Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-25
GRANEY IS EASY
FOR CHAMPIO IONS
ANGELS WALK AWAY WITH
OPENING GAME
PORTLAND GIVES LOOSE ExHl-
BITION
Ten Runs Made by Locals on Five
Hits-Thorsen Wins Fourth
Straight Victory in Easy
Fashion
Los Angeles 10, Portland 2

Los Angeles 10, Portland 2
Pitcher John Graney of the Beavers
nearly made a worlds record in deliver
ing for Portland against the champions
yesterday. Had Graney enacted his
Tuesday comedy in just a little more
leisurely fashion, had he posed a few
more minutes, he could have acquired
the title of champion procrastinator
of the coast. Graney never lived among
the tense, high strung eastern hustlers.
Probably he never even passed through
the outer precincts of a straining city
like Chicago. Mayhap he has been
brought up to believe that the perfect
dignity of composed demeanor is the
chief virtue. In any case, Graney is a
high class waster of moments.
Los Angeles won a drowsy game
from the Beavers, presenting the not
unusual spectacle of a team full of
ginger, playing errorless ball, but de-
layed and checked by dawdling, loose,
ragged work on the part of their OPP
ponents. The Dillonites put up pretty
exhibition. And this is no home Ver-
dict" either The Beavers made six
errors, drew the game out to two hours
and five minutes and gave a great ex-
hibition of a team playing like
chicken with its head off and its nerves
a-tingle from the recently applied steel.
Ten Runs OF Five Hits
1t needs but one small statement 10
tell the tale. Briefly, the Angels made
their ten runs off five hits. But eight
walks by Graney and a half dozen rank
boots by the infielders and outfielders
of the northern brigade are enough to
force in a bunch of runs.
Right off the reel. to mix our meta
phors for the sake of the illustration,
the Angels climbed into the lead. Thor
sen struck out the first man up, and
easily disposed of the two following.
Then Daley went in to bat for the
Angels, and thereafter it was a SAN
guine affair.
OF the run-getting. 1t will be unneces-
sary to tell in detail. There are three
salient features, however. on which this
chronicle will dwell. The first inning,
that second home run inning, and sixth
in which three runs were made without
a hit, as we'll as the third, in which the
Beavers made their two runs. Firstly,
Elmer Thorsen was in a grand form,
and he was given that kind of backstop
aid by Orendorff, and the support By
his mates afield which should win any
thing but fluke game.
Angels Start Scoring
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took second when Ort dropped Cod
wins attempt at a sacrifice bunt,
Wheeler was safe on Graney's fielder S
choice to third, catching Daley. john
son popped the ball back to first so
wide that the runner advanced a peg.
Beall went out, and then Goodwin
scOoted over on a passed ball. Howard
lined a high fly out to Ryan, who APP
peared to have It safely gathered, but
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Beall and Wheeler.
Orendorff's Homer
In the second inning, with one out,
Orendorff lifted the ball far over the
left field fence for a homer, which
nearly landed in the street. In the
third with three tallies staring them In
the face, the Beavers took a momen-
tary brace but events proved it was
only a mild flash. Ort was safe on
Howard's. tumble, was advanced to
second when Thorsen walked Guyn, and
both were advanced on Graney's sacri-
flee. Cooney singled to center, scoring
Ort and Guyn, and with one out it
looked like a hole. But Thorsen has
hauled himself out of worse positions,
and he shut down tight, the fielders dis
posing Of the two next batters. Score
Angels, g. Beavers 2.
There remains the story of the sixth,
in which three runs were made without
an earned hit. Orendorff walked with
one out, Thorsen was safe when Cooney
dropped Olson's toss to second, and
Orendorff sprinted to third as the ball
rolled away. Daley walked, filling the
bases, and then Graney consumed five
minutes In walking Goodwin and fore
ing in the champions ninth run.
Wheeler forced Goodwin at second, but
the play brought in Thorsen and Daley.
Just to round out the number, the
Angels secured their tenth run in the
seventh, and thereafter eased up. The
score: