The San Francisco call., 1913-08-03
BUSH BASEBALL BINGLES
BY BIG BILL

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STAND OF COMMERCIAL LEAGUE TEAMS 11
American Hawaiian Steamship Co III
Z. S. Custom House ooo o
Southern Pacific Co. ...... .Vv
! Western Electric Co...-.-..-..- 80 80
Western Pacific Co. ooS
This commercial league has some publicity
man and rather than spoil such piece of liter
ture By rewriting 1t the Bush Bingles editor
gives the reports Of their last game in toto The
reports are good original stun, and the writer
of them has nothing to learn in the art of slang
from the professional writers of baseball Let
'er .io.s so uontmr v,., -. southern Pacific gang
of ,Jerrys' got out the old handcar. jumped over
10 North Beach and gave instructions TO oil
piece of dusty track with Associated OIL The
wav that the oil team smeared round that
diamond something scandalous Final score.
TO 2.
'sThe u s. Custom sleuths took trip. to
| Golden Gate park and caught the Western Eiec-
busted their kilowatts, arrested their lightning
| arrester and wrecked the joint generally score
TO L.
wireless operators in the vicinity of Lincoln
park, Alameda, startled by hearing frantic
found that the American Hawaiian Steamship
team was fast being dashed to pieces on the
Some literary genius who concocted those re-
ports Come again. feller
The Preside OF Monterey has q good Dali
team which has been cleaning up everything in
sight around the old Spanish town. The success
OF the team in big measure belongs to young
Erwin. who has been pitching high class ball all
the season. He has one no run hit game to
his credit and has been letting his opponents
down with very few and well scattered hits. he
has good control and assortment OF curves,
, with plenty of speed. Erwin has been well sup
ported by his team, which is undoubtedly one
Of the best in the bush TO the south.
X X
Frank Tracey, the popular policeman ball fan.
has taken the Evening Post team for the
balance of the season. Frank has made good as
a manager, and made the Barney Frankels one
of the best in the bush. A number Of his men
that played on the Barney outnt are reported to
be going along with their old manager to join
the new Post team, and Tracey hopes to event
ually have one Of the strongest teams in the
city. He opens his season today against Yount-
vile.
Park Wilson. the st. Marys lad. who has been
eas p he county
| returned to the city. Park will continue his
studies at the. cross bay college, and probably
days.
The U. S. S. Cleveland has a team that Is
credited with being the champion baseball as-
gregation of Uncle Sans navy. The team GER
tainly has record which demands attention
Their list Of e victories and hss only one nsay
the navy boys will hook up with the Twenty
third Avenue Merchants at East Oakland The
team represent
has played the majority of the ~ victories, and
will be as follows: Henry or Morris pitcher;
ek or Sons c.sshsT t5l nrss
center neld; Kaiai second base; Fort, right
field; wettingai. shortstop.
A team has been organized in Livermore under
the name of the Lvernlore Giants The outfit
opens the season % today o on u It's hon home GROUNDS
Doc Moskiman the beau Brummei of Geary
street, Will be on the mound today for Petaluma
against Santa Rosa. at the chicken town patch
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Mn Valley and San Rafael are scheduled to
go three game series. the first game to be
zamolsk will be in the box for Mil Valley and
Lefty Johnson will do the work Tor the San
Rafael boys.
Charlie Street, the former Lowell high pitcher.
has come out In the bush after long layon. He
won his first game for Brown Brothers last Sun
class that made him OF the best pitchers in
city high school circles few years ago.
com,.nX s,sna, eorps. Of tn. national
guards. has just about finished up all their an
nusl military maneuvers, and are now turning
| their attention to ball The corps has good
/ against the S. ]. S. Cubs. Harry Bennesen and
| Seipel will form the battery for the military
| team.
Twelve straight games with lead of four
clear games. puts the First National nine in
class By itself in the Money Counters' league.
| the Bankers league, and both years they have
run up percentage which leaves room to
doubt their superiority in this league
while Joe .Giannini has been mainly respon
ible for most of the victories by his work In the
box. still the work of the whole team at hitting
high standard that It is easy to account for the
comparatively easy victory the team
wen. Fargo. Savings unio6 and Union Trust
teams have all been playing close games with
the result that they are struggling along for the
second and third honors.
| The Mcdonald & Collett team has signed MP
young Roy Bliss OF the California Optical team
| for the remainder of the season.
Frank sullivan, the Mcdonald & Collett cen
ter 6elder, is playing his position as though he
| were born to it. Besides being one of the best
felders ON the team. he Is also making good with
the stick. hitting the cork center regularly with
awful wallop-
| Fitzhenry the elongated first baseman. form
| erly with San Rafael and Sebastopol. has come
back to his odtime haunts at san Rafael; and ID
| popular around Marin county, and Manager All
Barrow will have him out in uniform today.
In the days Of the old Olympic games-B. c.
| the victors were lionzed and hero worshiped
Something Of this came to be the lot Of Brese
4 ".
| against the Panamanians in the tenth. by a
clean swat over the fence when two were down
grese's catching. throwing and hitting have fea-
| tured practically every game this year for San
Rafael
| Y
Sammy Worth has resigned as center field Of
| the San Rafael team and has joined forces with
the Petaluma nine
|
/ Happy Hogan is said to be the whole show up
| at Glen Ellen. The cork center is being badly
| treated By the said Happy.
The naiHng and city departments Of the
PostofHce league today at oceM Shore diamond
| Charlie PasIuhi, the crack Hawaiian twirier,
/ who has been recently transferred to this city,
| VIII pitch for the Mailing division. while Joe
Ginger, known as the Christy Mathewson Of the
! league win do the work for the City boys.
| whitehouse Crosby and Denny IL trio that
has made good with the Oakland Tribunes
Whitehouse bends them over IN great style, while
the other two men showing great work in the
nfeld.
outer cabbage patch for the Ambrose Tailors
today, and Gil Peterson will fill the role Of
| shortstop. In his game last week GIL proved a
regular big Lacquer. pilfertng six bases, crack
4 ing out three bagger and two singles, besides
| feiding errorless game
| Frenchfe Weber. who does the pitching for the
| Court Alden No. PAT team, is proving that he is
| as good q stick artist he is winger. Last
Sunday he hit like fend. and 1t causes
prise now TO see him wailop some poor box artist
| for homer occasionally.
Joe solad's Boyes Springs team lost tough
rame against Martinez last week Victory seemed