Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-19
SENATOR'S WIN IN
TWELVE INNINGS
EXTRA PERIOD STRUGGLE AT
CHUTES DIAMOND
HOGAN USES TWO PITCHERS IN
NIP AND TUCK GAME
Harkins Is Injured and Raleigh Re-
places Him, Performing Well, but
Blowing Up In the Twelfth
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In the peaceful, happy days of ripe
old age, when baseball to him will
have become but memory, the war
cry Of the diamond, an echo of days
departed, and the mask, glove and ball
will be relegated to the inches of rem
iniscence. Happy Hogan will prob
ably endow a hospital for injured play
ers and will donate a hurry-up ampu-
lance for service aheld. Unhappy hap.
sprightly of voice and nimble OF
tongue, has sat on his bench surround
ed by his hirelings and attended by
Spide and the omnipresent goat 1or
two successive games and has seen ms
pitchers tossed on to the rubbish heap
of disability with splintered fingers.
Once he arose to the occasion and won
the game. Yesterday he battled for
three extra innings before he allowed
the men from the north to haul their
eolors above his banner, and potn
times the Grahamites knew they had
been in a battle to the finish. The 1nal
score stood to 2.
Hogan gave the word for Harkins to
assume command yesterday, and for
a period which the official scorer ng-
ured out to be exactly seven and one
third innings by the second hand or
his chronometer, the rugged Vernon
pitcher kept the hits well scattered
and seemed bound on his way to vic
tory, Then she showed his hand in the
way of a hard liner off Jimmy Shinn's $
bat and retired from the game with
his little finger nail almost torn OFF.
Busher Raleigh, that cool headed and
nervy young southpaw whom Hogan
dug out of the amateur underbrush,
walked into the box for the rest of
the game, and until the twelfth 1t
looked as if he had discovered some
frr~fCf
to that ball which the Senators could
not untangle.
Then the Sacramentans cut loose and
uncorked three hits which cinched the
game for them.
Nip and Tuck Game
1t was nip and tuck for an even
dozen of exciting innings, with neither
team having anything to crow over
the other until the last period.
From the standpoint of baseball the
critics of the game must admit that
it was a struggle worth jamming into
crowded cars and bearing with hard
board seats to watch, for the players
gave the fans little opportunity 10
argue over the details lest they might
miss something of spectacular interest
before them. There was enough hit
ting for the verieSt batting tend, there
were sufficient fielding attractions for
the aQm1rer OF lnuSlQ 5eIiSdlAOiiof aAI
there were also few errors and stupid
plays. But when the totals are cast
up the general verdict stamps it as
contest worthy of the Coast league.
The run-getting periods were few
and far between. Sacramento started
well with one run in the first, Vernon
tied up the score in the third and
forged one tally ahead in the fourth.
In the ninth, when Raleigh crossed
signals on Hogan and the latter al
lowed the ball to slip past him, the
run was scored that again eVened up
matters, and then ii settled down to
a stubborn battle until Raleigh blew
up in the twelfth.
left FIELDER Martinke forgot how to
smile yesterday, for he gave the Sena-
tors their first run, and his second
error of the game allowed two more
scores But the Flying Dutchman
will be quickly forgiven, for he has
been playing high class ball of late,
and every human being, including
baseball players, has an off day oc-
casionally. Shinn, the first man tc
bat in the game, was walked by
Harkins. Doyle sacrificed him to Sec
ond. and Gandil singled hard to left
and the northern shortstop scoring
when Martinke mixed up with the
ball.
First Vernon Run
Three hits contributed to the scor-
ing in the third, when Bernard drew a
pass, and Kitty Brasl1ear who has re
turned to his days as a batting tiend
tapped the ball neatly with the nose
of his bat, shotting the sphere through
center and sending Bernie to third
Martinke's hot single sent Bernarc
across for Vernon's first run. MOL
drew a tally in the fourth on a helder
choice, a steal and StoValPs single.
It is now necessary to skip to inning
number nine With one run looming
I'D like a finger of fate ahead of them
the Senators reused themselves to one
OF Graham's fighting finishes
Gandil was allowed to amble to tirs
on a pass. Raleigh delivering foul
balls to the northern first baseman
Rayrner and House sacrificed him u
third base, and taking a big lead, Gan.
dill slid home when Hogan mufte6
Raleigh's wild heave. This tied then
up. 1t was like beginning all oVel
again. and both teams took an extrs
hitch at their belts, fresh chew O
the 'life-preserver," and sailed in
In the tenth and eleventh, HogaI
succeeded in getting a man on third
but a catch at the plate and fast worl
by the Sacramento fielding STAFF spoiled
the scoring chances. In the twelfth
House was walked, lansing singled
through first, and Charlie Graham, th'
most dreaded plnch performer On th'
Sacramento team, banged the ball on
for a single, which scored the winning
run. Hot off his bat, the ball sizzleC
along third Just a hair-breadth inside
the fair line, and sped toward Mar
tinke. The Dutchman could nevel
have saved one run from coming in
but he allowed the ball to pass on
ward to the fence, and lansing ant
Graham completed the circuit. Th'
Vernonites never had a chance to ever
up matters, though two men got OF
bases in their half. The tabulatet
result:
VERNON
ABB II sB Po A I
stovaIl, CT ...............
Bernard RI ..............
Brashear, III ............. Il
Martinke, II .............