Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-27
SEALS WIN LAST
GAME OF SERIES
BI ! CROWD SEES ANGELS
LOSE CONTEST
MANY ERRORS THROUGHOUT
FINAL GAME
Fans Hopeful in Fifth Inning, When
Local Team Scores Two Runs,
but Enthusiasm Soon
Dies
Los Angeles 2, San Francisco 2

Three thousand fans witnessed the
defeat of the Angels yesterday at
Chutes park. With the exception OF a
short lived squirt In the fifth inning
the Angels were all to the bad. The
game at its best was tame, both sides
making many errors.
Gray started in good shape tanning
the first man. Piper sent grounder to
Smith and was thrown out at first.
williams sent smasher to right field
for a two-bagger, but Melchoir spoiled
the chance by popping ny to Bernard.
Bernard and Oakes flied to Curtis and
.eider. Dillon sent hot liner straight
to. Sutor in the pitchers box, Sutor
clung like martyr, bringing the crowd
to its feet.
zeider opened the next inning by fly
ing to Hosp. Mohler placed a pretty
one In right field, which placed him on
first; he did not last long. however, as
he was caught stealing second on the
down ball by snappy throw by East
erly. McArdle ended the half by hit
ting to Smith, who threw him out at
first.
Brashear opened up by sending
long fiy to Curtis Smith sent another
To Mohler at second. Then a party who
answered to the name of Goodman
came to the plate, bringing with him
an attack of stage fright, three alter
nate throws by Gray and Easterly and
the party retired.
Merry sent the first ball on a long
fly. into the waiting palm of Oakes.
C..fn nnnfhar IN RRrnAr0. Then
something happened, and for moment
it looked as though the Murphy tenn
perance meeting would receive one OF
those famed signs from heaven as Cur
tis connected with the ball and sent 1t
soaring toward left field plus the party
named Goodman.
Ball Hits the Ground
The ball did not reach Murphy, how
ever but landed where Goodman had
been standing. Goodman had used
good Judgment and lodged just In time,
allowing the ball to hit the ground.
Curtis was resting on first. Piper had
been watching Goodman and that ter
ritory looked good to him. He sent
a teasing fly over Hosp's head and
right between Goodman's legs. While
the ball was In the air Curtis was maxi
ing record time around the base line
and crossed the plate several seconds
before the ball, which Goodman had
secured and thrown to Bernard, who
threw home. Easterly said something
and looked toward second for Piper,
but Piper was reposing on third. VIII
liams thought one run that inning was
enough, so famed.
Hosp sent a grounder to Mohler,
who threw him out at first. Easterly
flied to Piper. Gray to Sutor to Will
liams.
Two runs were scored in the fourth
inning, due to an error by Gray, who,
after allowing Zeider a first base hit
and passing Mohier, made a wild throw
to Bernard, endeavoring to catch Zei-
der. Zeider kept running. followed by
Mohler and both men scored. Berry
flied to Bernard.
Bernard hit to Mohler, to Williams.
Oakes sent q fly over Mohler's head
which landed him on first. Dillon fam
ned and Brashear flied to Mohler.
Sutor famed and Curtis fouled to
Easterly. Piper flied to Hosp.
Berry Feels Better
In the second half of the fifth "Han"
Berry almost smiled for the first time
in the game when, with two men out
Hosp and Easterly crossed the plate
with the first two runs for the Angels,
The fans sat up and took notice with
a vengeance. Hosp started things by
sending a liner to second, which was
missed by Mohler. Easterly hit another
to the same place, which made two on
base when Gray came to bat. Sutor
: rot wild and allowed Gray three balls
The roar from the crowd was deafen-
ing. Gray hit the next ball, sending
a hot grounder to Zeider, who failed
to stop it, the ball went by Curtis and
hit the left field fence, scoring the two
runs. Bernard came to bat and hit to
Mohler, who held the bali second,
then threw 1t to McArdle on third, en-
deavoring to catch Gray who had
stolen on the hit. Gray ran off third
and would have been caught but for
the quickness of Hap Hogan, WHO
gave Gray a shove that landed him
back on third In the nick of time.
Oakes flied to Mohler and ended the
inning.
williams hit a safety over Grays
head. Mohler bunted to Smith, who
missed. Two on base. zeider hunted
to Gray, who threw him out at first.
Gray pitched wild and Williams scored.
Melchoir reached third. Mohler flied TO
Dillon. McArdle was passed and Berry
hit to center for a two-baggeri scor-
ing McArdie and Melchoir.
The rest of the game, with the ex-
ception of run by Curtis on an error
by Thorson, who replaced Gray In the
seventh, was tame.