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Show QMS ARE BEATEN BY AiELS 5 1 1 10,000 Fans Witness Opening Game of Baseball in Los Angeles. LOS ANGELES April 3. Los Angeles An-geles 5, Oakland 1. Baseball Is here once more. The national game, In a patriotic dross, reappeared at Washington Wash-ington park this afternoon before a crowd of 10,000 Americans first. It was peerless, pulsating this reappearance. re-appearance. Tho Oaks did not have much of a chanco (no pun), despite their brave now blue-gray uniforms and Del Howard's bravo talk, which resembled one of tho kaiser's exhortations exhorta-tions to his warriors. Three bands and Old Glory were largely in attendance. Old Glory led the procession around the field and in salute all the heads of the fans were bared. Following camo tho two teams, the Angels in white uniforms. j A huge horseshoe of flowers pre-j pre-j sented to Frank Chance by his local I admirers was the only sign of vegetation vegeta-tion in the park. It was almost as beautiful as the smile of the Los Angeles An-geles manager after tho final score. Not a reserved or box seat went unoccupied un-occupied or unsold and the crowd, while not more than half as large as the one at the opening last year, made a distinct impression of swirling hu j manity as it Jammed through tho gatos when they weer opened at 1 o'clock. Thousands were on hand early to see the teams indulgo in fielding and batting bat-ting practice. Manager Howard drovo his men through a snappy workout, but tho inflelders weer nervous and sov-eral sov-eral fumbles resulted. Mensor, on second sec-ond base, made two brilliant plays and was liberally applauded. The Angels were given a tremendous welcome when they trotted up on tho diamond for their Infield work. American flags were worn by both teams. Promptly at 2:30 Umpires Phyle and Finney appeared upon the fiold and esdorted Mayor Woodman, who, in accordance ac-cordance with the ancient custom, put tho first one over. He made a pretty good job of it, so good that Sheriff Cline caught It, and then tho season was on. ' Thousands In the downtown district saw the parade which preceded the game. In it there wdro 100 automobiles, automo-biles, each machine decorated with the stars and stripes, and the three bands kept up tho patriotic fervor, and the sport procession was accorded a continuous con-tinuous cheer. ' Only In the fourth did Veteran Jack Ryan's foot or arm slip, this was when Miller, with a triple, scored Oakland's run on a single by Murphy. As Ryan tightened in the fifth, tho champions really needed no more tallies, tal-lies, but scored two in that inning. Anyway, Killifer had a triple in his system that he wanted to get out. He did so with a runner on first and came right along to tho plate himself when O'Mara mado a bum relay to third. Arlett then gracefully retired In favor fa-vor of Mooso Goodbrod. Moose was hit freely, but wouldn't stand for any scoring. Score by innings: Oakland r Huns 0 0010000 01 Hits 0 112111119 Los Angeles Runs 0 0 0 3 2 0 0 0 x 5 HIta 0 0 1 4 4 2 0 2 x 13 |
