Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-30
ANGELS SQUEEZE
OUT OF PINCH
CHAMPIONS DEFEAT VERNON
IN BATTING RALLY
HIGH GLASS BALL is PRESENTED
AT cHUTES DIAMOND
caffyn Excites BIeachers by Hitting
Out Home Run in Eighth, but Ho-
CAMS Team Is Nosed Out in
Sensational Finish
Los AnaeIes 4. Vernon 8

Four innings of goose-egg ball. in
which Captains Dillon and Hogan
presented their aggregations in the
roles of real baseball players, a safe
lead for the champions in the fifth,
tie score in the eighth, Vernon ahead
in the ninth and spectacular climax
which brought the game over into the
Angels winning column by the tight
est of squeezes-these were the con-
densed sensations of one of the best
exhibitions of Coast league class seen
this season at Chutes park The game
yesterday afternoon was the second OF
the series between Los Angeles and
Vernon, with the former team at home
and the latter "traVeling,' although
both teams can go home to luncheon
between morning practice and the
afternoon play. There was more real
ginger mixed into the game than the
fans have witnessed since the opening
days. In two innings the close plays
found the fans standing up in the
bleachers hats thrown into the air,
voices hoarse with shouting and en-
thusiasm uncanned in homeopathic
doses.
From the standpoint of good baseball
there were sufficient samples of what
the cracks of the western slope can do
to satisfy even the native son who
displays his chief attractions to his
cousins and mother-in-laW from the
east. Furthermore, there was hardly
a quiet moment in the game, but it was
a clean contest, and aside from one
rank decision by Umpire McGreevy
and a fine imposed on Stovall for
his roar over a decision in the first
inning, things moved along on the
even tenor of their way.
Pitchers Are Effective
Hosp and Breckenridge were both in
good shape yesterday, and each held
the opposing batters without a hit
through four of the nine innings,
though punched swats in a few of the
other periods broke up any chances of
a no-score game on either side.
The one big event of the day, of
course, was Caffyn's long home run
over the right field fence in the eighth
inning. The Vernon right fielder hit
the ball squarely and Beall started to-
ward the fence at top speed. but
stopped and disgustedly watched the
bali soar out of sight. while Brashear,
who had been stationed on second, and
Caffyn trotted across the plate. Caffyn
got a great reception from the bleach
ers for his feat.
Los Angeles got off in the lead in the
fifth inning, after no7score contest up
to that point. Beall touched Bracken-
ridge for the first single he has made
on the team, after Daley had been
passed. Howard then came up with
an opportune single scoring Daley, and
Beall scored on the THROWN. In the
sixth Los Angeles had a chance to
score, but a pretty double play, one OF
the most peculiar ever pulled off on a
local diamond, spoiled the attempted
squeeze, and it all can be laid to Kitty
Brashear, who COMPOUNDED his critics by
exhibiting one of the cleverest bits of
fielding league followers have seen in
many a day. Dillon beat out an in
field single and got to third on wild
pitch. Orendorff walked and Daley
drove to Breckenridge, who tossed the
ball to Hogan, the latter catching Dill
lon between Third and the plate, and
throwing to Brashear, who chased
Daley toward second, and when the
feetfooted little Angel made his base
Brashear ran over behind Orendorff
and caught the latter between second
and third Hogan and Kitty were
given a big hand for this heady play.
Caffyn Hits Homer
Vernon took a sprint in the eighth on
Caffyn's homer, and Haley might have
placed his team in the lead had he
used good sense in running the bases,
but he was too cautious and was
caught between third and home. In
the ninth the heavy hitters of both
Means landed, Breckenridge scoring on
singles by himself and Stovall and
Hosp's wild pitch Hosp covered home
and caught his man fairly, but Nc
Greevy could not see it that way and
called him safe.
4 Ross, batting for Orendorff, practical
Nv won the game for the Angels when
s he started things off nicely in the ninth
with a neat single to left. Hosp sac
rificed him to second, he stole third and
scored on Daley's single. Daley stole