Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-24
WILLETTS GETS
FEARFUL LACING
OAKS PILE UP THIRTEEN RUNS
AGAINST VERNON
HOcAN'S MEN GIVEN HARDEST
BEATING OF SEASON
Seventeen Hits by Visitors and Seven
Errors by Suburhanltes Tell
Story of Sad Slaughter.
Hap Is lneonsolabls
BY A. e. DUNNING

By A. II. DINNlNA
When the last Oakland runner had
painted across the home square, the
umpire had tossed his arm aloft for
the last time in signal of an out, and
the score board showed full nine
inning game, Happy Hogan was Tor
once utterly silent yesterday. 1t neecS
but a single statement to account for
this strange phenomenon-the score
was Is to 0. When Hogan had per-
formed all the ceremonies and incanta-
tions he deemed necessary in order TO
keep up that winning streak he started
Tuesday at Vernon tagged to his uni
form Jacket he shouted to the scorer TO
ring the bell and open things. Through
four or five innings Hap was hopeful.
III the sixth he became worried every
time he slanted his eye toward the
ominous record on the center field score
plank In the seventh he grew dis
gusted when his players made a couple
of dragging and listlesS plays without
effect. In the eighth he forgot he was
in q. game long enough to roar his an
ger at the turn of events, and when
that fatal and unluclSy score was made
in the final inning Happy Hogan, chleI
of the vernonites, relapsed into a loud
silence. This is indeed the superlative
of his discouragement. That Hap could
saw nothing almost broke his players
hearts, for as long as he grabbed at
them they thought all was not lost.
Happy walked sadly and slowly to the
club house, attired himself in the garb
of an American citizen in that same
1nonotonous silence, walked out of the
park and to the car with that deadly
stiffness enveioping him; and then 1t
all burst out in one sentence, which
wasn't real naughty, but would hardly
look well in a woman's magazine. IL
was a short and expressive expletive.
1t told a whole lot in two words; and
the most straight-laced person in the
world would have attached no blame
to Happy for uttering them.
Runaway Contest
There is only one expression that will
At the occasion. 1t was a runaway
game from the start, and not for a
moment In the nine innings did the
Hoganites have a chance to start any
Here is the statistical record that
tells the story in few words and with
overwhelming veracity. The oaks got
seventeen hits off Willetts, and made
thirteen runs The Vernon men COM
rnitted seven grievous mistakes. What
is to be expected other than a one-sided
score when such contrasts are in evil
dence?
For inning after inning until the long
tale was told the goose eggs rolled In
on Happy, and he had enough when 1t
was all done to start a first-class re-
frigerator plant and retail the goose
fruit to the trusting populace at fresh
prices. Just four hits were handed the
Suburbanites by Pitcher Christian, who
was doing all kinds of puzzling stunts
for the northerners.
This was the last game participated
in by Willetts as a member of the YER
non team prior to his departure for
new fields, and the send-off they gave
him was surely most enthusiastic. II
Willetts slept at all last night his
slumbers were probably disordered by
wild visions of swinging clubs and
bushels of baseballs flying around in his
immediate vicinity. He was given the
season by any of the Coasters, and the
hits came in droves, aoeks, coveys,
schools and herds. They came from all
directions and went to all quarters OF
the diamond. The Oakland batters
landed on the Vernonite from every
conceivable swinging angle, ana even
threw their sticks at waste balls ana
batted out infield singles. 1t was a
hitfest of the first class.
Oaks Open in First
It would be unfair to the reader of
baseball narratives to detail each run.
and it's causes and effects. The Oaks
began in the first with one run, and
kept it up to the end, finishing with
the thirteenth score in the last session.
Murphy's double in the first sent the
Oaks on their way. He took third on
CarrolPs sacrifice and scored on a hot
single by D. Lewis. There were five
other scoring periods for the visitors,
and the most one-sided were the sixth
and eighth.
Murphy's single scored LaLonge in
the sixth, and Christian followed him
over the plate a moment later on
wild pitch by Willetts Murphy then
crossed the pan on an infield single by
Lewis. and after this the Vernon line
lost all semblance of order and was
flanked and routed by the heavy firing
Of the Baysiders. The eighth saw the
Vernonites in a state of decided panic,
and five more runs were tossed over,
the Oaks merely hitting and running
and scoring at will. 1t is sad to tell
of this awful slaughter, but duty ne
cessitates Hogan, it is said, has de-
cided TO take his pitchers into deep,
dark canyon, far away from the conn
mon herd, drop them over cliff and
use the men who survive. He has
come down TO the meat of the twirling
staff by this time. and today will prob
ABLY send Busher Raleigh, the most
promising performer he has with the
exception of Schafer, on the firing line.
The list of casualties is as follows: