Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-08

II man working for him in the posi-
IL ton of scoreboard artist who
tried his best to win the game for the
Angels yesterday When the wind blew
all the numbers off the board about the
sixth inning the boy stuck up the two
made by the locals an act or two
earlier, but failed absolutely to give
Oakland credit for the pair the Com
muters had earned
But 1t didn't make any difference AM
the Oaks went right on about their
business. winning in the twelfth act
and breaking up a game that was just
getting good when it was all over. The
score was exactly to 2, and Koestner,
who was rather to the rough when per-
forming against the Sox, proved him
self a clever twirler and one of the
neatest fielders who ever occupied the
mound on the local lot 1t wasn't his
fault that the game was lost, for Rube
Ellis and Easterly contributed their
mites. The latter tried to do a little
too much in fielding a bunt and a run
came in while he was off duty at the
checking-in station.
Koestner's work was fine and fancy
for the first three innings, and not
man got to the initial pillow. In the
fourth two hits, combined with lot
of rough stuff, netted tn Oaks a brace
OF tallies, and it was all even when the
Angels kicked in with their two in the
following round. Then everything was
lovely till the twelfth, when the visitors
twisted one over that canned the cher
ries.
Score in Fourth
Cook. one of the Oaks new men,
opened the run getting round by dump
ing one down in front of the plate
which gave Koestner lots of trouble by
taking the reverse English. The twirler
finally nabbed the leather, but tumbled
over and was forced to peg from his
knees Cook beat the ball and pur-
loined the next passage when Eastefiy
made an overthrow to BraSheaf. FER
1ine pronounced a balk and COOK was
sent to third, where he waited Tor the
main show.
Rube Ellis was there to furnish it,
and when Van Haltren sent out nice
easy fly Rube let it drop, Rip taking
advantage of the faux pas and stealing
second almost as soon a he was Safely
registered at first. Iielne Heitmuller
was kind to himself and slapped the
ozone, but Truck Eagan dumped one
in front of the platter. Easterly tried
to get the sphere and jump back to the
plate to intercept Cook, but there was
nothing doing and he shot the ball over
to first to kill Eagan, Cook registering
run the first. Hogans hit by Dillon
was legitimate and Van Haltren tallled,
the inning coming to an end a little
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The Angels contributed their bit IN
the following act when Delmas followed
an out by slamming one past second
that was registered as a hit. Easterly
was safe when Eagan muffed his
grounder and fell heir to coffin on
second via of a force on Koestner's mt
to Haley. Delmas wandered on to third
and tailed when Dashwood's peg to
second was turned out to pasture. van
Haltren dropped an easy fly delivered
by Bernard, and Koestner crossed the
pan before it was retrieved. Bernard
kept Hardy busy shooting them down
to second, but got nothing because
Oaks famed.
Lots of Action
There was plenty of action from here
on. but nothing In the line of score
materialized. Easterly got as far as
third in the seventh round ana was
nailed on the post When ne lIleu to
score, and w. Hogan was retired from
the game with a wrenched knee.
One was down in the eleventh when
Ellis drove out a pretty three~sacker,
and Judge Nagle was brought In TO try
his luck with the club Perrine made
him gift outright of the first station
by calling some good strikes balls, but
+he end was the same, for Koestner
famed when the chance to win his own
game came.
The fight kept up until Oakland's
half of the twelfth, which Van Haltren
opened by waiting for transportation.
He was showed on sack by Heitmul-
ler's sacrifice, and roasted on third after
Eagan had been credited with bingle.
The shooting was fine when Quick
raped out a hard one to Koestner.
and Van Haltren scored the run that
counted. The Angels tried hard in
their half of the round but a double
play spoiled their chances. The num-
bers:
LOS ANGELES
ABB BIZ SB PO A Z