Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-01
HITTING FEAST
FOR ANGEL BAND
CHAMPIONS HANG H00DO0 ON
H0GANITES
DlLLoNlTEs GET BACK INTO
BATTING FORM
Daley Leads Onslaught by Making
Four Hits Out of Same Number
of Chances--Hap Uses
Three Pitchers
Los Angeles 10, Vernon 4

Don't smile. Happy can't. Dillon's
champions hung another hoodoo sign
on the tailenders yesterday afternoon.
taking their fourth straight victory of
the series. There are many reasons
why every Vernon household Is III
mourning today. Firstly, all those alb
sent hits which have been accumulat
ing in the past fortnight and more sud-
denly bubbled surged, heaved to the
surface, and only one man in the An
gel lineup failed to fatten his stick
average off the Suburbanite twirlers.
A tabulation of all the troubles that
poured onto the devoted heads OF the
Vernonites would stretch almost end
lessly, but Drawing the wrath of the
men from the outskirts, a few of the
samples of misplaced confidence are
hereby set down. Eighteen hits were
made off the box men for the cellar
champs; thirty-one hits were made al
together, breaking the record for slug
ging in the Coast league games of the
present season; Stoyall was bounced
out of the game in the first inning
when he incurred McGreeYy's displeas-
ure; Willett started the game; after
one inning he was replaced by Har-
kins; the champions pounded the lat
ter all over the lot up to the sixth;
then busher Abbott OF the Redondo
Beach Southern State leaguers entered
the box, making promising showing;
three Angels got their base when hit
by pitched balls: and the score was
13 to A. With these few striking exam
pies of what the Hoganites ran into,
we will now pass up the hoodoo, which
indeed has been worked overtime, and
get down to details
Grand Suggest
1t was a grand old slugging game,
which long hits, strong hits, and hits
altogether by the Angels stretched out
into a two-hour period. But there was
so much slugging on the part of the
champions that every fan stuck to his
seat as the one-sided score piled up,
tickled to see the long suffering pen
nant bearers finally locate their batting
eye again. As usual when a long
drought is broken. the storm ragged
furiously. 1t whirled and screamed and
roared around the heads of the devoted
Hogan men yesterday, and the runs
and hits came like "consolers" at an
Irish wake.
Incidentally, the fans and Umpire
McGreevy fell out over a couple of de-
cisions in the first two innings, but
Mac was in the right, and before the
game was over the bleacherites, ever
, tickle, forgot what they were scolding
about.
1t is so utterly beyond reason to ex-
pect a detailed account of the run
getting that few pointed portions are
all that can be transferred to paper.
Willett lasted long enough for the
Angels to get five hits off him, scoring
the six runs made in the first two
innings, three in each period. Then
Harkins, the Vernon spit-ball artist,
took the center of the stage and held
it for four innings and a half. In that
time the locals took fearful fall out
of him, getting nine hits and five runs,
enough to win an ordinary game right
there.
Abbott Goes In
Amazed, bewildered, routed, silenced,
Happy the HoSanite tossed his second
pitcher into the bench and sent in
Frank Abbott, an amateur pitcher of
much promise, who has been taken up
by Hogan and is being given tryout.
From the sample he gave yesterday at
the most unfortunate time for a new
and young pitcher to make his debut
in professional ball Hap will do we'll
to hold on to him.
The Angels touched Abbott for two
runs, getting four hits in the three in
nings delivered. However, he had ad-
vanced into the center of a batting
feast, and that he was able to hold the
oncoming Berryites to so small a
showing Is much to his credit. He is
a big rangy, cool-headed, deliberate
pitcher, six feet four toward the sky,
and possessed of a good head for the
game. Not even the formidable Beall
bothered him, and for man who was
twirling the first game of ball in big
company, and that before a crowd of
his friends. his work for the afternoon
deserves watching.
However that does not alter the tale
related by the score board. The Haps
were beaten from the start, and
though they managed by hard slug
ging to pull in four runs, two of which
were made when Nagle kindly eased
up in the eighth, there was no doubt
of the result from the first inning. The