Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-24
HOGAN BOWS TO
SAN FRANCISCO
VERNON SUSTAlNS ITS FOURTH
STRAIGHT DEFEAT
100000 STICKS TO YOUNGSTERS
BY SCORE OF TO 4
Hitting of Teams Is Even, but Good
Fielding of Northerners Is Cause
of Victory-Mohler's Men
Play Fad Ball
San Francisco, 6; Vernon, !

San Francisco 6, Vernon l.
For the fourth time this week Happy
Hogan had to bow to defeat yesterday
before the fast playing Seals in the
game at Chutes park, and only WIN
ming flash in the first period saved the
bushers from total humiliation at the
hands of Mothers snappy crew. First
class baseball won for the Seals, who,
it must be admitted, are at present in q
higher class than the Vernonites.
Though the villagers tried hard to land
victory and stem the tide against
them. they never seemed to have
chance to win. Hard luck has con-
sistently followed Hogan throughout
the present series, and the hoodoo
stuck yesterday, as in previous games.
If Hogan takes game from the north
erners. he must bind and gag every
member of the visiting team, and then
perhaps his beloved dog "Spide" would
mix up with the ball, carry it away and
win for the Seals by default.
This hoodoo thing is no joke. If a
team has hard luck for 9. couple of
games it might do to say that the
other team is away to the good, but
when four straight defeats accentuate
this luckless fate there is real links"
tucked away in the corner somewhere.
Even the presence of Bernie" Bernard,
whose flattering reception when he ad-
this season must have tickled the eX-
Angel. did not change matters. To top
it all, Hap in his exuberant enthusiasm
following a l to lead of the youngsters
up to the fifth inning, urged his play
ers on from his point of vantage at the
bench in such strong measures that
Umpire McGreevy took exception ana
sent him off the field. There Hap sat,
picture of woe, but he is game
10 n
Mohler caught out the last man.
1t seemed all Vernon up to the fatal
fifth. Breckenridge, one of the young
sters of Hogan's twirling staff, was sent
in to pitch, and for four innings ne
held the visitors without hit, not a
Seal reaching second base. Furtner-
more, Caffyns and Brashear's doubles
in their period of the first brought IN
the former putting Vernon to the good.
Hap smiled all over his face and the
bleacherites began to hope that after
all Hogan might break the losing
streak. But no such luck. for in the
fifth the northerners found their bat
ting eye and touched Breckenridge for
two hits, netting two scores. mere
after, Mothers crew scored twice IN
each of the succeeding innings, which
finished the run-getting for the game.
Tenant got the first hit of the
northerners, singing neatly over Truck
Eagan's head. Melchoir singled inteld,
and when n. Williams hit to Eagan,
who made a good stop of a hot liner
Tenant scored on Eagan's f1elders
choice Melchoir reached third on the
play and went home on McArdle's we'll
placed bunt.
In the sixth Mohler was walked by
Breckenridge, Zeider beat out the throw
of his infield hit to first and Mohler
singled to Martinke, who fumbled the
ball. allowing Mohler and Zeider to
score. This gave the Seals lead of
three runs. and they were inclined to
ease up, but in the next inning two
more runs came over. N. Williams,
the touseled- haired Nick who played
first base last year for san FRANCISCO
and has made his place behind the bat
this season, doubled, and IN ms turn
Willis repeated, scoring Williams.
Mohler singled and Willis beat the
throw-in to the plate.
Martinke had a chance to get nome
in the third, when he was given a walk,
and went to second on Brashear's SIN
gle but died at third, when Eagan
fouled the side out to Mohler
It was in this inning that Hogan
grew vociferous and was sent OF the
field. He tried to return later, but
McGreevy sent him back behind the
screen. Brashear was the hitting star
of the day, annexing two doubles and
single, and thereby silencing the
critics who have been unreasonably
hammering at this heady and hard
hitting first baseman. The tabulated
score follows: