Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-29

Captain Walter McCredie of the
Beavers. which will finish second in the
Coast league pennant race, was not in
the best humor imaginable after Andy
Briswalter had hung it onto Graney in
their pitching duel Tuesday afternoon
at the Chutes. McCredie said that
Brlswalter, who is the find of the Coast
league season, should be drawing pay
right now from the Portland team and
does not hesitate to say that Berry
outgeneraled him in getting the Los
Angeles youngster to sign an Angel
contract. McCredie says that he gave
Briswalter a tryout and Immediately
tried to sign him up, but when he
found that Andy's parents objected he
dropped negotiations. a few days later
he noticed in the papers where Andy
had won for the Angels, and since then
he has been made unhappy by the in
creasing number of victories to the
credit of the local boy. Every time
Briswalter beats the Beavers McCredie
stews and fumes because he thinks he
was cheated out of the best find of the
season.
With only four more playing days of
the Coast league season and the first
and second clubs in the pennant race
battling on the home diamond, the fans
should turn out and make the finish
record breaking attendance. This is
about the only way in which the fans
can show their appreciation of the
efforts of Hen Berry to give Los An
geles a pennant winning aggregation.
Hen has won the pennant every season
that he has managed the team, except
the year when he took hold after the
team had been disorganized and broken
up by assertions following the earth
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won the rag every season that he has
been at the helm, and he is deserving
of some sort of a testimonial in appre-
citation of this accomplishment. Let's
make the final days a hoorah finish
and pack the stand and bleachers.
John Blackwell is the continuous or
rotation pool shark of the turf world
on the coast. If there is anybody con-
nected with the turf who can trim him
1t will be pleasing news to the near
sharks who have been paying for games
regularly in which hey have been
beaten by Jack. Anybody who enter
tains an idea that he can trim Jack
will please show up some evening at
Hen Berry's emporium at the Hoffman
and get a tryout.
Baron Long is proceeding to fill the
two November dates that he has
"choosed," and congratulates himself
upon getting two crack heavyweights
for the first date, November 10, which
will be the reopening date at the club
and the first scrap under the new roof.
Al Kaufman and Terry Mustain will
be the headliners for that date, and II
is probable that Abe Attell viii be one
of the principals in the Thanksgiving
eve scrap. The policy of the club in
future will be to stage only high class
shows, and with the new roof COM
pleted the big arena once more will be
an attractive place forethe fans
Several baseball faces. now familiar
to Los angeles fans, viii be missing
next season. At least there will be two
Angel vacancies to fill, Dolly Gray and
RUDE Ellis going east to accept promo
lions to the big brush. Easterly may
go, and then again he may not, but
anyway. the fans should attend the
final games of the season and give
these departing diamond heroes n fit
ting farewell. as they have been strong
factors i'll holding the Coast league
championship in the southland. Ellis
will play I'm all the games, but Gray
will not pitch more than one more
game.
George Swain, who rode with great
success at Ascot two years ago, has
returned for the winter season at Santa
Anita and will be seen in the saddle
during the meeting. George will be
recalled as the chap who always was
playing some prank upon his friends
and many of the horsemen and jockeys
Jumped sideways and caught short
gasps of breath when George would
sneak up behind them and bark like a