Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1912-06-07

5. F. CALL TAKES
Another SHOT
At SEALS

The San Francisco Call, which has
been making a crusade for better
ball club for the city launched another
broadslde In the issue Of June |. II
will be interesting to all lovers OF
baseball to see whether protest of
the fans, AZ voiced by big newspaper,
can really bring about better condi-
lions When the Seals finally dropped
into the cellar and pulled the door shut
over their heads apparently resigned
to q long session with the wood and
coal, Spike" Slattery. sporting editor
of the Call, tuned up his trusty type
writer and produced the following mel
ody:
At last II has come to pass. The
San Francisco Baseball club has tum-
bed down into the last place in the
Pacific Coast League pennant race. The
baseball followers all over the country
are poking fun ut our city. San Fran
cisco has become n joke on the base
ball map.
The can has already had something
to say about the owners of the club In
the hope that they would make some
endeavor to build up the team and
give their patrons exhibitions worth GO
ing to see The Calls fight was pop
ular and just. but outside of making
the Seals play u couple Of good games,
1t apparently has had little effect
The Call explained in its various
articles that 1t had no dirty linen to
wash: no personal AK to GRIND no spite
against the men behind the ball club
All 1t demanded was good baseball for
the people of San Francisco, who have
so literally patronized miserable
baseball club for the last two seasons.
No Improvement.
For more than week the Call has
kept silent 1t wanted to be fair to
the team and the management. 1t
waited In vain for results, but results
failed. Two new pitchers. Delhi and
Suter, were secured, but still the team
kept on losing.
The. limit was reached yesterday af-
ternoon, when san Francisco dropped
its sixth straight game. Five of these
were lost to Los Angeles on the south
ern diamond, and the other one to the
Portland club in this city last Sunday.
This Is a sorry state of affairs. 1t
is a shame and disgrace. II reflects
upon the greatest all round sporting
city In the world. II shows this city,
the metropolis Of the great Pacific
Coast. to be a jay baseball town, where
its citizens will stand for anything
that "A few tight listed owners care to
feed It, Now, MRS. MlSs, Mr.. and
Master Fan. what's going to be done?
Just as long as the people of San
Francisco keep the great game going
by paying their good money to see
their city made fun of. the men who
are getting rich off the efforts of their
forlorn ball team will not change their
tactics. As all the fans know. they
are playing both ends against the mid
die. The Seals are away this week,
but the Oakland team Is here. The
Recreation Park management uses the
transbay outfit to enrich its Golfers
while the home club Is away gathering
In the money on the road. What a
wonderful game of profit this Is!
1t would appear as though the god
doss of luck Is working hand In hand
with j. Cal Ewing, Frank NJ, Ish and
the others who guide the destlnies Of
the San Francisco team and the Rec
reation Park association. While the
unfortunate, banged up and battered
local aggregation Is being Inundated
by the Angels in the south, they have
Vernon and Oakland, the two leading
clubs of the league, fighting 1t out for
supremacy here before record breaking
crowds