Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-20
ANGELS ARE
HOME AGAIN
WILL OPEN WITH PORTLAND AT
cHUTEs TOMORROW
BERRY HAS TWO NEW INDICATOR
MEN IN TOW
Would Not Stand for Pop Derrick, so
League Magnates Gave Him
New ones-Men In
Good Shape

Hen Berry and his Angels are home
but there will be no game at Chutes
park this afternoon. This is occasioned
not make the jump from the far north to
Los Angeles in time to appear. The
Mudders are somewhere up the coast and
will be in early tomorrow if not late
| this afternoon.
The Angels had stormy trip home,
and right on top of the loss of hard
luck double header, too. The train on
which they were riding was held up along
the line on account of a wreck, and the
bunch did not get in until four or five
hours after schedule time.
AS soon as they could wash the dust
off their persons the members of the
team spread out to visit old haunts.
Their long absence helped whole lot to
make the familiar spots interesting, and
there was nothing to it but a happy
bunch of ball tossers.
Hen Berry sought the shade of the
Hoffman and cajoled Jim Jeffries and
Jim Morley into a game of pool. Hen was
so glad to be here that he did not con-
slider the feelings of the others and ran
eleven balls in rotation, which was
plenty.
''The team is all to the good, so far as
condition is concerned" said Berry, land
most of the games we lost can be attrib-
uted to something besides the way they
played. The double header which went
to Oakland Sunday should have been
ours, but things worked against us and
we were on the short end of both scores
"And, one thing you can bet on Is that
we will not have Pop Derrick with us
this trip. A young fellow named Kelly,
picked up in the Nevada State league, will
handle the indicator. and If he won't do
then we will try another.
Derrick is all to the sand paper and
I told the president of the league that
I wouldn't stand for him. Kelly has been
doing fair work up north, and although
he did not umpire a game alone, 1 don't
see why he shouldn't be able to. If
Kelly doesn't make good we will give
a man named Quinn shot at 1t and we
will see what he is able to do.
Derrick Was Awful
'I am the last person in the world to
yell, but we were certainly Slipped some
thing in almost every game Derrick UNI
pired. Some way or other the ~old man
couldn't see us at all, anu all along
the line we were jolted when he handled
the Indicator"
The loss of Derrick won't trouble the
fans here a bit, as the old timer was
little TO the TOuBn III every
of the game. Kelly, the new one who
will make his first appearance here to-
morrow, has been acting with Pop in
Oakland, but he has never gone it alone
He comes from Nevada, and up there
they thought he was all the candy with
the indicator.
Quinn, the other umpire who may work
here, comes from Texas, where he played
ball and umpired for several seasons. He
is said to be well up in the rules, and,
what is more to the point, his optics are
all right.
The Angels returned home in the lead
but they are being hard pressed by
Frisco. Still. the team comes back a
few points better off in the percentage
column than it did last trip. although
the next team is many points further
along.
All the men are in good shape, although
reports from the north stated the con-
trary. Both Manager Berry and Captain
Dillon attribute the loss of games on the
northern trip to either hard baseball luck
or the way in which Pop Derrick worked
Portland and the Angels will line up in
the first game of the series tomorrow,
and from present indications a record
crowd will be out to see them perform
The fans have been five weeks without
any real ball. and the welcome home to
the Angels will be the cause of some
noise.