Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-22
HITS AND LUCK
DEFEAT VERNON
SACRAMENTO TAKES FIRST
GAME OF SERIES
WINNING RUN is SCORED ON
LUCKY BOUNCE
Breckenridge Eases Up In Seventh
After Pitching Good 5all-6uck
Ehman Puzzles Suburban
Sluggers
Sacramento 4, Vernon 2


If a ball thrown to catch player
at the plate in the seventh hadn
bounced off a stone just before 1t
reached Happy Hogan's glove, allowing
a runner to score, If Myers hadn't shit
a lucky single in the next inning, JUST
right to bring in another score, II tue
Hans had been a little faster on paseS'
and if Breckenridge had not eased up
in the last three innings-in fact' IL
the Suburbanites had hit little OIL
harder and their pitcher had been less
vulnerable to the northerners-Well,
ANYWAY. the Senators ran away with
the first game of the series yesterday
and the Vernonites lost on their nome
grounds, at that. The home defeat
is a record for the Senators, of Whlch
they may well be proud, for 1t Is not
within the memory of local rams lhaI
the Vernonites have lost game on
the Suburban field
There was enough scrappiness mani
tested for a half dozen baseball games
Perhaps there was something IN the
Vernon atmosphere which produced n
little mental ginger, perhaps it was
because both teams had had whole
DAYS rest from diamond duties, though
that day had been spent en- route by
the Sacramento players. Whatever
the cause, the umpire had a busy day,
firing Gandil from the game and F1tz-
gerald off the bench for excessive en-
thusiasm, and being nagged at by the
crowd and the players throughout, "A
yociferous bleacherite distracted at
tention from the game for several mo-
ments by loudly calling on Happy
Hogan, the umpire, and the Vernon
police, to afford him protection, when
he ran the gauntlet for taking the side
of the visitors more vigorously than
was thought proper in bleacherdom.
Altogether, 1t was a highly exciting
occasion, and Hap was the only man
who was, disgusted. But Hap never
enjoys his dinner after he loses a
game.
Hits and Luck Win
It is not difficult to deduce logical
conclusions for the Sacramento vic
tory. Six punched hits and a little
luck did the business. The Senators
got off well with two runs in the sec
ond, Hogans men tied them up in
the fifth, and then Sacramento poked
her nose ahead by short length in
the seventh, stretching it into another
in the eighth.
Buck Ehman outpitched Bracken-
ridge, that's ell. Both teams played
splendid fielding ball, the visitors get
ting away without a single slip. But
the slugging bug got hold of the River
sidsTs in the last portion of the game,
and thereby hangs the tale of the de-
feat
Gandil's walk, Flanagan's single to
left, Raymer's sacrifice, and Doyle's
double to left brought the first two
over for the first runs for the north
erners. Brashear's double and Eagan's $
walk gave these two Vernonites their
positions on the stations in the fifth,
and Motifs triple to right field fence
scored both men, tying up matters.
Hereafter, things assumed a more in
teresting phase.
An entire inning went by without
any mishaps or haps of any kind, other
than a single by a Vernonite. Then
Breckenridge slipped a little, and be-
fore he recovered his balance the dam
age had been done. Gandil struck out,
and was retired to the bench, and
finally off the field when he roared
to Umpire Irwin, claiming he was hit
by pitched ball on the chest. Flan-
agan reused the Irish fans by dou-
bling to center, and then an intermis-
sion occurred while Fitzgerald was
sent off the field for talking from the
bench. Raymer was out on a fly to
left. Doyle singled to right, and Coy
returned the ball to Hogan, but the
sphere took a bad bounce, and Flan-
agan got home when it shot off to the
This gave Sacramento n
lead of one run. They increased it in
the next, Shinn getting on first with
a single to left, to second on Der
ringers sacrifice, and scoring on
Myers timely hit away over shortstop.
The tabulated score: