The San Francisco call., 1909-03-06
White Sox Defeat Seals in
The First Baseball Skin1ish
By William J. SIattery


Charley Comiskey's formidable squad
Of White sox and Danny Longs hope
ful Seals set the baseball machinery Of
1903 a whirring at the Valencia street
lot Yesterday afternoon. The hitless
wonders from the Windy City achieved
the distinction of turning victorious
trick. crushing the local brigade, to 2.
but their initial success was due more
to the erratic work of the San Fran
cisco outfit than TO their own sensa-
tional stunts At all events il was
clean win for Chicago. and it gave
the fans a line on both aggregations.
A big crowd greeted the tossers-
one Of the largest Friday afternoon
turnouts that the city has ever known.
1t showed plainly that the town was
baseball hungry. and that everybody
was roofing for the home team. They
ali wanted that first victory They
yelled and clamored and screeched for
il. and they went away disappointed,
but hopeful for better things today and
tomorrow
Neither nine played the sort Of BAH
. that wins pennants or drives the fans
mad. but it was a good brand for a
starter. Nobody expected that either
team would be capable Of tearing OF
the real spectacular stun after win
ter Of idleness. There were too many
bones 10 be limbered up. too many
muscles to be stretched and too many
eyes 10 be properly trained but with
a few more games like yesterdays the
BOYS promise TO be more like them
selves.
STICK
The Seals did not get away to the
wonderful starr which marked their
essay against the Sox last season All
the fans viii remember how San Fran
cisco won the first game and the sec
ond and many others after that In
fact, the best that Chicago had on the
job could not stop them. They were
bears with the stick and demons in the
field. Every man on the lineup seemed
capable Of slappins Chieago's greatest
slabsters for one or more hits when
hits counted; but yesterday it was diff
ferent
The Seals seemed baffied at the very
motions of the Chicago pitchers. Moth
ing else could have worried them, for
the White SOx slabsters were not there
with anything save a few gestures.
i4iis does not mean that they are not
capable Of delivering the real tWisters
when they choose. but Yesterday was
warming up time only, and none of
them let all the kinks out of their
salary arms.
Al that the windy city stars did not
have il on the native crowd by SO
many points in the bingling business.
Seven hits. only three or four OF them
combined efforts with the mighty club.
Two from the bats Of Pat Dougherty
and Hahn came when men were on
bases and counted more than all the
others Were i not for these .Chieagos $
honor as hitting team would have
been lost. It was not a slugging day
for either Of the teams, and the fans
all knew this.
For three innings Griffin had every
one of the Sox on his staff His con-
troll was perfect. and it looked as
though he would chase them away run
less with any sort of luck. But he got
of bad in the fourth by Issuing a pass
TO the feet footed Hahn. who was
cleverly sacrificed to second base by
Parent in the first bunt Of the game.
SOX COMMENCE TO SCORE
IsbelI. the next man up. lined. a
grOunder at Tenant. who fumbled
badly, leaving both the runners safe.
Pat Dougherty saw il was up to him,
and he celebrated the occasion with a
two bagger between left and center,
chasing Hahn IN. Parent advanced to
third on this effort and a moment later
he, too, arrived as Williams fumbled
Curtis throw to the pan.
There was no change in the layout
until the eighth, when the SoX Went
for two more, which they grabbed off
the offerings of Cooper, the long boy
from Texas, who took up Griffin's bur
den. Mohler threw the ball away at
the base and owen proceeded TO third.
Then Hahn swung in with double to
left and Parent smacked the leather
for single to center and it was four
runs for the SOX, with the Seals still
waiting to break in
Their turn came during the eighth
when Spencer, who was doing the slab
hOnors for the big leaguers, failed to
straighten the kinks out of his good
right wing till the bases were crowded
with walks.
Cooper came up and drove the bal
right into left for a pretty single. Two
men tore home, and il looked as though
the boys had started the big balloon
on its upward flight, but Captain Moh-
Ter, the next man, failed to deliver, so
il ended right there. The Sox put an
other over in the ninth on Cravath's
triple and MOhler's second bad heave
10 third.
The felding by both teams was about
on a par with the hitting. Errors on
easy chances We're frequent and did
much damage. al the players were
slow TO start and handle the ball, anG
the fans could see by the way they
tossed that they were all bit uneasy
about their wings and did not want to
take any chances. The score:
CHICAGO
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