Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-27
BENEFIT GAMES
FOR M DONALD
BALL PLAYERS GIVE SERVICES
FOR GOOD CAUSE
professional and Winter League
Teams Played Yesterday After
noon for Benefit Of Pop
ular Umpire

The crowd Of baseball enthusiasts
that gathered at Chutes park yester-
day afternoon to witness the two BEN
eft games for Jim Mcdonald was in
dcative of the esteem and apprecia-
tion which that popular indicator ma
nipulator is held by the baseball pub
lie. The money taken in at the gate
and the contributions to the benefit
fund will total neat sum, which will
add materially to the $4,000 secured
from the San Francisco game and box
ing exhibitions.
The opening game between the Ham
burgers and the Tufts-Lyon team of
the Winter league was productive of
some interesting baseball. Despite the
failure of the Tufts-Lyon contingent
of sphere chasers to secure a circuit
competer during the five innings
played, the game was not so one-sided
as the score would indicate. BY a
punching of hits in the first and sec
ond innings the Hamburgers brought
seven men around the cushions. When
the game was called in the fifth to
give the real talent an opportunity to
bingle the horsehide the Hamburgers
had not succeeded in adding to this
total. Glroy, the department store
twirler had his slants under good
control at all stages of the seance, and
the infield played fast, snappy game.
But it was when the "All Profess
sonals" and "All Stars" donned their
war mitts and trotted out for the fray
that the citizen who has been yearn-
ing for a sight of real ball game these
many days was aroused from his rev.
erie of bygone home runs to the possi-
bilities at hand. When Russ Hall was
noted to emerge coyly from the bench
he was greeted with loud and pene-
trating squeak of welcome from the
''appreciative audience" 1t was an
awful shock to the trusting fans when
the brazen throated announcer, with
the peculiar tremulo, became the me-
dunn for the unwelcome information
that Jud Smith, Curtis Bernard and
Frank Chance, who were down on the
official ukase as participants in the
fierce struggle between the All Pro-.
fessonals and the All Stars would not
be able to act in the capacity originally
intended.
After mature deliberation it was
agreed that the Stars would have first
swat at the ball. But i'll luck, perni-
cious to a disconcerting extreme, pur-
sued the Stars. Fact is, they didn't
capture a d.--Ked run until the ninth
round, and that was their last. But
the Stars played fine ball. Indeed, yes.
Jake Beckley operated the barrier and
there were murmurs after the hos
tilities had ended that Jake had been
posting odds and staked his roll on
the chances of the Entirely Profess
sionals. Jake characterizes this state
ment as a horrid calumny. But any
way Jake showed that he certainly
possessed Latent talent" as an umpire.
Toren's Good Work
Roy loren and Harry Goodwin, Man
ager Morley's two most recent acqui-
sitions. showed that they will be reck-
oned with this season. loren was par
ticularly effective and has a style on
the slab that reminds one of OWE
Overall. Morley thinks he has a fine
boy in loren and his work yesterday
proves that his ability has not been
overestimated. although he has much
to gather from added experience and
training. loren was touched up for
five hits during the five innings that
he was in the box for the All Profs.
There was nothing which could be in
terpreted as Spectacular feature"
to the game unless it was when one of
Toren's fast ones caromed off Mr..
Kanes Uranium and caused that gen
tleman to make several seconds orig
inal research in the phenomenon of the
starry heavens.
Heinie Spies caught for the winning
aggregation yesterday and annexed the
feathery fouls with his usual certainty.
The scores: