Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-30
FIRST CONTEST
GOES TO ANGELS
CHAMPIONS SHOW RETURN TO
THEIR WINNING FORM
4IFp GAME is LOST AND THEN
WON AT SEVERAL STAGES
Vernon Accepts Defeat on Its Home
Grounds at Hands Of Berry's
Brlgade-sixth Inning Does
the Business
BASEBALL
Los Angeles 6, Vernon I


lon and his fire-eating champions are
hot after your leading seals and their
fierce start yesterday, when they stole
the first game of the series from the
Hapless Hoganites shows that they
have returned from the north full OF
vim and ambition. one moment
pause before we launch into the tale
of the battle. List to dark secret
Captain Kidd Mohler Your happlng
mammals seem overdue for a slide
down the slippery rocks of defeat
Captain Frank has spoken, and MS
word spells victory when the season
is over. At last the Angels have &C
auired that lopg-awaited lighting splr-
It, and yesterdays play brought lorth
this prayed for and entirely necessary
qualification in pennant winners. IL II
they keep it up, the Angels cannot De
beaten Therefore, once more, Captain
Mohler, look to your honors.
1t is not an easy task to tell the tale
of one of those ''if'' games, such as the
fans who journeyed out to FeEnon
witnessed in the lowering hours Of
Yesterday So many possibilities had
10 he discounted. SO many chances
seized and lost had to be reckoned, that
when the totals are scanned 1t seems
scarcely conceivable that ten runs
were scored by the two teams. By all
the rules of perfect baseball IL should
have been a 1 to 0 game, with the
Angels in the long end. But perfect
baseball would be bore, and there
fore the fans went away highly salts
fled-all except Happy, the Hoganite.
Record Crowd at Vernon
The largest and best-looking crowd
that ever gathered at the SUBURBAN
field welcomed the champs home and
sent a few bouquets occasionally In
Hap's direction. The Berry brigade
was resplendent in their white home
uniforms: the Vernons wore the natty
travelling" suits of gray, trimmed with
red. The goat, Spide, the feminine
fan. and the raucous-Voiced bleacher-
tie were. all there. 1t was indeed a
day of days, even to the glorious, If
somewhat torrid weather. And Henry
Berry and few other fat men We're
the only ones who complained of the
brand supplied by the forecaster.
The Ifs" tell a good deal of the in
side history Of the game. To begin
with if Daley hadn't raped out
terrific double when he first faced the
Vernon pitcher, tive Angels possibly
would never have gotten started. Ii
Hosp hadn't weakened trifie lin the
fourth the Vernonites would never
have reached lead and given the
Angel hackers cold shivers down their
Splld4 NOluhlAAo.
If Haley hadn't made a bad tumble
of Dilons easy liner in the siXt' with
two men out. the other five runs,
which brought disaster to the Hogan
ties, might not, and probably would
not. have been scored. If the Brooks
team had been able to hit a little
harder and run bases a little faster
there might have been another story
to relate this morning If-but whats
the use? Here it is, and judge for
yourself.
The Champions scored the first tally
in the opening inning. After the
travelling" team had gotten one hit
off Hosp the locals came back with
the real tobasco stuff. Daley waited
for his choic b, and then getting It,,
swung the sphere out to the center
field fence for a double. Ross and
Dillon Travelled the assist route, and
then tall and rangy Beall, that best
beloved of the Angel line, hove in view
on the starboard side, majestically
tackled to the plate, opened up his bat
terry of 19-inch roarers, and when the
smoke cleared away he had landed on
first with a neat single hot to right,
scoring Daley.
Things went along smoothly and
sweetly for the next two innings, and
the Haps woke up. The fourth reads
like this:
stovan laid every ounce of steam on
that ball for a terrific single over
Hosp's head. Martinke was passed to
first and Stovall was caught at third
on q fielder's choice by Hosp, Haley
reaching first to be forced moment
later by Eagan. Eagan stole second
and Graham banged out a double to the
score board, sending Truck over the
pan. Hogan hit toward Bert Delmass,
who allowed the ball to wander through
him and beyond Ross In left field, era
ham getting home. Raleigh banged a
hot single to Beall, who made power
full throw to the plate, catching Hap In
the act of stealing score. Total
damage, three runs.
That Glorious Sixth
Again lull In the hostilities came
in the fifth, and then came the glorious
sixth. John Raleigh, one of the best
men the Vernon team has on its staff.
was pitching all this time and had held
his opponents safely, being fairly well
assisted by his comrades. Daley and
Ross went down before him. Dillon
was next, and Haley's aforementioned
tumble saw him safe on first. Beall
came to bat, and the dangerous Chi
cagoan was deliberately walked, the
fear of hard homer sending Hap into
a cold perspiration. The runners ad-
Vanced on a wild pitch. Smith proved
an equally formidable stickman by
hammering out double, scoring Dillon
and Beall, and Delmas repeated with a
single, scoring Wheeler and Smith. He
went to second in the throw in and
came home on Orendorff'S~ double to
left. Further total damage, five runs.
After two men had passed gentle and
quietly away in the ninth Hap's men
made a rally. Bernie Bernard was the
cause of it all, when he singled infield
stole second, went to third when Stovall
was safe on Delmas' error and then
scooted home when Matinke singled tC
center. But this seemed to be the SUI
preme and exhausing effort, for Haley
went out on pop fly, closing the play
The tabluated score:
LOS ANGELES
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