The San Francisco call., 1910-06-27

Happy Hogan belied the handle to
his surname yesterday afternoon after
he and his men had mixed it up with
the Seals. In fact Happy was most
disconsolate, not so much at losing
the game as seeing his pets, the pride
or his heart, made such NUTS of by
Mohler's crew.
But Happy was justified in his feel
ings. 1t was awful Hogan sent two
pitchers TO the mound during the
game. but all Villagers looked alike
10 the Seals. who certainly had their
batting clothes on FOR fair.
Willetts was sent in first for the
purpose OF dragging the Mohlerites
down TO ignominious defeat. Some
sort OF a jinks, however. took
a hand in the proceedings and put the
reverse English on the visitors as
pirations with the result that there
was defeat and plenty of that igno-
minious stuff along with il, but Yer
mons men drew the entire package.
Willetts had the willies all right, all
right He got enough OF a beating
IN the six innings that he worked to
last him for days TO come Eight
hits and nine runs were plucked from
his delivery and there might have
been more Of the former had not Will
let's prevented this by walking six
men
Whitley" Hensling opened the sew
enth on the mound for the Villagers
IN place of Wiilets and the only rea-
son that he did not do worse than his
copsrtner is that the rules of baseball
kindly provide that nine innings shall
constitute a regulation game. During
the three spasms (and spasms is much
more correct than innings in this par
ticular instance) in which Whitley"
l,a kos l,s
sickly attempts for six hits, which
were engineered into five runs Like
his predecessor. Hensling prevented
the local sluggers from fattening up
their batting averages by walking four
men.
SAD SIANDS FOR FANS
Indeed. it was a very sad dish to
hand to the bunch of over 10000 fans
who journeyed 10 the park TO see the
contest. II was a beautiful day for
baseball and the grounds were damned.
but it would have been an act of
providence If a storm had blown along
and chased the crowd out for rain
checks and chance to avoid the agony
OF sitting through the contest.
The third inning saw the beginning
OF the end for Hogans hopes. Stewart
was an easy out at first when Witt
drew q pass, and stole second and
scored on Bodies corking single to
right field. Tommy Tenant came up
and after eyeing one or two of Will
let's alleged. puzzles he solved one
slant by rapping it over the right
field fence for all four of the sacks,
sending Ping in ahead of him. Ten
nants homer was one of the longest
ever seen on the local grounds 1t
looked like il went almost as high as
Paulhan did that memorable day at
Los Angeles, and when the laws of
gravitation came to and got busy the
bsll descended behind the three story
fat on the other side of the street be-
hind the fence. 1t is doubtful IL Swat
Milligsn really ever hit one farther
than Tommy did.
With three runs staring them in the
face the Villagers started TO dog it
as they became as listless as a bunch
Of yenshee boys after a smoke The
big slaughter came off in the fifth
when a combination of two walks,
Bodies two bagger and singles by
Lewis and Melchior netted the Seals
five runs. With eight runs in the fifth
the slugfest went merrily on. Four
more runs We're copped in the seventh
and with one in the sixth and one In
the eighth, the grand total of X was
rung up.
TWO KINDS OF BOUQUETS
There were two individual players
curing the contest whose WORK called
forth special comment from the fans.
but, unfortunately, the comment was
OF entirely different kinds. Stewart
IT was who drew the verbal bouquets
while Happy Hogan got the decayed
vegetables Stewart was superb in his
work. while Hogan was rotten. In
fact. it appears to the followers of the
game that Happy Hogan has seen his
best days as an active ballplayer and
should retire to the bench in favor of
some younger man. Happy has the
right idea as TO the way to play ball
but his execution is all to the bad !
His plugs TO second base were screams
and any crippled turtle that was game
10 try could have gone from bag l to
2 while the visiting ielders were pur-
suing Hogan's awful heaves. It is |
hardly fair TO the other members of |
the team for Hogan to stay behind |
the bat. as there is nothing so discour- |
aging to ball players as to know that !
one man on the team can not be de- |