Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-08
ENACT COMEDY
AT CHUTES PARK
HoGANITES LOSE FUNNY GAME
TO BEAVERS
TWENTY-sEVEN HITS MADE IN
RECORD PLAY
Baqest Swatting Session Of Year IN
Coast League Goes to Portland.
Harkins and Pitt Victims
of Joke Game
Portland, 13; Vernon, 8

Co you all and don your robes OF
sympathy, for here follows tale o.
woe Captain Happy Hogan OF NGIIl2ll
and Captain Walter McCredie OF FoTt-
land, arise. Others, be seated Let l'e
brass band play a funeral d1rge'
When the cortege had passed IN pro-
cession and the last sad rites hau pee"
paid to the luckless Hoganites III the
Chutes park tragedy yesterday Ills
dead counted up a narrowing total Oh
thirteen for the besieged SuburbalteS
and three for the attacking party 1Itls 1ts
is unusual, for the party leaalns INC
assault usually suffers the larger mum
her of casualties. In this case' OWNS
to the peculiar condition surrouiuILS
the conflict the hemmed-in bahd tooh
a fearful beating, and the tale Is d selN
one to the inhabitants of Vernon nap
nv Hogan will probably be memorial
lied today by his constituents dshiuS
for a couple of good pitchers, lew III. IN
fieIders and few more outheIueIs' nc
nortI1erners will be presented a crate OF
laurel wreaths for winning Sdliio
which they had every license 10 lose III
the opening innings, and never REGAIN.
please remain standing, Captains
Happy and McCredie; the funeral ora
tion is still in progress.
Record Hitting Game
For hitting the game yesterday broke
all long-distance records THIS season
rTyventy-seven bingles in nine innings
sneak for themselves, and the thirteen
rms made by the northerners are
equally noisy. Pitcher Harklns, VINO
might be a bush league tWirler, puI
sae71s about due to be shipped to
Fairbanks, Alaska, or some other Tar
away place where he can do no more
damage to the Vernonites' per centaBe
standing, was the victim of the day
He was banged all over the lot from
the time he entered the box untl ne
left. Only one inning was hitless LOT
the Portland men, and they came rlsHI
back with three in the next.
To sum the affair up briefly and In a
kindly spirit, it was one of those OH
days which occasionally happen in the
hest regulated of league famlIles'
Everybody on both teams, with the eX-
ception of Pitts, who substituted LOT
Harkins in the eighth, and therefore
got a late start. and Hardness, inc
Beaver twirler, and Breen got hit.
Spears, the Oregon left fielder, MADE
five hits out of six times at bat, and
one of these was a double. 1t was d
gala day for the big hitters, and even
the fans absorbed some of the entnu-
sasm and grew mirthsome and care
free as the runs and hits poured III.
There were only two unhappy men
In the whole game. One of these 1t IS
needless to interpolate was the unhap-
py Hoganite. Wallace Bray. The other
was the official scorer, who earned MS
money for the first time this season. IN
royal style. In fact it took the scorer
two hours and five minutes to assign
the players the various credits due
them for their hitting feats and fielding
mistakes.
Hit and Run Affair
1t would be a shame to infict the de-
tailed story of the game on the loyal
southern fans. 1t was hit ana run anu
run and hit throughout two hours ana
five minutes of play Not man was
struck out during the whole afternoon
and many a fan went home to be
nursed for a hoarse voice, due to holler-
ing when runs came in. Harklns, the
touted star of the Beavers pltchefs
brigade, was given the opportunity 70
appear, and he was lambasted with
right good will. We will pass up what
happened to Harkins, the Vernonites
for we have a little fellow feeling for
the townslnen of the suburb from
whence halls Happy the Unlucky.
One inning, the seventh and most
disastrous Of the game, will sut1ce 10
explain how things went throughout
the day.
It was the seventh which sent the
Portlanders miles ahead. They got tlYe
runs. and all of them came so easily
that it was joke. Johnson opened
with a terrific drive to the left field
fence. which the "free hat" sign pre-
vented from being home run. He Sc
cured a single on it, however, and
Fisher advanced with n repeater 10
right, scoring him from first base. Ort
singled to left, allowing Fisher ia
squeeze home. and Breen flew out to
right On a small bunt which Hark-
ness was lucky in turning into a field
er's choice Ort got home, and then
Harkins walked Olson. This was too
much for Happy's writhing soul, and
Pitt stepped into the box. Speas sin
gled infeld filing the bases, and Ryan
singled to right scoring Harkness and
Olson. McCredie merCifuliy closed up