Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-01

At this time it is appropriate to call
attention once more to the fact that
the greatest baseball general of Coast
league history, Hen Berry, has made
good every promise he gave to the fans
when the season began. In other words,
he has consistently and formally con-
Quoted himself and the management OF
the Angel band throughout the season,
and in a manner eminently satisfactory
and pleasing to the Los Angeles fans.
When the season started, Berry pre-
dicted that his balltossers would finish
in front and supplemented his predic-
ton with the promise that if the ag-
gregation should appear weak or the
flag should seem to be in danger at
any time, he would strengthen the team
regardless of expense and would keep
the pennant in the southland. A few
days ago, after all possibility of fail
ure had been safely passed, Hen ex-
pressed his satisfaction at the result
and began making new promises. 1--WE
have won the pennant again and Will
win it in 1909" he said.
While no one will deny that Berry
has done his share of the good work
and has redeemed every promise he
ever made to the fans, nobody who
takes an interest in baseball affairs will
overlook another important factor in
this highly satisfactory result Capt
Frank Dillon, whose brainy work on
and off the field has contributed great
ly to the success of the team in the
pennant chase, has been as indispensa-
BILE and necessary to this result as has
Berry, and nobody recognizes this fact
any more than Berry and nobody gives
the captain any greater praise or more
eloquent expression of appreciation
than does Berry. HE is the best in the
business" says Her, land l often con-
graduate myself that the big league
managers are suckers enough to over
look him.
Dillon is appreciated not only in Los
Angeles, but all over the Coast league
circuit. The baseball writer's in the
three other Coast league cities, as well
as everywhere the game is played In
! America, have reaped compliments, de-
served Ones upon him for the manner
in which he has fulfilled all eXpecta-
tions in handling the team and in put
| ting it out in front again in the flag
chase. Cap has gray hairs, but be-
meath them is the gray matter that has
enabled him to finish out in front more
| than once or twice since he began to
direct the destinies of the Angel band
Los Angeles has been well represent
ed on the Coast league diamonds dur
| ing the playing season 1t is a classy
ipl
/ Los Angeles once more and caused the
name of the city to be placed in the
records that constitute baseball history
in America. Berry is carrying nc
deadwood on his payroll and this fact
is evidenced in the drafts and pur-
chases made by the major league clubs
this season, by which methods two, and
probably three, players will leave the
Angel ranks for the big brush.
Many new players have been brought
to the coast in the last two months and
there is a general disposition upon the
part of the management of the four
| clubs in the league to strengthen their
teams for next season regardless of the
expense involved. There will be many
new faces in the various lineups next
spring and there will be quite a num-
Der of missing ones, but tine clubs I'M
doubtedly will be stronger in 1909 than
they are this year.
| San Francisco has yearned for PEN
winning club for many years, but
| 1t has been an impossibility, it seems
for the management to bring about this
| happy result. Danny Long, Cal Ewing
and Papa Ish will make an effort to
build up winning team for next vea'
and already they s-- reaching out into
other leagues for new material.