Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-25
ANGELS ON HOME
DIAMOND AGAIN
OPEN WITH SAN FRANCISCO AT
CHUTES TODAY
Team Returns at Head of the League
Standing, but Margin Separating
1t from Othe. =; Is
Small

Weighing just as much as ever, and
with the same coat of makeup on his
face that he sported when he went
away Hen Berry, accompanied by his
cluster of Angels, returned to the home
roost yesterday morning and gave the
passersby on Spring street treat. The
whole bunch were as happy as 2-year-
olds, and their home coming was sig
nal for general rejoicing among the
fans
The Angels come home in exactly the
same place as when they left-the top
of the league. But they don't stand
quite as well as they did, because the
other teams have crept up and the
race is now much closer than it was
before the six weeks invasion of for
eign territory.
Much of this is due to the sprint
Portland made on the opening of the
series with Berry's men, Immediately
after San Francisco had been played
Then after the disaster in the Oregon
city the Angels went up against Frisco
at her best, and the consequence was d
loss of the majority of games in the
series.
Had Portland started the season in
her present form every team in the
league would undoubtedly be punched
in the percentage column. The Web
foots did not strike their real gait un-
I'll the locals were up against them
this last time, but when they did open
up Mercedes men showed that they
are going to be the fighting kids from
now on.
Angels Still Lead
But now the Angels are home, and
the fact that they still lead the league
ought to make the fans feel happy,
even though the number of points sepa-
rating the locals from Frisco is but a
scant ten. This little fact alone makes
the coming weeks series, which
opens today, all the more interesting
If San Francisco happens to take
four out of the six games scheduled for
the week the northerners will place
themselves at the top of the list, but
if they make * an even break there
will be nothing doing in a change of
positions. Should the Angels come
through with the majority of games
won, and there is every reason to eX-
pect that they will, it will give the
Berryites a lead that will be hard for
the other teams to overcome.
The series which opens today will
undoubtedly be the most interesting of
the entire season to date. On their own
home grounds last week the Refugees
hung it all over the Angels, and with
revenge in sight for the humiliation,
the locals are more than anxious to win
at least four games before the north
erners depart again. And then the
league leadership is at stake, and eacn
side is anxious to obtain such lead
that. no other team, Oakland for in
stance can come along and sneak into
ffs5t -pface when no one is looking.
Considering the long trip they have
been on, and the real ball they were
forced to go UP against, the Angels re-
turned home in first class form, and the
hospital list is nearly wiped out. Ber-
nard. possibly the only sick one on the
pay roll, is confident that he will be
in shape to play today, and If he does
the center field will have it's old time
familiar look.
In all probability Carnes or Berge-
man will toss the sphere in the open
ing game this afternoon. The latter
was all to the bad when the team left
here. but a few days in the country
set him right again.. and he is now in
old-time trim. Burns is also doing well,
and with Nagle and Gray makes up the
rest of Berry's star aggregation OF slab
artists.
Lineup the Same
If Bernard does not show this after
noon it is probable that the lineup VIII
be the same as that IN Wnlcn the An
gels last appeared here. Capt. Dillon
will hold down the initial pillow, Bra
shear will take care of everything that
comes to second, Delmas is slated for
short and Jud Smith for third. In the
outfield Carlisle, Ellis and Cravath will
take care of the high ones, and taken
all around the team is in good shape
to take care of the visitors.
The game viii commence at 2:SO and
a new umpire will handle the indicator.
owing to the fact that Derrick was
tied with a can by the league mag
mates at recent meeting, and Perrine
is way up north in Portland, no regu-
lar arbiter will be here, but some one
sanctioned by the powers that be VIII
line up with the necessary protecting
implements and call the balls and
strikes for the first game. Perrine will
be here by Wednesday, and is expected
to remain until the Angels start away
on their next northern trip, three weeks
hence,