nine rounds.
That man was Fitzgerald and. while
& bit wild al various periods OF the
game, still. when ne was needed, he
always responded. He had something
on that bail that the Seals never could
self into several holes he manag ed to
pitch himself out again with apparent
ease and dignity He was also handy
at tossing the ball over TO the first
base. catching two Of the boys, Mel
choir and MundOrf, and incidentally
this counted gainst the home team at
the finish
The Senators annexed one in the sec
end round on walk. a bit OF bad
begging and a nice sacrifice fly. But
81 remained for the next round to put
them wei in the lead. After Fitz-
gerald had singled Eastley poked Shinn
in the Stats with a SOW one and Doyle
laid down a hunt which wiggled away
from Berry, making II d fun house
ssith nobody gone.
II locked as though the men from
Sacramento would make SO before they
ollst.- especially as Gandil tore one off
against the right Held fence. This sent
tz and Shfnn through. but Berry
ght -.rhe big first baseman mapping
OF second and Raymer could not ed-
vance anybody, so taking il all in all.
the Seals got by in a very lucky man
uer.
. The only time that the Seals showed
speed was in round six Then with one
down Eastley hit a soft grounder to
Fitzgerald, who tossed TO Gandii, but
I Tlie big fellow made a bad error. This
was the. start. Zeider beat out one of
those high boUncers down to Raymer,
and ere the Senators recovered their
bearings Mundorf got away with a
clean bunt
There was great shouting as Bodie
walked Up but the best he did was
TO force Eastley at the plate, making
the. second out A few of the more
hopeful ones trusted in Nick Williams,
and. rheir trust was not misplaced.
either for the champion pinch hitter
Of the league cleaned off every base
with three cushion swipe against
the right field fence
Il looked as though San Francisco
might possibly make a tight, but the
Senators got on the job in the next
spasm and put the winning run
through Gandil gave the boys start
By lifting two cushioner to the center
feld fence. Raymer hunted him along
TO third and Indian House had the
necessary hit. over second which did
the work.
after that moment there was no
hope. for the. Seals. Fitzgerald settled
down and pitched grand baseball He
seemed 10 spring a new curve every
time Jimmy Williams sneaked in a
bit In TIE seventh inning, but after
that none OF them could touch the
auburn haired boy Outside of Can
dis .miscue the Senator'S played a per-
feet game in the field Score: