Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-12
RialtO Gossip

Another great game of baseball was
Dlaved bv the Sacramento and Vernon
teams yesterday and as usual eve can
say that now the home boys landed
on the long end of the score. 1t was
an exciting affair while it lasted, ana
it lasted long enough to tickle the most
eXacting fan, as it went eleven innings
before a run was scored, ana II nap
pened maybe that is the proper Word)
that the home team scored that one
run. Fitzgerald was on the firing line
for the Senators and the old reliable
Roy Hit did the shooting for us. Hit
won, as he nearly always does, ana
the fans went home pleased with
themselves for attending. These two
teams have been playing the most
hair-raising games of the season, ana
those fans who have been staying
away have been missing lot of FUN
and excitement. The same teams viii
play a double header today, morning
game at Vernon and an afternoon
game at the Chutes, and the article or
ball that is being dlshed up is worthy
of patronage. Willett and Carson VIII
do the twirlng for the Villagers, While
Baum and Nourse will be on the
mound for the visitors.
It is poor policy to find fault when
the home team is winning, but 1t Is a
little bit disquieting to the fans to sit
around and see a bunch Of basement
champions holding one of our candl-
dates to extra inning and close games.
Vernon figures TO win every game from
Sacramento. and although the bunch
has lost only one in four played, nearly
every game has gone into extra innings
or been so close that the result was
in doubt until the last run was scored.
This is not right 1t does not impress
the fans with the remnant chances Oh
the Villagers. Unquestionably the Cut
ups have the best pitching staff in the
league. but the fact remains that
pitchers cannot win games when the
batters are not hitting the ball. and
the CutuDs have not been ClOutlng the
ball as they should. If the boys only
would get ON their hitting stride there
would be no trouble at all and Vernon
would go to the too in big rush.
The recent change in the lineup has
worked To the satisfaction of Scrappy
Hogan and tho fans because the boys
have added batting strength to their
came in the addition of Kitty Brashear
and Jess Stovall, who have really won
every game in which they have played
because they have smashed the ball
hard on the nose. Fisher and Mar
tinke are better felders, perhaps, in
their respective positions, but they
have not been hitting at their real
form for some time. 1t is batting
that counts. after all. and as the team
has not lost = game since the change
was made. it looks like the substi-
tutes. who formerly were utility men.
would give the old regulars, who are
now on the bench, a hard fight for
their jobs. Hogan has sense enough
4 to send i'm a utility hitter for himself
when the score is close and run is
needed. which is good judgment on his
/ part. and in the new order of things
| the team is working nearly up to it's
| real form II the batting improves as
4 it should, Vernon will soon be at the
/ top, az only three games are neces-
| sary to put them there.
/ Tt is a bit annoying to local fans to
! have to sit around and talk about the
! possibilities Of a match like the Attell-
! Moran scrap with doubt and uncer-
/ tainty as the basis of conversation.
| Only because the fans are so foolish
as to keep these birds alive by patron
/ i2ing their game permits them to be
so annoying. Attell for once in his
life, has made two fair. square PROPOSE
tious to Moran. and the Brltisher with
all his stubbOrnness, is bound to ad-
| nit this statement Yet he haggles
and spars for advantages that do not
belong to him. McCarey should take
the situation i'm hand and tell these
sCrappcrs To agree without further
messing around or 60 to other fields.
Moran is destroying his drawing pow
crs here by his unreasonable and out
landish tactics. If ne wants to fight here
he should say so and accept reason
able terms that would make an inter