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Show TIGERS GO DOWN TO DEFEAT 7 TO 4 Listless Game Played ,and Beavers Walk Away With Honors. LOS ANGELES, April 12. Portland 7, Vernon 4. Tho Tigers went down to defeat today In a game featured by lofty baseball of fifty-soven varieties. Tho trouble started in the second inning, in-ning, with Portland at bat, when Bor-ton Bor-ton walked and then pulled off a double dou-ble steal with Williams, who scored on Slglin's hit to Callahan. Stovall scored on advances after a short single sin-gle in the second half of the same Inning. In-ning. In tho third Wilio doubled to left and came on around for a tally. Callahan Cal-lahan was spiked in tho hand while assisting in putting out Farmer, who had taken too long a lead. The gamo was halted five minutes and Callahan's Calla-han's hand was dressed so that he came back and stayed through. In the fifth Vernon scored two, largely duo to a pass and then an error, but the sixth was the finish of the Tigers. Portland sent up Rodgers, who filed out. Wilio doubled, took third on a wild pitch and scored on McLarry's orror, with Farmer safe on first Williams fanned. Borton singled, sin-gled, advancing Farmer to third. Borton Bor-ton stole second and then he and Far-, mer scored on Slglin's single. Fisher tripled to center, scoring Slglin. In the seventh Wilie scored on McLarry's Mc-Larry's error and then ended the sad story. The rest of the way it was run-less run-less and almost hitlcss. The score: PORTLAND AB R II PO A E Hollochor, ss 5 0 13 4 0 Rodgers, 2b 6 0 0 2 4 0 Wilie, rf 5 3 3 2 0 1 Farmer, If ., 4 1 0 3 0 0 Williams, cf 4 1 2 1 0 0 Borton, lb 2 1 1 12 0 0 Siglin, 3b 4 1 1 0 1 1 Fisher, c .. 4 0 1 4 1 1 Penner, p 4 0 0 0 5 0 Totals 37 7 9 27 15 3 VERNON AB R II PO A E Doane, rf 5 0 1 1 0 0 Daley, If 4 0 0 3 0 0 Galloway, 3b 4 1 1 0 2 1 McLarry, 2b 3 0 1 1 2 2 Stovall, lb 4 1 0 11 0 0 Callahan, ss 4 0 2 2 3 0 Mattick, cf 3 1 1 2 0 0 Mitze, c 4 1 0 7 1 1 Quinn, p '...2 0 1 0 4 0 Griggs 1 00 0 0 0 Decanniere ,p 0 0 0 0 2 0 Concfrey 1 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 35 4 7 27 14 4 Griggs batted for Quinn in seventh. Conefrey batted for Decanniere in ninth. Scoro by innings: Portland ) Runs 0 1 0 1 0 4 1 0 07 Hits 0 1021410 09 Vernon Runs 0 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 04 Hits 0 0100010 46 Summary: Three-base hits Fisher, Galloway. Two-base hit Wilie. Stolen bases Williams 2, Borton 2. Mattick 1. Struck out By Quinn 5, by Penner Pen-ner 4, by Decanniere 1. Bases on balls Off Quinn 1, off Penner 2, off Decanniere Decan-niere 1. Runs responsible for Quinn 2, Penner 1. Nine hits 7 runs 31 at bat off Quinn in seven inningB. Charge defeat to Quinn. Double plays Hol-locher Hol-locher to Rodgers to Borton. Wild pitches Quinn. Umpires Finney and Phyle. Time of game 1:51. WILLIE HOPPE WALKS 360 MILES ANNUALLY DEFENDING TITLE Willie Hoppe, tho cue wizard, walks 360 miles per year around billiard tables. ta-bles. A statistician recently discovered discov-ered that Hoppe walks three miles in every 600 point game, that he plays 60,000 points per year, and thus tramps 360 miles afoot. |