The San Francisco call., 1910-08-03
Willis PITCHES IN
!. old time FORM
Former Seal TwirIer InVincibIe
:-' 10 Beavers, Who Put Up
BurEeSque Exhibition
By JOSEPH MURPHY

- After taking four games in a row
from the. Seals the Beavers opened
their series with the Oaks yesterday at
Recreation park and tossed a bIoomer.
The. Northern ball tossers played the
game from a: burlesque standpoint and
the Oaks got. their. victory without
much effort. It was astonishing how
poorly McCredie's men ran the bases
and the Oaks made them look silly in
their vain endeavors TO break into the
run column. There was nothing to it
! but Oakland from the start and the
3 Beavers were treated to a thorough
-lathering.
At that Wolverton's men were enti-
tied to=the victory, as they swatted the
bail. more freely than did the opposi-
ton: The transbay players succeeded
IN getting nine -bingles, while five was
the best the visitors could annex The
northerners had one royal chance to
gather in a. few runs, but their swats-
men were not there with the goods
g. Ralph Willis. formerly of the Seals,
twirled in. his old time form. Willis
had "a collection of twisters that had
the Beavers daffy and they were
swinging at the atmosphere through
out the: afternoon in an effort to con-
meet safely with the horsehide.
.HSILl1s-A BEAR IN PINCHEs
: Willis had something on the ball
that: was foreign to Mercedes men.
and they were unable to do any good.
When 1t. came 10 pinch Willis was a
bear: He: frightened. UP and there was
nothing to it: He had everything that
is necessary 10 send team to the
= Seaton opposed willis on the mound
" and the lengthy Beaver seemed to be
experiencing a tough streak of luck
HE pitched fairly good ball. but his
). SUPPORT needed. mending. His team
.Inates fell down on him at the critical
moment and tossed whatever chance
..therec,was for q victory TO the wind.
: However Willis came nearly being
the whole show. as he held the enemy
aunder his control throughout Outside
of the third and fifth frames the Oaks
:: had the contest well in hand. A bingle
or two at various times during the
game would have meant trouble, but
:: tire northerners. were not there.
=. The Oaks returned from their sue
=: .cessful week in the south by getting
.-in the going right off the reel. Seaton
was a :loit unsteady at the outset and
got himself in wrong by passing Ho-
. gan Wares advanced him along by
laying down a, sacrifice. Hogan came
home. on Maggart's long hit to left
field, which gave Oakland the initial
run. =.
The. Beavers fell down on Seaton in
the fifth frame. and though the Oaks
secured four hits off him, two of them
came along after an error by Sheehan
which started the run making.
sSHEEHAN's ERROR COSTLY
After two had gone down Hogan
singled to center. He took second on
an error by Rapps and then Wares
singled to second. filing the bases.
Seaton was in a hole, but he was cool.
Maggart was up and he sent a tan
talizing bounder down TO Sheehan with
which the latter failed TO connect Ho-
gan scored. Wares stole home and then
Cameron came along with a clean sin
gle and Maggart crossed the plate.
The Beavers tried hard to get in the
going. but Willis had them tabled. In
the fourth they had one on third and
another on second and but one down.
but Willis frightened and did not allow
q score.
In the seventh the Oaks put over an
other run by some fast work. The
transbay bunch seemed TO be full of
ginger after their trip to the south