Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-02
JEFFS RETIREMENT
IS FORCED UPON HIM
HE OUTCLASSES ALL HEAVYWEIGHTS
Champion of Champions Intimates That He Will
Fight Again Whenever Worthy Opponent Is
Found Whom Public Believes Has Chance
With Him, but Nothing Is Yet in Sight


seems to be a hopeless task to induce
him to go into another match for some
time to come. But it is now assured
that he will emerge from his self-sought
ring obscurity whenever a new heavy
is found who has sufficient caliber to
make the card draw few thousand.
Next Saturday afternoon the Pacific
Coast league baseball season will open,
the pennant winners of last season
opening for five weeks stand on the
home diamond
Morleys Angels have been doing
daily practice stunts for several days
and in the series of games played with
the strong St. Vincent nine. although
not being permitted to extend them
selves to any great extent, showed
clearly that the kinks have all disap-
peared and the soreness physical at
leaSt), which is necessarily feature
of the preseason training stunts has
likewise vanished as thin air and the
champions are ready to step IN and
win in q manner becoming and salts
factory to magnate and patrons.
Oakland will be the fall guys" in the
opening series and on dope the Angels
should crafty the fans by taking two
out of every three games played with
the northern bunch.
The Athenians have been going
through daily practice stunts for some
time but they have not had sufficient
time to thaw out and the trip to Los
Angeles is expected to complete the
melting job to a sufficiency which will
enable the suburbanites to get going
at a good clip ere they depart for the
other end of the circuit after the series
with the Angels.
The pennant winners will start the
season minus the handicap carried for
several months of the season of 1905,
which consisted in a woeful lack of
pitching material of dependable type.
This season Morley will start them
off with practically the same team of
champions who won the pennant in the
final weeks of last season, when the
lineup was much above the best ever
shown on the coast before.
With Tozer, Nagle, Hall, Bergman,
Gray and Crandall there will be nothing
lacking in the curve line from the drop
of the flag, this bunch forming the best
aggregation of pitching talent owned
by any team in the west.
In the infieId and outtield the Angels
are not weak at any point. On the
contrary, they are as strong, at least,
as any coast league team and there
is really no demand for strengthening
this department.
With five topnotch pitchers to alter
nate in the box, none of the firing
liners will be overworked, as was the
case last season, and all will be given
an opportunity to take regular turns
at intervals of three days, which will
mean that they will not be called upon
to work more than twice each week and
will, therefore, have the necessary per-
iods of rest for doing steady and cham
pionship stunts.
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hoping that the success of last season
will be duplicated this season and that
at all times the Angels will be in a
"way up position in the race. This
will mean added interest and naturally
will attract a more loyal support from
the fans.
Bat Masterson has a high regard FOR
the prowess of Kid Herman. the Ghetto
champion of the Chicago lightWeights, |
and predicts that Jimmy Britt has moth |
ing very big on the clever easterner
intimating that Jimmy must keep his
eyes open and fight with his head, as
well as his hands, if he would win the
battle from Herman. Masterson says
that if Britt fights along the same
lines he followed in his battle with
Nelson he will always regret it. In
other words, if Britt sails in with his
walk into something real unpleasant
before twenty rounds of this sort of
thing goes on.
There are few of the fans who give
any great heed to the dispatches from
Frisco which give rise to the rumor
that Britt may call off his battle with
Herman because of the Nelson-H Herrera
and Attell-Neil cards put on by Me
Carey 1t is generally believed that
this rumor is fathered by jealousies
entertained at Frisco and this belief
is strengthened in the simultaneous
announcement that if Britt does not
call off the match he is considering d
proposition to box Herman in Frisco
before one of the fight trust clubs in
May. Britt cannot afford to crawfish
out of his date with Herman and there
are few who believe he will try to do
so. Jimmy is a coast idol and is al
great card, which guarantees a filled
house when he makes his appearance
in the local ring.