The San Francisco call., 1907-03-31
BY William, j. S1attery

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would be thrown out bodily. Ewing is
willing to take a chance with lawsuits
or anything else that may result over
the ejecting of the offenders.
Work on the new park continues to
be rushed. The magnates are pretty
sore now that they did not open up
the season yesterday. The beautiful
weather looked so good to them that
they could not withhold their regrets
However, the play ball'' cry will sound
next Saturday afternoon, no matter
what the weather conditions may be
in the meantime.
The postponement of the opening of
the baseball season has in measure
taken the edge off the keen enthusiasm
of local fans. Tt may be for the good
of the sport in the long run. but the
followers of the game did not receive
the news any too kindly, and all along
the line were heard murmurs of dis
satisfaction.
Every one is anxious to see the San
Francisco team in action. There has
been a great deal written and said
about this club and the members will
have to play some pretty high-class
ball to sustain the reputation given
them by the managers
On paper and in practice the team
looks good enough to satisfy the multi
tude. The players are a lively lot.
Every man on the team has shown
gingery spirit while at work in Ba-
kersfield, and Captain Mohler has done
all he can to get the best out of the
men. So far, his efforts seem to have
met with success.
Barney Joy, the much touted pitcher
from Hawaii, is not likely to prove the
sensation that his hackers predict. Bar
ney is in the kindergarten class of the
baseball school. He learned more in
the few days of training in the south
than he ever knew in his life. And at
that, he will have to keep on learning
before he becomes a star.
The big Hawaiian is built after the
style of the once mighty Amos Ruise.
Naturally he is slow, being burdened
with top weight. He has a fast ball
that looks good enough when he gets 1t
over the plate, but it is extremely diff
cult for Barney to locate the plate at
times.
Then the big fellow must learn to
field his position before he becomes a
finished artist of the diamond. Cap
tain Mohler is doing the best he can to
wise Barney up on this fine point of the
game. Barney is an apt scholar and
willing to listen to what the veterans
tell him, so they expect him to develop
rapidly.
The management certainly picked up
a good man in Bill Moriarity the new
shortstop. For big, rangy fellow he
covers whole lot of ground. When he
started practicing with the squad Bill
was a bit bad at pegging them to first
His arm was sore when he arrived from
the East, but few days of work took
the kinks out of it and now the new
shortstop can wing the leather around
the field with any of them.
Moriarity comes from a baseball fam
ilX. He has three brothers in the
game, all of whom have won fame in
the East and Middle West. One of the
quartet, George is with the New York
Americans. 1t is likely that Moriarity
will hold down the first sack if Hal
Chase is not signed up.
1t is whispered along the route that
the San Francisco baseball team is apt
to suffer from too much management
this season. At the present time both
Long and Gleason are running the af-
fairs of the team. AS II Is unlikely
that either will accompany 1t on the
road Kid Mohler' will find himself act
ing in the dual capacity of captain and
manager while he is away from home
Inen there are many WHO tHlnk tnal
Gleason should devote all his attention
to baseball and not be dickering with
prizehghters. Experienced persons will
tell you that man has all he can do
to look out for a ball team that he
expects is going to figure In the race
after the flag.
If Gleason has big championship
battle on his hands and tries to please
the fight fans as well as the baseball
fans there is likely to be trouble II
there happens to be a split-up in the
management OF the local nine 1t will be
bad for the game. and should it slump