The herald., 1897-12-12
HARD HITTING
Gives the All Americas a
Victory
A GAME FULL OF GINGER
BALTIMORE COULD NOT FIND
THE BALL AT ALL
A GAME FULL OF GINGER
Football Games on Local Felds-Pasa.
dena VS.. U. S. C.-Wrangle Over
Players-Minor Games

up as good game as has ever been
played in Los Angeles. That IS saying a
great deal, for there have been other
games here and some Of the local games
have been excellent exhibitions in them
selves. The game yesterday between
the famous orioles (Baltimores) and
the All-Americas was one that some low
have Travelled miles to witness. 1t was
better than the average league contest.
Even to person to whom baseball terms
are as Sanscrit and baseball playing as
l. game of the ancients. wholly unknown,
there was much of pleasurable interest
In such game as that of yesterday. 1t
was full of snap and ginger from be-
ginning to end. The crowd numbered
about 1900.
If any pessimist went TO the park wth
the idea that as the two teams had moth
Ing to gain by their playing but the gate
money and therefore would put up only
q half-hearted exhibition he was disap-
pointed, for the players went at 1t In
1.-The same manner as If they were in their
. home diamonds and were contesting for
the pennant. Any person familiar with
league games in the east would have
missed one feature that usually attends
viz, the kicking against the decisions
of the umpire. 1t was not that there
were no opportunities for these kicks.
for there We're several close decisions.
How Oliver Tebeau, esq, chief priest OF
the fighting club whose headquarters
ore in Cleveland. ever stood some of the
decisions without registering one of
those long loud howls is something that
those who know Of his ability to kick
could not understand. for Tebeau in the
east divides honors as to kicking with
"Scrappy Bill Joyce. Then, too, there
was Griffin the captain of the Brooklyn
club, who is something of kicker him
self. He did not say one word about
close decisions. These are by no means
all the men who know how to make the
life of an umpire a burden when he
makes a close decision. but they are the
leading ones and not one murmur of OBJ
lection was heard throughout yester
days game. 1t IS not the purpose to
charge that Umpire Decker gave any
rank decisions. but there were so many
close plays that the absence of attacks
upon him was noticeable. Perhaps the
climate had something to do with the
matter.
Some idea of the excellence of the
teams may be had when it is stated that
Of the twenty men in the league holding
the highest batting averages eight are
In these teams; of the twenty best base
runners twelve We're on the diamond yes
terday The best fielders in the league
for t,ic trir, a nd bpir
work shows that they deserve their rep
utations as ball players.
For the benefit of those who may not
know just who compose the two teams
1t may be here stated that on one side is
the Baltimore club which won the Tenn
pie cup series after having lost the
league pennant to Boston by margin
so close that the result was not known
until the last week OF the final series.
The All Americas are composed of the
best players Of the other clubs in tn
National league. The clubs from which
they We're selected are: Captain Tebeau,
Burkett and Powell, Cleveland; Dahlen
and Donahue, Chicago; Stahl and Col
Inns, Boston; Hastings and Donovan,
Pittsburg; Rhines. Cincinnati; Griffin
captain, and Smith. Brooklyn
Corbett, the famous Baltimore pitch
er, left the team at San Francisco, but in
Pond and Horton the club has two
strong men almost as famous. Nash
was hurt up north, and he too remained
in San Francisco. Reitz went to Sac
to visit relatives, and Lange.
who was so worn out by constant work,
also remained in the north. Horton, by
the way, is a Los Angeles man. He is
known to every fan in the city, and in
the box for the Baltimores has made q
record which compares faVorably with
some of the best men in the league.
Pond is a physician, but he left his pro-
fessOn to prescribe the kind of curves
his opponents should strike at. Jen-
nings, Baltimore's short stop, is ac-
to be the best man in that
position in the country, and the same
may be said of Collins on third base.
Dahlen is considered at home to be one
of the best all-round players in the
league, and can be placed in almost any
position. There is not a poor player in f.
the entire lot. for had there been, Billy |
Barnie would never have brought him /
west with the teams.
The team arrived yesterday morning
at i.op - CIbCh anu registered at the 1
Hollenbeck. During the morning they I
saw as much of the city as possible. /
Just prior to going to the park they
paraded the streets, headed by a band /
The preliminary practice began at 1:3O |
o'clock, and, as Barnie had predicted, /
was almost as good as the game itself. /
Promptly at o'clock the game was
called, Baltimore going first to the bat.
In quick succession Doyle, jennings
and Griffin went out at first on short
hits to short. and when the All Americas /
came in the scorc-making began at
once. Burkett hit safely to left and
Hastings took his base on balls, ad-
vancing Burkett. Dahlen. after two
strikes had been called on him, sent the
ball over the left field fence and into
the yards across the street fer q home
run. Gtahl, Collins ard Tebeau hit to
short and We're thrown out al first. That
ended the scorc-making until the last
half of the fourth inning.
In that inning when the All Americas
came to the bat Collins drove q long av
into right field. but Donovan got under
and captured it. Tebeau hit to center
for three bases and scored on Donahue's
two-bagger. Jennings stopped hard