Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-19
BFALL'S DOUBLE
SCORES VICTORY
ANGELS WIN FROM BEAVERS
IN NINTH INNING
KoEsTNER CROSSES PLATE FOR
THE WINNING TALLY
Tall Twirler Handles Himself In Major
League Form Against spikers.
Champions outhat Visitors
in Close Contest
los AnoeIes 2. PortIand I

Lucky ninth Although Koestner
pitched rings around the pet pitcher
OF the Beavers. one Hardness boy, and
although the champions outbatted the
visiting aggregation three 10 one, the
game was the property of the north
erners until the final session, when Dill
lon switched his batting array, found
the right combination, and brought
over the tying score and the winning
one with only one man out. The re-
turn of the Angels and their opening
game with Portland with the Dillonites
at home in their natty suits of white
furnished the fans who journeyed out
TO Vernon one of the brightest bits of
baseball they have been served this
year
Astounding in fast fielding, snappy
team work. and numerous individual
plays of brillianee, the players swept
the crowd off their feet at frequent in
tervals. Dillon and his band more than
verified the predictions that they would
return nome primed for winning ball.
incidentally, it is necessary TO again
congratulate Henry Berry for adding
that sensational Beall to the Angel
line. and condole Comiskey for his
shortsightedness in permitting this tall
wonder to roam away from The Windy
at the right moment, won the game
and now the Angels are rejoicing all
over again that the new right fielder
has been cinched for the champions for
the season. Pitcher Koestner had
big share in the victory, squeezing the
Portlanders so hard in the hitting line
that they hardly knew they had any
use for their favorite sticks. Also, it
might here be noted that it was Koest-
ner's single in the ninth that put Ross
ahead and allowed him to score, and
then the rangy twirler had the honor
of crossing the plate for the deciding
score.
Koestner must have felt himself
called upon to perform in major league
style, since he had been fattered by
most attractive offer to Berry from
Manager Dovey of the Boston Nation
ais for his service.
koestner in Fine Form
In the face Of this newly-found repu-
tation, the youngster walked into the
box determined to live up to it, and
the score shows how we'll he succeeded.
After Frank Dillon gets through coach
ing up a few more pitchers and fielders
of national reputation he can afford to
sit on the bench, see his team romp
in toward the pennant, and hear the
crowd exclaim, well done, captainl"
MelQ GIllG1 OF the beavers,
lived up to his record as a slugger
when he pounded out a home run in
the fifth. The Portland leader made
his second homer in two days in this
hit, and it looked for a time as if he
had won his game Indeed, when the
ninth came the fans were on their feet
ready TO go home, fearing that this
homer had done the business. But
they forgot one important chara cteris-
fir of the An0plS-fhaiT finishing
Two errors. one by Speas, left fielder
for the northerners, in the ninth, when
he dropped Daley's fly and thereby per-
mitted the bases to fill, and another by
Goodwin in the fifth, when he missed
Fournier's fly to left. were the only
breaks in perfect fielding.
With a total of only two hits, one off
each pitcher and with several really
startling catches behind them, the
teams started in to do some business in
the fifth. Portland scored their homer
in this period. Johnson, the first man
up, laid back for the ball, took a long,
deliberate swing, and shot the sphere
over the boards of the left field fence.
Fourier finally got to second on Cod
wins slip, Hardness walked, and it be-
gan to look gloomy. Ryan closed up
the accounts, however, by making the
third out, Howard to Dillon.
Then the champions got busy, and
in the next four innings six hits were
made off Hardness, but none of them
brought in a run. Dillon came up in
the ninth and went out at first on an
easy grounder Ross was sent in to
bat for Orendorff and was hit by
pitched ball. KOestner electrified the
bleaehers by banging out a single, Ross
going to second. Daley hit to Speas
who dropped the ball, and the bases
were crowded. Ross scored on Cod
wins out beating the throw-in to the
plate. This placed Koestner on second,
and Beali sustained his reputation by
bringing him home on a hot center
liner. The tabulated score: