Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-10

Cleveland has an option on outfelder
Heinie Heitmuller of the Oakland
team.
First Baseman George Stovall Is out
of the game with a sprained ankle.
Old Dan Zearfoss is now playing on
an independent team in Delaware.
Krause, the San Jose boy, has been
loaned to the Harrisburg Tri-State
league team by the Athletics.
sandow Mertes. now with Toronto.
has been fined $25 for not being nice
to the umpire.
Leon Ames, formerly with the New
York Giants, is holding down first base
for Warren. Ohio.
Outfelder Erine Diehl, who went to
Cincinnati from Toledo, has returned
to his old club.
The New York American players
gave Clark Griffith a diamond ring the
other day.
Pitcher George Upp, returned to Co.
lumbus by Cincinnati, will not be OF
much help to the club this season, as
his arm is in poor shape.
Cincinnati has bought Pitcher Rice
from the Connecticut league and
Catcher Warner from the Gulf Coast
league.
President Watkins of the Indianapo-
lis club says that the New York Ma
tionals cannot have Pitcher Marquard
until the end of the American associa-
tion season.
Said Manager Chance of the cham
pion Cubs the other day: Another
thing that has handicapped us this
spring is Kline's throwing. Frazer's
wet ball has worked harm with that
famous line throw that has cut down
the base stealing with the other clubs
so materially in the past. One wet
ball pitcher can make catcher bad
in his throwing with all the other
pitchers, and that is what has been
happening to Kline"
Titus of the New York Americans
was fined SIS for not sliding to first
base when ordered by his team cap
tain the other day.
Johnny Hughes caught his thirty
third game the other day. The midget
backstop got two bingles.
The Record Juniors still have no
game for next Sunday and would be
pleased to hear from any 17-year-old
nine for that date. Call Harry Pyle
at Press 80.
Manager S. D. Upton Of the Pasade-
ma team is thinking of organizing
select team to play the Avalon nine
| in the course of a few more sundays.
The AllStar baseball team desires to
hear from Les Henry in regard to
playing the Whittier state school for
| game next Sunday. Call up owen at
Exchange 2S5.
The clubs in the Independent league
| will play next Sunday as usual. The
Lukes and the Meeks nine have a
double header scheduled for Florence,
the Florence-Grahams and the Pendo
clubs playing on the South Side Ath-
letic club diamond and the Home Coun-
ell and the wieland clubs will play on
the Thirty-eighth and Alameda dia-
mond. Only five more games remain TO
be played this season in this league, the
season closing August 2.
Following are the lineups:
Home Councils VS.. Wielands, at
Thirty-eighth and Alameda streets
raris, pitcher; Koeller, first base; l..
Smith, second base; B. Smith, third
base; Sullivan. shortstop; Bilaude, left
field; Wilson, center field; Hensling,
right field. Wielands: Finley, catcher;
Miller, pitcher; Harkness, first base;
Venable, second base; Bell, third base;
McMuIlin, shortstop; McCloud, left
field: Brown, center field; Crossman,
right field. Johnny Bouette. umpire.
Pendos VS.. Florence Grahams, at
Thirty-eighth and Santa Fe avenue
Pendos: Hoffman. catcher; o. Leon
ard. pitcher; F. Scott, first base; 70.
Newton, second base; c. Scott, third
base; Pendleton, shortstop; Sawyer,
left field; Truit, center field; G. Leon
ard, right field; Poe. pitcher. Florence
Grahams: H. Stout, catcher; Ford,
pitcher; Wimberly. first base; Graham,
second base; Fibers, third base; Kutz,
shortstop: Cahill, left field, Salyer, CEN
ter field; Ward, right field. Fernandez.
umpire.
The WoodilI & Hulse baseball club
is out with a def to any baseball team
next Sunday afternoon. Call Main 1l25
or Exchange "a.
The close race in the eastern leagues
is causing the umpires great deal OF
trouble.
The Cleveland team has been play
| ing great ball of late and working
hard to get in frs place.
"In Detroit life is worth living" Is
the official slogan of the Straits City
people The phrase will not sound good
| If the Tigers fail to get on top.
Few teams have been so badly Grip
pied as the Chicago Cubs this season,
| but the champs manage to hold their
| own in spite of the hoodoo.
Manager Bill Bernhardt has his
Nashville team in fine shape in the
| Southern league. In Bay, Seigel and
Hunter he has an outfield that has the
blue ribbon attached.
How those two Boston teams hit at
timesl Every now and then the Red
| Sox and the Doves start a slaughter
and murder two or three pitchers be-
fore they are satisfied.
! Is there any pitcher doing better
work than Jack Powell of the st. Louis
Americans? big Jack" has been shift
ed about the major leagues for years.
but he arrived in Brownstown with an
assortment of winning twisters.
Another "bull" was made by George
Adair manager of the Los Angeles
| Athletic club baseball team, in an
nouncing that the next game to be
nlaved by the club team would be
with Rivera instead of NorWalk as