The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-11-18
HAPPY HOGAN" TO
MANAGE THE
FRESNOS
By w. j. SIatterx

The Fresno baseball team of the Pa
cific Coast League will have a new
manager next season in the person of
Wallace Bray, known to the fans as
Happy Hogan" He was elected to the
proud position at meeting of the
directors of the Fresno club on Friday
afternoon, and was given full power
to hire players and discharge them as
he sees fit
Since Mike Fisher was deposed by
the magnates speculation has been rife
as to who would be at the head OF the
team next year. Many names were
mentioned. among them Charley Doyle,
Fisher was dropped. Nobody figured
on Hogan" so therefore his appoint
ment came as a big surprise to the
baseball world
Hogan" was one of the stars of the
league for many seasons past. He
broke into the game with the Sacra :
mento team more than four years go
on the day that Sacramento and Oak
land played their memorable nineteen
inning game on the old Oakland field,
the longest game ever played In Cali
fornia
Since joining. fast company Hogan"
has proved his worth. He played with
Sacramento under Mike Fisher, and
when the latter took charge of the
Tacoma team he went north With
him, acting as change catcher for
franchise was transferred to Fresno
he stayed with the old ship, doing
practically all the catching last season.
FRESNO WANTS FAST TEAM
The directors have given me full
power to act as player-manage of the
team next year." said the new man
ager on his arrival in this city yester-
day morning. Il am going to put a
fast ball team in the field, and mark
my words, Fresno will be in the GO
Ing. I will do most of the catching,
besides managing the team while on
the home grounds and on the road
The directors of the Fresno team
are the gamest crowd of sports 1 ever
met in my life. Though the team lost
money at, home last season, these men
have voted sufficient money to equip
and run topnotch nine next year.
They have empowered me to go to
work and hire the best players that
money can get, and 1 am going to do it
All Fresno wants is team that Is
in the running for the pennant, and If
it is possible to get such a team / am
going to do 1t. I will be on the lookout
for fast men from now an. and unless
something out of the ordinary happens
I will have a flock of them signed up
long before the season opens next
April.
Frank Chance, manager OF the Chi
cago Nationals, is an old friend OF
mine and is taking a great interest In
the Fresno team He has promised to
secure for me three or four high-class
pitchers. Amy men that Chance recon-
mends to me must be right, and shall
be glad to get them"
! 1t is likely that Fresno will have an
entirely new team In the field next
season The nine was not at all well
balanced last year. and therefore was
never IN the chase after the peunant
1t is likely that Casey. Wolters, Eagan
Doyle and a couple more of the stars
/ of the team viii be retained. These
men all played their game last season
The remainder of the old Fresno line
up probably will be missing when the
season opens.
SANTA BARBARA MAY CUT IN
Hogan" will spend several weeks IL
San Jose, his old home. After resting
up there he will go to Los Angeles tc
attend the annual meeting Of the di-
rectors of the league, which Is SEIZED
uled for December 6. In the meantime
Hogan will have his eye out for any
promising youngsters in the bushes.
Santa Barbara has been offered g
franchise in the Pacific Coast Baseball
| League. The plum that several Cali
fornia cities have been reaching for fol
some time past has been handed to the
southern town on a silver plate, and
Santa Barbara probably will have 9
i team in the league next year
Santa Barbara's chance to break into
the league came through ]. Cal Ewing
A few days ago In Oakland Ewing hac
an interview with City Attorney Hen
ley c. Booth Of Santa Barbara, In
which he said that in the event of am
franchise being revoked the league
would like to have Santa Barbara TAX,
it over. After long talk. In which
the ms and outs of the situation wer,
carefully gone over, Booth promised
to take the matter up with local CAPT
tai and returned to Santa Barbara viii
the intention of organizing a stocl
company to swing big league bal
there.
Santa Barbara is admirably lo.ated
and the trip from San Francisco to Lo
Angeles over the coast line with ,
break at that city would be easy on TIL
players and very convenient for rh
schedule. Booth intends TO take ul
the matter at once and hopes to hay,
a definite proposition to make in tn
next few days.