Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-30


-%&M SS%$## innings he pitched
against the Angels
in the Portland series last week tnat
Captain Dillon marked him as conner
and after a consultation with Hen
Berry he proceeded to tie strings 10
Briswalter so that the youngster could
not get away from him until ne is
given thorough trial.
Dillon said last night that the young
ster looks good to him and that ne VIII
recommend that he be signed up FOR
next season. His experience with
Hosp, who formerly was the star
twirler of the San Diego Pickwicks
and made good so speedily after gradu-
ating into fast company, teaches Dillon
that the mere fact that q player Is an
amateur does not prevent him from
having sufficient class to travel In pro-
fessional ranks and he thinks so well
of Briswalter that he wants to give
him a fair tryout.
He said that Briswalter would be
given a tryout next fall before the sea-
son ends, and that in all probability
he would be signed up for next season.
Briswalter has good speed, plenty OF
curves, excellent control and ample
confidence and his Los Angeles friends
are pleased to know that the Angel
club will give him a chance. Too
IIdny ROOQ dtIldIeuTS dIc BOlD6 away
from Los Angeles and are making good
so fast that the Angel management is
due a certain amount of criticism for
allowing them to get away.
It is rumored that the Oakland man.
agement has traded it's crack twirler.
Killian, to. the Mobile club Of the
Southern league in exchange for the
Mobile contract upon Joe Nealon, the
star of the Sacramento outlaw league
twirler staff, and that Nealon will
pitch in one of the series at the Chutes
that starts this afternoon. Mobile is
unable to get Nealon, as he refuses to
go to that city and as long as he re-
mained in the outlaw league he could
not be forced to go to the gulf city.
Finding that 1t could not get Nealon
the Mobile club readily agreed to the
proposition of trade for Killian. Nea-
lon is crack curve artist and will
strengthen the Commuters If he joins
that club.
There is happiness in the ranks of
the Lukes ball club over the defeat OF
the Pendo team in the Independent
league Sunday, and George Luke, who
has invested more than $400 in anna
teur ball during the past eighteen
months. says that it is about time for
him to win pennant. AT the pres
ent time the Lukes nine is to the good
by seventy-eight points in the lead and
by winning next Sundays game will
have a cinch on the pennant. Los An
geles fans. who witnessed the contest
between the Lukes and Pendos went
away from the South Side Athletic dia-
mond pleased with the result, and sew
eral old-timers who saw the game de-
clared that the Lukes ball nine had
Af h. 60 rfnc vAIn
upon a Southern California diamond.
Dope places Louis Pitzer's team a
close contender for championship hon.
ors and, with some luck, 1t may nose
out the leaders.
Pitcher Ford, the lame boy, at last
has won a game for the Florence-Gra-
hams and may hereafter make better
showing than he has of late, although
there are plenty of good pitchers in the
race to keep him a-guessing when he
faces the different tesms of the Inde-
pendent organization. Miller, who
twirls for the Weiland nine, is not a
dead one by any means, and from the
score turned in last Sunday it was
anybody's game up to the fatal tenth
inning. when the score stood to 3.
Another pitcher that will make them
go some Is Sammy Ferraris if he stays
with the Home Council team. Ferraris
for the past few months has been
pitching winning ball for the Pasadena
nine, and as Manager S. d. Upton has
first call for him Manager Benkert may
be compelled to seek another twirler to
finish out the remainder Of the league
series.
A funny, thing happened on the South
Side Athletic diamond last Sunday,
when a colored man, all of 70 years,
walked up to Manager Luke and said:
"Ahs got twenty cents dat abs gwine
to bet on de ball game" Luke, who is
a good natured cuss. told the darky
to keep his small change and buy
bread with it, at the same time cough
ing up a half a dollar more, handing 1t
over to the aged man. And to Luke's
surprise he saw the man of dark color
bet the whole seventy cents on the
Pendo nine. Well, now, If Luke was
not mad, I never saw him or anybody
else in an angrv passion before.
The Angels bv no means were the
only ones to be defeated by, large
score last week, when the Rortlands
beat them to the tune of Is to 0. At
Des Moines the other day the Des
Moines club. with Bomar in the box.
defeated the Omaha nire II to l. Des
Moines got twenty-one hits, while
Omaha got only four. The winning
team made nine hits in the second in
ming, breaking the record of the year
for the number of hits scored. Omaha
got here only run on base on balls.
Pitcher Bridwell of the Bankers
league did fine work last Saturday for
his club, stri, ing out twenty batters of
the opposing team. Bridwell is an all
around athlete and did good work on
the track for u. S. c. last season. An
other fast pitcher is Beammer of the
Los Angeles high school. who twirls
in the same organization.
'Wel1," said Captain McCredie of the
Portland team, just before departing
for the north, 'just say for me that
the tailenders will not be the Beavers
this season. We are going to win the
pennant. and don't you forget it. We
will be back in August, and I hope we
will be playing the same article of ball
as Wien we left Los Angeles"
Oakland has arrived, and let all be
there at the opening game of the series
to cheer the Angels to victory. Hen
says that he has had heart-to-heart
talk with his players and from now
on the TALES will be turned on the 9TH
er clubs in the league. Too bad, boys,
that you should have fallen into second