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Show i WHITE SOX TRIM COAST PLAYERS By R V LARDNER San Francisco. March !. -The Sox cleaned up today artistically and fi-nanciall'. fi-nanciall'. They played a came on each side of the bay and won them both before crowds that would have done credit to some big league towns we could name but won't. They trimmed trim-med the Seals this afternoon. 3 to 2, and fairly slaughtered the champion Oaklands in the morning, 9 to 1 The attendance at the Oakland battle bat-tle was estimated at between 5000 i and 8000, and Recreation park was stuffed in the afternoon. It is 6ald hereabouts that the Seals plant holds 10,0000. If this is true, there were 10,000 present, for there was no ioom for more without putting them on thp field of play. It was the biggest mob wo ever looked at on a trainin; trip The Seals put up a stubborn fight and were evidently encouraged by Saturdays Satur-days victory They were threatening 'o tie up the score in tho ninth and Lefty Mog-rldge Mog-rldge had' to pitch for all that was in him to avert extra innings or worse. But Mr. Howard -ao thank 1'mpire McCarty for one of his club's runs and one was a great deal under the circumstances. When bi Ed Walsh had pitched four innings, as advertised, adver-tised, and had left the Coast leaguers with just as many tallies as they had before the game started, Mr. Mog-rid?e Mog-rid?e was tailed on to tackle "em. In the fifth and sixth he was Just as effective ef-fective as the Moose had been But Roy Corhan started trouble for him J when, with one out In the seventh, he pulled a double to the left field fence. ("artwrlght sent a slow bounder, down th? third base line. Before it came to the bag It took a hop out- ' ward to foul zround, and thero Harry J Lord picked It up and prepared to 'oss It back tc the pitcher. It was several seconds before the Sox realized that I the lilt had been called fair, and the I next tjeaJ letter, Schmidt, was so sure It was foul that he had to be coaxed to come up for his turn. The Chicagoans said a few things to Mr. McCarty, bnt nothing convinc-1 ing enough to make hfm change his rulinK Rath and Weaver then figured In a play that was a peach and came near to being a double killing Schmidt hit a sharp liner to Rath's right Morris scooped It, and shot it high to Buck. The latter leaped In the air, stabbed It with his elove, touched second and pegged toward Roston at first, but his shot was also hiKh, and Babe could do no more than j stop it. So Corhan's run counted and the Seals were one behind, for the Sox had gathered two tallies off the lame Delhi's offerings San Francisco tied In the eighth, when Hoffman walked, got around to third on two oitg and scored on Ho-gan's Ho-gan's single. The big leaguers were j very much opposed to extra rounds j on a double-header day, and in the ninth they regained a margin of one and held it. Sox Seconds Win. p i Los Angeles. March 9. The second team of the Chicago Americans made It three out of four in the first series of the pre-season training games by blanking Los Angeles, 12 to 0. today. Bodle ami Kernan made home runs, while Fournier, the recruit baseman of the big league, again starred with three hits in four times at bat. His batting average for the series is .778. The score R. H. E. Los Angeles . 0 6 4 Chicago 12 lo o Batteries Drlscoll. Rogers, Hoffman Hoff-man and Brooks. Scott and Gossett. |