Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-17
TWO HOME RUNS
DEFEAT SEALS
DELMAS AND DALEY MAKE
CIRCUIT HITS
DECIDING GAME OF SERIES WON
BY ANGELS
Thorsen Pitches in Brilliant style and
Is Backed by Perfect Fielding in
Fitting Windup-Game's
Score Is to
Los Angeles 3. san Francisco 2

Elliott, Illinois, wherever and what
ever the place may be, may now smear
itself over the map as a city of re-
nown. One of its rising young citizens
has forced his way into the niche OF
fame Elmer Thorsen, with the good
red fighting blood of the wild Morse
men coursing through his veins, has
stuck to the firing line until he won
victory. Patiently. smarting under
caustic criticism, ceaseless nagging ana
whitening ridicule, the prairie boy mas
fought it out and finally has developed
that one necessary characteristic of
pitcher which, was all he lacked to
make him one uI t1e besr-gd6d uuH-
troll. With his teammates playing err
rorless ball behind him, with the op-
posing stickers battling desperately in
the realization that defeat meant the
loss of the series, pitching against the
fastest. most formidable team in the
league, Thorsen won a brilliant victory
from the leaders yesterday Today the
inhabitants of the Illinois town should
be wearing gala attire, parading the
streets, with the shops closed.
After getting off to a bad start in the
first inning when a walk, a hit by
pitcher" a sacrifice and timely sin
gle scored Zeider and Mohler, Thorsen
steadied down like a veteran and,
backed by terrific slugging ON the part
of the Angels. had a comparatively
easy time of it for the rest of the game
though not a moment did the strain
lessen until the last man had flown out
and the teams had started for the club
house.
Home Run by DeImas
Yet in all this memory of the grand
game pitched by the big easterner, it
must not be forgotten that those two
home runs by Delmas and Daley told
the tale of victory. Without them
Thorsen might have found his Water
loo in the first inning. Without them
the Seals might have made sweep of
the series played so far this year with
the Angels, for this is the first time
Mohler's men have lost a series to the
Dillonites.
In the fourth inning. when Smith
had landed on first after forcing How
ard at second with the score standing
two to a noisy, ominous cipher, Bert
DelmaS tied the score, One man was
pasted in the out column and Smith
was patiently awaiting the call to
scoot for second. But DelmaS gripped
his stick with grasp of determination,
ignored the pleadings of DR.. Jud for
some of that hit and run stuff, and
swung truly. Way over toward right
the ball flew and everybody rose, for
the instant it left the bat and started
to rise the veriest amateur fan could
see that it was due for a long, rousing
hit. More than that, it landed behind
the tiers OF seats just out of sight
a whiskers breadth within the fair
line, and bounding over into the bleach
ers behind a wire screen was good for
q homer, Delmas trotting over pre-
ceded by Smith.
Another by Daley
This tied the score and all that was
needed was another run to win the
game. I'm going to bang it over the
fence this time" called Daley to Pitch
er Willis as he walked toward the plate
the first man up in the next inning
And he did. The first ball pitched to
him looked just right, so Peter drew
back and connected fairly. 1t was a
sizzler, shooting into deep center field
bouncing high into the air, and top
ping the barrier just to the left of the
'$1.00 a week" sign. Then came the
winning score and the Daley grin
AS far as run getting goes, this tale
must stop right here. But in view of
the fact that from that point onward
Thorsen allowed only two hits and the
Seals never got beyond second, Zeider
being the only man to get past first,
it is worth while to repeat that the
fans saw in the work of the easterner
some of the finest kind of twirling
Mohler fought stubbornly for a tie
score. but Thorsen was determined to
win his game and the series, and the
big fellow went about 1t so coolly and
carefully that he had it all his own
way. The score: