The San Francisco call., 1910-09-11
BEAVERS OUTCLASS
COMMUTERS 2 TO 0
Garrett Has Everything on the Ball
From First to Last
By WILLIAM ]. SLATTERY

The Beavers beat The Commuters TO
10 finish yesterday afternoon and
there was no doubt about the finish
either. Portland had the game signed.
scaled and ready for the mail all the
time. 1t looked to the fans as though
the transbay batsmen were simply
wasting their time in coming up 10 the
plate They never could do any good
for themselves and the harder they
tried. the more foolish they looked.
For straight, clean cut, matter. of
fact sort of a ball game it could not
have been beaten. Every man on each
team seemed to be doing his duty as be-
came, gentleman and a ball player.
ShortstOp Olson Of the Beavers commit
ted one boot, but il was on a very hard
chance and none or the fans can have
The heart TO hold this against him be-
cause Olson has played wonderful ball
an week. Anyhow, this little misplay
did not even advance an Oakland bats
man single base. so il might as well
be omitted from the errors
CROWD FILLS PARK
The carnival spirit again reigned su-
preme at The contest and they filled up
the park long before the first ball was
pitched. 1t looked like a regular Sun
day crowd. AS usual. they were with
the under dog, which was Oakland and
as usual, most Of the cheering was for
the Oaks after the Beavers had taken
hold OF the two runs which won the
game for them and gave them one to
spare. Extra innings would have been
welcomed but there was not even a
chance 10 think about them. Garrett
was too effective.
The Portland pitcher seemed to be
doing nine tenths Of the work OF the
Portland team. With his spit ball
breaking right and the men behind
him capturing practically everything
which came their way, Oaklands doom
was sealed early in the game. The
crowd however could not take this
view OF 1t and every time an Oakland
man got on base. mighty yen went
Up.
Garrett never allowed more than one
hit in any one inning. The Oaks tapped
his offerings safely in the second. third
fifth, seventh and eighth rounds, but
these were merely teasers. Whenever
any OF them found their way to FIRST
Garrett always had something on the
ball and he always started it at the
crucial moment. He was never worried,
never in doubt
WORKS WELL FOR BEAVERS
The only runs Of the game showed in
the second spasnl. and the old two out
business worked well for Portland
with Sheehan and Casey through. Will
ais hit Rapps IN the Stats and Fisher
followed with q two cushion shot out to
left field which was good enough for
Rapps to ride home on. Ort also had
the batting spirit, laeing the leather
against the right field fence This was
long single and Fisher deftly regis
tered on it.
From that time on. it became pitch
ing duel between the rivals in the box
Garrett and Willis. The latter probably
was calling himself down all the time
for connecting with Rapps' side with
that slow one. Had he pitched the ball
over the plate the chances are that the
runs would not have scored.
But for a couple OF lucky though
nevertheless clever ielding stunts. the
Beavers surely would have stuck two
or thre more runs over the pan. With
one down in the seventh, ,Rapps planted
Two sacker in the left garden. Fisher
hit one of those low, rakish ones down
the first base line. Cameron just barely
managed to spear the ball with one
mitt and il was of.
Although most Of the fans were for
Oakland first. last and all the time. Still
they could not help admitting that
Portland displayed the class. the ag-
gressiveness and the ability throughout.
The mistake of the Oakland pitcher
gave the Beavers the opportunity and
they embraced in without the loss OF an
instants time. That's the story Of the
game in brief Score:
PORTLAND