Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-02
BEAVERS SOLVE
LOCAL TWIRLERS
THIRTEEN HITS TAILED BY
hORTHERNERS
VANCE is EARLY 6ATTED FROM
CURVE STATION
Haps Show Ragged Team Work and
Northerners Are Never Headed.
Graney Shows Batting
Eye
Portland 10. Vernon 3

Portland 10, Vernon 5
Thirty-nine times the players of the
Portland baseball team faced Happy
Hogans pitching staff yesterday after
noon at the Chutes diamond, and Wnen
the smoke of battle had finally Lttea
and the small boys had returned win
several baseballs which had peen
hoisted by the Beavers over the out
field fence Mercedes braves hung out
the long end of a 10-to-3 score opposite
the name of their aggregation.
For Vance, the young curve ARTIST
who accompanied the Vernonites back
to the Angel city, blew up early IN the
game and was retired after nVe runs
and six hits had been recordeu. sonar
er, who relieved Vance In the thlrd IN
ming. proved to be but a slight I'M
provenent, and, although the northern
team did not solve this boy as quickly
as they had expected to do, nVe more
runs were added to those previously
scored.
The game. which was played in SLOW
time, was marred by the ragged helo-
ing of the locals. Had Breckenridge or
Willett been in the box another story
might have been told, for the winners
outclassed the losers but little in their
fielding and scored by the terrific NIT
ting which marked the entire contest.
Graney There With Stick
Cantain McCredie was unable to
play Yesterday on account of his ankle,
and was replaced by Guyn. Devereaux'
who covered short for the Haps carry
in the contest, was soon replaced oy
Truck Eagan, who covered his assign
ment without an error.
Graney was the hitting sensation OF
the day, connecting with Vance ana
Schafer for a home run, a tWo-pagger
and a couple of singles out or TOUR
trips to the plate. The Portland center
fielder started the run-gettlng Tor MS
nine in the initial frame by scoring
Olson with clean double to deep lett,
the latter player having been advanced
to second on a walk and a steal.
The locals tied the score in the sec
ond inning, when, with the bases full,
Vance lined out a high one TO Speas,
allowing Coy to score on the throw In
The Beavers pulled out of a bad hole
at this point, when Hogan and Mott
endeavored to negotiate a double steai,
the former player being tagged out
naarlv twenty feet from the home
plate.
The score board wore a blank ex-
preston until the early half of the
third, when the northerners, having be-
come initiated into the intricacies or
Vance's tossing, pounded this young
ster into every section of both out and
infields, scoring four runs. Cooney
knocked a neat single, but Olson was
out for stepping from his box to swat
the horsehide. Cooney stole second,
and Graney, the swatster. lined a long
one to right garden, scoring the Port
land second baseman, Fisher, who fol-
lowed Graney to the plate, connected
with a homer, adding two more fallies
to the Beavers score, which was plling
up at an alarming rate. johnson was
given the password and ambled to first,
being advanced to second, when Ort
fell upon Vance for another single
Speas duplicated Ort's performance
and incidentally scored johnson. At
this period of the game, amid cries OF
Help" from the slim crowd of bleach
critics, Vance was retired, and, with
Schafer in the volleying station, the
slaughter for a brief period of time
ceased.
Graney Scores a Homer
Not until the first half of the sixth
inning, when the long-enders added a
brace of tallies to their score, did an
other man cross the plate. Harkness
landed on Schafer for a neat single to
the left section of the outfield. Cooney
dropped one in Bernard's nit Graney
scored another home run for the BeaV-
ers by showing his bat under long
drive to the right garden. Both StoYall
and Coy started after the ball like a
pair of greyhounds coursing jack rab-
bits, but the sphere landed squarely be-
tween them and bounded over the
fence, cashing Harkness' and Graney's s
round trip tickets.
The locals started a game rally in
the latter half of the eighth inning,
but their hopes were blighted when,
after having scored twice, Mott bit on
three of Harkness' twisters. ,Stovall
was hit by a pitched ball and was
sacrificed to second by Eagan. Ber-
nard flew to Guyn. Brashear singled to
left and Stovall scored when Speas
juggled the ball. Martinke walked and
Coy drove a hot one through the in
field, scoring Brashear. Mott struck
out.
When Brashear trotted across the
tallying board in the latter half of the
eighth the Vernonites scored their last
run. In the ninth inning the Beavers
again fell upon the Lambs and rang
the gong, once, twice, thrice. Five hits
did the northerners get in the fatal
ninth, and lined the ball first through
and then over the infield, first one way
and then another. Let US draw a cur
tain over the painful spectacle of the
crucihxion OF Hogan and his band. Let
it suffice that in the latter half of the
ninth two of the putouts were made by
the Beavers playing catch with the
ball around the diamond and finally
getting 1t to first ahead Of the runner.
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