The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-08-31
SENATORS DOWNED
IN OPENING GAME
Commuters Find Stride and Then It's
Good Night for Sacramento
By WILLIAM ]. .sLATTERY

The oaks took the Senators into.
camp yesterday afternoon in the open
ing game of. the series, just as most
everybody expected they would. II was
soft enough for the Commuters once.
they. swung into their stride. The UNI
fortunate bunch from the capital city
played. without life, ginger or system.
There was nothing in their work that
would have caused anybody to sit up
and cheer wonder about it Sacra-
mento evidently got into the game with
the idea of being knocked down. and
nobody was at ali disappointed.
At lnat,. the contest was a nice, clean
cut, smart exhibition. The errors were
few. but costly. Good healthy base
hits aided most of the runs over the
plate The helders were busy all dur
ing the game picking up hard ones
and heaving the runners out. Oakland's
work was especially brilliant. though
the Senators. were close behind them
for honors on several occasions AS
usual, Sacramento could not bunch its
hits when hits would have broken up
the game Most Of them came at the
wrong time.
Pitcher Charley Baum had just one
bad spell, and this came in the sixth
inning Third Baseman Beardman was
responsible for the Oakland start He
booted q ~grounder from the bat of
Pitcher Harkins and the pitcher got as
FAR as second base, Baum came right
back. however. and struck Maggart out,
so ii looked as though he would get
by without suffering seriously.
BAUM HAS BAD SPELL
Right here he lost control Of the bali
and passed Hogan. This was bad
enough. but when his curves refused to
bend properly and Cameron drew a
ticket, the whole army of Sacramento
rooters fairly groaned. They saw trou-
one NJ i down ci's passes ''~oeo and only
Capatn Wolverton picked out a nice
one winch he smashed. into the center
garden, and Harkins arrived a. the pan
Before Baum could get a good line on
Cutshaw, the Oakland second baseman
had laced the ball out between left and
center fields. They al started. and
Hogan and Cameron finished. This was
three runs in three minutes and proved
enough for Oakland.
The Senators had one little rally OF
their own in the seventh round. the
round when sensations generally are
unloaded. Boardman gave them a start
with a two cushion drive against the
eenter~iield fence. Briggs followed with
s hard one. to second which was TOO
hot for Cutshaw to handle conveniently.
Boardman landed on third and Mickey
La Longe responded with long ay to
Maggsrt on which Boardman easily
registered. Baum followed with an
other drive, but IL came too late to do
sny good.
Harklns showed his ability as a stick
CT in Oakland's half of. the same spasn.
lie caught Baum unawares and sneaked,
in a two sacker on the Sacramento
pitcher. When Maggart bowled one
right over second base, the Oakland
twirler took a chance and sprinted to
the plate II was easy enough for him.
because Van Buren's toss was a very
poor effort.
PITCHERS SHARE HoNoRs
Outside OF these two innings the rival
pitchers shared most of the honors be-
tween them. Their work was great and
they had the fans cheering and roofing
Tor them all the time. But for his one
little siege Of unsteadiness. Baum fig
ureo TO mold the Oaklanders to at least
one run Those two bases on balls
which he slipped TO Hogan and Cam