Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-03
BERRY PROMISES
MOREHOME GAMES
ANGEL LEADER RETURNS AND
BRINGS GOOD NEWS
TWO TEAMS AT LEAST WILL BE
ADDED TO LEAGUE
Local Manager Predicts Great Season
Next Year and May Add Seattle,
Tacoma, Venice and
Sacramento

into the Pacific coast league next year
or not. I can assure the fans of Los
Angeles that they will have practically
continuous ball next season. nave
the assurance of all directors of the
Pacific Coast league that team VIII
be admitted from Venice, and also one
from Sacramento, whtcn guarantees
that the league will be increased by at
least two teams next year, and the re-
yised schedule will bring botn the
added teams to Southern California
often enough to provide an all summer
schedule for the Angels.
With these words Henry Berry, VINO
arrived in town yesterday from the
northern trip, announced the gooo news
to the Angel fans that the season OF
1909 will bring an almost steady period
of baseball to the local followers OF the
Pacific Coast league. Berry has oeeh
at work on the continuous ball propa-
ganda for the last tWelvemonth. IN
fact, he stated long before the season
opened this year that the Paclnc Slope
premier baseball organization would De
enlarged long before another year mao
rolled by, and that the fans could count
on steady games at the old grounds at
Chutes park. Berry has needed the call
for a better favoring of the strongest
team in the league, and when ne as
sumed command of the Anger 1orees
two years ago Immediately began TINS
campaign for more games in the Angel
city.
He found, however, that he had to
buck against a northern triumvirate
that heretofore had been all-powerful.
lie succeeded. according to his state
ments yesterday, in convincing j. Cal
Ewing, the president of the league, that
he was making a serious mistake in at
tempting to give San Francisco con-
tinuous baseball at the expense OF the
Angel fans. Ewing, according to Ber-
RVS word, now is enlisted heart and
soul In the cause of steady game IN
the south, and when the northern mag
nate arrives in the south with the An
gels June 16 he will go to work at once
to provide the much demanded enter
tainment for the th-of-the-Teha-
chapi patrons of the national game.
While on a trip to Seattle Berry sent
south the definite news that Tacoma
and Seattle will be added to the league
next year. The Angel manager reports
that the northern towns are baseoali
mad. They have had enough OF the
dinky article of ball provided by Dug
dale and his satellites in the North
western league and both Seattle and
Tacoma are eager to break into the
Coast league next year. With the
aforementioned southern teams en-
listed this will give the organization an
eight-team circuit, which means that
each team will stay at home longer ana
will make speedier trips to foreign ter
ritory.
Sacramento is already building
grounds to be occupied by their Coast
league team next year, and the grounds
are being provided at Venice. These
two teams are assured absolutely, says
Berry.
Leader Is Optimistic
sI think the baseball outlook better
than ever before" says Henry. All
the league teams are playing great ball,
and 1t will be no runaway race for the
winner of the pennant. However, l
want to reiterate on my return that
am still firmly convinced that the An
gels will be found the leaders when the
last bell of the season tolls the hnai
run"
"Eyery man of the team is playing
consistent ball" continued the Angel
manager. "I want especially to give
Jud Smith little credit for the fact
that he is playing as clever and con-
sistent ball as any man in the league:
There never was any reason why
should replace the third basenan with
any other man. Smith, like all play
ers. has had his off days, but the print
him to the bench is not only false but
it is not fair to him. There is no more
lucky man in the league than Jud, ana
n, lucky man is a mighty good man to
have on the team. Also he has been
hitting at a pace that will set all coast
players going to rival.
Portland, according to the report
brought back by Berry, is baseball mad.
If he stepped into barber shop or
any gathering place of fans the Angel
manager says that all he heard up
there was. "Well, the team plays to-
morrow" or Say, that was a fine
game" There is no fight club, they
have no races and the whole sporting
element turns it's attention to the
horsehide game. Consequently the
crowds are always large and enthusias-
tic. At the same time Berry pays a
tribute to the Los Angeles fans, saying
they are the fairest and squarest in
tie league.
Angels Look Like Winners
Should the Angels continue playing
in anything like their present stride,
says Berry, they will romp in as win
ners in the Coast league this year.
The locals have demonstrated that they
are in great playing form right now,
and 1t is prophesied by wise fans that
the struggle for the rag will lengthen
into a long drawn out battle between
Los Angeles and Portland. The latter
team has been gaining steadily and has
climbed from the bottom place to a
position dangerously near the Angel
stand The series this week between
the two top teams will result in one
or the other shooting to the top. With
all the Angels in first class form and
hitting in their old stride again it
means a hot fight for first honors.
Let me tell you" said Berry. as
he ran his hand across the smooth
surface under his hat, that young fell
low Oakes is the best man playing
now in the Coast league ranks. l saw
as soon as he started to work for me
that he was a good man. and he made
his mark from the jump There is
no man on the slope who is playing
his position in better form and at the
same time using the stick with such
consistent effect l can always depend
upon him in a pinch. Already the two
big eastern leagues are bidding for his
services, but they won't get him for
nothing ! assure you. AS for all this
Carlisle stuff, | want to say that Oakes
is a far better man than Carlisle ever
was. / wouldn't give him up for
twenty Carlisles, although the little
fellow is admittedly great performer.
Jud Smith vii Stay
"Jud Smith and all the rest will stay
right with me as long as they do any
thing like as well as they are doing
now, so be at rest in that regard.
Smith has been on several pennant-
winning teams in the last six years,
and / regard him as one of my most
valuable men. He was on the winning
team of Syracuse, N. Y, in 1908. He