Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-15
SEALS CLUSTER
HITS Off VANCE
LEADERS WIN OPENING GAME
OF SERIES
HoGANs MEN LOSE A HARD
FOUGHT BATTLE
San Francisco Makes Good Beginning
in First Contest with Suburban.
ties at Vernon Fleld-WIIlis
TwlrIs Effectively
San FRANCISCO z, Vernon 4

Already the top-riding Seals have ac-
uuired the airs and graces of cham
pions. Yesterday they plumed and pa
raded at the Vernon field, handed the
Vernonites an exhibition of the kind
of baseball that has cinched for them
the 1909 flag, and retired with hardly
a sign of having been through a stren-
uous afternoon. True. the visitors had
a hard time accustoming themselves to
the change from the fog belt to the
land of sunshine, but it never showed
in their playing. The time has ar
rived when the Mohler band can safely
dub themselves the coming champions,
and for this reason they have gained
that indehnable air of class which I'M
mortally surrounds the best in any d1-
vision of endeavor. Even the sta1d old
veterans OF the Vernon line felt that
peculiar thrill chasing UP their spinal
columns as they advanced to face the
pennant winners. The umpires were
constantly on the alert, the Vernon
ties merely hopeful all along-in fact,
it looked as if the flag probabilities
of the season just closing had given the
Seals so much prestige that 1t is now
their class that is winning for them.
Great Ball by Seals
Nevertheless, it is not to be denied
that the northerners played great ball.
They clustered their hits off Vance, and
this collected hitting won them the
game, though the suburban team made
q game battle all the way. No stretch
of Imagination could call the game
pretty fielding exhibition, for seven er-
rors were totaled by the eighteen men,
but there was plenty of hitting and
some spectacular base running, which
the average fan cares more for than
pitchers battle, however nice the lat
ter sounds on paper.
San Francisco made a beautiful be-
ginning. In the opening frame the
Seals slashed out three hard hits, bring
ing as many runs over the scoring pan.
Vance seemed easy, and the sluggish
Unfolding Of the Vernonites aided him
not bit Davis, one of the new men
on the Seal line, banged out the ball
for a double, was sacrificed by Mohler
and scored on Zeider's single to left
Zeider stole second. Miller walked, the
two put through a pretty double steal,
and then Tenant finished 1t by singing
to center, scoring Rollie. Miller and
Tennant tackled that double steal COM
bination again, and Miller squeezed
over. but Tenant was caught on the
way to second.
Vernon Gets Two
In the second Vernon got two runs,
as follows: Coy secured his base on a
single to left, Eagan was safe when
Mohler dropped Willis throw to second
and saved him the trouble of sacrific-
ing, Devereaux lined to McArdle, and
then the San Francisco shortstop made
a first class throw toward third, but
Coy was in the way. The ball struck
the runner, rolled to the fence and
Coy scooted in. Singles by Hogan and
Vance brought Eagan over the plate.
Poor base running spoiled the chances
of the Vernonites to tie the score.
vance's error and a single by Zeider
drove Mohler to the pan in the third
inning, and Vernon came back with an
other run in the fifth, Martinke singing
in Stovall. The score stood at 4 to 3,
and thus things proceeded to the eighth.
Then Vance loosened up again, was
found for three hits in a row, bringing
over two more runs, and that cinched
matters.
Ninth Inning Rally
Kitty Brashear opened the eighth
with double, but he was left stranded.
just to show how easy it was for them
to score when they wanted tally, the
Seals tasted another on the score board
in the ninth Zeider was hit by q
pitched ball, with two men gone. Miller,
d1l0llcI new dIluloiliOllf oW uAl6 lOI II
triple to the blackboard that tells the
tale by innings, and Rollie breezed
home, wearing a smile that couldn't be
sandpapered off Stovall got over in
the ninth for Vernon on his single and
a repeater by Bernard. Martinke
doubled to center, and Kitty Brashear
tried to duplicate it, but the Mohler-
Tenant combination shut off the de-
sired runs and ended the game. Score:
VERNON
ABB sB Po E
Stovall, CT ............. 8 0
Bernard, IS .........s-s.. 5 0