The San Francisco call., 1910-09-04

some time before granting It,
The Invincibles were composed OF
Joe Fishers crowd while the Rangers
were a rough nine made up Of the boys
who worked in Factoryburg, a manu-
featuring town up the river not far
from Frank Williams home in Prairie
willie.
The Invincibles won the first game.
played at Factoryburg earlier in the
summer, mainly on account of Frank
Williams baseball generalship While
Frank was not member OF the team
he was favorite with his cousin Joe's
city friends. largely because OF the
quallty of leadership by which he had
led them successfully through many
an exciting adventure-and particular
ly In that great game at Factoryburg
EVERY Kind Of unfair advantage had
been taken by the Rangers in that first
game, besides one of the Invincibles'
players being deliberately spiked The
others were more or less battered in
the riot that followed after the game
80 there were good reasons for hesita-
ton on the Invincibles part.
AS Frank learnedly called it. "a pro
tracted correspondence now ensued'
between Captain Norrie Hicks Of the
Invincibles. and Captain Clink sSulli-
van of the Rangers. Captain Clink
had the assurance to want the game
TO be played at Factoryburg, while
Norrie. held out for the city. Each
side was so suspicious of what might
be in store for it that deadlock re-
suited which Frank finally broke by
onerfng the neutral grounds Of the
County league park at PrairieviIle.
which he could secure free
This offer was accepted, as there was
further advantage. in the fact thai
hot
either nine could have commanded
The suspicion and distrust with which
each nine regarded the other, however
caused lot more squabb1ing by mail
particularly over the umpire question
Finally, In order that no possible favor
itism might arise, it was agreed to
have two umpfres. They were to alter
nate in box and field decisions every
inning and were to be noncontestants
Each was to have absolute authority
over whichever part of the diamond he
covered
OF course, the game was widely ad-
vertised about Prairieville, particular
ly as most of the Juvenile element
knew of the riotous first game So
when the Invincibles arrived from the
train on the Saturday afternoon of the
struggle they were greeted by a big
crowd. They also took the precaution
to bring their billygoat mascot. Buck.
He did not usually travel. but this was
too important a game to leave him
behind.
Frank had been chosen beforehand
as the Invincibies' umpire. Babe"
Mccarthy, young Factoryburg giant
was the Rangers choice. He glowered
at Frank as they reluctantly shook
hands. and Frank somehow wasn't fa-
vorably impressed.
The gong sounded. The game began
with the Invincibles in the field. as
they won the toss and chose to bat
last. Nothing exciting occurred during
the early innings, so I'll skip them.
No fault could be found with either
umpire. Each side played fine ball, not
a run was scored and nothing unusual
occurred until the first half of the
fifth.
Then Charley Woodward. the Invin-
cibles pitcher, knocked down" a line
drive. He dropped the ball, slipped in
recovering It, but managed TO toss 1t to
first. beating the runner by a foot.
"Safe!" yelled Babe" Mccarthy 1t
was his first raw decision, and it re-
suited in presenting the Rangers with
run, as two singles followed. The In
vincibles went out in one. two, three
order as big Barney Jackson, the
Rangers box man." had his pitching
wing" in prime form. This left the
score at the end of the fifth inning:
HaaigeTb 1nSiggeiSles es.....SS ..........S 9 9 9 ID
: But IL Frank and the members of the
team were willing TO give Babe the
benefit Of the doubt as to his good in
tentions an incident occurred in the
seventh inning that was very peculiar,
to say the least. and yet what could
they do?
They had got on to Big Barney at
last Carl Jones led OFF with a grass
burner that sizzled through short for
a single. Norrie Hicks advanced him
to second with clever sacrifice, the
next man UP singled. and then Char
ley's fly to right advanced them each a
base. and the Inyincible fans howled
themselves hoarse. Two men on bases
and only one out! But the next batter
struck out. Then Joe Fisher came to
bat.
Now Joe had a habit OF throWing q