Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-12

team, ard Barney came tnrouSu VIZ VIZ
an offer of $500 for the helder. VIII
the proviso that Hyatt is 10 nmism ~,
season with Vancouver. Manager
| Dickson wired his acceptance OF tnt
offer, so Ham is to break into the DIE
| league after only two years SEASONING
| in minor league company. II was
good stroke of business on the part o.
Manager Dickson to accept this oner
for it Is a cinch that Hyatt would DC
drafted next fall and vancouver Wo 3sie
receive only $3.50 for him. BY this
deal Dickson gets twice as much as
the draft price and Is assured OF keep
ing his big fielder the rest of the year.
HYATT broke into the league from the
brush last summer and from the first
time he went to bat he was marked
as q conner.
Matt Stanley has been relieved from
playing the rest of the season with
Vancouver. A foul tip broke the mid
die finger of his right hand the other
day.
An unconfirmed rumor comes from
Butte that Stub Spencer and Gene
Mahan slumped in their work and have
beeu released by Aberdeen.
Reports from Seattle are that Guy
Meets, catcher, and Heinrich, the Left
hand pitcher, who formerly played on
the Santa Ana team in California WIN
ter ranks, are the candy kids with that
club. Neither 10 bashful in playing
ability, as both have faced some OF
+ the best slabsters In the south and
learned considerable, while Walter
johnson, the Washington pitcher,
twirled for that nine While wintering
at Fullerton.
It is rather an unusual spectacle to
crowded street car, coming in from a
ball game with his derby hat damned
down on his head to prevent losing
1t while he clings to one of the up
rights. But that is just what hap
pened in Sacramento the other day,
when Governor Gillett returned to his
home. When the ball game was over,
like boy in his teens, the governor
made sprint for the car and was
just as happy as If he was riding In
his private carriage.
Oscar Graham. the big lefthander,
who pitched for Oakland, has jumped
the Minneapolis club and now is Twill
ing for an independent team in Min
nesota Oscar will likely be black
listed
George Monroe, the hard-hitting
catcher of the baseball game in "The
Mimic World has relatives in this
city and two of them are firemen. He
visited them one day last week and
before he was seated one of the fire
laddies asked him to sing. mot just
yet" he said, Il want to see you run
to q fire trst."
Files Mack's new nitcher already
has had the Endorsement of the Phila-
delphia manicurists.
Washington won its pennant in the
Revolutionary league. In those days
Ben Franklin covered the bases and
doped out the chariot race. He was
one of the first to protest against the
foul strike rule.
Connie Mack has big list of college
men as prospects for 1909. They are
Eddis Collins of Columbia, Plank of
Gettysburg, Boner of Carlisle, Combs
of Colby. Powers of Notre Dame and
Files of Bowdoin. In addition, Sox
Seybold took a correspondence course
in pinochle, while Topsy Hartsel has
read Three Weeks"
| Fergus McCusker is taking advan-
tage of the off season by perfecting q
knuckle delivery. Next season he will
sell all tickets at the Forest in this
manner.
When Connie Mack heard of Nc
Graws $4,000 purchase he Immediately
put utility outfielder Fox on the mar
ket for $4,000
Adolf Hartman told good one on
Captain and Manager Bill Goodman OF