Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-08-25
EAGER BATS FOR CARLISLE AND
SCORES TWICE
Locals and Portland Play Close Extra
Inning contest-Umpire Kelly
Makes Endeavor to Hurry
the Players
srANnING or run cLuBs.

Pitcher Hosp won his own game
against Portland yesterday, and good
game IL was, too. Right at the end he
was ably assisted by Robert Lee Eager,
who broke up the show when he tore
off a single, and gave Hosp a chance to
score the needed run.
The real doings of the day happened
in the eleventh inning, after the teams
had gone the previous ten rounds ana
half to a tie score, one all. Hosp was
the first up in the inning and the fans
began specializing on his fate. He II
win his own game some of them said.
Jaw, Nix" the knocker spelled. That
guy will be nuts for Hartman.
But Hosp was there. He found one OF
Hartman's benders that just fitted IN
with a notch in his bat and drove the
ball way over in left field for neat two
Dagger Then Bernard came to the res
cue and laid down his life with neat
little sacrifice that sent Hosp on to
third.
But the man who knocks out the hit
that scores the winning run is the real
hero, so Bobby Eager was selected to
bear the honors. Carlisle, the $500 prize
beauty did not seem to have his eye
with him at all, so Dillon told Bobby
to go in and show them how it was done
in Grass Valley.
Eager mere WIFI Ciup
And Robert did He waited around
while two balls and one strike had been
declared and then he found the right
one. The wallop carried the sphere
straight at Hartman, but all that worthy
could do was to make weak attempt
to stop it and Hosp scooted in from
third with the tally that sent Portland
one notch further down in the per-
centage.
Taken all in all the game was one of
the best played here this season. Both
twirlers were on their mettle and al
though Portlands lone tally resulted
from an error. the number of black
marks charged up on either side was
small. Hartman allowed but eight hits
in eleven innings and Hosp bettered him
by giving away but five safe ones.
The teams broke into the score column
early, as one run apiece was recorded in
the opening inning. But after that start
neither side seemed able to get man
clear around the pillows, until Eager
and the big stick were called in Off the
bench to turn the trick.
Hosp started the game in poor form,
as he gave Casey. the first man up. a
pass to the initial pillow. Burdette came
next and sacrificed the runner on bag
and then Bassey drove the sphere to the
outer pasture for a neat single.
6O9dn'S WtIQ Throw
Bernard retrieved the ball and shot it
to home in order to intercept Casey, who
did not even try for the plate but stop
ped at third Hogan thought he saw a
chance to nail Bassey at second. and
whipped the horsehide down to Brashear
The throw was wild and before the ball
had been recovered Casey chased home
with the first and only tally Portland
was able to garner
The Angels came right back in their
half of the same inning and tied the
score Bernard nailed the sphere on the
ear and it sailed over into left field. Bur-
dette made a try for it but could not
quite connect and Bernie kept on around
to second He might have been nailed
there but the throw to Fay was a poor
one and the runner was safe.
Carlisle was called on for a sacrifice
and he laid down a nice bunt that car
ried Bernard on to the corner cushion.
The old standby, Capt. Dillon, came next,
and his bunt toward the box gave Bernie
a chance to squeeze in home.
Umpire Kelley was all to the spoiled
terrapin in the second inning on de-
cision he handed out to Portland. Fay,
the first man up, reached the first sta
ton on a scratchy single, Mott took his
chance and slapped the ball to Hosp,
who shot it over to Delmas in plenty of
time to force Fay Del winged the sphere
across to first in order to make a double
play out of it, Nand the only reason he
succeeded was because Kelley was
afflicted with dropping of the eyelids and
did not see Mott beat the ball to the bag
by about six feet.
Kelley Applauded
If Kelley had stopped there he might
have been all right, but the rest of the
afternoon was just as bad. The one
thing he did which was applauded oc-
Cured in the third act when he called
two strikes on Casey because the Port
land second baseman took his time about
coming to the bat. When he did finally
arrive at the plate Casey had but one
chance with the club, for the first ball
he swung at--and on-was easy for Ber-
nard in the central lot.
Before the Angels copied the winning
run in the eleventh act the visitors came
close to sticking one over in their part
of the period Hartman was out via
Maggie and Dillon. but Casey reached first
on a single to left. Burdette fouled to
Maggie and Bassey's single to center sent
Casey on to third. There he died, for
Carlisle took good care that Donahue's
fly did not get, out of his mits. The
score: