Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-28
SENATORS REFUSE
TO BEAT VERNON
Have Chance in Seventh Inning
but Fail Through Sleepy
Base Running
A NEAR-RALLY IN NINTH ACT
Visitors Get Men on Bases but
Are Weak in Putting One
Across the Plate

Those lowly Senators threw an aw-
full ninth inning scare into Hap Ho-
gans warriors at the Chutes yesterday
but couldn't quite get up, hence the
two to one score on which the VIII
layers credit themselves as victors.
Nothing sensational save the crahby
disposition of many spectators and Ho-
gan served to make the game anything
but ordinary, so the tale OF how IL
happened will be short and sweet.
Charlie Graham was out to try with
his bunch and made several switches
in the usual lineup. Burns was among
the absentees, and his place at short
was filled by Heister. Van Buren de-
serted first base to hold down the mid
section of the outfield. and Spiesman
was dragged from his backstop berth
to corral what came toward the in
itial pillow. This gave La Longe
chance to don protector and collect
Fitzgerald's slants after they were
once by the pan.
The shakeup came near working
but not quite. The Villagers collect
ed a two run lead in the second frame,
and not until the seventh was the SEN
atorial aggregation able to come back
at ALL Then a little sleepy work on
Briggs part cheated them out of a
all they could get
Then came the ninth inning rally
as the next excitement producer on
the lists. Heister hoisted the curtain
by drawing four that looked like buns
to the ump, but his life on the bags
was short Perry slammed one to
Hosp, and the resulting assist to sec
ond base forced Heister off the map.
Roy Brashear held onto the pill like
he was glued to it, and what looked
like an easy chance for a double play
went by. Boardman singled to right
and Perry, usually so daring on the
bases, halted at second when he might
have gone on a station through Kitty
Brashears fumbling of the leather.
Boardman was in turn forced at sec
ond on Briggs effort, Hosp to Brasil
ear, and although Briggs purloined the
second cushion Spiesman was unable
to connect with a safe swat and send
anyone home.
VERNON SCORES IN SECOND
The Villagers broke into the run col
lumn with d vengeance in the second
frame and scored the two runs which
proved to be necessary to be located as
the long end. Roy Brashear started
the flames with a single to center and
Stovall picked out a spot in left for
his safe one. Van Buren tried some
ground and lofty tumbling and Brash-
ear kept on running until he hit the
registering station. Hosp flew to
Perry, and with Fisher at the bat
Stovall stole the B bag. He would
have been out by forty yards or so had
La Longe'S perfect peg been handled
properly, but Hester dropped the pill
and there was nothing left for Fin
ney to do but make it thumbs down.
Fisher lofted out to Van Buren,, and
then Hogan surprised the multitude by
getting the second single he has ne
gotiated since the Ararat league went
under. Stovau scored and Carson
snuffed the fire by going out, Shinn to
Spiesman.
Business refused to pick up until
the seventh inning, when the Senators
hooked one and came near tieing
things up. Perry was passed, and was
helped on through life when Board
man retired, Carson to Fisher. Briggs
came within an ace Of hooking q nice
two sacker, his effort to right raising
the white dust along the line, but be
ing just far enough out to go as a foul.
Briggs was not to be denied, however,
and his single to left went far enough
to score Perry, mainly because Sto-
vail had his fingers crossed and found
some difficulty in locating the pill
Then Briggs gave a nice imitation
Of a sleeper sleeping. With Spiesman
at the bat he played off first about
ten feet, and didn't even notice when
the ball was winged over to Fisher by
Carson. OF course, running him down
between bases was no trick at all,
Fisher finally tagging him. This might
have been the Senator's undoing. for
Spiesman followed with a single to
right that could not have failed as a
helper for Briggs to reach third on,
and he might have scored on La
Longe's out, Hosp to Fisher.
After the baseball was over the real
show began. All kinds of moving pic
ture athletes, with the fanciest foot
ball costumes on the map, sprawled
around the diamond for the benefit of
the film man, and their antics were
Wen worth the price of admission.
These figures are on the ball game: