Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-20
MUMPS KEEP MEN
OUT OF RUNNING
TWO MORE ANGEL PLAYERS
JOIN HOGAN
FASTEST GAME OF SEASON Is
WON BY ANGELS
Naele Returns to Slab and Allows but
Four Singles-Groom's Effort
Results In Two
More
sTANpING or THE oLuBs
Los Angeles I, Portland O

r the mumps epidemic keeps ur
there won't be enough players in
the Pacific Coast league to get ur
two teams to keep the schedule work.
ing at the regular speed. Yesterday two
more Angels laid off on account of an
attack of the disease made popular by
Hap Hogan and Spide, and brace of
Beavers are expected to join the hos
pital squad in short time.
The patched line up did not bother
the Angels for a minute, and they won
the fastest game of the season by a
lone tally. Wheeler was in Mumps
Ellis place in left field, and Hosp took
Mumps Brashear's station in the oppo-
site garden. Green, on the slab for
McCredie, is one of those expected to
have a swelled neck before long, but
e.side from one inning he didn't evince
any symptoms of being weak.
Judge Nagle returned to the game as
g regular and displayed all his class by
keeping the Beavers down to four safe
Swats, none of them of the extra base
variety and none calling for a tally.
Groom was not far behind him with six
hits allowed, but three of these came in
O bunch and put the kibosh on the visi-
tors hopes.
The largest crowd of the season
watched the teams battle, and a fault
less game was furnished for their
amusement. From the opening of hos
tilities to the time the last Beaver was
called out but one hour and twenty
minutes was taken, and the innings
went by in monotonous form without a
man reaching third on either side.
Bernard's Star Catch
Portland's once chance to score was
killed by Bernard, when he pulled off
a grandstand stunt in the opening act
that called for all the noise on the
grounds. With one man out Raftery
tore off single and copped second on
his nerve. McCredie walked, and 1t
looked like couple of tallies when
DanZig picked out a nice one and lam
med 1t out toward right field.
Bernard apparently didn't have a
chance to nail the leather, but he tore
up the dirt and got there just in time
to nab the ball with his left hand. Raf-
terry was nearly to third by the time
the catch was made, and it was easy
money doubling him at second. From
this time on the Beavers weren't In the
hunt.
The Angels busted into Groom's g
strong box in the fifth inning, when
Easterly led off with a single to left,
and was helped along when Nagle re-
peated the stunt to the central pasture.
Bernard was playing the game all day,
and found the time ripe for neat bin
gle to the middle pasture which gave
Easterly a chance to get home unmo-
Tested. That one run jinksed the show,
for there wasn't semblance of a tally
discovered thereafter.
If the mumps business keeps up Hen
Berry promises to put Hogan in the
pest house and tie a large can to one
Spide, a foxy terrier. Hap started all
the jaw fuss with the players. and those
in the know say he coaxed Spide to
peddle the germs around and give them
to everyone looking like diamond
artist. Spide must have done the work
for both Los Angeles and Portland are
crippled because of the rush of cases.
The hop on yesterdays doings is
about as follows: