Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-23
OAKLAND COMES
FOR LAST SERIES
ATHENIANS TO CLOSE FIRST
HALF WITH ANGELS
LOCALS ARE IN THIRD NOTCH
Team Ready to Put Up Great Battle
to Finish Inside the Money.
A Perplexing Baseball
Problem
LOCALS ARE IN THIRD NOTCH

The Oakland crew of diamond artists
are scheduled to finish the first half Of
the season with the Seraphs. Begin
ming Tuesday the Athenians will take
on Morley's men for six game series,
depends the position of the Seraphs in
the percentage column when the first
half of the season is finally ended. Los
Angeles is now in a fair way to pre-
sent an unbroken lineup, Toman be-
ing ready to go back to his old posi-
tion in the short field and the remainder
of the squad being in good fighting
order. The Seraphs batting has shown
quite a bit of improvement, and they
can be depended upon to make a gall
liant fight in an effort to hold onto their
notch just inside the money.
Trenton, N. j., has a midsummer
baseball problem as perplexing as the
"How old is Ann?" problem that tore
the land of the free wide open about
year ago.
Mayor Katzenbach, ministers of the
gospel, lawyers and politicians of Tren-
ton are neglecting other worldly affairs
to discuss it.
1t all started from a heavy wager
that the Y. M. c. A. baseball team
would score twice as many runs as the
Waldrons, the latter team being the
leader of the Mercer county league
At the end of the game the score stood
to in favor of the Y. M. C. A. squad.
Immediately fierce discussion arose
and has continued. The Trenton pa
pers have carried columns of opinions
from prominent citizens on the wager.
Some say no bet; others maintain
that those betting on the Y. M G. A.
team won.
Zone is 1000 per cent more than o."
1T is 100 per cent more and cannot be
considered twice as much" These are
samples of the solutions"
Curves are wearing on the arm and
SO is the slow ball." says Oscar Gra-
ham. ut is just as wearing on your
arm to throw slow ball as it is a
curve. You see, you can't let your
arm go when you cut loose a slow one
You start as If you were going to use
some speed, then you pull your arm
back and that straws It,
kid Nichols. Waddell and all the
odd timers who are now in the game
are all fast ball pitchers. They pitch
them high, low, in and out. and with
the pump on them keep the' batter
guessing. Those old fellows don't seem
to lose their speed, but, like wine,
grow better with age. These curve ball
pitchers are good only for few years
and then blow up. They get kinks in
their shoulders and that's the end of
them"
The Commuters have been taking a
fiendish delight in sending the Seals
down the toboggan these days. It will
be remembered that last year when
San Francisco was in the ruck 1t
stopped the upward fight or the Athe-
mans who then had chance for first
place. In fact II was the Seals who
put stop to the wonderful squirt OF
the Oakland team when It won twenty
four out OF tweny-seven games. The
tables seem to be turned this year and
Oakland smiles and smiles and mur-
ders while she smiles" With no chance
Of beating Tacoma for the first half.
she appears TO derive infinite satisfac-
tion In paying her debts to Uncle
Henry's aggregation.
The Commuters never played better
ball than they are putting up now. and
while 1t is no material advantage to
them, it takes away the glimmering
chance the Seals had Of winning the