Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-01
ANGELS WINNING
STREAK BROKEN
ListIess and Careless Playing
Presents Sacramento with
FIuke Victory
z FINE RALLIES SCRAMBLED
Locals Put Up LifeIesS Exhibition
and Play Like Aggregation
of Amateurs
2 FINE RALLIES SCRAMBLED
BY JAY DAVIDSON

1t may look like poor grace to criti-
else winning home team that mas
won seven games in a row and eight
in ten games played, but that is what
is coming to the Angels and is what
they are going to get. They presented
Sacramento with the game yesterday
by to score by the poorest exhi-
bition put on the Chutes diamond this
season, and that is saying a heap.
Boneheaded playing, not hard luck,
broke their winning streak that looked
good for at least another week, and
hesitated their climb to the top of the
pile. Upon three occasions they had
ample oportunity to win the game,
but bum judgment on the bases, with
some awful efforts with the stick, set
tied their hash and only a rank error
by Van Buren, in center field in the
last half of the ninth saved them from
the humiliation of a whitewash.
Sacramento started the scoring in the
fourth inning, after two hands were
down. With Perry on first, Danzig
doubled to left and scored him. The
prospects for the Angels to win the
game in they half of the fourth were
so bright that the fans We're beginning
to enthuse in the good old way, but it
was all for naught. Ross walked,
Wheeler bunted and Dillon sacrificed,
moving both runners up a peg. Muir
ply was walked, filling the bases. With
only one out, Roth went to bat and
tried to squeeze in the tieing run He
bunted a fast one right down to Wha-
len, who tossed Ross out at the plate
and Roth was doubled at first, ending
this fine rally and losing the game.
In the sixth the visitors got their
only run on a fluke home run. With
two out, Van Buren, raised high one
to center that would have been gravy
for Daley any other time, but he could
not get up gallop, and when the ball
hit the ground 1t bounced high enough
to curve over the fence for home run.
This kind of luck must have encOur-
aged Sacramento some, as Whalen set
tied down and worked his curves to
such good effect that Murphy, Dillon,
Wheeler and Tozer were the only ones
who could touch him.
Hope had not died out in the fans
hearts when the score stood to 0 in
the ninth, and when the Angels began
to do business the crowds that were
on their way to the cars sat down
again and waited, watched, hoped and
almost prayed for some kind fate to
hurry around to the Angels rescue.
Wheeler, first man up, popped to Shinn.
Dillon SlnS1eu 10 leII ana WSIlI lO lDlTQ
when Murphy doubled to Van Burens
territory, but was nailed at the plate
when he took the one chance in ten
million that he could get home ahead
of the ball that was already on its way
The desperate chance was not neces-
sary, as one run could do no good, and
if another behind him could score, he,
too, could get home, and it looked like
the proper thing for him to stay at
third instead of taking the chance that
was so slim that it was not even as
good as a chance. Roth was up again,
but instead of bunting he smashed the
ball as he should have done in the
fourth inning. 1t went sailing away
out to center and fell into Van Buren's
paws, but he forgot to hold onto it, and
Murphy scooted home with the only
run scored by the Angels. Waring
ended the hopes of the fans by flying
to Van Buren, who held onto the ball
this time.
Well, the boys are entitled to an off
day once in while. but it makes all
of us bit peevish when a classy bunch
like this one, with the fine pennant
chances they have, must break up a
fine record by an exhibition of bush
league playing. They will make up for
it today, no doubt, as the widest
dreamer could hardly expect Sacrament
to to beat the Angels twice in success
sion. Score: