Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-08

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Happy Hogan and his aggregation
Of unfortunates will return today from
that section of country supposed to be-
long to the Northwest league. after his
weeks series with the Portlanders, and
tomorrow afternoon at Chutes park
the Vernon team will once more cross
bats with the Champions and the
merry war of the locals will be on
again. Twice the Los Angeles collec-
ton of stellar attractions has met the
team from the suburban district and
each time they have succeeded in get
ting away with the majority of the
games.
The first series resulted in games
score of 5 to and the second meeting
found the Angels on the winning end
with four games out of the seven
played. All this is interesting when
figuring out the dope. 1t shows that
although the locals have no trouble in
disposing of Vernon and even Sacra-
mento the Vernonites are hard Tor
the Champs. This is one of the pecu-
liarities developed in the seasons play,
for no matter how poor a showing they
NAV make against San Francisco and
Portland, the Hoganites can always
make the title bearers fight for every
game. 80,
Hogan will be on hand tonight with
his bunch. He has had hard luck IN
his series of the last three weeks, haY-
ing played almost the entire time
away from home with a crippled or
ganization, due to colds and similar
misfortunes. Caffyn is away, on
flying trip east, a message having
reached the Vernon right fielder last
week that his mother is dying. Sew
eral of the team are suffering from in
disposition, but they are all ready 10
NAV ball on call of the captain. In
the Illness of Schafer, Hogan is par
ticularly unfortunate, for he thus loses
the services of his strongest tWlrler'
whom he depended on to win the sun
day afternoon games, and take VIC
tories from the heavy hitters or the
league. Hap is hunting for another
good box artist and may have some
thing of interest to announce in TINS
connection soon.
Seals Safe in Lead
San Francisco went north safely
seated in first place, and Will meet
Oakland this week. Unless BIZ Reldy
team shows a reversal of form, the
close of the present series should ma
the northerners boosted away up, for
the Seals figure to almost sweep the
series against the tail-enders. With
the San Francisco team Al points ahead
of the Angels, they stand a good
chance of staying on top for a couple
of weeks at least, but it isn't possible
to make accurate predictions in base
BALL and any upset that may come
will not prove a surprise. Los Ange-
les stands 43 points ahead of her near
est competitor, Sacramento, which in
sures the Champions second place, es-
pecially considering that they viii
meet Vernon this week. The Senators
are as points ahead of Portland, and
these two teams VII fight It out for
third place this week, with the results
a toss up s far as the average fan is
concerned.
Never in Coast league history has
the pennant race excited more COM
ment and interest. That record crowd
at Chutes Sunday told the story, for
when nearly 1000 people appear at a
ball game in Los Angeles or any Coast
league town, it means that the con-
tending teams are playing spectacular
ball. This is just what the last series
produced, and there is more to come