Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-06
sERAPHs powNED AFTER TEN
HEART-RREAKlNe ACTS
SCORE TIED IN VAIN IN END OF
NINTH
Fans Nearly Go Wild When Wnee'er
Singles with Two Down
and the Bases
Full
STANDING OF CLUBS.
by ]. D. woopsIDE

BY J. ID. W0ODSIDE
The truth of the old ology about the
plans of mice and men, ETC., was never
more practically illustrated than In
bristle eleVating ten-inning melee pc
tween the Angels and Commuters yes
terday, which was literally buffaloed
from the locals by the score OIL . TO 3:
OF course, the woods will be full OF
people talking in frenzied rhetoric about
March hares and Dolly Gray in one
breath today, but after all, when the
ten masses the veteran with the melan-
choly Visage issued during his nine acts
on the incline are counted up they only
represent two runs. Furthermore, not
a single Seraph entertained ideas for
esgn or domestic of patronizing nome
industry for the supply of gold br1cks'
but when the green goods dld arrive
they were warranted to keep in any
climate.
This was the system, simple as the
shell ruse, but effective as the good
old-fashioned sandbag. The OAKS
STAYED as close to nature in their meth
ods as the first lesson from corre-
spondence school, namely fiddled them
in and fiddled them out ana 1lddieo
them in again. Technically speaking
that isn't saying much, but the eflect
was so ridiculously pathetic that IL
should be mentioned first
To commence at the interesting end
of the game, Charles Dana Gibson's
portrayal of the 'score tied, two gone
and the bases full'' sensation is mere
nature fake compared with the real
scene which followed the close of the
ninth. When Kitty Brashear faced the
music in the earthquake act the fans
would have hit or nothing, SO wnat
could Kitten do? But, alas and alack,
Jud Smith violated the confidence OF
the bowling throng and hit into dou-
BILE to Eagan, which caught Brashear
on the way to the turnstile, and at that
moment the whole Seraph crew
wouldn't have brought car fare on the
open market.
AS Curly Ellis stepped to the plate
an over-optimistic fan had the audacity
to veil: "Look whose here!" and Auc-
tioneer Berry received a feeble but
higher bid as the reliable left sentry
planted a safe slam in the starboard
garden. Handsome Bert Delmas risked
his good looks long enough to stop an
erratic shoot of Hopkins with his neck
and hastened along to his base Vainly
trying to scratch the injured spot.
Nagle watched two curves split the
rubber which were plainly faVorltes
with the grandstand critics, as well as
Bull Perrine, and then had the brass
nerve to stand without a blank while
the next four were adjudged faulty by
the indicator man.
Imagine George Wheeler throwing
aside his bench toga to personally point
out the Gibsonian flaw with the prayed
for single at this juncture of the cere-
mony. Along with the pandemomium
which must always be described in such
climaxes there broke loose everything
else in the noise gallery which had not
been previously nailed down by Dad
or swiped by the program boys. AS
the sturdy probationer caught the
leather square on the awning the
bleacherites, as one man, heaved hats
and seat cushions into the arena ana
hopped up and down in their benches
in unison with each step Ellis and Del
mas made on the homeward trot.
When order could be restored Ber-
nard took advantage of the slight ner-
vousness which seized the youthful
Hopkins and once more filled the sacks
gratis Oakes followed into the idol
atrous limelight before the fans, but
was deserted at the post by his per-
centage angel and lined easily out, Alt
man to Hogan.
AS has been said, by all the rules or
Hoyle this should have been the end OF
the excitement for the visitors, and in
deed the best novelists would have
made it so, but Van Haltren's pennant
candidates We're loath to bring the
chapter to a close Thorsen and East
erly were placed on the points for the
Angels as a dying bit of strategy and
it may be said that the recently ac-
uuired busher was much tanner than on
his ante-season appearance. EASTWOOD
started the duplicate of the previous
act in favor of the Commuters with a
single to the right parlor, and was given
the sacrificial boost to the halfway
station by Hopkins. Thorsen gave the
slender backstop an opportunity to
travel to the triangle post by throwing
wild to Brashear, but Dashwood was
forced to tarry with Jud Smith while
Cook punctured the ozone and Van
Haltren walked. Heitmuller, the west
ern imitator of the heavy-hittnng La
Jeune, filled out his straight of singles
for the two games by slamming into
center, driving Dashwood and Van Hal
tren home to register the needed odds.
The Angels half Of the extra inning
may be described as a desperate try
and passed up. Brashear got we'll into
the running after Dillon had flown to
Cook, but was forced at the keystone
by Smith. Delmas burnt up Hogan
with nasty drive along the initial
chalk. but Van Haltren managed to
gather in Delmas' effort to win prize
hat as a benediction.
LOS ANGELES