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Show BYRON HDUCK HEAVER HERO; liSJITOIIT Also Sends in Only Run of: Game With Timely Single Sin-gle After Two Are Out. By International News Service. PORTLAND, Sept. 13. All the glory coming out of the first game of ball with Killefer's Angels today was absorbed by Byron Houck, who swanked Curly Brown In a pitchers' battle. Houck not only held the Angels runless in nine innings of errorless ball, but also they gathered but four hits off his delivery. And to cap the climax Houck delivered the wallop wal-lop in the eighth that drove in the only run of the game. Brown pitched so brilliantly that but the regulation eighteen men faced him in the first six innings, and up to the eighth but twenty -two had bepn up to bat. Then Griggs started it with a swat across second. Lee followed with a drive through short. Siglln arched to Maggert. Baldwin fanned and Griggs stole third. ' Houck swung one to right field. Meusel," playing in close, made a quick throw to first. Griggs had scored and Lee was on his way to third when Houck appeared to beat the throw by a short step. The Angels kicked, but finally accepted, the decision. At Portland: L.OS ANGELES. AB. R. H. PO. A. E. Maggert. cf 4 0 1 2 0 0 Tern', ss 3 0 1 3 2 0 Killefer, 2b 2 0 0 4 2 0 Meusel. rf 4 0 0 10 0 Pournier. lb 4 0 0 7 1 0 Ellis. If 3 0 1 0.0 0 Bassler, c 4 0 1 5 1 0 Davis. 3b 3 0 0 1 0 0 Brown, p 3 0 0 1 1 0 Kenworthy 1 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 31 0 4 24 7 0 Batted for Davie in ninth. PORTLAND. AB. R. H. PO. A. E. Farmer. If 4 0, 1 3 0 0 Hollocher. ss 3 0 0-2.2 0 Rodgers. 2b 3 0 1 0 4 0 Williams, cf 3 0 0 5 0 0 Griggs, lb 3 1 1 9 0 0 Lee. rf 3 0 2 1 0 0 Slglin, 3b 3 0 0 2 10 Baldwin, c 3 0 0 5 1 0 Houck, p 3 0 1 0 2 0 Totals 28 1 6 27 10 0 coro by innings: Los Angeles Runs 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 Hits 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 01 Portland Runs 0 0 0 0 0 0 01 1 Hits 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 3 6 ' Summary: Struck out By Houck 3. by Brown 5. Bases on balls Off Houck 4. Two-base htt-r-Rodgers. Hit with pitched ball Killefer. Run responsible for Brown. Umpires Frary and Casey. Time I of game 1 hour and 40 minutes. j |