Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-30
THIRD STRAIGHT
FOR DILL0NITES
PORTLAND GIVEN ANOTHER
BITTER DOSE
HARD HITTING BRINGS VICTORY
TO ANGELS
Speck Hardness Is Pounded by Los
Angeles Stick Men in Rally
In the Last Two
Innings
COAST LEAGUE STANDING
Los AnaeIes, 4; portland, I


When Walter McCredie and his
blue-clad Beavers invaded the south
land last Tuesday for the final series
of the season a foolish fan who posi-
bly, had a. relative on the Portland
team laughed aloud when one of the
Angel followers mildly suggested that
the Angels had chance to nose the
Beavers out of second place! Tne
same fan laughed still louder when the
Portland team trounced the locals IN
the first game. But there will be no
more laughing The loss of one game
of the three remaining will put the
Angels out Of the race for second place,
but nevertheless there is no more
jesting over thefmatter.
The Beavers have wakened from
their slothful play evidenced at the
beginning. The Chutes park diamond
will be the scene of a desperate strain
ing conflict for the remaining days of
the season. for the Oregon team must
play at top speed to maintain the place
they so proudly occupied for several
weeks. No one thought the fight for
second place would be so close. 1t
looked as If the teams standing was
fixed for the year, but the Angels took
their third straight game yesterday
and it Is not without the bounds of
possibility that they will take all the
three games yet to be played. Any
way the locals are making the Beavers
fight at top speed, and the fans this
week are seeing some Of the hardest
played games OF the season.
Hardness Gets His
Frank Dillon's crew again took up
the fight when they were on the short
end of the battle and carried the war
fare into the enemies country Speck
To Ill. 7,f ~
has been on the side lines all week,
itching for a chance to get in and take
a crack at the Angel batters. He has
been telling them all what he intended
to do to- the southerners when he
started to deliver, but yesterday our
friend Speck got his 1t was nice and
lovely for the Beaver up to the sew
enth inning. He had the Angels almost
eating out of his hand, having them
runless after six innings, with his
mates one tally to the good: But then
the former champions awolSe, and booF
Speck is wondering what happened to
him in the two final innings.
Bill Tozer was in splendid form
throughout all but three Of the in
nings. In each of these the northern-
ers got two hits. but. backed by splen-
did fielding on the part of the Dillon
ties, Portland could score off Tozer
OIly OIC6t III II0 IOuTlHs IulS WAS IHe
first tally OF the game, though in the
first the Angels came within a half a
foot of getting a run, Daley being cut
off at the plate by sharp play by the
visitors. F'si
Beavers Lone Run
Graney opened the fourth with a
single t1field.' He took second on Me-
Credie's sacrifice, and when Fisher
cl {,nfn oA,,fAf- NJ
came around. In the seventh Harl-
ness filed the bases with one out by
singing. but Tozer gave an extra
hitch to his trousers, struck out Cooney
and allowed Olson to go out by the
Jud Smith -Beall route. 50 fht = 'i-
1t was in the seventh that Los An
geles batted in the tying run. Jud
Smith made a beautiful beginning by
rapping the ball to the left field fence.
Delmas sacrificed him along, and Smith
was found on third with one man out.
Here Captain Dillon re-ertered the
game at the critical moment, replac-
ing Hughie- Smith, just as he did the
day before. But his services were not
needed. Ort had tucked the bah away
under his arm to try the old trick play
of catching Smith asleep at third,
while Hardness was posing to- deliver
just as if he had the ball Ort threw
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but the bah went wild over johnson,
and Smith scored. 81 EF
Curtain for Speck
In the eighth for Los Angeles came
the final spasm and curtains for
Speck. Daley walked; and stole sec
ond. Goodwin smashed fearful drive
to Center, bringing Daley all the way
over for the run which gave the locals
the lead, and the left fielder himself
reached second on the throw-in Ross
bunted to Harkness, who failed to con-
meet with a fielder's choice to catch
Goodwin, and both runners were safe.
Beall singled to right, his third of the
game, scoring Goodwin and George
Wheeler doubled to the same spot,
scoring Ross and getting Beall to
third. The failure of a squeeze play
nailed Beall at the plate, and this was
all the scoring or near-scoring. The
tabulated results: