Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-23
PINCH H|TTERS
FAIL IN PINCH
Ross and Wheeler Easy Marks
with All Cushions Groan-
ing with Runners
MoSER DRUBs OUR CHAMPS
Thorsen Pitches Winning Ball but
Gets Bum Support in Field
and with the Willow

Luck was king at Chutes park
god turned errors and lonely singles
into game winning tallies was a new
tickle for the bleachers. The last toll
was taken in the Oakland half of the
eighth, when three hits and an error
sent in two tallies for the northern
delegation. Incidentally, Oakland beat
US 8 to l.
Los Angeles started out like a win
ner and in her half of the fourth in
ming began the procession with a pc
culiar accident near second. Howard
had succeeded in deluding Moser into
a base on balls and the speedy second
sacker started down on the next heave.
Mite threw wild to second and hit
Howard, the ball bounding out toward
the center field fence, while Howard
trotted home. 1t was a startling be-
ginning to a peculiar contest, and the
fans were dreaming of another local
victory when a new feature was in
troduced.
1t was Van Haltren's day with the
fan thumbs down. He had half
dozen chances to pick some hard de-
cisions from the dust and the fans
did not treat his selections in an ap-
preciative way. Furthermore, during
one division of the fray, the down.
trodden ump was hard pressed for
safe corner for a guess and lost sew
eral fine chances for reinstating him
self in the favor of the grandstand.
The first run scored by the Oaks ar
rived in the seventh and started the
landslide for the victory. Wares sin
gled and stole second. Hogan sacri-
ficed him to third, and Wares scored
on Cameron's long fly to center.
The eighth was the lucky inning
for the northern team and Swander led
out with a single. Maggert followed
with the same result, and Mite put
Swander out on an attempted sacrifice.
Moser flew to Dalev and CutshaW
brought in the two winning tallies with
a pretty single, Mitze getting to the
plate on Warnings muff of Murphy S
throw home.
This ended the scoring on both sides,
but did not end the interest in the
game, as the Angels took heavy
brace in their half of the ninth and
almost brought home the Oakland
scalps. Daley led out with single
Bernard following suit. Howard FOL
lowed with a sacrifice and Cap DILLON
was presented with a base on balls,
filling the bases. With one out ana
three men on the sacks, the Angel
brood looked like the real thing IN the
conquering line, but Ross was sent
out to bat for Murphy and he was re-
tired with a strikeout. Then Wheeler
came forth from the Angel bench In
the place of Roth and the fans began
to lean forward in their seats. But
there did not seem to be any batting
eyes among the pinch hitters ana
Wheeler went out on a dinky lnheld
grounder. ,.
Thorsen showed good control through
out but was touched for six hits and
got two strikeouts in his three times
at bat Moser struck out five and al
lowed four hits, but kept his nerve 10
the last. His great showing in the
ninth, when it looked like Los Angeles
was good for the win and While the
auxiliary twirling staff of the oaks
was warming up in front of the bleach
ers, showed that he is tWirler OF pig
league class and capable OF hololhS
his own with the best
Cameron deserves especial praise for
his work in the field and at the bat.
He got through without an error at
first sack and landed two safe ones,
one of which was a double that ratified
the center field fence.
Dillon, Bernard, Howard and Delmas
came in for a good share of the ap-
pause from the fans, each one getting
an errorless record and accepting a
number of hard chances that many a
player would have allowed to pass by
in the hit section.
The tabulated score: