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Show OAKLAND DIVIDES HONORS WITH SEALS San Francisco, April 4 Before a big crowd of fans on the Oakland field this morning Wolverton's Seals in a fierce ninth inning rally snatched what was considered a cinched game away from Oakland by forcing over three runs before the bell was rung on the contest. Pitcher Boyd of the Oaks had held the San Francisco aggregation down to four scattered hits through the eight rounds already played, with the score standing 4 to 2 in favor of the transbay team When the rally came Schmidt singled and a wild pitch took him to second. Meloan was given giv-en his base on balls when he came up to bat for Smith. At thin point Boyd was retired In favor of Pitcher Prulelt, but the latter gave Fitzgerald a pass to first, filling the bases with Seals Schaller singled and scored Schmidt. Then It was that Ping Bodle was sent in to save the day. All he was able to do was to strike out miserably Harry Hellmann, of whom nothing out of the ordinary was expected, managed to drop a single in right that scored two runners and won the game. In the afternoou. however, the San Francisco aggregation wound up at the short end of a 4 to 3 game on the home grounds, in spite of the fact that Schaller and Jones put home runs over the fence early in the game. Dutch Klawltter, the Oakland heaver, was knocked all over the lot in the opening frame, the Seals pegging up three runs to the. good, but after that time there was absolutely nothing doing for the locals. They simply couldn't hit the Commuter Dutchman A homer by Ness, two doubles and sl singles comprised the assortment that put over the four Oakland runs The attendance at the morning game was close to 10,000, while In the afternoon ground rules had to be enforced with 14,000 fans overflowing overflow-ing into the back field. |