The morning call., 1893-07-16
ONE HOODOO GONE
The Angels Have at Last
Won a Game.
THEY WORE RED STOCKINGS
The Scheme That the Los Angeles
Manager Devised Worked to
Perfection Yesterday.

All sorts of things have been resorted to
before now to drive away the hoodoo from
a ball team, but it has remained for Mr..
Hammond of Los Angeles, compara-
lively new man at the business, to devise
a hoonoo eradicator that would work with
UNQUALIFIED success.
MIR. Hammond has evidently struck the
right thing. Six successive games his
hired men dropped. Yesterday al Halght
street they won hands down. 1t was just
like finding game in the road for them.
They hardly exerted themselves enough 10
keep warm, and yet the score was to in
their favor.
1t was all done with red stockings. Nine
red stockings were placed on nine of his
men-one apiece-and you never saw
better ball game. The other stocking was
black.
In the first place. you hardly ever see a
game where only three errors are made.
Think of it Oakland only made one er
ror. and that error-why, Hunkey Hines
sprinted backward about fifty yards to ge
his clutches on long drive from Hughes
bat, and Just because he didn't hold the
ball, alter making such noble effort. he
was given an error. and that was the only
one.
From that scarcity of errors you will of
course draw the inference hat Los
Angeles won fr m batting the ball hard.
That's it. as much as anything else.
though it was not so much that they batted
hard as that they Datted often and just at
the right time.
Clark Griffith sent up the balls they
we've batting. Borchers pitched for Los
Angeles.
Charles Irwin singled. but was thrown
out at second quite easily. Not another
hit and not a siugle run was made in the
inning. Three op flies retired Oakland
in the first of the second.
After Glenalvin had been put ont at
first by CaDtilliop in the last half Lytle
singled to center and got second on a wild
fitch. He stole third. Hulen's single
scored him. Hunky Hines mGtf in center
allowed Hughes to reach second. and
Borchers' single over second base scored
him, Hulen having previously scored on
his hit.
spectacle of those three red-siOckiDged
Angels passing over the home plate. Not
that they played bad ball after that. for
quite on the contrary, they never made All
error after that, but they didn't bat in
unison. and the Angels played most hand
somely Glenalvn accepted eight chances
In the field with nary an error. Hughes,
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Hulen, played like Jerry Denny, only
more so. Lytle caught all the flies that
came his way-and so on.
That one error Of Hughes gave Oakland
its first run. Grief-stricken Joe McGucken
got first on that error. and when Hunky
Hines sent the ball spinning down the
right foul line for a three-bagger, that un-
happy individual scored.
Hughes opened the fifth with a double,
and Borcher's single scored him. Nc
Cauey also singled, but tried to stretch it
into double and went out at second, retir-
ing the side.
The bases were full in the last of the
seventh on singles ty Lohman and Hughes
and bas- on Uff;ls ~ BorcheIs, when
Wright singled. Lohman's run came in on
that and on Hutchinson's sacrifice Hughes
scored.
The opening of the ninth inning found
Hernon on the coaching lines trying to
make folks beiieve that it would be an easy
thing for Oakland 10 tie the score and ex-
tend the game into the uncertain future.
But he was only wearing out his hat. Oak
land did make one run on a single by Hines
and a double by Hernon himself down
through center field, but there they stuck
until the game was over.
To-day there will be great game at
Haight street A large crowd attended
yesterday and a larger one yet is expected
to-day. Horner and Knell will do the
pitching. Knell will try to win. So will
HOrnpr, IeSter1ay's score.