Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-03
M'CREDIE'S MEN PLAY LIKE A
LOT OF KIDS
Pitcher kinseIla All to the Good, but
His Support Is Poor-Atherton
Dons Portland
Uniform
Los Angeles 8, Port = O.


Several hundred fans are guessing
several thousand things, and the most
important of these is How did Port
land ever happen to get away with an
entire series against the Angels. In
fact, how did they ever happen to win
even one game from the locals.
All this guesswork comes up from
watching yesterdays game at the
Chutes Mercedes little kids played
such rank bush league ball that even
a lot of high school babies who hap
pened to slip into one of the boxes
were able to pick out the flaws. The
Angels were not able to do much with
Kinsella, for he held them down to
four hits, but they knew a good thing
when they saw it and scored three
runs off Portland's work in the field.
One thing the matter with the Mud
ders is that they are all afraid to take
a chance and throw the ball in an at
tempt to get man somewhere off the
cushions. Instead of at least trying,
Mercedes infants hang on to the
leather all the time, and their lack of
energy is bound to be responsible for
many Angel runs before the series is
over.
But with all the Portland faults yes
terday'S contest was close enough to
suit any fan who braved the sun and
watched the performance. 1t was too
warm for any real strenuous effort.
but the teams played good ball, and
aside from a couple of bad innings
the cellar champs did fairly well.
A fancy home run in the first inning
by Rube Ellis was enough by itself
to win the game, but the Angels
couldn't help but score again in the
seventh round, when the Mudders blew
IN oil 10 n
At only one stage of the game did 1t
look real dangerous for the locals, and
then a double play killed the visitors
chances of doing any business with the
scorer.
Gray was on the firing line for Hen
Berry, and everything he knew was
called into play. Dolly had speed,
curves and the rest of the good dope,
and with the exception of the fifth
on the ball more than once in the
same inning. At that Dolly had his
bad periods, and in the fifth and sew
enth it looked sort of dubious.
KinseIIa Is There
Kinsella was also there with the
choice stock in trade, and had there
been anything on the field with him
the twirler might have held the Angels
down to the run they scored in the
first inning. The northerner allowed
but four hits, three of which went to
Ellis, but his good work failed to
amount to much when the team behind
him began to feel the heat.
Ellis home run, about the only score
turned in which was not in the nature
of a gift. was about as fancy a homer
as they ever made here With Bernard
gone Bush came up and walloped a
long fly out to center field. Both Port
land fielders were sleeping over in an
other part of the lot and the ball
struck the hard diamond without in
reference. 1t took one long bounce
and cleared the fence, while Ellis trot-
ted around the bases for a tally. s
In the seventh round the Mudders
started on their aerial flight and be-
fore they had completed the trip two
more Angels had crossed the platter.
Cravath opened with a single to right
and Smith started something by bat
ting the ball toward first. Carson
nailed the sphere and tried to get
Cavvie at second. but the throw was
low and went on out into center field,
where Atherton played horse with it
until Cravath had scored and Smith
had reached second. Delmas added to
the trouble by lacing one into Carson,
scoring Smith, and the show was over.
Charlie Atherton, who played with
the Angels several seasons ago, and
who left to become manager of the
Buffalo team, jumped into a Portland
uniform yesterday and will doubtless
do much to help the northerners play
something better than bush league ball.
Charlie was new to the company yes
terday and made one poor play but his
old time form should come to the
front and help some.
Bush Ellis was all the candy with
the club, and in four times up negotiat-
| ed for three nice hits. CraVath was
the only other member of the team
able to find Kinsella, while the five
hits Portland got off Dolly were we'll
scattered. The score:
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