Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-29
BEGIN SERIES
WITH SAINTS
ANGELS GETTING DOWN TO
REAL PRACTICE
Pennant Winners and College Team
Arrange Three Games for This
Week on Diamond of
Latter Team


of three games will be played between
the Angels and the St. Vincent college
baseball team on the campus at Grand
avenue and Eighteenth street.
The game Tuesday resulted in a vic
tory of Z to 0 for the Seraphs. though
the first five innings was a 0 to propo-
sition. Philips, who twirled the initial
innings for the collegians, was puzzle
and did not allow the leaguers hit.
He may try his luck during the entire
game this afternoon.
Coach Haggerty is desrous of giving
his colts a thorough trying out and is
not particularly anxious as to the out
come of the contest, his object being
to get a line on the playing abilities
of the squad.
The practice will do the Saints a
world of good as preseason work and
will be worth more than any number of
amateur practice games.
Manager Morley of the Seraphs has
always favored games between his
men and the college players, and some
close contests have been pulled off that
have resulted in advantage to both
aggregations.
The first contest, however, in which
the Saints figured has been indelibly
stamped upon the brain of the Angel
manager as 1t came near costing him
for a time at least the services of one
"Rube" Waddell who was heralded to
become the sensation of Pacific coast
baseball.
1t was the day before the opening of
the pennant season and the Oakland
team were slated as first victims for
the mighty "Rube." AS a final limber
ing up Morley had the Saints over for
a last game before the race was on.
eix ho ctn
to / in the Angeles favor, with the
Seraph pitchers taking turns in the
box. Waddell was occupying the slab
and had allowed the Vincentans their
only run, which came as a result of
two-bagger and q wild throw on Wad-
dell's part.
OF a sudden the college infielders
practically backed to the outfield, while
the garden men We're for climbing on
the fence. The cause of it all was the
appearance of 'Rube" at the plate with
a stick which it had been whispered
was a direct importation for the gi
gantic slab man.
Soaked Rube
Fitzwilliams, who was doing the box
work for the Saints, was rated a cork
ing good pitcher in those days but his
eyes opened wide when he beheld the
Reuben step to the plate Fitz glanced
despairingly around closed his eyes.
doubled himself in a knot and let fly
at the general situation.
Whop! dramatic stage fall, and the
"Rube" was lying prone on the ground
from wallop on the temple, like a
felled OK. Jim Morley was in the
grandstand with a big crowd of fans
when the accident occurred. Instantly
there was q scene of confusion that
would put "Slats" Davis fracas into
a mere nothingness.
Yelling a thousand orders for the
resuscitation of his fallen "Rube," Jim
rushed to the plate. There was a hurry
and scurry. Dark, gloomy faces of
stricken fans proclaimed the awful
calamity which had befallen him who
but a moment before had been so great.
Some say that never before had Jim
Morley been known to shed the briny,
but not again will the claim be made,
for there are those who will make affi-
davit that Jeems was observed drop
ping a wet and silent tribute to the
mighty gladiator who lay stretched on
the spike smitten rubber at the plate.
At last they brought him around with
many douse of water, mostly salt
from Morey's eyes. Tenderly they as
sisted him to the club house and
listened in awe-struck wonder to
deep mutterings concerning "rainbow
pitchers" and other original sayings
that none but "Rube" could give
vent to.
FitzwilIams' "23"
Fitzwilliams was observed crawling
over far corner of the left field fence,
while the remainder of the college team
wandered meekly out of the park as
Jim raved and raVed at their depravity
and ignorance in disturbing the pre-
cincts of "Rubes' mighty brain.
The next day Pete Lohman and his
tribe of commuters, with wild Bill
Devereaux in the van. appeared upon
the field and waited tremblingly while
Waddell consumed u piece of apple pie
that he had carried under his sweater
during the warming up.
What things the crowd told Lohman
and his associates would be shame to
repeat "Wait till 'Rube' gets at YOU"
and a thousand other encouraging salu-
tations were dispensed to the Oakland
nine,
But there was little crowd that had
witnessed the event of the day before
and wondered whether "Rube" would
do things. The game ended with
score of to in the Oaklanders favor
AT last, after they had ceased to bat
him from one end of the field to the
other, they became too frightened to
leave the field. Had not gilded posters,
pasted aloft from the Tehachapi to San
Pedro, announced for weeks in advance
that "Rube" Waddell would make Won
derful mince meat of every team in the
league? And now they-a miserable
gathering from out of the north-had
beaten him to weak brown FRAGILE.
The crowd filed away with a vacant
stare. for they knew not the cause.
only a few fans who had seen the
great "Rube" stretched senseless on
fhe field the day previous wisely told in
hushed and bewildered circles the cause
of his downfall.
Today's line up:
ANGELS. ST. VlNCENTS.
Bernard ......,.,., f .Carrigan
Ross................ f ............... Tally
Rrashear. 2 b ............ .Shaeffer
6iiion...,.,.......... l b ..........Campbell
.......,..: phillips
Ellis. p HGElroy
AtZ................. ...,..........L Lamer
Egar, Spies ........ c .........'..SnodSras
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