Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-03
VERNON is SHUT
OUT BY ANGELS
PRETTY FIELDING GAME WON
BY CHAMPIONS
HOGAN RECEIVES THE FOURTH
STRAIGHT DEFEAT
Hard Hitting by Locals and Superb
Work on Diamond Account for An-
other Whtewash Plastered
on Hapless Ones
Los Angeles 6, Vernon o


Vernonites land when the finals In
the Coast league contention for the
season of 1909 are compiled, it will al
ways remain in the memory Of the de-
voted followers of the champions that
once during the year they took four
straight games from the Vernonites, at
a time. too. when the Haps were in
their best fighting spirit, and had
every license to make stun pattle
against the hireings of the Angel Guy
association. With one of the most
one-sided showings seen locally since
the schedule was broken, in the young
summer time, the Champs WaIlzeu
around the Suburbanites to a merry
tune at Chutes yesterday, making the
series up to date a satisfactory clean
sweep. They had it all their own way,
hut in all Justice it must be sald tllat
at least two of their runs were haIuiy
deserved These came in the hIth,
when the Dillonites had alreauy
cinohed in two scores. An out at hrst
witch would have made a second black
mark and would have been followed
with the third out in the fly Which
came after was hardly a close aftalr'
for Ross was out by three rect, thollSh
McGreevy failed to see 1t thusly' 1hls
indeed does not figure in the SCORES
but is evidence of the fact that a Ut
tie hard luck is following the shauo"
of Happy the Hoganite' a,,o
"Well. we lost, but we have tiVe
games more to play don't forget that'
snapped Happy as he encouhIeIeu
Henry Berry in the passa geWay leau-
inp TO the press box after the game
was over. ~, nor-
"Yep. and wel'll get them ALL mer-
rily quoth the Angel chiettalh.
20 hpf0Te
through this season" was hap t.
ionider. as he sadly dropped away INTO
the middle distance followed by the
sorrowing Spide and the philosophlcal
goat. e.,.,.
This is the spirit of the series hap
and Berry are the best of fr1ends az
ali times, but their apparently plttei
orenment tvpifes the fighting, dash-
ing style which has been lnJecteu ii''
The Vernon Champion series.
Palnh Tozer and a half dozen out
aelders ought to be wearing halos TO-
day. for their performance staIilpeu
xyesferday's play as one OF the nnesI
specimens of baseball the bleacherllgS
have sweltered through this year; II
was a royal battle all the way anu tlly t
score does not begin to show the real
class of the contest. we all ike zen
tlemanly ballplayers. Some OF US IKE
The mild hammered ones; none or us
like rowdies But it has been Demon
strated beyond doubt in the last iour
games that a team which displays
ginger and daring method or attack Is
that team which will draw the croWds'
DilIon,s men have been exhibiting this
gingery play, and Hap's crew mas
caught the infection to such an extent
that the spectators were kept preath-
less with gasping over the fast catches
made by the outfielders of both teams.
Little Martinke, the SUBURBAN lert
fielder, was given applause on It5 tnIee
occasions for a long and difficult scoop |
in. Stovall made a couple of fine tries,
which looked impossible, but which he
handled with apparent ease; Oren-
dorff caught a fussy little foul with the
two first fingers of his left hand, While
on the jump; Daley made beautiful
running catch of Brashear's long fly
In the fourth which the sure-thing bet
tor would have figured a homer And
there were others of class too numer-
Gus to mention.
Real Noise in Fifth
The real noise started in the fifth, !
after both teams had battled for four
innings and the pitchers had seemingly
struck one of those eXtra-inning gaits.
In this period Harllins, the Vernon Of /
fetal, was given nightmare OF the
recall by being touched for four hits.
Tozer the first man up, singled to 1
right, and Daley pointed the noise of.
his bat toward slow one, beating out
the hit, both runners being safe on
Harkins' fielder's choice. Ross was
given a single infeld. next. though he
rally was out by several feet Dillon, |
the pinch hitting leader, advanced with
a nimble stride, measured the delivery, |
swung his bat and, pop the ball shot
through center, permitting Daley and
Tozer to score. Ross and Dillon ad-
vanced on the throw in, and the former
scored on Howards s centerfeld fly. Jud
Smith completed the rout of the Vernon
forces by bringing home his chief with
a hard single to left.
In the sixth the champs came back
with another, and then acquired their
final run in the seventh. 1t looked as
If Hap might break into the run col
Umn and save the bunch from a shut |
out in the seventh, when with one down
Eagan got to third on StOvall's single, |
which Beall allowed to pass through
him. The next two men went out, clos
ing the Inning and leaving two runners
stranded, frantically signaling for
anything that would give them a chance
TO run for it.
The detailed score: