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Show IPTP 117 ID Q YR7TTVT n-? OTh A Pin tt a i"n"Tl7 TL17M TV A Tli DELL WINS DUEL FROM BROWN IN DECIDING BATTLE Issue Is Determined by Single Score; Angels Rally in Eighth and Ninth, After Seven Blank Innings, and Come Within Sight of Victory; Race One of Closest Clos-est in Baseball. ETAJroiXQ OF THE CLUBS. 'r' cno "ti; o T3 3 1 I P 2 5 3 " 3i? ST 3 . : 3 Ci)T ft a;jiQ . a) : ? 1 iw ; s j I: : : si; ; ' Vernon . . . . . . 1 161 3j 14 7,18 201 23 1 A .613 Los Angeles.13..1514jl713j20l 16 108.600 Salt Lake. .I13M1!. .11131212 16 88.516 Sacramento , 8:12: 8! . . 1 1 5 1 6 12 14 85 .506 Oakland 1 141 12-141121 . . 1 16 9 91 86;. 473 S. Franclsco10 8;1 5 1 0: 15 . . 1 10 1 6 1 84.472 I Portland ... 8!10; 7:13!1115i . .I 141 78, . 448 Seattle 4j 3 1 1 1 1 9l8 413... 62.365 Lost 70:72i83 83;96!94;96108 j At Los Angeles First gamo: LOS ANGKLK3. AB. R. II. PO. A. E. Killefer, cf 4 0 3 3 0 0 Fabriiiue, ss 4 0 0 0 3 0 Kournier, lb 4 0 0 16 0 0 Crawford, rf 4 0 1 0 0 0 Boles, c 3 0 0 0 1 I) KUis, If 4 1 2 3 0 1 N'iehoff, 3b 4 0 1 0 5 0 llosp, 2b 3 0 1 2 3 0 Brown, p 1 0 0 0 6 0 Basaler 1 0 0 0 0 0 Pertica, p 0 0 0 0 0 0 Crandall 1 0 1 0 0 0 ""Kaney 0 1 0 0 0 0 Totals 33 2 9 24 18 1 Batted for Brown in eighth. Batted for Boles In ninth. Ran for Crandall in ninth. VERNON. AB. R. H. PO.'A.'E. Mitchell, ss 4 2 3 5 1 0 Chadbourne, cf . . . . 4 0 0 2 0 0 Meusel, rf 3 1 11 0 0 Fisher, 2b 4 0 1 2 1 0 Eddlngton, lb 4 0 1 6 1 0 High, If 3 0 0 4 0 1 Beck, 3b -..3 0 1 0 10 DeVornier, c 2 0 0 8 1 0 Lell, p 3 0 0 0 1 0 Totals 30 3 7 27 6 0 Los Angeles Runs 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 12 Hits 11000103 39 Vernon Huns 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 3 Hits 2 1 0 0 1 2 0 1 . 7 Summary: Two-base hits Mitchell, Crandall. Sacrifice hits Chadbourne 2, High, DeVormer. Struck out By Dell 7, by Brown 2. Bases on balls Off Brown 2. Runs responsible for Brown 3, Dell 2. Six hits, 3 runs, 22 at bat, off Brown, In 7 innings. Change defeat to Brown. Double play Niehoff.to Hosp to Fournier. Hit with pitched ball Brown. Wild pitch Brown. Time of game 1 hour and 35 minutes. Umpires Phyle and Toman. Second game: LOS ANGELES. AB. R. H. PO. A. E. Killefer, cf 3 1 0 2 1 0 Andrews, ss 1 0 0 0 2 1 Reese, 2b 1 0 0 0 0 0 Haney, 2b-ss 3 1 2 3 3 .0 Bates, lb 3 0 0 7 1 1 Crawford, rf 3 0 1 0 0 0 Bassler, c 3 0 0 3 1 0 Ellis, Lf 3 0 0 0 0 0 Nlehoff, 3b. , 2 0 0 0 1 0 Schultz, p 2 1 1 0 1 0 Totals 24 3 4 15 10 2 VERNON. AB. R. H. PO. A. E. Mitchell, ss 3 2 2 1 0 0 Chadbourne, cf . . . . 2 1 0 1 0 0 Alcock, cf 1 0 1 1 0 0 Meusel, rf-lb 2 0 1 4 0 0 Fisher, 2b 2 1 1 0 2 0 Eddington, lb 2 0 0 4 0 0 Long, rf 1 0 1 1 0 0 High, lf 3 0 1 4 0 0 Beck, 3b 3 0 0 1 2 1 Brooks, c. . .. , 3 1 1 1 0.0 Ross, p 2 1. 1 0 0 0 Totals ...... 24 6 9 18 4 1 Los Angeles Runs . . ' 0 0 2 0 0 13 Hits 0 0 2 0 0 24 V ernon Runs 0 0 3 3 0- 6 Hits 1 1 2 4 1 9 Called in sixth; cushion riot. Summary: Two-base hits Schultz, High, Haney, Crawford. Sacrifice 'hits Meusel. Struck out By Schultz 2, by Ross 1. Bases on balls Off Schultz 1. Runs responsible for Ross 1. "Wild pitch Ross. Time qf game 55 minutes. Umpires Um-pires Toman and Phyle. At Los Angeles (first game) Los Angeles 2, Vernon ,'5. Second Sec-ond game Los Angeles 3, Vernon Ver-non 6 (called in sixth inning). At Oakland (morning game) ' Salt Lake 2, Oakland 9. At San Francisco (afternoon ; game) Salt Lake 2, Oakland 7. i At Portland (first game) San Francisco 1, Portland 1. Second game San Francisco 7, Portland 5. ! At Seattle (first game) ;! Sacramento 2, Seattle 7. Second 1 game Sacramento 3, Seattle 1. Speciul to The Tribune. LOS ANGELES, Oct. 5. The last stand of the Angels hero today will be forgotten no more than will the splendid, stupendous drive of the j Tigers which this afternoon cul- minated in tho winning of the Coast 1 ! league pennant. Both will live Ions i ftniong tho tranches and heroics of base-! base-! ball. At the end of the flrs t gam e in a double-hearlor at Washington park, which perhaps l'5,0i)0 persona tried in vain to I witness, when the Tigers were acclaimed champions, a terrific wave of applause swept through the tremendous crowd. Then, as swiftly, it subsided into a strange silence a sort of mute homage to the team which had gone down fighting. fight-ing. To all these witnesses of the tragic ninth inning there must float before their vision tonight the dim picture of a runner in blue, an athlete with the tying run Hashing across the third base and a few feet beyond it, an alhlete in I white, leaping into the air, spearing a ride-shot throw wilh his gloved hand. The runner stops rind throws himself bark toward the bits-1 and the leaping one in white also in Vs himself toward j the base, but the force of the falling man i in white jars the hand a bare inch. A figure in dark blue blouse and baggy trousers, bending low, gives a quick Ht-t'e Ht-t'e upward jerk with his right hand, and tiie greatest race in Coast league history is ended. Tigers Are Champs. : The Tigers at la.st are champions. The ! man in blue was George Kllis. lie had 1 carried the Angels almost to the realization realiza-tion of their hopes. The leaping man in white was John M itched, who, by a superb su-perb effort, had made sure of the championship cham-pionship for Vernon, and who, by his sure hand, staved what was approaching a ninth-inning collapse. The crouching figure in dark blue was William Phyle, umpire, who rendered surely and correctly correct-ly the decision that decided the pennant. Out in the center of the diamond stood j a tall, sweaty athlete with tired, droop-j droop-j ing shoulders. This was Weiser Dell, j who could have beaten any ball team in i! the world, but who, through the vagaries i of a high bodnder, saw the structure of j a skillfully pitched game almost crumble i: at his feet. I ' Two contrasting scenes were enacted. Ten thousand people surged across the ii field, making it a maelstrom of humanity, i j Half the crowd surged to the Vernon pit and the other half to the front of the : I stand where sa t President Arbuckle. i Flynn, former Yale gridiron giant, picked tip Manager Essick, tossed him across his J shoulcU-rs and ran about the field. There were cries of "speech" in front of Arbuckle. Ar-buckle. The big comedian responded by 1 hoiding up a horseshoe. And while the i jovial magnate was receiving the plaudits i of the crowd and Essick was being pa-r;i pa-r;i ded in a pandemonium of applause, up in a small, darkened, deserted office which only partly shut out t he thunderous thunder-ous cheers of thousands, sat John F. Powers, owner of t lie Los Angeles team, and hardened old James Morley, with the tears streaming down their cheeks. There ! was no lack of gameness there. It came ' from the depth of their emotion. This is the answer to those who contend that : baseball is purely commercial. Then came the immensity of silence. Dell Brown's Master, Vernon won the first and deciding game, ;! to 2, in which Dell proved himself him-self the master of Brown. The second game, which was meaningless, went to the Tigers, 6 to '3. Tt was called in the sixth inning, when the Coast league season sea-son end.-d here in a cloudburst of cushions. cush-ions. Fans in the right-field bleachers started showering soft seats on those peated nn the sod along the edge of the fle'd. This spread around the arena until (Continued on Page Fourteen.) half liner and a half fly that dropped safely back of second. Kills went to second. sec-ond. Bassler, batting, for Brown, filed to Chadboume, whose mitt is the maw into which the hopes of so many rival teams have disappeared. This brought Ktllefer to thft plate. The battle-scarred manager took a toe-hold and crashed through with his third hit, and Ellis scored as the ball sped into left field. Hosp took second. Fabrique ended the iitning with a line drive to right which Meusel came in and mitted on about a level with his knees. The Critical Ninth. The count stood 3 to 1 -when the Los Angeles batsmen came up for their last chance in the ninth. Fournier, first up, lined out to Mitchell. Crawford grounded to the same fielder, who threw him out at first, and the Angels looked like a forlorn hope. Crandall was then sent to the plate to bat for Boles. When Crandall squared away it was with coolness cool-ness and deliberation and with an aspect of elemental power. He liberated this power with a strong, even swing as the ball, sped toward the plate. The bludgeon met the sphere squarely and it soared away toward the left-field fence. High turned his hack and dashed in the same direction. He followed the ball into the crowd, still running under it, but it eluded his grasp. . Under any circumstances it was a double, and possibly a triple, but under the ground rules it was good for two bases, no more nor no less. The youthful Haney was put in to run for Crandall. Again Ellis stepped into the breach. He rammed a single into center cen-ter and Haney dashed from second to the plate. Chadbourne whipped the ball! I to DeVormer, but Haney slid across, safe I DELL BIOS HOME 1919 FLAG TP VERM (Continued From Page Twelve.) the air was a swarm of soft seats. Thousands Thou-sands of fans good naturedly fought their way onto the field, and, getting beyond the control of the police, who had no great desire to interfere with this effervescent effer-vescent windup to a banner season, the game was called by mutual consent. Brown seemed to have but little on the ball at the start and Mitchell drove the first ba.ll pitched into the left-neld crowd for two bases. He scored a moment mo-ment later on a single by Meusel, particular par-ticular Nemesis of the Angels. Brown then steadied and pitched shutout ball until the sixth, when singles by Mitchell and Fisher, a wild pitch and a juggle in left field, due to overanxiety, gave them two rung Dell Pitches Brilliantly. Inning after inning Dell was strangling the Angels. He baffled them at every turn and they struggled impotentty against his sinuous slants and dazzling curves. Now and then a man reached first base, but beyond that they couldn't drive. Not until the eighth could Killefer's , men penetrate that adamantic and yet mobile defense of Dell and his backing. Ellis, game to the core and at his best In a great series, led off in the eighth with a single that Fisher blocked. Nie-hoff, Nie-hoff, almost helpless against the delivery of Dell, struck out ' for the, third time. Hosp, who had been placed at second for the day, in lieu of Crandall, flicked' a by bare inches. This attempt to score when a single, run was of no account was irreconcilable with the understood I practices of baseball, but was daring and spectacular and successful. Ellis, not expecting ex-pecting Haney to score and therefore not looking for a throw home, did not go to second on the plate peg. The Death of Rube, One run now meant a tie, with the decision and the fate of the pennant at least delayed. Niehoit sidled to the plate. Niehoff, heretofore unable to solve Dell's delivery, did not look like a promising prospect. However, this time he did manage to meet the ball, although not squarely. Instead, he drove it directly into the ground, the ball bounding high and airily to Dell, and, with exasperating deliberation, into the middle of the diamond. dia-mond. The tall pitcher pulled it down i and threw to first. But Niehoff had the , throw tied and Toman unhesitatingly , called him safe. Ellis did not even pause at second. Seeing third unguarded, Beck having come in toward the high bounder, he dashed for that baae. Mitchell rushed over at the same time that Eddington flung fiercely, frantically and wildly across the diamond. The ball seemed yards out of Mitchell's reach; but he backed up, catapulted into the air at the very fringe of the crowd and came down with the ball in his mitt. Ellis, unmindful of the beseeching hands of Fittery on the coaching line motioning him to slide, came in to the base standing up. He overran it a few feet, stopped, staggered and fell back. His hand touched the base, but lost its grip as Mitchell flung himself upon it from the other direction. The race was over. Ellis, deathly pale and limp, almost sobbing, changed in one instant of blinding chaos into a mere spectre of an athlete, was half carried to the bench. Decided in Sixth. Probably the real turn of the game came in the sixth. Mitchell singled and Chadbourne sacrificed. Meusel, who had been winning game after game, was purposely pur-posely passed. Brown loosed a wild pitch, Mitchell going to second and Meusel to third. The pitch was low, kicking up a spit of dust near the plate and eluding Boles. Fisher followed with a single to left center, both men scoring and Fisher taking second when Ellis made an uncertain uncer-tain attern.pt to pick up the ball in his haste to try for the plate. Eddington filed to Killefer for the second out. High walked. Beck grounded to Hosp, retiring the side. The best team won; fair enough. That Famous Bonus. Before the play, the situation was that the Vernon club took the ribbon by winning win-ning one of the two games booked. The Angels would have to take both to win. A bonus raised by some Los Angeles baseball fans will be presented to the Tigers, to be divided as the players may determine. Probably the prize will be distributed on a share-and-share-alike basis. Tliis bonus has been much advertised all summer as amounting to $10,000. That was the sum "pledged- at an enthusiastic enthusi-astic dinner before the season opened, but when pungle-up time came the pledgers forgot their obligations, and if $5000 of the much-heralded $10,000 is made available the Tigers will be lucky. The Bengaleers, however, will offset the effect of the shortcomings of the bonus by participating in the receipts accruing from the interleague championship champion-ship series which begins here Wednesday Wednes-day between the Tigers and the St. Paul club of the American association, pennant pen-nant winners in that organization. The Saints will arrive here Tuesday morning, morn-ing, coming from Salt Lake, where they played a practice- game today. There appears to be much interest in this in-terleague in-terleague series, and indications are that the games will be well attended. Under the terms of the arrangement between the officials of the two sides, American association rules respecting the elimination of the spitball will prevail one day and Coast league rules, which permit the spitter, will obtain the next. Each club will be the "home club" on alternate days. The American association associa-tion will send one umpire, - James Murray, Mur-ray, from that organization and one of the Coast umps. will work with him. I President Tom Hickey of the American j association has been bore several days arranging details. The interleague series is to be on a ! nine-game basis, the club winning five j games to be proclaimed the world's minor league champion. In regard to the request of the local officials for St. Paul not to play any other Coasters after this series, Hickey says he will abide by the wishes of tiie Coast champions. |