The herald., 1893-06-24
THE ANGELS WIN HANDS DOWN,
Borchers in the Very Best
Form,
And Holds the Visitors Down to
Four Little Hits.
A shnt-Out Should Have Resulted but
for a little wndnsss-A Peculiar
Double Play and How 1t
Came About,

How many people are there in Los
Angeles this morning who are wondering
what it all meant? A great many peo-
pie are puzzled and more don't know
where they are at; but for all that it
wac pretty play, and one that indicates
the possession of think-tank by one
unfedged Angel.
II was ladies' day at Athletic park,
and Borchers was selected to pitch the
game for the home team. The ladies
were there in numbers, and Borchers
pitched an exceptionally good game.
All this served to jolly up the fans on
the bleachers, and taken altogether it
was a great day at the park. But the
great play occurred in the last half of
the second inning. There was not a
nephew out, and three of them were on
bases. A pop fly was sent into the air,
and before anyone could tell what was
being done two men were out.
How this all happened will be told
ater.
The Angels didn't do anything in the
fret inning but earn four runs. Rasty
and Hulen found nice little singles, and
McCauley's sacrifice advanced them a
station. Hutchinson hit TO Power. who
could have put the batter out. but pre-
ferred to catch Rasty at the plate. This
failed. however, and Glenalvin's three
bagger did admirable execution. Lytle's
sacrifice scored the local field marshal.
San Francisco broke the ice in the
third inning Borchers allowed Levy
and Carroll to walk to first, and Gleual-
WINS error filled the bases. Ebright
then hit slow bounder that Hulen
could not handle in time to cut Reuben
off from the plate, but caught Carroll at
third.
Another batting streak was INDUCED
in by the Angels in the sixth inning.
Hughes hit for one base, but Borchers
WAS not given chance to strike.
Wight, Hulen and McCauley each hit
for one base, and the trick was done.
In the seventh inning the Angels made
three more runs. Lytle hit for a single
and stole second, while Lohman gruuted
three times and hit for three bases.
Hughes sacrificed Lohman in. Borchers
got life on 6rst by virtue of Maguires
error, and base on balls to Rasty, fol-
lowed by an error by Sharp of a bounder
off McCauley's bat, filled the bases
Then Spies thought he saw an opening
at second to catch Rasty. He threw o
trifle too high, and every body moved up
peg. This ended the run-getting on
both sides, with the score 10 to l in
favor of the Angelo.
But let ua go back to the last half of
the second inning. Power was hit by a
pitched ball, Spies waited for four of a
kind, and scratch hit by Mcguire flled
the bases. McVicker then popped up 8
fly to Hulen, which Glen told him to
trap. He tried to do so, but the ball
touched his hands before hitting the
ground. McVicker kept on running to
frat and crowded Mcguire off. Hulen
in the meantime had recovered the ball
and run across the diamond behind Ma
guire, between first and second. 1t was
only q question OF following up slowly to
crowd Spies off second; then on until
Spies had forced Power to leave third
base, and the ball was passed to Lob
man to complete the double play. 1t
WAS q peculiar play and one that made
many fan put on his high-pressure
guess machine.
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