The herald., 1893-02-27
SOME LOCAL BASEBALL TALK,
Progress of the Managers in
Signing Teams.
Comparative Strength of the Various
California Clubs.
The Schedule for the Coming Season
Proposed Changes in the Playing
Rules-some Amateur
Baseball.

The date Of the opening of the league
baseball season in California is now but
q little over three weeks hence, and ap-
preaching warm weather has the same
effect upon the fans as is ascribed to the
from afar. The fan does not exactly
emit "horse laugh" but gets up a
progressive enthusiasm that only cul-
inmates with the ability to crafty his
desire to sit on the bleachers and ap-
plaud, or roast the nights of the dia-
mond, according as their playing is ap-
proved or otherwise. The lateness OF
the settlement of the managerial differ
ences in the local league left but little
time for completing important details,
but what has been lost in time has been
more then made up in increased energy.
The retention Of Captain Glenalvin in
the Los Angeles club, as starter, was a
sure indication of the line OF policy to
be adopted and followed by Manager
Lindley, for every baseball patron knows
that Glen plays bail hard and all the
time.
In selecting his team for this season,
short as the time was in which to do go,
Captain Glenavin has been exercising
the ekill Of field marshal and the fnesse
of diplomat. Judging from the men
already signed, rejecting fan (if such
thing exists) will gee that the changes
in the playing rules have been antici-
pated and met mere than half way. The
great cry from the eastern cranks lately
has been: "Give US more batting" J"
Well, the national league, which sets the
pace, is going to make such changes as
will produce this effect. 1t is safe to
say that the individual records for the
season of 1898 will not be governed 30
much by the work of one man as they
were in 1891 and 1892. The pitcher this
season will not be the sole arbiter of the
field, and hence this scores will be larger
and the play more rapid and robust. In
anticipation of all this, Glenalvin has
signed team of not heavy but scientific
batters and fast felders. Baseball
patrons already know what Lytle,
"Rasty," Hulsn and Glenalvin can
do, ard Sheibeck, at shortstop,
ia crsckerjsck. Nicol, the new left
handed pitcher, is also star fielder and
is above the average at the bat for his
position. With Park Wilson behind
the bat, it will be sesn that the full
aversge of strength has been main
tanned.
There are still two places on the team
to be filed. The initial bag is still va
can't and one out-felder is yet to be
signed. 1t ia more than possible that
McCauley will return, although he has
not signed yet; and in the out-feld it
would not be at all surprising if mem
ber of last seasons st. Louis Browns
would be wearing a Los Angeles uni
form. AT any rate it is morally certain
that the team which will represent this
city in the California league this season
will be just trihe stronger than it was
last year, and in like proportion superior
to any of the northern teams.
Theae latter teams are making haste
slowly in completing their personnel.
Even Co,onel Robinson, who come
weeks ago announced his team as COM
pleted, has been obliged to let some of
his men go to the National league and
their successors have not been an
! nounced. However, from the material
already signed it does not appear that
this end of the string has much to fear
The schedule has been practically
completed and now only awaits official
announcement. The first games in this
city will be played Saturday and Sun.
day, March 25th and 26th, with Stock
ton as the visiting team. On the follow
ing Wednesday Oakland will be here for
a five-game series and San Francisco the
week after, Leaving here the Los An
geles club will play at Stockton first and
then at the bay for two weeks. The rest
OF the season will be as it was last year,
three weeks at home and three away.
A new departure will probably be
made in the woman question by the
local management. To the ordinary OBJ
server it would seem hard to discover
the application of the woman question
to baseball, but this town is full Of cranks
of the gentler persuasion. The term
"falr" is not used in this connection for
obvious reasons.] Friday will still be
ladies' day at the park, but upon all
other days ladies will be admitted for
half price excepting upon holidays and
Sundays.
Glsnslvin expects to be back about
the 9th of March, and will soon have
his men under training at San Diego.
The new uniforms promise to be neat
and attractive, and it is q safe venture
that the wearers will do credit to them
selves and the town.
AMATEUR BASEBALL.
At the First-street baseball grounds
the Jacoby Bros. baseball team defeated
the Boyle Heights Stars by score of "a
to IA. Owing to the heavy winds it was
impossible to keep down the score. The
features of the game were the fielding
by Smith of the Jacobys and the bat
ting of the same team, Thomas, the
Compton pitcher, being bstted out of
the box in the fourth inning. The