Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-21

HEN BERRY is the most sought
Ebr man in baseball these days.
= There is not major league club,
hardly, that has not been trying to
buy an Angel from Hen this season,
and two of them have gone, while an
other is certain to be drafted. Dolly
Gray and Rube Ellis WIN break into
the big noise next spring, and, of
course, both viii make good from the
start. With these two players sold, the
fans are beginning to figure to ascer-
tain who will be the player that Berry
will lose by draft. Certain 1t is that 1t
will not be Bernard, Dillon or Thorsen.
Bernard will not be drafted, because he
will not go, and there is no disposition
to outlaw a player who is as de-
termined that he will play ball at home
or nowhere, If that player happens to
be a crack balltosser of the Bernard
type. Dillon is in the same fix as Ber-
nard. He has had enough Of big
league ball. Thorsen has not had a
sufficient trial yet to make him hardly
eligible to big league trials. However,
there is Easterly, Delmas and Cakes,
not to mention Hosp, Koestner and
Maggie, who are in danger of being
yanked into faster company at the
close of the season.
Easterly Is wanted by at least four
clubs-Chicago Americans and Ma
tionals, Cincinnati and Cleveland. His
good work behind the bat and his
fierce smuggling at bat have made him
a most promising prospect for the big
league managers to consider, and as
several offers already have been made
for his release, it looks like he would
be the one to go. Hosp however, IS
pitching grand ball now, and Maggie IS
back in that great form of three years
ago, when he was the sensation of the
Coast league. 1t will not be surpris-
ing if drafts are filed for both, but,
thank goodness, only one player can
be drafted from a class A club. There
fore, unless Berry sells other players,
only one other Angel will fly away
from the fold before next season.
Berry has been most fortunate in
developing players. Hosp, ELLIS,
Cakes, Easterly and Delmas are living
evidences of this fact. Hosp is the
best twirler in the league today,
barring Gray and Sutor. He is reliable
and dependable and is growing better
and showing greater class in every
successful game. Easterly also has
proved a most agreeable surprise In
batting and fielding. Cakes makes the
absence of Carlisle most easily bear
able. Delmas has it on any other Coast
league shortstop and is clouting the
ball like q major Lacquer. Then, there
is BriswaIter. This local former anna
etur twirler has shown great speed,
control and variety of curves in his
tryouts with the Angels, and his future
is assured. Verify. the Angel farm"
is a big success.
Abe Atteh and Bat Nelson are re-
ported to have had a runin at the
Ketchell- Thomas ringside the other
night. According to press reports from
the north, Abe wanted to train with
Nelson at Millet's place, but Bat re-
fused. Abe met Bat at the fight and
started IN to give him a 'bawling,
which Is published In full as follows;
"You're a swell-headed guy, amt
YOU. Nelson, since you got the cham
pionship?" said Abe when he butted
into the Dane. "You think you're the
whole works. You forget that licked
the life out Of you just a. few months
ago and that I've been champion for
years, while you are Just rougn-
house, cauliflower-eared pug who licked
a sick man."
'sWat's the matter wild you, anyway"
blurted out the startled Dane. Didn't
YOU veil your head off about the de-
cfsion? You were lucky to get a draw"
"Me lucky to get a drawn Why, you
towsle-headed rum. I hammered you
into mincemeat, and If Cans don't lick
YOU next month, why, I'll take you on
and knock you out" was Attell's come
back. =,
"That coon hasn't look-in, and"
at this point Abe broke in with:
"Whef, you were down and out You
came out and begged me to let you
train with me at Milletts ana l gladly
LET Won do 1t. But your head has as
sumed hogshead proportions and unless
somebody wraps ice around it there is
danger of it bursting. The reason you!
are afraid to let me come down ana
train at the same camp issbecause you