Enthusiastic crowd watches San Mateo trim Alameda Elks by 6 to 3 score at City Park

August 14, 1927-By Jerry, The San Mateo Times
Before the most enthusiastic crowd of fans that has sat on the bleachers and in the grandstands this year, the San Mateo Blues defeated the fast going Alameda Elks, by the score of 6 to 3, and thereby made their string of straight victories count up to sixteen.

It was one of the best games seen in the park for a long time and was as full of long hits as a good game of baseball should be. Five doubles, two triples and two home runs, twenty men out on flies to the fielders kept the air full of balls for the hour and fifty-five minutes of play.

Camozzi Great
Camozzi did himself and the San Mateo Blues proud by his performance yesterday afternoon. He slapped out a home run and three singles, allowed but five hits and struck out nine of the heavy hitting Bills. At no stage of the game was he in any serious trouble, and he received almost errorless support.
Shultz seemed to have cast a spell on the bats Tommy Randazzo was swinging, for he failed to get in the hit column out of four times at the plate. Tommy has played 17 games with the Blues this year and this is only the second time he has failed to get on the honor roll, the other occasion being the first game at Santa Cruz, when Martin had him guessing.

New Star Twinkles
Instead of going to some distant spot to pick out a fielder to take pesty Bertram's place while was on vacation, the directors of the Blues went over to Darcy's Sport Shop, asked to be shown the best the had in stock and "Big Bill" Lawrence was pulled down off of the shelf and passed around for inspection. He was hired without a question and if the work he put on yesterday is a sample of what he can do the directors have a find in their selection.

Lawrence fielded his position like a veteran, taking six chances without a bobble, and clicked out a triple and a home run out of four times at the plate. His hip pockets are a short mile in the air, judging by the way he gets across the field and around the bases, he must wear seven league boots. San Mateo fans who did not see him in action yesterday missed some fine ball playing but they will be given another opportunity next Sunday when he will be shifted to right field to give Al Silva's "Charley Horse" a chance to mend.

Hatters Coming
Next Sunday the Blues will play the Lundtrom Hatters and they have beaten the Burlingame Bees, some heavy stick work may be necessary if the winning streak of the San Mateo pets is to continue. If the heavy work should become necessary Big Bill may be counted upon to do his share. The Blues directors were a long way from being asleep when they signed up the elongated fielder for the balance of the season
The visiting Elks put up a fine grade of ball and it had not been for the excellent pitching of Gene Camozzi and the heavy timely hitting of the Blues the result might have been different, but those two obstacles are pretty hard to overcome.