The morning call., 1892-03-07
NEWS OF THE BALL FIELD.
Players Will Report f0rzPractice
This Week.
Tanning Has Signed With the Home Team for
the STANDARDIZATION Of Ball Park
at Los Angeles

In three weeks more the baseball season
will open with as speedy quartet of clubs
as the California League has ever known.
In fact the belief is expressed by those who
have perused the cast of the different teams
that the pace will be trfe more rapid
than it has ever been before in these parts.
There will be no opposition in profess
sional way, although there is boom in
amateur circles. McCloskey's meal-ticket
annex league has faded quite out of sight
1t didn't take it long to fade. as at best it
was only dimly discerned on the far west
ern horizon where earth and sky seemed to
meet They did meet, and crushed Nc
Closkey completely out Of the baseball world
for the present.
In place of the opposition George Wool
rich and others Of the Olympic Club have
organized an amateur league to De known
as the Olympic, aud it will comprise six
teams. There will be one each from
the Olympic Club, Stanford University,
Berkeley. University of California. Re-
lance Club of Oakland and one other to
be selected. Tie schedule has not been ar
ranged yet, but it is the intention to play
every Saturday.
FANNING WILL STAY HERE.
gram from Tacoma telling him that ad.
vance money had been sent to him by the
manager of that club. But it looks as if Ia
coma will have TO dispense with Mr.. Fan-
ning's valuable services in the box. Under
the new agreement Jack will not be COM
PEELED to return 10 Tacoma. He has closed
contract with Harris, whereby he will
form one OF the trio Of twirlers in the San
Francisco team.
- apf zoo ha IN,
TO report for practice on Wednesday Of this
week, and the Colonel expects his talent by
the last OF the week. 1t may be that Pitcher
German will not show up, as he is reserved
by the Buffalo club. 1t was also reported
that Hart would be held, but he has in
formed Harris that he is OH the way to San
francisco. Work is being pushed on the
Haight-street grounds and they will be
ready for practice Wednesday.
Nanderbeck has accepted the Athletic
Club Park, at the corner Of Seventh and
Alameda streets, for the Los Angeles ball
park, and the electric ear people have given
assurance that they will transport the
crowds to aud fro. There are eco members
In the Athletic Club who will now feel
personal interest in the success Of the ball
games. The grand stand will be shifted
around and enlarged, aud another row of
beaehers Will &c built on the left Six
boxes VIII be placed over the grand stand,
the diamond will be shifted and covered
with clay aud altogether about $500 will
be expended in improving the park. L.
Arthur Peartree, who owned the other park.
has evidently failed 10 get off.
NOTES OF THE DIAMOND.
In recent interview Captain Ebright of
the San Jose team uttered a few trite
remarks on the subject of sliding to second
base. Buck doesn't think that a player
should slide simply because he can when
trying to reach second. There are tunes
when runner lOses base by sliding. Ii
he keeps his eye ON the ball. and particu-
larly on the bagman. he can easily tell long
before sliding time whether or not it will be
necessary 10 plow up the earth.
Fer instance, the ball may be thrown
high or low, or to one side, and in that case
1t goes by the bagman. IL the runner keeps
his feet he stands good chance of reaching
third before the ball is recovered. On the
other hand, he makes wildly sensational
slide with The ball down in center field, and
before he can get up and away the ball is
back again. The slide looks well, Buck
says, but IT doesn't advance the game to any
great extent III case OF this kind.
Joe Langenderfer, who held the peanut
franchise at the Haigh,-street Park for sew
eral years past, is out of the business. A
new caterer has taken hold, and hereafter
man named A. kOrn will dispense re-
freshments in The gTandstand. What can
be more appropriate than that nut-ped-
der should bear the name of A. Korn?
The bar will also be in charge of new
man.
Danny Sweeney is still on the disengaged
list, but said yesterday that he expected to
go to one OF the Pacific Northwest clubs.
probably Tacoma.
As yet Hunkey Hines has not Informed
his former master that he has started west,
and 1t Is more than likely than Hunkey
Will not come. although the Colonel says he
will. When the player left last fall he said
he would not return. Bill Goodenough will
take his place in the field.