Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-10
NIGHTlNEE IS
GREAT SUCCESS
5000 SPECTATORS SEE GAME
PLANNED BY DICK FERRIS
ELKs' WHITE SQUADRON MADE
RICHER BY $4,000
Hen Berry Is Shining Star of Evening,
and Audience Has Much Fun in
Watching the Cotton
Batting

In the presence of 5000 enthusiastic
Spectators many of whom have not
yet announced their candidacy for the
city council, the Los Angeles baseball
team defeated the San Francisco team
by a score of II to IL in the first night
ball game ever held in the west at
Chutes park last night. The venture
was so much of a success that Dick
Ferris was kept fitting about under
the arc lights like a very busy June
bug, receiving the congratulations of
his friends. The band played but Al
Levy and Doug White made even more
noise selling peanuts, and incidentally
the Elks' white squadron fund, for
which the "nightinee" was given, was
enriched by about $4,000.
AS to the game-well, If you want to
know all about the game, get bed
slat and go out and spank a big bun
around under an arc light. On ac-
count of the difficulties of arranging
adequate lighting, the match was
played with an indoor baseball, and
when one Hen Berry who appeared in
abe cast, swatted the wad of cotton
waste with a Herculean swat it was like
a Dutch windmill connecting with
pan of dough. After he had ruined
several high priced balls and started
the base runners all running back
ward by throwing the ball the wrong
way he retired in favor of Daley Mr.,
Berry carried his own headlight in the
form of brilliant red wig. But these
more technical details were the least
important part of the event. The big,
noisy crowd enjoyed itself thorough
ly and the management was besieged
with requests for future matches last
night
Game Planned by Ferris
Most of the credit for lighting the
field which was cleverly done, goes to
Dick Ferris. who planned and super
vised the placing of the lights. In the
center was q large pole, bearing a
cluster of arc lamps. with two power
full spotllghts fianking the field at first
and third bases. These were cleverly
manipulated, the operators following
the ball and keeping it always in the
center of a pencil of rays. The out
field was well lighted with four bat
teries of arc lamps on the fence. The
lights in the grandstand were turned
off to make the glare in the big arena
more striking.
At 1880 o'clock the grandstand be-
gan to fill, and long before the game
was called nearly every available seat
was taken. In the boxes were scores
of persons prominent in the city's busi-
ness and social life, and the event took
on the nature of a fall carnival with
the brilliant lights of the Chutes park
illuminations added to the glare of the
field.
After several mixups in the first in
ming, assembling a Rugby football
serum, the official scorekeeper bit his
pencil in two and gave UP all hope of
trying to keep a box score. The rec
ord shows only that "the tall man with
the thin shanks spanked it clear up
into the dark and got almost home be-
fore the spotlight caught it." and that
Hen Berry had to make a home rur
because there was another man behind
him and he couldn't get out of the
way"
Home Team a Winner
At the end of the third the score
stood to in favor of Los Angeles,
and from then on the home team forged
ahead. The crowd had a joyous, dis
interested fancy for both teams, and
the visitors received generous applause
when they smacked the big ball out
beyond the range of the spotlight. The
light operators showed splendid impair
tiality in following the ball as closely
for the visitors as for the home team.
The lineup:
San Franeisco-Miller. IS: Tenant. c; VIII
Iiams, If; Mundorff, 3b; Mohler, 2b; Stewart
CT; McArdle, p; Browning, 1b: Wade, IF,
Los Angeles-Delmas, SIS; Nagle, 3b; Goodwin,
If: Orendorf, D; Daley, 2b; Berry, eff Beall,
db Smith, c; Butler, CT; Lelande. RI.
SCORE BY INNINGS
San Francisco ...... Pill
Los Angeles ......... III
Umpires-Irwin and Brink