Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-26
COMMUTERS WIN
FIRST CONTEST
ANGELS REVERSE FORM IN
OPENING OF SERIES
BRISWALTER LASTS FOUR IN
NINeS AGAINST REIDY
Vernon Grounds Scene of Contest in
Which Cellar Champions Down
the Seasons Banner
Bearers
Oakland 6, Los Angeles /

Wasn't it awful, Mabel? Hen Berry
should have had a brass band out at
Vernon yesterday afternoon to play a
funeral march when the crowd dis
persed after the craziest nine-inning
session the champions have experienced
this season. To think that the COM
muters, whom Happy Hogan trimmed
to a nicely, should have romped in
leagues ahead of the Dillonites after
the banner bearers had sent Portland
north with the label of defeat tagged to
their travelling suitsl 1t was a shame
what the oaks did to Briswalter in the
fourth, and it was another weeper In
the seventh. Incidentally, Andy Bris-
walter was pounded out of the box in
the aforesaid shameful inning, when
the northerners pounded him for five
hits, one a home run, two doubles and
two singles.
Pitcher Newlfn, the former American
association pitcher whom Happy Hogan
dismissed as out of form, went in in
the place of Andy, and the fans thought
1t was all off. But aside from the sew
enth Newlin pitched high-class ball, ana
had the locals been at all lively with
their sticks he might have brought or
der out of chaos. AS it was, though the
Dillonites played errorless ball, and the
visitors were credited with four slips,
the free-for-all affair Of the newcom-
ers in the fourth and the failure of the
Angels to hit tall Nelson, the Oakland
pitcher, gave them the lead In the Sc
ries when they won the opening game.
Aside from the fourth and seventh,
a crnnn and one
good thing about it was the speed with
which IL was run off. The official
scorer called it an hour and thirty min
utes, and he was not more than hVe
minutes off.
This form stuff doesn't go when base
ball teams are concerned, it seems The
Oaklanders, who have lost a series to
Hogan's crew by one-sided scores, took
a bad fall out of the champions in
game which nine out of ten fans con-
sidered was cinched for the champions
of the last season.
When Bill Reidy's cellar champions
appeared on the grounds yesterday af-
ternoon in their travelling suits OF blue
the locals slowly walked out onto the
diamond and paid little attention to
their practice work, figuring that the
former pupils of Van Haltren would
prove easy meat But the best slug
gers of the northerners disappointed
the leaders by pounding AMY anu
Newlin for enough hits to win, and
that is about all the story of the game.
Los Angeles took a one-run lead in
the first, when Beall scored on a field
er's choice and Towards infeld hit to
Van Haltren, who dropped the ball, al
lowing the Chicagoan to score.
Then came the disastrous fourth, in
which the Oaklanders cinched the game
by getting four runs. Van Haltren sin
gled and D. Lewis, a 16-year-old lad
who is experiencing his first season in
professional ball OF the class of the
Coast league, banged the ball for
homer, putting Van Haltren and him
self over the plate for the winning run
of the game.
Hogan couldn't help but touch Bris-
walter for another hit, however, and
doubled to the center field fence. Then
Carroll singled to left, scoring Hogan,
and Capt. Dillon took Britwalter out
of the box, substituting Newlin, who al
lowed Ragan to double, scoring Carroll.
There was nothing doing again until
the seventh, when the Oaks again
found Newlin for two hits and scored
two runs, placing them safely in the
lead. Los Angeles tried hard to even
IN matters in the closing period, but
the cellar champions had too strong a
lead and the Reidyites won on the bit.
Following is the tabulated score of the