Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-29
FLUKE HIT FINALLY SCORES
DECIDING RUN
Rando lph Roughly Treated by Visit
ors, and Is Removed from Slab
by Dillon, Koestner Fin.
ishlng Game
srANnINa or THE CLUBS
Los Angeles z, Oakland 6
Ten Innings

n USH league ball marked the ret
* turn of the Oaks to the local lot
~ yesterday and after ten innings,
in which O'Connell endeavored to out
do the players on both teams for punk
shooting, the Angels registered lucky
victory. 1t was the bummest kind of
fluke hit that scored two mem and
finally allowed the aSonized fans to
escape.
The game belonged to any one at
almost every stage. First the Oaks
took a turn at leading and then the
locals strung a run or two on to their
total, the bust-up coming when 1t ap-
peared that Van Haltren already had
the percentages totaled with another
victory to his credit.
No matter how poor 1t was, the
tenth inning was exciting enough. and
kept the fans in the air until Bra
shear had finally been declared safe
with the winning run. Two were In the
tower and two on bases. with Oakland
one tally to the good before Rube Ellis
was given chance to swing the
stick. His effort was a dinky slap
toward Hogan, and just as the base
man stopped to spear 1t the ball took
q fancy bounce and scared over his
head.
The Oakland supporters had chance
to tear their WOOL for Dillon and Bra
shear lost no time in scurrying for
cover. Brashear did not beat the ball
to the plate many miles. but he was
called safe by O'Connell and the Angels
were credited with the rummiest vic
tory of the season.
Randolph Is Canned
Red Randolph started in to do slab
duty for the Angels, but Dillon became
nervous in the eighth round and Koest-
ner was put on instead of the blonde.
Koestner's best effort was in the
ninth, when he famed three Com
muters in line, but his stunt wasn't
so graceful in the following act, and
1t was not because of his work on the
hill that the Angels won. Harty per-
formed for Van Haltren all the way
and displayed a lot of dazzling curves
which got him nothing in the end.
Some good performances were re-
corded in the opening round, and In
the second the Oaks scored a run.
Eagan started something by walking,
but he was retired in short order when
Hogan hit into a double play. Alt
man singled past Delmas, and on his
attempt to steal second Barnard Oakes
and Brashear all fumbled the sphere,
allowing the runner to score. Haley
famed and the doings were over tenn
porarily
The Angels more than evened up by
scoring a pair of runs in the follow
ing spasms. Randolph walked and
Bernard was hit in the back. Oakes
bunted to Harty and the ball was
tossed over Hogans head, Randolph
and Bernard scoring. Oakes got to
third, but was thrown out at the
plate when he tried to tally on Bra
shears fly.
A very busy period resulted when
the sixth was called, but out of 1t all
the visitors collected lone tally. Del
mas made a poor throw of Slattery's
hit and the runner was safe at Dillon
vile and Harty was safe when Ber-
nard dropped Del's toss to second.
Cook bunted at the third strike and
was out, and Van Haltren walked to
fill the bags. Heitmuller hit to Smith,
who winged the pill home in time to
stop Slattery. The ball got by Dillon
when an attempt was made to double
Heitmuller at first. and Harty scored
Heitmuller was caught off stations and
retired.
Ellis opened the seventh with a
double to left and was scored on
Easterly's infield single. In the eighth
Oakland made two runs when Haley,
after being walked and stealing Sec
gle. Harty followed with another bin
gle and Randolph was sent to the
bench. Koestner, who replaced him,
retired Cook, but Van Haftren's single
scored Slattery.
In the Angels half of the same round
Bernard walked, was sacrificed to sec
ond by Oakes and stole third. Dillon
scored him with an out and Brashear
put the Angels in the field with an
other out.
The ninth went by without any tally
ing, but in the tenth the Oaks slapped
in a pair of votes. Haley singled and
stuck around while Slattery flew to
right. Harty singled and put Haley on
third, and Cook made things look
brighter for the locals by popping out
to Dillon. Van Haltren tore off a
triple through Delmas and scored the
two in front of him and the Oaks
went to the field with the game appar-
emily won.
Bernard started the last half of the
tenth with an infeld single and was
forced at second on Cakes hit Dillon
walked and. with Oakes, pulled off
double steal. Brashear walked and
passed ball scored Oakes, Dillon going
to third. Smith flew out and Brashear
stole second and then Rube Ellis came
to the front. Rube hit the ball straight
at Hogan, who stopped to grab the
leather just as it took a bad bounce
Dillon scored easily, but Brashear was
forced to move some to gain a favor
able verdict over Heitmuller's throw
to the plate. Score:
LOS ANGELES
ABB r 1B SB PO A r
$;is::'; $ii;s:: $iE:;: if is : XXX: ! J: !, ? /!
Brashear rf. .... 0 0 0
Smith, 3b ....... 8 o 0 0 0
Ellis, II. ........ s 0 0