The San Francisco call., 1908-07-12
Famous Woman Racquet Wielder Pleases Crowd
Angels Ring Up Runs
Till They Tire
Sympathetic Fans Shed Tears for
Southpap Hardy and His
SIow Ball
By w. j. Siaftery

The Oakland boys were again led to
the slaughter by the Los Angeles cham
pions yesterday afternoon in as ragged
and rough a game of ball as any fan
ever stuck up his two bit piece for the
privilege Of viewing. The score was
10 to s, but il in no way tells the tale
Of the bone headed work, fierce pitch
| ing OF Hardy and general all round
stupidity of the Oakland nine. If there
was a redeeming feature it was so
badly smothered by the bush ball that
it slipped by unnoticed by the multi
/ tude.
Southpaw Hardy was at his worst and
anybody who has ever seen him pitch
| some of his three star rotten games
/ knows about what this means He did
not even have a smile. If he put the
J ball over the plate and simply allowed
/ the Angels 10 slap II, nobody would
kick hard, but everybody became sore
when the left handler passed man after
man till nine had gone the route.
There is some excuse for a pitchers
wildness if he wades in and does the
raystifying act in the tight places. How
about Hardy? Not there. Those u
resoundiug bingles which the Angels
| hammered out during the afternoon
will show at glance that whenever
they felt inclined to rap the sphere
the champions accomplished their pur-
pose
Los Angeles started the day well
collecting two runs in the first three in
nings This lead looked pretty fat
! but Oakland came back at them in the
third with three. Even with a nice
! lead like this the Oaks could not dc
any good, but went down the line al
the first opportunity and tossed the
game off before leading half an hour.
| The Oakland rally was started by
Altman, who worked a pass. Lewis
landed on Smiths boot and Hardy put
little Dutch over with a hit to cen
ter. Lewis was forced by Van, after
which Cook also grabbed a pass. Here
Heine Heitmuller did the most noble
stunt of the afternoon. swinging in tc
center with a fine two cushion swipe
that put Hardy and Van through.
But the lead was of short duration
for Hardy tossed it off in the fifth, wher
he let the Angels tie the score again
With two in the hole, Hardy passed Dill
Ion and Brashear, and Dillon came right
on home as soon as Ellis tore off {
ripping single to the center garden.
The fifth might have passed unnotice6
had the seventh been wiped off the
map, but this was a terrible round and
deserves mention. Brashear opened uT
with a hit, Smith hunted and they
were both safe on a felder's choice
Delmas lifted a long fly to Van which
registered Brash-E Then Happy Hogar
found a slow one for two bags anC
Hosp singled over third, so the granG
total was four for the Angels when the
awful agony at last ended.
The Oaks managed to gather one IL
their half of the seventh, but the An.
gels very mercifully allowed the eight
to pass without action. But in tn,
ninth they made up for lost time anC
capped the glorious climax with thre,
more tallies. Everybody on the team
seemed to Office up to those slow boy.
of Hardy's- 1t was bingle, hingle ant
swat right down the line till the fan.
shed tears for Oakland
The fielding on both sides was yer,
sloppy. especially with men on tn,
bases Hosp pitched rather a goot
game, but was loose at times and ais,
suffered from poor support. The gam,
wan another long drawn out affair. re
quiring more than two hours TO play ii
The score: