Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-16
SERAPHS ARE
WHITEWASHED
OAKS WIN BRILLIANT GAVE
BY SCORE OF 10
Gates Pitches In Mastery Form and
Allows Angel stlckmen but Three
Hits - NagIe TwirIs
Good Ball
Oakland I, Los Angeles o

Rip Van Hatren and his men gave
Los Angeles a taste of the shut-out
game yesterday afternoon when Sc
raph wielders of the willow came away
with the wrong end of a 10 score. A
shutout is bad at any time-for the
home team-but yesterdays whitewash
was applied in such an artistic man
ner that probably no fan of the un-
usually large Sunday crowd left the
grounds disappointed.
Ely Gates was in the box for Oak
land. and there lies tale of woeful
undoing. OF all games yesterdays was
to be ours. Was not Judge" Nagle
TO pitch? Just where such a band as
oakland had a look-in was hardly
reckoned with before the contest. Ev-
eryone knew just how the running was
going to terminate, but nevertheless
Nagle must needs be accorded a fitting
welcome after his sojourn beyond the
Rockies.
Nagle did pitch good ball, a rattlins
article despite the fact that his arm
did not appear in the best of condi-
ton. But Gates twirled better ball.
Allows Three Singles
Three miserly bingles We're all that
Ely was able to let out of the bag yes
terday, and they were not of the sort
calculated to bring in runs.
Probably more excitement entered
into the sport than during the past
week of mediocre ball. Serapic hitters
have been slamming the sphere with
monotonous regularity, and the spec
tacle of an Oakland pitcher holding
them to a triplet proved to be an oc-
casion extraordinary.
The hippodrome performance of the
afternoon occurred in the eighth in
ming, when Hackett, a fat young man
who sometimes plays behind the Oak
land plate. was sent to center field,
after Capt. Van Haltren retired be-
cause of an injured thumb, broken
while sliding to third base. Randolph
the first man up. sent long high one
to Hack that the latter accidentally
caught. as it stuck to his. hands.
Terrific applause which, greeted the
unexpected coup somewhat confused
the stout catcher. Gochnauer tried to
send another Hackettwards, but the
effort fell several feet short. Not to
be cheated of put-out, however,
Hack rushed in where Right Fielder
Smith and Second Baseman Haley were
Watching, the spheTial descent. A head
on collision occurred, and when Smith
was finally revived he limped bench
ward with badly bruised underpinnings
bearing him along.
Hackett had bumped into the others
and in addition to sending the ball from
Smiths hands came near causing an
ambulance hurry call.
Oakland brought across the only, run
of the day in the first inning Dew
ereaux went out Gochnauer to Dillon
Smith received free transport and was
forced at second by Van Haltren Kru-
ger sent one to McClelland and Hod-
son called him safe at first as Dillon
went after low throw. Hodson's de-
cision was unpopular and called for
considerable protest. With Van Hal
tren on first Heitmuller dropped a
Texas over first and Van romped in
with the winning run.
Steady as clock work was the play
until the seventh. Bliss distinguished
himself in the second with a brilliant
catch of McClelland's foul near the
stand. Right Fielder Smith also en-
tered into the limelight in the fourth
when he gathered in Cravath's fly to
right center, after a long run.
Seventh Exciting
Wild excitement characterized the
seventh round, and it appeared for a
moment as though there would be
something doing in the way of an
anger SCOIe MOI because OF any quiet
ness did the Seraphs fail to send a
man across. Such a din has not been
heard since "Rube" Waddell knocked
a hole through the center fence several
years ago.
Ellis struck out, but Jimmy Toman
cast ray OF hope when he singled to
center. OF a sudden a great tumult
arose, and as though from the dead
came bugle call that last season
added to the general excitement.
Pandemonium reigned when McClel-
land was given four wide ones. Bobby
Eager appeared next and was liter
ally begged to do something. A dense
silence settled when Bobby struck out
At this juncture the airship fapped
itself from inside the Chutes garden
and started on its race with an auto
mobile. Surely Gates was doomed
Nothing of the sort, however, and
Nagle, with a chance to win his own
game, sent a pop fly to Buck Francks
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