Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-22
FIVE STRAIGHT
FOR SACRAMENTO
SENATORS DEFEAT VERNON IN
FINAL CONTEST
BERNARD'S NINTH INNING TALLY
SAVES sHUToUT
Unhappy Haps Are Trouneed by Men
from the North, Who Win by Fast
Base Running and Better
Fielding
BY A. E.'DUNNING


Sacramento made it five straight yes
terday when they carried the final
game of the series away with them as
they swung on the train homeWard
bound for the weeks series with the
Portlanders before their own constitu-
ents. The Grahamites played with a
deal of ginger and snap, and got away
with the large end of the score to the
melody of s to l. As a matter of fact,
the finish was in sight when at tive
minutes to o'clock Happy finally Sc
cured the run which saved his team
from a shutout. The games score for
the series stands oil, end it wasn't al
together poor playing that made the
reckoning so one-sided, for Happy is
carrying a bunch of crippled pitchers.
He is Wallowing about in the trough OF
the sea of disaster with a crippled
mainmast, and what the best inten-
toned bark in the world can do with
out its chief support history has illu-
mined.
It was not a sensational game in any
sense of the word. Mere machine play
won for the Senators, and when 1t is
considered that the Vernonites for the
first time this season played like a
flock of lost sheep, it is no wonder that
the contest consumed only an hour and
a half. Seven hits were made by the
Suburbanites off the Sacramento pitch
er, Buck Ehman, who pitched his first
full game of the series after replacing
two badly pounded pitchers on two
different pinch occasions. Nine hits
were made off Hoy Hit, and Flana-
gan and Brashear were credited with
doubles Two double plays were about
the only enlivening exhibitions, though
a few fielding feats little above par
helped some.
Fast Team Play
Charlie Graham has tuned UP his
team to fast team play and this was
much in evidence yesterday. Ehman
was backed by errorless efforts on the
part of his mates, and for eight innings
he held the locals down to four hits.
These did not give the Hoganites much
announcement, for under every likely
looking fly ball was seen a blue-garhed
northerner patiently waiting to nullry
the efforts of the Vernon batters. When
the score sheet is scanned, and the
seven strikeouts are figured in the to-
tails, as well as the fact that Ehman
did not let a single man pass to hrst'
the cause and effect of the victory are
not hard to discover.
After three innings of no-run ball,
with both teams hitting so sparsely
that the two pitchers began to dream OF
a high-class twirling record for the
day, and the fans began wondering +
it was to be a goose-egg finish, Gand1l
started the overture to the real show
with a hot single to left, and Charlie
Graham, the next man up, attempted
to sacrifice. Hit heaYed the sphere
wild over second, and both runners
were safe. Houses sacrifice sent both
men on their way, and fast little jan
sing came to the plate He marked
spot for his position with long, care
fut shot Of tobacco juice, and taking
the pose thus defined, walloped the
la -. 1aFf
hit, which sufficed for a score, Gandil
placing his foot on the plate Byrnes
and Captain Charles worked the
squeeze to double-dyed perfection at
this point, and the result brought Gra-
ham over the plate for the second run,
Byrnes in the meantime being put out
bv the Haley-Brashear rapid transit
route. This so badly shattered Hits
fond dream of what might have been
that he allowed Buck Ehman to pro-
ceed to first on four wide ones The
third score came when Shinn singled
to left for the third hit of the inning,
scoring lansing.
Senators Help Themselves
In their half of the. next inning the
Senators came to the pump for more;
and they got 1.-TWO runs were the to-
tai thereof Flanagan scored on his
double and GandiPs single, and House
gle. The final tally for the northerners
arrived in the seventh, Doyle crossing
the pan on singles by himself and Gra-
ham, with sacrifice sandwiched in be-
tween.
With the thunder clouds of defeat
gathering thick and fast before them,
the Hoganites stopped long enough on
their way toward shelter to register the
lone tally that saved them from the
always disagreeable coat OF lime, Ber-
ME Bernard is responsible for this tally
in the main, for it was his hot single
in the ninth that opened a wedge for
further activities. Brashear helped
mighty lot when he bagged out hard
double which skinned along the third
base line, hairs breadth inside the
fair line, and placed Bernard on third.
From thence Bridegroom Haley scored
Bernard on stiff one-base bingle to
left But the momentary flash of the
Vernonites died away TO nothing more
and then the crowd went nome. The
score:
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