The San Francisco call., 1910-06-20

=. I'm the making Of baseball history the
:N6 gels and the Seals performed the
duty assigned 10 them yesterday in
wonderful style.
Ia the morning they fought it out at
llreeman's park in Oakland for II long
innings to draw. At that time the
:. jsoere was to >. and as the hour had
arrived when the eats were due Umpire
~IFildebrand called the game. In the
= Afternoon at Recreation park nine IN
-~.nings Of sensational baseball were
!. nlaved and the Angels just did manage
=: 10 stick their noses in front and win
by score Of 7 to s.
- 1t was some baseball from sunrise
until the old boy sank in the west
And no wonder the local fans are
- -peeved. For just about u hours Danny
Eeng's hired men managed to stick on
The top Of the league heap, and with
. the afternoon session tucked away
half dozen times it certainly looked as
5 II the Seals would be in command, with
some margin. But the beans were
spilled at the eleventh hour, when the
Angels gathered all the candy.
BECOMES 4 SUGGEST
After the prolonged battle OF the
morning the fans, while they expected
to see a good exhibition Of the national
game, were not prepared for sensations
They expected TO see the opponents
wander on in the even tenor of their
way in what might develop into
pitchers battle. Little did they look
For q slugfest but that was just what
. they received-a whirlwind mixup of
-1ong hits intersperSed with helding
stunts that seemed incredible and pune
Justed with accidents, which. while not
serious, delayed the tremendous strug-
sic.
:-::The game marked the return TO San
Francisco of Pitcher Browning, who has
z. beer with the Tigers at Detroit. He
screwed = royal welcome when he went
into the diamond. It was evident that
*Ihe fans expected "A lot of him and his
famous fade away ball. But before Mr..
Browning got through he found that
-s4he wind played the very dickens with
=. thar slow noater of his, and he was
p: forced to curve them over or use a fast
:ohe most Of the time.
3 Stacked up against Browning was
Ralph Tozer. who found the same diff
- Guilty when he esssyed q slow bird.
= The opening session passed by with
:.oui any Impressions being made on the
-run column. but San Francisco came
:near il when Witt got as far as third
after rapping the first ball pitched for
Z. single to left field. 1t was in the
Seals half Of the second that the fans
IHOuZfL LlldL the local team iicO d SAAt11
on things generally. Melchior and Nc
Ardle raped out a pair of pretty sin
giles to right field. Browning went to
the bat and laid one down to Delmas,
who tossed it TO Howard to cut OF Nc
=. ArdIe 1t slipped through Howards S
glove and il was case of safe all
around. When Captain Mohler leaned
up against one Of Tozers shoots for
two sacks a trio Of runs crossed the
*pan.
!: NO CHANCE TO LOSE
. Z: How could the Seals lose now? No
chancei
II was in the first portion of the
fifth that Browning's puzzling delivery
:. became as plain as an open book
Smith and Tozer tickled the pill so Sc
ra-erely that on each occasion it landed
! IN the crowd in deep center. The
ground rules gave them each two
base hit. Then ii was that Daley and
Bernard followed with singles, and
when the third out came the Angels
o.. had scored two runs. All this hap
. -.pened with two out and even then
they did not look at all dangerous.
= IL was in the eighth inning that the
visitors sprang into a good lead. Ber-
3 nard raped one at MOhler that took an
unexpected bound and hit him Jeffries
5olt in the left eye. 1t was hard hit
ball and il was fortunate that. il bound
cd away. a sort OF EldnClnE blONs OF
else the little leader would have been
laid out Both Howard and Dillon beat
out bunts while two errors. one by
Witt and the other by Browning, al
lowed three runs to come over the
rubber.
1t was up to the Seals TO overcome
that two run lead in their half, and
they did il amid intense excitement by
Walloping Tozer's delivery all over the
8 lot Bodie, Tenant and Lewis tore off
brilliant singles 10 right field, and on
the Tenant drive Bernard and Howard
ran into each other and the former was
knocked out temporarily Melchior
came through with his second basehit
of the afternoon and three runs were
added to the Seals score. That crowd
was in the extreme height of jubila-
tion and they almost tore the grand
stand down.
There was a hasty consultation on
the Angel bench. and it was decided to
send Waring in to hit in Tozers place.
T.. They were apparently grasping at a
straw, for the Seals were in command
> by 6 TO 5 score. Waring took kindly
TO a curve of Browning's and hit safely
F. into center field Then followed two
outs and the game seemed safe. But
Howard wandered to the plate and
laced out a darby to left field. Dillon
followed with a drive to center and
both Waring and Howard crossed the
rubber. The Angels had scored their
seventh tally. The Seals retired in
.-ane, two. three order with Wheeler in
ihe box. and Colonel Berry tucked away
the game.
The finish was heart breaking. a
rlther unwelcome climax to sensa-
uonsl afternoons sport from the
standpoint Of the local fan. After the
a., oracial scorer had dug the dust out of
his eyes he prepared the following his
tory Of the catastrophe:
AFTERNOON GAME
Los ANGELES