The San Francisco call., 1910-06-24

say, but when the bat boy was drag
Eing the willows together and the
crowd was filing out after the game
Happicus, as usual, said wait till to-
morrow" Even if Hogan's prediction
does come true when the visitors and
locals tie into each other again today,
Happy's batting average as a forecaster
viii not be any too fat, though he
stacks up well in the procrastinators'
league.
The Seals practically got the game
In the can and tied down the lid in the
very first inning, and Ping" Brodie ana
his wicked willow were chief factors
IN the canning process. For the seven
teenth time this season the former
meat chopper lifted the ball over the
fence for a home run, and as MohIer
had raped out q two secker a minute
before. Ping" and his captain did a
iockstep across the rubber
There is no denying that Pings"
effort was just such a home run as
Punk Sootawney used TO rap out when
he was the star batsman in the Shot
gun league as the ball cleared the left
field fence by many yards. Pings"
stunt looked so good to one bug that
he offered to wager several hundred
dollars at reasonable odds that Bodie
would make another four sacker be-
fore the game was over. An equally
enthusiastic fan who is said TO be a
mond. called the bet and laid good
roll of bills at to 1 that Ping" would
not duplicate.
NEARLY REPEATS TRICK
Bodie came near winning the odds on
the bet from the hogman in the seventh
when he smashed the ball on the seam
and landed # high up on the boards of
the right field fence. While the pork
merchant was busy holding his breath
and praying that the ball would not go
over the other bug got busy and de-
camped from the grounds with the
stake holder. When the discovery was
mas de the holman raised an awful roar
and called on the police at the grounds
TO arrest the busy bug, but the latter
had apparently gone beyond recall.
Next to Pings" home run, the big
bet and the anguished hog man fur
nished the most excitement Of the day.
But the Seals were not satisfied with
the two runs. so well earned, and they
brought another across in the same
bracket after two men had been
benched. Tenant drew a walk and
took both second and third on Will
liam's out scoring when Fisher, who
seems to be pressing Bonehead Barry
hard for honors, playfully tossed the
- BAH over Hensling's head when he had
plenty Of time to beat Lewis TO the
plate for an out
INITIATES COUNT ZEPPELIN
HensIing acted like a real pitcher for
the next three innings, but I'm the fifth
Whitley" who had been reading about
Count Zeppelin's great aerial flight in
the morning papers, decided to outdo
the German aviator. He did
Before Hensling came back TO earth
the Seals had walloped his weird as
sortment of offerings TO the tune of
four safeties. which were sufficiently
~ iuggled so as to be made into three
runs.
Browning. who had been blsnking the
visitors regularly for seven innings, got
on extremely friendly terms with the
clouds in the eighth, and the Villagers
slipped over three hits and as many
runs. while Danny Long perspired most
10 death.
Hensling connected right off the reel
for q two bagger, but in sliding TO sec
Be- ond was spiked by Mohler. Bracken-
ridge was sent in to run for Whitley,
and the southerner snatched third while
remnant was busy playing soccer with
IN easy drive by Stovall, who landed at
first on Tommy's error. Breckenridge
came home on Fishers single, and
when Tenant again tried to kick a
goal with an easy grounder from Car
isles bat Stovall registered and Fisher
took third Fisher scored shortly atter
on Coy's out
Long lined up about all his pitchers
on the warnup ground so as 10 have
one ready if Browning went wrong
again. But Brownie sent them TO the
bench in one. two, three order in the
ninth, finishing out his game.
A splendid attendance at the game
yesterday shows that the Oakland fans
are strong for the national pastime, no
matter who plays on the home grounds.
AS usual. the majority Of the rooters