The San Francisco call., 1909-11-19
4 Home Runs
And a Victory
For Athletics
Big Leaguers Get a Line on
Right Field Fence and Then
Simply Murder the Ball

1t took the big leaguers long time
to get the correct lay of that soft
looking right field fence which sur
rounds our neat little ball park, but
oh. my. what they did to it yester-
day! After Harry Davis had cleared
it in the sixth round you could not get
an even money bet that every other
batter with a reputation would not
make four sacker for himself. Just
think of four of them in three innings,
with men on bases twice, and you have
an idea of how the game was played.
Anyhow, the Athletics scooped their
usual victory.
Nobody ever saw such home run hit
ting on the local lot. The big fellows
have been hanging around here Tor near
ly three weeks now, and up to yesterday
none of them could land for homer. 1t
became sort of joke with the fans.
gers did not have a home run left In
any of their bats. But they have all
laid off these thoughts now, The east
ton of the slightest doubt that they
are partial to soft right field fences.
The Nationals were sailing along
earlier stages. Walter Johnson of
Washington burned EN- over the plate
so fast that the Athletics We're beWil-
dered In the meantime. the Phila-
and erratic. The Nationals kept chop
ping the ball down in the grass and
taking advantage of their opponents
misplays. Thus they had accumulated
three tallies when the sixth round was
at hand.
Here's where the right field fence
began to figure very strongly in the
game. Eddie Collins had singled and
was advanced to second when Davis
came along with a wallop over the
right field fence. This made it 8 to 2,
but with the Nationals still one to the
good. They made 1t to ? by land
their half of the inning.
Mcbride almost started riot in the
seventh by connecting for the first hit
he has made since he set foot on San
Francisco soil He had scarcely got
acquainted with the first base ere Pat
Donahue leaned up against one that
took another direct line over the same
old right field fence. Another rally
followed and another run was added,
putting the Athletics in the lead.
They were all sure that the game
was enoed then and there and they
were all ready to go home to supper
without figuring on what Eddie Lenox
might do. He had not been meeting
the ball with much success all day
but he was waiting with a sleeper.
Certainly, it sailed over the right field
fence. just like the others, and 1t was
deadlock once more.
Well. the fans did not know what to
look for after that. They would not
have peen surprised IL one OF the slug
gers knocked the ball through one of
the knotholes in the fence. so when
Baker cleared the right field inclosure
after the manner of his teammates and
his opponents. it oecasioned no great
surprise. The fans sort of expected it.
This mighty wallop finished it up.
In the last innings the National bats
men did everything in their power to
there was no chance. They managed to
get big Cy Morgan in a hole at that.
However, Chief Myers only fouled out
third and second, so everybody went
home.
Both pitchers had plenty of speed at
ing darkness toward the finish, they
were forced to slow down, and this
probably is responsible for the ava
lanche of homers. Look out for. them
tomorrow They are liable to knock
down the houses on the other side of
right field. The score: