Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-21
SMITHS SINGLE
BRINGS VICTORY
ANGELS DEFEAT OAKLAND IN
CLOSE GAME
WIGGs is TROUNcED BY THE
CHAMPIONS
Second of Tall and Thin Trio of Oaks
Pitchers Loses 10 Locals, Though
Handing Out Only Three
Hits
Los Angeles 8, Oakland 2

Chapter two of the agony or the
Faithful Trio" being the tale Of the
rough voyage encountered by the three
Oakland pitchers Of renown and ex-
treme height and thinness, is now ready
for the publisher. Thursday tall
Boice, one of Reidy's choicest took a
beating from the Champions. Yester-
day the second of the trio, the far
famed Jim Wigs, took a worse one.
Today it is "Slats" Nelson's turn to
bravely step up and take his beating
The clever elongated combination of
the Reidy band, who have been re-
markably successful in the pitching
department this season. despite the
record Of defeats. has run afoul of a
snag in the southland journey. Two of
them now have been trimmed to
tuneful measure; it is up to the An
gels to hand Nelson the third trounclng
in order to make an appropriate finish
ancient Mariner" Judson G. Smith,
some time toothpuller, otherwise the
Champions third sacker, is the man
who turned the trick. Even stlH
homer, scoring one man ahead OF the
circuit hitter, could not down the Dill
lonites and when Smith lined the ball
to left in the sixth, bringing over
Daley and Bean, he sent the Angels
one run to the lead, which was nice
comfortable position--so comfortable
that they decided to stay there.
Three Pitchers for Oaks
Three pitchers occupied the box for
Oakland in the two innings Though
Wiggs was hit sparcely. he went
wobbly in the sixth, and in the next
Manager Bill Reidy tossed him on the
bench. and handled the remainder of
the seventh. Reidy had no intention
his
through a period of approaching de-
moralization, and when the eighth
came along he sent in Tonneson. who
stuck through the remainder OF the
game Tonneson was in good form, but
the two walks and Smiths single had
already won the game, and he could
not pull the Oaks out of their defeat'
since Thorsen was unassailable.
Now for a moment of quiet consider
alton of our latest phenom, Elmer or
Elliott. Thorsen, as has been told be-
fore in these columns has overcome a
big handican in that he has been wild
as a Kansas wind disturbance, and had
TO work almost day and night to OBJ
tain control. It was remarked when
he won from the Seals last out that
he appeared at last to have gained that
necessary qualification OF good
pitcher-the only thing he needed to
make him one of the best. He double
cinched this view yesterday when he
held the Oaks down to five hits, fielded
his position accurately and pulled MN
self out of a couple Of rather annoying
positions. IF Thorsen keeps up his
stride he will more than do.
Angels start Well
With these few interpretations, which
are certainly coming to the llllnols
pitcher we will now proceed to the
tale of the game The Angels got
away to a nice start, scoring one run
IN the first Daley, first up, was passed
before Wiggs got his bearings. He
reached second on Ross long fly to
center field and then was showed over
the home square on Wheeler's hard
double to center.
With two men out and Duffy Lewis
on first with a single, and the Angels
about ready to trot TO their bench
for another chance at Wigs, William
Hogan connected with a Thorsen heaVe
that SCARED over the left field fence,
bringing in two runs, putting Oakland
one tally TO the good.
This looked not all satisfactory to
DR.. Judson C. Smith, or to his team
mates. Accordingly after allowing
Wiggs to do some effective work
against them in their half, they came
up in the next inning and proceeded to
effect a little execution. Daley was
walked. and reached second on Roses
sacrifice. He landed on third on
wild pitch. and then Wiggs, seeing the
fast little fielder lodging around
toward home forgot all his good reso-
lutions about being cool in pinch:
taught him in the primary class of
baseball. went up in the air and al
lowed Beall and Howard to walk. win
+bn bases filled, Smith answered the
call by whipping the ball into deep
center, and Dalev and Beall came
home. This was all. for Tonneson and
Thorsen were stinev thereafter and 1t
was case of fighting out to a fizzle
finish The happy details: