The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-16

ragged stockton players and held them:
at BAY. though the odds were greatly
against him.
Though the real fireworks occurred
in the second inning, the match was
really applied in the first inning. when
Sandow Mertes, formerly of the New
York Giants and now playing short
stop for Stockton, clashed with Umpire
Smith over, a decision. Mertes was at
the bat and Smith called a strike on
the PLAYER. who argued the merits Of
the decision with the Indicator man.
Nertes used his feet mostly to argue
the point and he kept stepping on
smiths feet with his spikes. He went
TOO far however. as Smith measured
his man with full right swing 10 the
law which sent the Sandow reeling
Following the blow he ordered
Nertes out OF the game.
ORDERED OFF THE FIELD
The ire of the Stocktonians was
really aroused by this time and they
bad fght in their eyes. They never
lost an opportunity to heap ABUSE on
the umpire. and Mertes sat on me
bench with Captain Danny Shay. VINO
was in uniform. hurting remarks me
nagging continued and Smith ordered
Mertes off the field. At this point the
players swarmed around s3l.i.io
r
with a bat and many other members
Of the team followed suit
A special policeman was called 10
suppress the belligerent players, but
attempts TO quiet them went Tor
naught. There were fists flying IN
every direction. One or two Oakland
PLAYERS had been attacked and the rams
from the bleachers swarmed into the
6el6 and mixed up in the affair. Many
persons left the grounds IN rear ana
ii was the most exciting moment that
had been seen on a ball field in many
The benigerent players were ever
rooWered BY others. of cooler heads,
and order was restored. me game
was resumed after catcher hD pc
and Mertes had been ordered from the
field.
THEIR SECOND OFFENSE
This was the second disturbance the
stockton players had caused on the
Grove street grounds. In their pre-
vious series against Oakland across
the bay. Shay and his men pursued
hoodlum tactics and tried TO buldoze
Umpire Jack OConnell, who was
forced TO give the game TO Oakland IN
the opening inning by default. Shay
argued about a decision and ne was
reinforced by his men.
At the conclusion of the game.
Mertes and Frambes waited outside
the grounds for Umpire Smith and
warned him that IL he was at the
grounds today, he would take desper-
ste chances Of being nurt-
the warning did not affect the gritty
indicator man.
The contest was one of the poorest
exhibitions played in some time on the
outlaw field as it was one sided all the
way.
Oakland seemed to go into the game
with determination, after the misbe-
havfOr Of the up country players, and
there was never a doubt in regard TO
the results. The MillerS experienced
one Of the worst beatings they have
known this season.
Loucks was on the firing line for
the Millers. but he was touched up for
seventeen bingles by Nealon's men. In
the opening frame they touched him
up for three hits and they kept making
runs in nearly every other inning.
Doc Moskiman took up the heavy
work for Oakland and the Doc was
working in fine shape. He had the
Slough City performers BANKED until
the ninth inning when they secured
three hits on Moskiman and STAYED off
q shutOut. The score: