Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-14
BERRY'S HOMER
BEATS ANGELS
TWO RUNS ARE SCORED IN THE
NINTH INNING
LONG HIT GIVES SAN FRANCISCO
A VICTORY
Barrier BingIe Breaks Up Game When
Angels Appear to Have Poeketed
Contest-Thorsen Delivers
Tip-top Ball
san EranoIsco 3. Los AnaeIes 2

San Francisco 8, Los Angeles
Somewhere away back in the blood
red history of the days of Waterloo
and other places and dates wherein a
lot of happenings were crowded into
a few brief hours. a great little man
wearing the eagles of France is said
to have remarked that with luck and
a few steady men he could whip the
world" It's far cry from the battles
fields of Europe to the mundane mat
ters of Coast league baseball history,
but if Capt. Dillon had ever been
student of history the Angel leader
might have found that remark some
what applicable yesterday. However,
one phrase must be omitted to make 1t
fit the case. He had the steady men,
who played their hearts out against the
advancing Seals, but the luck was lost.
Nine out of ten fans who poured out
of the turnstiles yesterday afternoon
at Chutes remarked some time after
the game when the ardor of the con-
flict has passed away, Tough luck!
every mothers son OF those Angel lad
dies went to their club house with the
crepe sign flung to the breeze, bemoan-
ing the loss of a game which until the
final straining moments seemed pock-
eted by the champions.
Grand Ball by Seals
But it cannot be laid to luck alone.
To give the San Francisco team credit,
they are playing the grandest ball seen
in a local diamond in many a long
month. 1t was hard, punched terrific
hitting which won, and just two men
can pat themselves on the back and
say they beat the whole Angel team.
Had Melchoir failed to get hit in the
ninth the score at most would only
have been tied. Had Claude Berry
failed to swing on that terrific hit
which scared over the left field fence
for a homer, scoring the winning run,
there might have been another story |
But this is baseball; and it was base
ball of the snappiest, fiercest kind that
won the game for the northerners.
Elmer Thorsen, tall, strong armed, |
cool headed. gave his first signs OF
mastering his wildness, the only fault /
owned by this promising young pitcher. /
Dillon handed over the reins to him |
yesterday and gave him instructions to
show the Seals something about speed |
and curves. Thorsen walked into the
box, took an extra hitch on his trou-
sers. and waded in. for eight innings
pitching beautiful ball, and showing |
such swiftness that the Seals were |
fairly puzzled. Up to the final inning |
he held the visitors down to five hits |
and handed over several strikeouts
Rousing Finale
1t was in a rousing finale that the |
Seals drew the two runs that gave |
them the right of way. That ninth |
Got to fhn
hopes of the champs. that we will get |
it out of the way as speedily as pos
sible Los Angeles had the game neat |
ly corraled and was about to hand IT
over to Henry Berry, their overload !
who has returned to his faithful, when
two of the San Francisco hitters broke
up all these fine calculations. Mel
choir, the first man up, landed for
double which rolled into far center
field. Lewis sacrificed him to third,
and then Claude Berry hove into view
at the home plate. Now, this same
Claudius is a rank in-and-outer as a
hitter. He has been known to perform
in marvellous fashion. and then again
he has been known to fan the air Wild
ly. Yesterday it was his plain oppor-
tunity to make a hero of himself. He
jauntily sauntered up to the plate, bit
the air savagely with his stick for
moment, knocked a foul and received
strike, and then cracked the ban
with a crash heard far over the field, |
the sphere soaring into the left field !
precincts, touching the top of a sign |
on the barrier and bounding off to the |
outside of the grounds. Then Melchoir |
and Berry delightedly trotted home. |
The score at this point stood 8 to g |
and this was where it stuck to the end |
Mohler used two pitchers, but it was |
I,n l,1.f,.
found seriously. Griffin was warmed |
up when Eastlev went a little wild, |
but it is probable that had he not sus- /
tained a blistered finger in the seventh /
Eastlev would have stuck the game
through.
However, the change was beneficial |
for the northerners for Dillon's men |
failed to find the second twirler for a
hit.
San Francisco Scores First
San Francisco scored first, getting |
one run in the sixth. But this run was !
one which could hardly be excused by |
the fans, for it was secured only by d
bit Of STUPID plav on the part Of the /
locals. After all, headwork is a mighty |
important part of q baseball game, as
well as in an all-night game of hearts
or a deal in wheat.
Rollie Zeider was permitted to pass
to first in the sixth, was sacrificed to
second by Capt Kid Mohler, and stole
third as Orendorff dropped a pitched
ball Nick Williams was facing Thor
sen at this point. and laid a soft little
bunt down along first, Dillon running
UP and putting out the blonde boy, but |
permitting Zeider to steal over the
plate with the Scoring" smile spread |
all over his features.
Los Angeles came back with two |
runs in the seventh. Beall singled |
hard to center and Howard bunted |
safely in front Of the plate Both run
ners were sent along on Jud Smiths |
sacrifice. and Beall crossed the plate |
on Delmas' long sacrifice fly to center, !
though had Berry not allowed the bali !
to go through him Beall would have |
been nabbed at the plate. This error |
gave Howard his third base, and Oren- |
d0rff's single to center brought him
over the pan. Things looked rosy here. |
but the hue changed from cardinal to |
a gloomy purple in that disastrous |
ninth. The tabulated score: