Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-04
OPENING GAME
GOES TO ANGELS
CHAMPIONS NOSE OUT IN TEN
INNINGS
olNoERY SESSION SEES LOCAL
ADVANCE
Hard Hit Single by Ross in Angel Half
of Extra Inning Brings VIM
ming Score Over the
Plate
Los Angeles 5, Sacramento 4
(Ten lnninqs)

Extra inning games are becoming the
fad among the players of the Coast
league, who congregate a Chutes and
Vernon. Just as the shovel-hat and
the sack-cloth gowns dared popularity
and public approval and boldly shoul-
dered and elbowed their way to prOmi-
nence, despite the opposition of the
male member of the family who wanted
to be able to pick his spouse out Of
the throng Of top heavy figures, so the
extra inning game has become the es-
sence of all that is "Chic' and the
height of fashion in the baseball world.
Los Angeles and Sacramento stroVe
desperately to live up to the fashion
yesterday afternoon, just as every
woman will wear a trail to the tailOrS
and miliners in order to keep apace
with the mode. To the tune of a ten
inning struggle the two teams fulfilled
their desire. and incidentally they gave
the fans who jOurneyed out to the Yer
non grounds an afternoon Of rare sport
1t was an unusually good game, there
is no denying There was plenty Of
hitting and no one could have called
it a pitchers battle. even by a stretch
of Imagination, but there was a suf-
ficient mixture of clever base running,
free slugging and good inside playing
to dovetail together a succession of in
cidents that kept everyone on edge.
a bleacher crowd of sun-bathed fans
alive on a hot day it means good base
ball.
Senators Score First
Though there was considerable hit
ting in one small portion at a time
through the first five innings by the
Sacramento men, when Jimmy Shinn
crossed the plate on his double, a sacri-
flee and Gandils infeld hit In the
ID n TO ~
score board. Fred Brown. who pitched
a mastery game throughout until his
arm tired in the eighth and he gave
way to Fitzgerald, connected for
hard double to left field, and was ad-
vanced on a sacrifice and hit by
pitcher" and scored from third base on
the THROWN of GandiTs long sacrifice
fly to Daley. This set the score 2 to
0 in favor of the Senators. and all the
little coterie of Sacramento boosters
whOoped it up in pure eXuberance.
But the Angels had something up
their sleeves, and this mysterious
power was sufficient to tie up the score.
Whatever it was, Uncle Frank Dillon
had the fates with him yesterday, and
this combination being too hard to
beat, it is no wonder the Senators
came out the short enders
Home Run by DeImas
the fact that the oracle had spoken.
and the verdict was favorable for the
Angel victory such q demonstration
as he gave is all-convincing. Jud Smith
had landed safely on first on d neat
single, and Del came to bat prepared
for a safe delivery to the same spot
He swung truly and hard, and when
the ball scared over the far left field
fence he sent Smith on ahead Of him
and trotted coutentedly to the bench
after completing the circuit. Well
might he have been content, for this
home run tied up the store.
Captain DQlOn stepped into an inter
esting situation and broke it all up In
the next half for the Angels. He shot
out a long fly to left which passed
House when the sun blinked the In
dian, and stole third prettily scoring
on Beaps bouncing double TO center.
This placed the Angels one run in the
lead.
But even this hard sIugging failed to
clinch matters for the champions.
Heine lansing doubled hard to center
in the opening Of the eighth, deter
mined to tie UP matters again. Charlie
Graham, the sturdy war horse OF the
northerners and one of the most de-
pendable pinch hitteTs in the league,
singled To center, sending Janslng 10
third, and Shinn's long fly gaVe jan
Fitzgerald Goes In
Brown retired i'm the eighth i'm favor
Of FITZGERALD, and the latter held the
locals without q hit in that period. a
ninth-inning attempt TO tie Things up
was fruitless, and so the teams jour
neyed into that land of promise, the
extra inning Sacramento in the tenth
annexed one run, and the crowd start
ed to go home evidently having little
faith in the ability of the Angels TO
again even up matters. Put they rcck-
Oned without tn Dillon host Of heavy
stiCkers. George Wheeler WAS sent lh
to bat in place of II. smith, the young
catcher He waited fer the best he
could get and consequently secured "A
walk Tozer followed him TO the plate,
and here was where the athletic pitch
er practically cllnChed his own game,
for he hunted prettily along third and
was safe when Jauslng tumbled Inc
ball. Daley sacrificed, sending the rum
ners along, and then little Aftle foss,
who has had few opportunities OF late,
came M, having replaced Goldman jim
the ninth. Two strikes We're called on
Ross, and the Angel supporters began
to feel the shivers down their spina!
columns. Two more were balls, IJ
was two all two men on bases, ana the
Angels two runs behind. oh, for
hard single, As if he had heard the
bToatbloss and almost unconscious
PRAYER Of the bleacherites, Ross swung
nightly. and the howls Of delight that
arose from the spectators repaid nm
for his effort. Far into right heId;
Moving tho dirt as it landed, the ball
ened. and both Wheeler and Tozer
iumned across the plate. after which
tbe crowd went home deliehtedIy. The
Los ANGELES
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