Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-09
PUT 1T ALL OVER MUDDERs IN
OPENING GAME
Locals Tally Fourteen Times, While
Portland Falls to Send a Man
Clear Around Baas-Hosp
Is Good
srANnING on rHE CLUES
Los Angeles h, Portland Q


No. it wasn't football game at the
Chutes yesterday, no matter how the
score looks. 1t was simply a case OF
Pitcher Groom doing his punkest and
the whole Portland aggregation helping
him out as we'll as they could.
And maybe it wasn't one of those con-
tinuous butcher house exhibitions! The
Angels broke with a rush, and in the first
round scored enough runs to win several
games. They weren't satisfied with
these. but kept on piling UP the tallies
until fourteen of them had been regis
tered Then the locals had to stop, Tor
they were tired out from travelling
around the sacks with such monotonous
regularity.
But with the Angels tearing up the
ground and following each other in COM
pleting the circuit, the Mudders couldn t
secure a run. Frantz Hosp, who cannot
be regarded as an overall by long
ways, is certainly a good front runner,
and after his team mates took up the
pace with a big bunch of tallies the
twirler pitched about the best game of
his career. He kept Portland looking
sick all the way, and the three hits they
managed to make didn't help any when
it came to getting men around the cir
cult of the pillows.
Besides Hosps slants and the batting
of the locals, Cravath's base running
was about the feature of the day. The
celery champion took all kinds of
chances and, worked the gray matter all
afternoon, and in addition to stealing
home in one instance performed all kinds
of stunts.
Rube Star
After Cavvie's work, Rube Ellis was
the bright and shining light, and his
home run in the seventh round was some
of wallop. Reuben played swell
game in the field and nailed several high
ones that might have gone for safe
bingles.
Judge Nagle broke into the limelight
again as the batting marvel of the age,
and the way the lanky one from the hos
pital slammed the leather around ac-
counted for several of the hits made by
the Angels. Nagle held down right field
while Cravath took care of first, for Dill
lon was taking a layoff and Cavvie was
the only available man for the initial
pillow.
McCredie must be shy of twirling tall
ent on this trip, for even after the An
gels scored four runs off like number
of hits in the first inning the Portland
leader let Groom stick around on the
mound and be punctured to death. Right
at the start Bernard and Carlisle, the
first two up, bunted safely, and when
Nagle tried to sacrifice them on a peg
Motifs tumble at third of Grooms assist
filled the bags.
Cravath picked Groom out as his VIC
tim and laced the leather toward the box
so hard that the pitcher was forced to
sidestep, allowing Bernard and Carlisle
to score. Brashear's hit to center scored
Nagle and put Cravath on third, and
while Groom was winding up to shoot
them at Ellis Cavvie stole home.
This helped some and the Angels kept
up the good work in the following spasm
by adding another to the bunch. With
one down, Carlisle was deadheaded to
first and Nagle's /three-sacker to the
middle field gate sent him along for the
round trip.
Things were quiet until the fifth, when
another run was stuck up for the locals
1t came when Cravath tore off a two
bagger to center, and Brashear followed
with a bingle which put Cavvie on third
Ellis patted one down near the plate and
while Byrnes was throwing him out at
first Cravath scored.
Bad for Groom
The sixth was very bad for Mr.. Groom,
as the Angels collected a trio of runs and
made the score nine to nix. Hogan and
Hosp were both out before Bernard had
a chance to get soaked by pitched BAH
and score on Carlisle's hit to center, on
which the batter reached second. Nagle
reached first on a hit to left and Car
Isle went to third, scoring on a wild
pitch by Groom. Two tallies weren't t
enough, so Nagle chased in from third
when Donahue dropped, an easy fly of
Cravath's back of first base.
If the sixth was bad for Groom the
seventh must have been torture, for five
runs were registered before the inning
closed. Ellis opened the round with a
fancy home run, the ball bouncing over
the center field fence after McCredie
had failed to touch 1T. Delmas was out
on foul and Hap Hogan reached first
because he waited for the bad ones
Hosp singled and Bernard sacrificed and
Carlisle made it three men on the bags
when he was handed transportation.
Nagle hated to see his team mates die
on the sacks, so he ripped in with a
double to left, which scored Hogan and
Hosp. Cravath came along with the same
kind of dope and Carlisle and Nagle wan
dered by the judges stand.
That was all, for the Angels were sat-
isfied that Hosp couldn't blow up far
enough to lose the game, so the rest of
the time Berry's men made no efforts
to score. The numbers:
Los ANGELES