The San Francisco call., 1910-09-13
GREGG PITCHES> BUT
BEAVERS CAN'T WIN
Oaks Grab Last Game Of Series Through
Errors of PortlanderS
By JOSEPH MURPHY

Gregg pitched, but Portland did not
win. His fellow teammates fell down
on him woefully, the same way they
have been falling down on the other
pitchers Of the Beavers staff. The big
lsnky side wheeler pitched another
marvellous game. but he did not enjoy
the honors of victory, of which he
was deserving. Oakland got one hit
and two runs, so il is evident from
these figures that z cog must have
slipped some place. The Oaks played
in their usual game style and kept on
battling throughout the affray.
The transbay team gave Pitcher Jack
Lively q lead Of two runs and the Giant
HEAVIER looked after the rest of it. Mr.
Lively was some pitcher yesterday and
while his work was not quite as spec
tacular as that OF the Portland beavers,
still he was steadier and more depend
able Gregg was wild. His curls,
which usually make batsmen look like
simpletons, were not entirely under
his control and eight Of the transbay
batters reached the initial sack with
out an effort on their part, outside of
their keenness Of eye.
At that Gregg got his bearings in the
pinches and waylsid the enemy in time
OF trouble. He was little off in his
work, as he only struck out seven of
at that, but for Gregg il is looked upon
as an nsry-performance
No one would have thought that the
celebration days were over to glance at
the attendance yesterday. A full house
was present, and as usual the crowd
was snt-Portland. the transbay root
ers turning out en- masse.
Their roofing efforts were greeted
with success. A victory meant that
either team had taken the series After
Saturdays game IL did not look as if
there was a chance for Wolverton's
men TO capture the series. but the un-
expected which can be looked for at
any time in baseball happened
Both clubs used their choice slab
men TO rake in the game, and there
were no mistakes in the selections.
That one hit which Maggart CLEANED
Of Gregg was Of the very timid vari-
ETY. little fast fielding would have
nailed the batter, but Gregg was not
fast enough and the bunt went for a
hit
The opening inning saw Portland toss
the game away. Gregg curled one over
10 Maggart. which the feet footed Oak
lander just touched with his bat. 1t
was one of those soft ones which look
so easy. but usually result in hits The
ball was thrown to first and the run
-ner was called safe on an exceedingly
close play. however the referee was
not questioned. for a second later
Rapps dropped the ball. Maggart lost
no time in heading for second and
reached the bag safely. Murray pegged
TO catch the pilferer. but his heave was
2 poor one and it allowed Maggart to
go to third
Gregg then lost his bearings tempo
rarily and allowed Wares to go TO first
on no action. 1t was up TO Willie Ho-
gan. and Willie performed.
He smacked one down to Sheehan
and the best Sheehan could do was TO
get the batter at first while Maggart
scampered home All this time Wares
was hotfooting TO second. Cameron
was waylaid by mysterious benders and
then Olson made a mess of Wolverton's
grounder by fiinging il wildly to first
Wares had crossed the plate with the
second run.
Tt looked bad for Gregg. but he never
tossed It up for a moment. Neither did
Lively. so the game was lost in the
first inning Both sides went out with
unusual regularity. The batsmen
seemed unable TO hit the ball out of
the infield. Portland got hit in the
fourth and fifth innings but they did.
not count for anything
In the NINTH after Fisher went oft,