The San Francisco call., 1909-04-17
SEVENTEEN TIMES
THEY CHANGE
PLACES
Berkeley and Stanford Battle
in Sensational Game and
u. c. Wins
BY Arthur L. Price

The seventeen innings of baseball
We're played by the teams representing
the University OF California and Stan
ford university is the important, his
toric and heroic fact in connection with
the game yesterday afternoon at
Stanford.
That the University OF California won
by score of to 3 is noteworthy
and essential to the story of the day.
Any team that can win seventeen
inning game is a wonder. and pitcher
who can keep his head and arm for
that long is a marvel. "BilF Forker
OF California is the Berkeley marvel.
But by the same token. any team
that can prevent it's opponent from
winning for so long is famous one
and the fame of the cardinal pitcher.
Bill Thiele, comes in
The two teams played, save one in
ming, Just twice as long as they had
inning baseball is. The conflict was
unprecedented in the history of the
game on the coast.
OF course. the making of the runs
Is an interesting part of the battle;
but the sterile innings, from the
fourth to the seventeenth. when neith-
er team seemed able to break the
force of the other sides defense, were
intense and thrilling periods.
BERKELEY SCORES FIRST
First the blue and gold started it
off. With two men struck out by
Thiele in the second inning, Steel hit
to center. Ganong and Scott could not
get under it in time and Steele made
bingie and Steel trotted home easily.
In the third White picked out a good
one from Thiele and plugged it into
the tall grasses of right field, the
hnO6nn Of 4cIa o.
let the ball lose itself in the embryonic
hay while White sped home and the
small contingent of hooters from Berke-
ley went crazy with sophomore joy.
Then Smith hit to center and made sec
ond base when he should not have
been permitted so much leeway and
score was 3 to 0 for the Golden Bear
to come. out Of his lair and joyously
growl about.
Then Stanford did it's funny tricks.
or rather, the Berkeley boys suffered
a relapse which nearly cost them the
game. Ganong was allowed his base
on pals. He stole second and Mitchell
walked. Then Scott hit the ball to-
ward right field. White. out in the
pasture, was composing poem on
chickweed, and did not know that the
ball was for him. He came to when
and Ganong and Mitchell scored Then
Cadwalader hit to Smith, who made
n his only only bad bad play by throwing wild
" llISlt SlNluS Scout Ills cnance TO
score. The score was then to 3.
1t was the FIRST half of the fourth in
ming.
Immediately the run getting stopped.
There had been foolishness enough for
one day.
The. great diamond struggle started.
Forker. the rangy freshman pitcher
1or California, started to shoot in his
struck out. or hit long bounders into
the lnfeld and retired.
At times Stanford would get men on
bases by luckily placed singles, but
Forker would arise to the emergency
and strike out his man or men. Smith
and Anthony and Lewis handled all the
drives that came their way.
TALLANT ON THE JOB
When the California lads had their
turn at the bat they were as helpless.
They would hit Thieie at times, but
1t seemed that wherever they would
send the ball. Tallant. the seven league
mitted left fielder, would be under the
ball. Nine hard chances and six crit
ical hits did Tallant pluck from the
air, and nine times did he save Stan
ford. He Is more than worthy of the
name; His skill is more than talent
it is baseball genius. What's the use
of hitting said one California player,
when Tallant is out there?"
With the passing of the tenth in
ming the rooters became awe stricken
at the baseball that was being pre-
sehteu. w alter christie, the Berkeley
trainer, crossed his fingers and resorted
to all sorts of voodooism to break the
spell. The fervent Stanford rootars
stood with bareheads while some fa-
vorite batter would step to the plate
and implore with chant and prayer
that he do something to Forker's $
curves. But it was no use. If the ball
was hit there would be fielder in
about this time. The innings succeeded
themselves in one, two, three order.
The. quiet colored end of evening
end had not come. Nearly three hours
of actual play had passed. but the