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Show SIDEA FALLS BEFOHEHDMEHS Bl CI STARS Wolter and Saier Hammer Circuit Swats; Chicago Heavers Tight ; Sacramento Sacra-mento Has Big Day. By CHARLES DRYDEN. SACRAMENTO, Cal., March 20. A big ' baseball sensation broke loose here to- ; day. Hiram Johnson Jumped his gubernatorial guberna-torial job to play with the Senators at Washington and a busher named Stephens was sent out to pitch in his place. The busher got no farther than the moving tcS? stage. They yanked Stephens for "Vpioer Baum of the Seals and the Cubs trimmed him, 5 to 2, in a corking good game. Mitchell's warriors stung Baum six times and the swats were the kind, that counted. Wolter and Saier knocked homers and the latter got a triple. These blows counted all the runs with the help of Deal's single. Douglass and Hendrix held the Seals to five safeties. Two hits and a pass off Douglass in the fifth produced pro-duced two tallies. Wolfe played a star! game at short. Yerkes was spiked in the j sixth and had to retire. Excitement raged at fever heat throughout through-out the day and until far into the night. Our Cubs came up from the training camp at noon. The Capital city took a day off in celebration of the baseball event. A committee shanghaied the unfortunate un-fortunate athletes of both teams and hauled them around behind an independent independ-ent brass band. Each musician played independently in-dependently of the others when a hind wheel of the glittering band chariot hit a rut. The legislature declared a holiday for itself and the bulging-browed statesmen states-men mingled with the yeomanry to view the passing show. Ideal weather prevailed pre-vailed and the ball park was jammed with the flower and manhood of fair Sacramento. Sacra-mento. According to the local anatomical chart, San Diego must be a bunion. The Cubs' remained here over night, the guests of a band of hardy pioneers who love to spread beneath a chandelier and listen to the drowsy murmur of the spigot. Manager Mitchell says he Is tired training on hot dogs, hot air, beer and bum cigars. ci-gars. A theater party given to the athletes ath-letes and statesmen was a feature of the , evening. Six movie artists and a couple of grafiex guys took pictures while Governor Gover-nor Stephens pitched the first ball. Congressman Con-gressman Curry knocked it over third base. The pitch was a spitter. which his excellency achieved by moistening the fingers of the wrong- hand. Being an expert, we have to be on the lookout for this inside stuff. The congressional swat was the only blow that amounted to anything. any-thing. Saier walloped a triple in the fourth with two men on. Yerkes flied out to center scoring' Saier. Shuffling Phil wKa Koerner In the fifth and Corhan Wfior one base. Maisel put both rurus in -with a blow to left. In the act of stealing second. Maisel- spiked Steve Yerkes on s the hand. Chuck Wortman and 1 his iJcinned heel assumed Steve's job. Harry Tinker ballooned a homer over the' right flHi wall in the sixth1 with nobody on. TheSAoxt three ?nade outs. Hendrix and his Kansas spitter relieved Douglass in the sixth, but Spider Baum kept on pitching pitch-ing within an inch of his life. After two were gone in the ninth, Saier cracked a four-bagger over the garden wa.ll. The Seals collerted one single off Hendrix in four innings. The score: CHICAGO. A.B. R. B.H. P.O. A. E. Mann, cf 4 0 0.1 0 0 Wolter, rf 3 2 2 2 0 0 Williams, If. ... 4 0 0 2 0 0 - lal. 3h 4 1 1 1 1 o Saier. lb 4 2 2 9 fl 0 Wortman. 2b. . . 2 0 1 3 2 0 Yerkes, 2b 1 0 o 5 1 0 Wolfe, ss 4 0 f 2 5 0 Elliott, c 3 0 n 4 3 0 Douglass, p. ... 2 0 0 0 1 o Hendrix, p 1 o 0 0 1 0 Totals .. ..32 5 6 27 14 1 SAN FRANCISCO. , A.B. R. B.H. P.O. A. E. Maisel, pf 2 0 1 1 o 0 Fitzgerald, rf . . . 2 n f o 0 1 0 Ellis. If 3 0 0 2 0 0 Calvo, cf., rf. . .. 4 0 1 2 0 0 Rick. 3b 3 n 0 1 7 0 Downs. 2b 3 0 0 1 3 0 Koerner, lb. ... 3 1 0 15 1 o Corhan, ss 4 1 1 l 2 0 Baker, c 4 0 0 3 2 0 Baum, p 3 0 2 1 0 0 Totals .. ..31 2 5 27 15 0 Score by innings: Chicago 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 15 San Francisco 00002000 0 2 Summary: Two runs, 4 hits off Douglass, Doug-lass, IS at bat in five innings. No runs 2 hits, 13 at hat off Hendrix in four innings. in-nings. Runs responsible for Douglass, 2" Baum, 6. Credit victorv to Douglass' Home runs Wolter, Saier. Two-base hit Saier. Rapes on balls Off Douglass 2; off Hendrixi 2: off Baum, 1. Struck out By Douglass, 2; by Hendrix, 1; by Hauin, 4. Stolen banes Williums, Koerner. Koer-ner. left on banes Chicago, 1; ban Francisco, 6. Time of pi me, 1 hour and 40 minutes. Umpires Hi Id eb rand and Doyle. |