Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-18
.SERAPHS CAPTURE
OPENING CAME
TROUNCE TACOMA IN FIRST OF
SERIES
DOLLY" GRAY'S GREAT WORK
Angels TwirIer Lifts Out Three Two
Raggers and Scores Four Men.
Tigers Are White
washed
DOLLY" GRAY'S GREAT WORK
Los Angeles, 5; Tacoma. 0.

Los Angeles, 5; Tacoma, 0.
There are some ideas that are diff
cult for the human brain to conceive.
That puny equipment of gray matter
allotted to the individual has sharply
marked limitations; it becomes help
less, is overwhelmed and ceases 10
act when confronted with the improb-
able.
The greatest astronomer cannot con-
ceive of the immensity Of the solar
system or attempt even guess as to
| the number of planets or consultations
of planets that have their place in the
| limitless spaces of the sky; likewise,
the admirers of the ancient game of
baseball hereabouts who We're not at
Chutes park yesterday afternoon would
be long time imagining what GER
tain citizen, yclept Dolly" Gray, did
during the first game with Tacoma.
We can conceive of Russia winning
victory; of a church not accepting
tainted money; of Tom Lawson keep
ing silent; of Upton actually lifting
the cup; of Peter Maher really retir-
ing. or of Jeffries being knocked out
by Terry McCfovern in a street fight;
but human credulity Is strained be-
yond the breaking point when it is
openly murmured that "Dolly" Gray
wallOped out three two-sackers in the
opening engagement with the Tigers,
| tore off a single, and brought four men
over the final patch by dint of this
mighty stick work; and this all in
making four essays to swat the leather
"a batting percentage of 1000 merely.
But it really happened. Dolly" was
right there with a nice assortment of
myetifying offerings while on the
mound. The Tigers never became
really dangerous, and We're nicely
| tanned by the Seraphic gentlemen.
| They waxed wrathy at their failure to
cout a man around the sacks, and
muttered dire vengeance but it never
came. They touched the rangy Ser
apis slants for a total of seven hits,
but when it came to establishing con-
nection with the much abused home
plate they were nowhere.
Gray's Mighty Stick
The opening inning was a deep, dark
void for both aggregations of sphere
chasers. 1t was in the second that
Gray began to show his astounding
reversal of form. Cravath opened the
round by leading with n neat jab 70
the right pasture, and Ross was safe
on a life-givng disagreement between
| Messrs. Nordyke and Casey i'm the inn
mediate vicinity of the first angle. To-
man passed away on a place to Brown
who operated the delivery end of the
Tigers battery. and then Gray inno-
Gently wandered to the plate. In the
most casual and matter-of-fact way
Dolly" soused one away to the port
garden, and Cravath and Ross logged
to the terminus.
But that was only two of 'em. The
Seraphs' completed amble in the third
inning was the only one that the An
gel Gray did not have a hand in. Tim
Flood led off with a punt to Truck"
Eagan, who kindly failed to pinch the
sphere. Jud Smith dumped down a
neat sacrifice. and the Seraphic third
baseman was nudged along to the sec
ond station. Brown came through
with transportation to Cap Dillon. and
CTavath shot one down Nordyke's way,
Flood putting another mark in the
Morleyites' run column.
In the sixth inning again did Dolly
find the BAH for another double. Ross
began hostilities in this round by
placing a safe one through short, and
went to second ON Toman's out via
Brown to Nordyke. Spies went down