The San Francisco call., 1910-11-21
Blue PAIL Hangs
over The DIAMOND
Police Pitcher Burns the Air
With Speed and Arrests
Opponents Scoring
Cffy's BrsVeSf BUHgIe Badly and
Finest Finish One Run
Ahead
By w. ]. SLATTERY


The pride Of the city's brvest was
humbled and dragged in the dust al
Recreation park yesterday afternoon
10y their arch rivals, the finest. Though
beaten. the'fremen were\far from out
classed. They lost by a lonesome tally
and they We're fun Of fight even al
the finish In fact, a little base hit
would have given them the battle, but
FL did not come through, so the game
was over.
Recreation park never before saw
such a crowd as the one which turned
out TO greet the municipal BAH tossers
About 10000 OF the admirers of both
teams were there, accompanied by
e-ery piece of noise producing machin-
cry known 20 the twentieth century
The racket kicked up byCaNfornia and
stanford at their recent intercollegiate
football game was like a husky whis-
per compared 10 that which issued from
hecreatiOn park yesterday afternoon
was strong enough to carry to Goat
Island and back again.
HISTORIC COMBAT
There was nothing lacking TO mark
this diamond contest as historic
event True TO his promise. Mayor Nc
earthly was there 10 toss the first bal
over the plate. And the mayor showed
that he was no kid gloved. silk stock
ing performer. either. He just ripped
of his coat. made a few big league
passes with the bali and away IT sailed,
fun OF benders and twisters. Then the
battle was on for two hours
The mayor was only one Of the many
dignitaries who graced the occasion
The memers of the police and the fire
commission Were there in boxes, root
ing like real live fans for their teams
Then there was Chief Murphy Of the
IRE department. and Cap Gleason, all
duded UP I'm his full dress uniform to
do the hCnOrs for the cOppers.
Half an hour before the game the
teams marched across the field while
the overflow crowd cheered itself
h0arse. Accompanying the tossers were
their little mascots. Miss Babe" Steu-
art for the fremen and Miss Tahiti
Smith for the policemen These girls
are two Of the cleverest ball tOssers OF
their sex in the city and they got right
into the game and warmed up with the
players.
FIRE RIOTERS STRONGEST
The fire rooters outnumbered those
who We're shouting for the coppers
probably because firemen have no Of
fetal power to escort citizens on ex-
cursions in the municipal carryall. But
the police rooters were good ones al
that and they made plenty Of noise
The 7remen. who probably have been
used to playing with the life saving
nets. appeared TO be a bit foreign to
big league outfits. The way they
booted that ball around for the first
four innings was terrible. Poor old
Tim Harrington. the father Of the
team. suffered more heartaches and
headaches than ever before in his ca
reer. And the best he got was the
tsunts and seers Of every copper
within earshot. Poor Tim must have
, eyed at least four years in those four
innings.
The coppers gathered practically all
their tallies on errors. The firemen,
particularly Dave Levy on first base,
were awful. They could not stop any
thing that skipped over the gra ssy
surface and il looked as If the coppers
would break the worlds run getting
record. before they finished with their
unfortunate opponents.
All this time Southpaw Shea was
pitching grand ball for the firemen.
He was a bit wild at times, but the
way the infielders were working be-
hind him was enough to drive any
pitcher mad. Poor Shea. The sympa-
thy Of everybody was extended to him
but the fremen rOOters were saying
other things about Levy whenever he
would let one get by him.
The coppers went for six runs in the
first four innings. The opening round
and the second produced one each
sE-sile in the third and the fourth four
more We're added 10 the grand total,
all of which caused the coppers to swell
up with pride and incidentally TO be-
come a bit careless. Also this care
lessness came very near costing them
the game in the later stages. but they
rallied in time TO save their lives
FITz Is A BEAR
Pitcher Fitzpatrick for the police
men was a bear at the outset He
seemed 10 have the sign on every one
~ the bravest. and not until the third
inning did they get a man over the
iUrIps. Then Carter, who took the
pl--e Of Dubs, who was hit on the
lead by 2 pitched ball. got on. and
aided by a bingIe and a clever steal
he broke in with the tally which gave
the knights Of the hose their start.
And what a volume Of noise went up
1 from the stand and bleachers when
hs4af tally WAS registered.
Another fire fighter found his way
10 the pan in the fourth. and more
noise resulted. Then there was a lapse
until the eighth, when Carter and
CuneO got on by a hit and an error.
The coppers went skyward long
enough 10 allow both men TO come
home Levy managed to square him
self in the ninth by beating an infeld
hit and dashing home on Birdselrs
boot after being sacrificed by Connors
There was great excitement after this
The fremen needed only one more tally
20 tie IL up. It was up 10 Woke TO do
some good for his team, but Fitzpat-
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