Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-18
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Seraphs were required to play their
full nine innings of baseball yester~
day afternoon before they managed 10
trim the blue-clad giants from Seattle,
while Oscar Jones, pitcher for the VS.
itors, spelled his own defeat with a
capital letter in the ninth inning, when
with three men on base and his balloon
soaring high in the air, he threw the
ball away, allowing one score.
The Siwashes had heard that Los An
geles fans were saying things about
their ability to play baseball and the
northerners wanted the first game and
wanted it bad.
From the time that Umpire Jim Nc
Donald yelled play for the first game
of the series to the finish, the Siwashes
played ball and played hard, but Dame
Fortune, who had fooled the locals
during the opening innings of the game,
came through with great whoop at
the finish and the visitors went back
to the bench saying things.
At the last moment Rockenfield, for
the visitors, arrived at the park and
the lineup was changed around. Oscar
Jones, who formerly performed with
the locals, was sent to the slab for
the visitors, while Dolly Gray did the
hard work for the Seraphs.
Dolly has always had the reputation
of being bad for at least one inning
of the game and the streak of bad luck
came yesterday in the fourth inning,
but Dolly was not alone at the ascension
and the whole team trailed skyward
while Seattle scored.
Angels Win Easily
Los Angeles came back in the sixth
and managed to tie the score and then
both teams settled down to straight
baseball. The visitors were retired in
one, two, three order in the ninth and
the Seraphs galloped gracefully to the
bench, for the beginning of the end
was at hand.
Cravath was the first man up to the
bat and he walked. Mott fizzled a bunt
from Captain Dillon and Cravath and
Dillon were safe jake AtZ handed
out a single and the bases were full.
Chimma Toman tried the sacrifice
route but Cravath was nailed at the
plate and Eager went to the bat.
Bobby had two strikes and was look
ing blue when Jones suddenly wound
up in a bunch for a throw. The little
pitcher made fancy movements with
his arms and then lunged forward as
he hurled the ball toward the plate.
But just at the moment of delivery ne
stumbled and fell and the ball went
wild and Dillon scored the winning run
of the day.
Ross appeared yesterday in left field
for the locals and his work in that
garden kept the hits low.
Heitmuler, formerly the star of the
Berkeley nine, held down first for the
visitors and his work was excellent.
The Angels will play the second game
of the series this afternoon and it will
be the first ladies day" of the week,
How Twas Done
In the first inning yesterday Walters
was the first to face Dolly Gray. Dolly
eased a nice one to the plate and
Walters leaned against it. But the
little ball toddled down to Atz and
jake was unkind enough to throw it
to first and put Walters out.
Kane ripped off neat single to left
and camped on the first bag. Blanken-
ship hit into a double play at second
when Brashear gobbled his grounder
and threw to Atz. Atz sizzled the sphere
to first and headed the runner.
For Los Angeles, Bernard bumped
the first ball over for single to right
Ross ppoped out to first and Brashear
went out to deep center. Bernard stole
second but Cravath went out on an in
field hit and retired the side.
In the second Heitmuller hit to second
and failed to beat out the throw; Mot
ted was unable to stop up the holes in
the bat and the horse hide sneaked
past him three times. Rockenfield
banged to Atz, the man of destiny. and
the ball went to first ahead of the
runner.
With two men on base in the second
inning for the Angels, Eager hit into
a double to Mott and the side was re-
tired.
The Angels played real baseball in the
third. Streib went out to Cravath in
right field and Hall and Jones famed
The locals repeated the performance
in their half of the inning.
In the fourth for Seattle, Walters was
safe on Gray's error and Kane popping
another little one to the pitcher, camped
snugly on the initial sack. Blankenshir
smashed to Atz, who caught Kane al
second. Atz lined the ball home and
caught Walters at the plate and then
Eager, in an attempt to head off Blank
enship, threw wild to second and aided
by jumble of misplays, Blankenshir
came home.
Los Angeles scored in the sixth when
Bernard tripled to right and Ross
brought him home with a smash in the
same quarter.
Dillon scored the final run in the
ninth on wild pitch by Jones.
The summary:
LOS ANGELES