Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-24
FAST FIELDING
BEATS OAKLAND
SIugging Commuter Band Unable
TO Get SafetieS Off NagIe
When Needed

Judge Magic was on the mound for the
Angels yesterday In the third game of the
series between Los Angeles and Oakland, and
very naturally he won, to 1, In a brilliant
game, although Lively held the Angels to six
hits and Nagle gave tho Commuters ten. The
result might have been very different had not
Pete Daley made sensational running catch
of d high fly off Maggerts bat, with two men
down and two bases. In the ninth. Daley
easily furnished the fielding feature In this
fine performance, as he was compelled to
at full speed to within foot of the center
field fence 10 make the catch. Had he muffed
the difficult chance had the ball been q
foot higher in the air at least two runs
would have scored. Pete dived into the air.
however got his fingers tangled around the
ball and held onto it as he dashed into the
fence. For his reward he got a fine hand
from the highly excited and very enthusiastic
crowd of fans, and Hen Berry. for a moment.
telt like presenting him with a house and lot.
Although Oakland saved itself from the hui
initiation of a whitewash through some ex-
tfaordiary luck and a questionable decision by
van Haltron strikes and balls on Hogan
fielding prevented the slugging bunch from
winning, as almost sensational work in nearly
every inning was required to keep Commuters
away from the plate. Two double plays by the
Angel infelders at critical times nipped a pair
OF very promising rallies.
Los Angeles started the scoring in the Sec
down toward first and drawing Cameron Cut
shaw and Lively into hurried consultation about
the rolling pill, with first base unprotected and
Dillon closing the distance between himself
and that bag like a Kansas cyclone on re-
hearsal. Murphy forced Cap at second, but
stole that bag few moments later, and went
to third on Roth's Texas Lacquer over short.
and scored on Warnings puzzling high bounder
to Cutshaw, who could not get his hands on
the ball until Murphy had scored and Waring
was safe at first, again filling the bags Nagle
was expected to squeeze Roth over the plate,
and Roth started for home Lively wound
up, but he tossed waste ball and Roth was
ran down and tagged, Delmas going to third.
Nagle was thrown out at first by Wares and
Lively got out of an awful tight hole.
Oakland could not connect with Nagle sue
eessfuily until the seventh when Hogan, the
beneficiary of poor sight by Van Haltren on
balls and strikes, drew his base, went to sec
oEd on Cameron's single to left got to third
OK wild pitch and scored on Capron's high
bounder to Dillon, the captain being unable to
coax the ball down from the sky until after
Hogan scored with his gift run. but capron
retired.
In their half of the seventh the Angels set
tied the argument by scoring twice. Christian,
who succeeded Cutshaw at second when Van
Haltren chased the Commuter second sacSer
off the grounds for insulting remarks when
called out at second in the sixth inning. fell
down in his clumsy efforts at stopping an ex-
tremely slow grounder that Murphy poked
down his way, and Murphy safe at first.
Roth hit bounding short fly TO left and
1dpTOn iSt II get AWAY lIbIn iililf NolilHB "
the fence While Capron was trying to catch
up with the unruly sphere Murphy got home.
Delmas hit down to Lively, who tried to catch
Roth at third, but Hogan dropped the throw.
Waring squeezed Roth over the plate with
nice poke down TO Christian, who threw War
ing out at first.
Things looked tad for the Angels in the
ninth. when hit would have scored at least
two runs for the Commuters. but It was not
forthcoming. owing to the sensational catch
of Daley In center. After Hogan was thrown
out at first Cameron singled to right and
Capron singled to left. Both moved up peg
on Swander's out at first Maggert went to
bat and Dillon instructed Nagle TO walk this
slugging demon. hoping TO fill the bases and
catch the next runner on forced play Nagle
disobeyed and Maggert almost knocked the ball
over the center field fence but Bailey made a
great run plumb against the fence and pulled
down the nasty thing for the third out and
saved the day.
Following is the tabulated score.