Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-09
VERNON DEFEATED
IN FINAL FRAME
LOSERS SCORE MORE HITS
THAN REIDY'S MEN
ERRORS OF LOCALS RESPONSIBLE
FOR WINNING RUNS
HOGAN Shifts Lineup to Little Avail.
Wigs and Breckenridge Sent
from Field by Umpire
Toman

After getting away from the wire
with a good even break and leading
the field past the barrier, the half and
the three-quarters, the Hoganites lost
the second contest of the weeks series
to Reidy's northerners. The locals
were given a good ride into the stretch.
but Reidy let out a wrap and out
nodded the Vernonites at the judges
stand, to 2.
Maybe it was the absence of Hap
Hogan's smiling countenance from be-
hind the hardwood, and maybe 1t was
the fierce manner in which Toman or
dered the players around, but series
of bunched hits by Oakland and a wild
throw by a Vernon player allowed the
Reidy aggregation to first tie the score
and then put over an extra tally which
gathered the grapes.
Vernon Lineup Shifted
Han endeavored to strengthen his
batting lineup by a radical shift IN
the positions of the men, and succeeded
in connecting with the Oakland pitch
ing staff for eleven hits, four more
than were made by the winners, but to
no avail. Motifs name did not appear
on yesterdays lineup. Devereaux filled
the vacancy made by the removal of
Mott, while Bernard covered sack NO,
2 and Eagan held forth at short.
Breckenridge. Christian and Wigs
all twirled fair games, the latter
artists being set down by Toman in
the fifth inning for disputing de-
cision This ump followed IN his lead
by sending Breckenridge from the field
in the latter half of the ninth inning
for coaching from the bench.
Not a runner crossed the plate until
"a
rang the bell. Eagan singled to the
infield and was sacrificed to second,
Wiggs to Cutshaw. Brown couldn't
locate, but Breckenridge tripled to deep
center scoring Truck"
The cellar champions added another
score to their pile in the seventh
inning Eagan tried to knock some of
the figures from the score board. and
Devereaux swatted Christian for an
other two-bagger scoring the Angel
shortstop.
Ninth Fatal for Locals
Reidy, seeing his nine about to meet
an inglorious defeat at the hands of
Vernon. awoke his players from a state
of coma and managed to squeeze Nc
Kune across the score board in the
eighth frame McKune singled to left
field and Lewis dropped an easy one in
Stovalrs mitt Christian swatted a
liner to the right garden and McKune
got an extra base on Coy's error. Kelly
hoisted fly to Coy and McKune scored
on the throW-in.
Batting as if their lives depended
upon the result of the game, the Oak
landers punched three hits in the fatal
ninth. pulling out Of a bad hole and
winning the contest. Errors on the
part of the Vernon players let in the
runs which otherwise would never have
been scored. Maggert hit two bases
worth to left field w. Hogan showed
the ball through center, and Maggert
tied the score when Stovall slipped a
cog. Cameron famed. Cutshaw sin
gled the infield on Eagan's wild throw
to first, allowing w. Hogan to score
and Cutshaw to take third, winning the
contest.
Vernon Makes Rally
The losers made a game rally in the
latter half Of the final frame, and for
a moment It appeared that they ould
tie the score, but no such good luck
Gov singled, but was forced at second
by Eagan. Haley, running for Eagan
stole second, and DevereauX walked.
Brown flew to Kelly, and Willet,
handling the stick for Breckenridge,