The San Francisco call., 1910-06-13
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straight series they have played, and-
this showed the champion Seals down
into third place and landed the Oaks
second. but one point behind Portland
IN the race for leadership. That Oak
land must now be recognized as an eX-
tremely dangerous contender for pen
nenL winning hOnors is obvious. The
Seal rooters have been trying TO make
themselves believe that the oaks have
been playing lucky bali to win so con-
sistently. but tho series Just finished
lias forced on them the conclusion that
WolVertOn has great ball team. With
one or two exceptions the entire Oak
land team is hitting the ball hard and.
in spite Of occasional spots Of bone
? headed base running, they are getting
the requisite number Of runs over the
plate.
PLAY FROM FIRST
For the first four innings neither side
scored, but there were plenty of
chances for both teams to register with
little luck. The Seals had a man on
third in the first period. and the bases
filed up in the third but Wolverton's
men played ball right along and there
was nothing doing.
In the fourth the Oaks had the bags
nlled mp, but this time the Seals showed
the class and prevented any scoring.
Nelson's spectacular home run came
an LlE uELl. UuA the nearest 10 any
further scoring for the Oaks was in
the eighth. when Wares worked his
RTas around to third. but was left there.
. The Seals lone tally came in the
- seventh. Stewart leaned against one of
p Nelson's shoots for two bags and took
third on Bodies inheld hit, scoring
shortly after on McArdle's out. Cut
shaw 10 Cameron. Henley got away
with an inheld hit, but outs by Witt
and Mohler retired the side.
To help out in king the day really
exciting, the opposing teams engaged
in a long winded wrangle over a de-
cision by Finney in the fourth, which
caused Field Captain Hogan to notify
the official scorer that he would pro-
test the game in the event of Oaklands
losing. The play is OF interest in that
il has happened on a former occasion
this year and has been much talked
about.
SQUABBLE ONCE MORE
Wares was on third, after having mit
safely. been forced TO second on Cam
eron's walk and taken third on Swan
der's single. Cameron was on second
and Swander at the initial bag. with
Hogan and Maggart out. Christian
was batting and had three balls and
two strikes called, when Wares started
- TO steal home. Henley put the ball over
the rubber. and as il was very low
Christian started for first thinking that
he had been walked. Finney called
Wares out at the plate. as he was
touched by Berry.
Wolverton hobbled onto the field and
made much noise, claiming that Henley
had made q legal delivery and that
Christians walking had forced Wares
home for q run.
Finney in explanation held that Hen
icy had stepped from the box as Wares
started to steal and thus made a play
10 catch Wares. at the same time unl-
Ifying his delivery TO the batsman.
There is no question that Finney was
correct. providing Henley stepped from
the pitchers box before throwing TO
Berry. The dispute centered on whether
Henley had really stepped from the box.
No protest will be fled on account of
the Oaks winning.
A laughable feature after the game
was when Danny Long went out TO in
spect the hole IN the wire netting
where Nelson's home run hit went.
Danny found that the wire had been
broken SO as TO afford an open space
about as large as a dinner plate through
which the ball passed. There was not
another break in the netting anywhere,
so Long started in 10 talk about Oak
land having horseshoe. Had the ball
not found its way through the hole the
hit would have been good for but two
bags Long Immediately notified the
ground keeper TO see that the hole is
mended before the next game is played,
but this Is a shining example of lock-
ing the stable door after the horse has
been stolen
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