Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-02
CELLAR CHAMPS
TO OPEN SERIES
WILL MEET ANGELS AT CHUTES
PARK TODAY
Mudders Are In Fine Trim, but 5erry's
Men Have Been WaIloping
Everything on Their
Home Lot

Judge Mercedes champs-of the
cellar variety-start their little weeks
seance with the Angels at Chutes park
this afternoon, and perhaps the locals
won't have such a cinch as they en-
joyed last week. Up to the last few
weeks Portland was considered the
easiest kind of picking, but the gait
the Mudders have been travelling late
ly puts q new face on the business.
If Portland plays the game she did
on her home grounds in the last ses-
sion with the Angels, something nice
in the way of baseball will be on tap
every afternoon at the Chutes The
northerners have APPARENTLY Just struck
their stride and are getting better than
an even break with everything in the
league.
All the fans can recall what hap
pened when the Mudders first broke
loose. The Angels went north expect
ing to take at least the majority of
games played, but McCredie slipped one
over and shut the locals out without
the least sign of victory
And the series was nip and tuck, too.
Rain butted in for the first two sched-
uled contests, but when the teams fin
ally did get together they made up for
lost time by going fifteen innings to
a tie score. 1t helped some to encour-
age the Oregon fanatics, and the next
day a big crowd turned out to watch
the show.
They were rewarded for passing the
turnstiles by seeing Portland beat the
Angels in an eieven-round game, with
Kinsella at his best doing the slab
work. Then the Sunday double header
came around and the Mudders finished
up their star work by walloptng the
Angels in both morning and afterlunch
contests.
And now this same bunch is here to
try and repeat, but the changed con-
ditions don't seem to be much in their
favor The Angels play better ball on
their home grounds than any team In
the league, and the way they located
the ball for safe hits last week shows
how good the men are right now.
Angels Want Revenge
Then that little feeling called revenge
is also on hand. Dillon and his men
are bound to reverse the doings up in
Portland two weeks ago, and every
game will be for blood. While the
league leadership is not at stake. the
Angels feel that their regulations will
suffer if something is not done to the
visitors, and they will break their necks
trying for every days play.
Portland comes down flushed with the
triumph of Sunday over Oakland, In
which the Mudders captured both
games. McCredie's team is all to the
good so far as condition is concerned.
and with the men all working together
he feels that the same thing will hap
pen down here.
The same bunch of youngsters, but in
improved form, will line up when Port
land goes on the field at the Chutes this
afternoon. Some way or other Nc
Credie kept his men together while they
were getting used to the work, and now
they are in the game like veterans.
Groom Schimpff, Moore, Hartman and
Califf will do most of the slab work,
but as Schimpff is holding down the
job at short he will be seen in action
but once during the series.
Cap Dillon will put Dolly Gray on
the firing line to start off with, and
the lanky one will pass them over this
afternoon. 1t doesn't matter much
whether it's Carlisle or Ellis out in the
garden, for both the youngsters are
playing the SWEETEST kind of ball. and
there isn't much of choice between
them.
Bool Perrine will be on the job again
this week, and that helps some. While
Bool is not the best in the world, he
gets a long ways off from being the
worst and the fans would rather see
him handling the Indicator than poor
old Pop Derrick. The games will be-
gin at O'Clock, as usual.