Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-23
ANGELS WIN IN
TWELFTH INNING
BREAK HooDoo BY TRoUNCING
THE TIGERS
Wanderers Assist In Their Defeat by
Weird Playing at Critical Stages
of Long Drawn
Out Game

It required twelve innings to do it,
but the hoodoo is broken and the
Angels turned the trick in one Of the
sharpest games of ball yet pulled off at
Chutes park.
Just how long it has been since the
Seraphs won a Sunday game on the
home grounds is beyond the memory of
the fans, and when Tim Flood went
tearing around the bases for the decld-
Ing run in the last half of the twelfth
there was enough noise to make up Tor
the Sabbath-like silence which for
months past has fallen over the crowd
as they watched the last bad Angel
pop into the air or swing in vain at the
weather.
A great game and nothing less, with
the crisp air of the afternoon putting
life and vigor into the players, and from
the time that the first player stepped
to the plate there was no let UP to the
swing and dash that kept the crowd in
a state of uncertainty. 1t was a
pitchers battle royal with honors about
even. Tozer and Fitzgerald were in
great form, and though both fell into
several bad holes they managed to
squirm out before much damage re-
suited.
Pretty plays abounded in profusion
and more than one piece of clever head
work tied a runner to the bag or nipped
q score when appearances were sorry
for either side. In the fifth inning,
after Casey had doubled to center with
no outs, Hogan came to bat and dumped
a long bunt into the infield which Tozer,
Smith and Toman, in an undecided mo-
ment let roll to a stop, while he OF the
bright eye sped to first, Casey going to
third.
Fitzgerald famed and Doyle walked
to the plate prepared to break up the
game then and there. He lined a
Bcorcher to Flood, who, like flash,
touched unhappy Hogan and doubled
Doyle at the initial sack. The stunt
was one of the best pulled off on the
local grounds during the present series,
and almost started a riot Of joy.
Big Mike Lynch, in center field for
the Tigers, was a veritable we'll, and
anything that went his way was easy
picking.
Tozer in Form
Tozer had them breaking over the
plate like a big Lacquer in midsummer,
and eight of the Tigers swung their
flgurative heads off in an effort to con-
meet Four bases on balls added in
terest to the game, and Fishers men
took advantage of them in manner
that threatened to make the bell ring.
But the tall boy from the Mormon
country was there in the pinch, and all
went well.
Fitzgerald pitched good ball and al
lowed but one free pass. Four errors
were chalked against his team, and two
of them figured in the Angels brace of
runs.
Tacoma started scoring in the fifth
10
second on Lynch's sacrifice. Casey
singled and Mac came home. This was
the end for Mike and his men, and
during the remainder of the fun they
contented themselves with holding the
Angels to just one run on the wrong
side of their ledger.
The Seraphs came back with the
tying score in the next inning and there
was considerable excitement before the
situation cleared up. Bobby Eager lined
a sizzler down the short field that
Truck Eagans arms fell short of.
Casey, in a laudable effort to nail the
sphere, stood on his head to the vast
amusement of the spectators.
Tozer sacrificed and Tommy Sheehan
became so interested in watching his
progress to first that he forgot the
corner sack, and Bobby displayed his
wisdom in going on to third. Nordyke
threw high to get him, and the ball
went into the left field bleachers as
Bobby tripped over the bag.
1t was one, two, three until the last
half of the twelfth, and then Tim
Flood leaped into the limelight by
smashing one far into light field which
had all the earmarks of a two-sacker.
Doyle thought otherwise and made
try at spelling the aspirations of the
second baseman in the vicinity of his
own camping ground. The weird throw
went wild and the game was over.
The score: