The San Francisco call., 1910-07-27
LONGS MEN ANNEX
INITIAL SKIRMISH
Beavers Look Dangerous, but Fail to
Swat Ball at Right Time

The Seals snd the Beavers mixed in
the first skirmish of the most i'm
ports ut series Of the year at the Va
: Eencis street lot yesterday afternoon.
Once more the home team showed it's
worth, its gsmeness under fire. its
ability 70 take 2 lead and keep tearing
ain the last man was out. There was
no argument TO the setto. San Fran
cisco was there at every turn and took
advantage Of every opportunity, so
the to victory must be set down as
the just due OF the champions.
-. The fans turned out as though it was
"a big holiday event. They fairly filed
: ssp the bleachers and poured into the
grandstand till il looked pretty fat
And they were San Francisco rooters
TO 2 man. a woman and child.
= !. The only friends the Portland con-
tingent had We're a few OF the change
pitchers who did not don their uni
forms bat picked out soft places in the
-grsndstand, from which they viewed
: The combat.
Though the game seemed to be in
the can from the moment the Seals
stuck two runs over in the second
spa SIN. still there was that air of IN
certainty and doubt about it which
held the interest of everybody. Port
land figured dangerous to look upon,
but that was about the limit On a
on bases, and then made 2 lot of noise.
but they could not deliver when hit
meant z run. They were just as far
from getting one at the finish as they
were before the game was on its way.
san Francisco used two pitchers. al
though the first man. Miller. allowed
but one hit and issued only a lonesome
pass in three and a third innings of
the battle. Still. in the fourth when
the Beavers had the bases loaded 10
capacity and a dangerous man. Mar
tinke, at the bat, Cap Mohler deemed
i advisable 20 make a switch, so Sutor
was called 10 the firing line.
Whenever a captain makes such a
move and gets away with il they all
vote him a wise fellow; but had Port
land hammered Sutor all round the lot
for half dozen runs they would have
had another kind of a talk TO ma ke.
but SutOr was there from the moment
he hurled the first ball. so they all got
together and agreed that Mohler was a
smart fellow and great baseball gen.
eraI
- Although the Beavers hit the ball
harder and more frequently they could
not DO any good for themselves This
zSss due chiefly to the fact that the
Seals never made any fielding mistakes
in the pinches and also because Sutor
knew when to allow a bingle and when
70. pitch his head of. Any time a club
gets three doubles and four singles it's
due. 10 tally a run or So
But for the miscues of the visitors
san Francisco might possibly have been
held to lone tally. but errors count in
the game Of baseball just a much as
do basebits and bases on balls so this
IS the answer One error by Fisher and
one error OF judgment by Olson gave the
Sea Is two of their tallies. But IT makes
little difference, for one would have
turned the trick.
The Seals did their best work in the !
second round. when they went for two |
runs. Tommy Tennant led off with a
single 20 right and Bodie tore off an |
accidental sacrifice Madden waited a
usual and was rewarded with a walk |
This made il look very rosy, but Berry |
"a nned, so the cheering ceased.
But at this very critical stage Of the |
proceedings Fisher was guilty of a !
passed ball. He still thought ne had |
a chance to stop remnants onward /
sprint and tossed 10 third, but the ball |
went wide and Tenant raced in with |
the first run. Madden got as far as /
second on the pley McArdle was not
expected TO come through with q clout.
double cross and his single to center |
registered Madden.
That was al till the Seals opened 1
their batteries anew in the fourth /
Then Tenant started again with an /
other drive and Bodie singled to left /
After Madden had famed they nailed |
Tenant at third on an attempted |
double steal. Bodie came on and stole
third Berry walked and they started
a peg would have frozen Bodie at the l