Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-27
CHAMPIONS WIN
TOZFR VICTORY
"BIG BILL" 0VERWHELMS
PORTLANDERS
ANGELS BAT HARDNESS OUT OF
THE BOX
Three Innings Suffice for Mercedes
Star DeIIVerer-chenauIt Is Good,
but Game Is Lost by Bunched
and Hard Hitting
Los Angeles 7, Portland I


Los Angeles won Tozer victory from
the Beavers yesterday afternoon. Bill
made it his eighth straight by coming
within one Of shutting out the visitors,
and hard and collected slugging by the
locals did the rest. After two wild and
woolly games, the Tuesday session a
comedy in which the Oregonians
starred. and the Wednesday game
found the Angels holding the stage
with a second bit Of foolishness, and
believing it was time to play straight
baseball without a tluIe, both captains
had q star chamber session with their
men before yesterdays game, and then
TOzer and Speck Hardness were an
nounced as the official deliverers. It
went fine for the first inning, and then
the Angels clumped Speck so hard that
he lasted just two innings more. Safe
it is to say that Hardness had the live
liest time in these two innings he ever
had in his life. Seven hits were gar
nered off his offerings and he walked
one man, giving one wild pitch.
Three Innings for Hardness
After the locals had played with
Speck for twenty minutes, the tall boy
was retired, and Chenault the former
Portland NorthWesterneT, shipped over
from that extreme northern league to
the coasters by MCCredle, after he had
made o sensational showing, walked in.
Chenault proved a diamond in the
rough, but already the game was turned
into the lost column.
The Angels scored all their runs in
the first three innings. but these were
far more than sufficient. After that
the Beavers struggled hopelessly along
in the rear, ever trying. but always
without a chance to climb into a posi-
tion of danger to the Dillonites For
10 frc thraa {priV,oe
hitless, and only four slams at the ball
were allowed by Bill throughout the
afternoon. 1t was an easy workout for
him. The Beavers scored one run, but
1t was only kind charity on the part of
the Angels that permitted this, for an
error was the direct cause Of this tally
5eaII Starts Music
Beall started the music for the An
gels in the second with a singing sin
gle to right field and Howard lined one
to Olson, Beall safely finishing the
journey to second when Cooney drop
ped the throw. Then DR.. Jud Smith
came to the plate and banged the ball
back of third base for a fly which
caused a ten-minute wrangle. Umpire
Toman called it an infield fly and de-
clared the runner out though each of
the others had advanced a base. Oh
son had gone back to receive and be-
tween the shortstop and left fielder the
ball reached the ground safely, but be-
cause an infielder had gone for the
sphere Jimmy held that the rule ap-
piled. With two out and men on sec
ond and third Delmas, after bother
ing Hardness with a half dozen fouls,
finally connected squarely, skmming
n bitterly driven liner over the first
base chalk line for q single which
brought in the two waiting runners.
In the third the Angels refused to
loosen up on the much hehalded Port
land pitcher. They started early and
secured four, hits which registered the
same number Of runs, Goodwin hit to
left, was sacrificed by Wheeler and
Beall was passed. Then Howard sim
gled to center. scoring Goodwin and
sending Beall TO third. wild pitch
by Hardness brought Beall over the
plate at q slow trOt and a second sin
gle by Delmas brought Howard along
the same happy groove OrendOrff
reached the first stopping station in
safety when Cooney made another FUN
BILE and Bill TOZer's single was long
enough to score Delmas. This was all
for the inning, but in the fourth the
Angels added another for luck Chen
ault here went in for the Beavers and
walked Goodwin. Beall stung him for
a double to the score board which
brought Goodwin over, closing the run
getting for the locals.
In the seventh Johnson, the Beaver
captain singled to center Speas was
safe when Delmas failed to gather in
his hit and Chenault tapped the ball
over first bag, bringing the northern
chieftaln home. The tahulated results;
ANrFT.Tg