Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-30
BY RED PERKINS


over. Early to bed and early to rise
makes Z man healthy and wise.
"Applehead" Scanlon, for the Santa
Anita ball team played big league ball
last Sunday and made a remarkable
record for himself. Out of four times
to bat he got four hits. He also had
cerdit for one put out and three as
sists. Pretty good for a small boy.
Molyneau, another player on the same
team, was there with the stick and
base running. Out of three times to
the plate he made two runs and got
one hit.
Catcher Dutch" Hoffman is shy on
the word "23" Dutch" drives produce
wagon and the other day he had bum
die to deliver to Twenty third street,
out in the jungles, and to make mat
ters worse his wagon license is NO. 2S.
Some fan in the grandstand at Soutn
Side Athletic club diamond last sun
day sang out "23" and Dutch" nearly
tainted. How I came to get next to
this "29" story is another chapter.
Some say that Umpire John Bouett,
at times, needs specks while behind
the bat in the Independent league.
Last Sunday he gave close decision
between first and home which looked
badly. 1t seems that one player hit to
Pitcher Leonard, who ran toward first,
tagging the player, and thought
Bouett saw him do it. But, instead or
calling the runner out, Bouett allowed
him to stay at first. Leonard was SO
mad" that IL Bouett was not of small
size he would have committed murder
right then and there.
The Mccormick baseball team, which
Is composed mostly of employees of the
Jevne grocery firm, is the hard luck
bunch in the amateur game. One week
ago they were defeated by the Nor
walk nine IS to and last Sunday the
Hynes club took a fall out of them to
the tune of IA to 8.
A comedy of errors was presented
before a large audience on the Elsinore
diamond last Sunday. Inability on the
part Of the Hemet kids to place their
hits in safe territory tells the story
of the game. Keck, pitcher for the
Elsinore team, was In his best form,
but to no avail, as the support behind
him was far from satisfactory. Inex-
cusable errors on the part of First
Baseman Clark, Left Fielder Ellis and
Center Fielder Mcintyre were the
cause of the Elsinore downfall. which
resulted to to 8.
Dummy" Price. who was injured In
! the game at Thirty-efghth and Ala
media street last Sunday, is improving
greatly and will be able to go behind
the bat again next week.
President Pickerll of the Bankers
| league desires to hear from an umpire
who would like to enjoy himself Satur-
| days handling the indicator In tnat
league Call up the sporting depart
ment of The Herald.
Player White of the Luke ball team
saw the game last Sunday from the
grandstand at hirty-eighth and Santa
Fe avenue.
Umpire Lane seems to have gone to
the bad in both the Bankers and the
California Summer leagues Saturday
and Sunday, and the general impress
sion among the various clubs Is that
he will not fill the position required by
him. Rumor has it that If Lane does
not improve there will be something
doing in that department
.'Maude'' Piake, captain OF the Venice
team, has a crouch and his troubles
seem to be caused by his poor base
running, as 1t is not up to the average
Captain Plake likes to see.
Bill Goodman of the Hoegee team
the Venice team last Sunday and his
feature play, to send the ball to the
scoreboard, failed him.
Wash of the White Sox team has
won fourteen games and lost but three
this season. Four of his victories have
been by shutout scores
White Sox Dougherty leads the
American league base stealers with
twenty. Hal Chase comes second with
seventeen to his credit.
Southpaw Siever will be farmed out
by Detroit to one of the, minor league
teams, probably Indianapolis.
Crawford of Detroit has made four
home runs up to date.
The White City team defeated the
F. A. A. on the White City diamond,
Arcadia, Sunday afternoon by score
of IL to 0. The feature of the game
was the pitching of Grayson. The
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