Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-31
GOSSIP OF THE DIAMOND
BY RED PERKINS

"APPY HOGAN, who will manage
I'll the Vernon team, says that while
II he is still rustling for talent he has
signed practically a full team. He has
already signed Carl Lewis, formerly of
Oakland, for his catching department,
and says that he will likely get Weaver
from the Chicago Americans for his
back stopping division. Kitty Brashear
will play first for Happys team, while
George Haley, an old Oakland player,
will be the second Sacker. Hogan also
says that he has DeVereaux practically
signed up for third base and that he is
after Schaefer for shOrtstop. Hogan
would not give out the names of the
pitchers or outfielders he had hopes of
landing, but declared that he expected
to get some good men for these depart
mentS.
Unless Hogan secures some speed
burners in his outfield none of his
players will be arrested for exceeding
the speed limit. Happy surely has To-
Gated a bunch of tOrtoises that would
be hard to beat. Hogan is not very
speedy on the bases himself. Carl
Lewis has no more speed than a steam
roller, while Weaver has never shat
tered any 100-yard records. Brashear
is a snail on the bases, and there are
number of base runners who could
run backward and beat Devereaux
around the paths. Haley is fast
enough on foot, but he is a slow
thinker, and for that reason not very
rapid on the paths.
Danny Long has received the signed
contracts of Kid Mohler. Claude Berry,
oscar Jones, Eastley and Joe Berger
Jones, Berger and Berry are playing
| IL
Mohler is Wintering in Los Angels.
Eastley who is working in a foundry
in Pittsburg, writes that he is anxious
for the baseball season to begin. Long
has at last located Mundroff. He he
| ceived a letter from him recently.
| Mum" is spending the winter in
Seattle, where a contract will be mailed
to him at once. The local manager is
anxiously awaiting the arrival of the
White Sox, as he has been promised
three players when Comiskey's bunch
arrive in this city. When you ask Long
who is going to play first for the Seals
next season he will smile, but will say
nothing.
Pitchers - Brown, Whalen, Baum,
Emerson and Cooper or Lilly.
Catchers-Graham and Byrnes.
First decentralization or EnWright.
Second baseman-Raymer
Shortstop-Jimmy Shinn.
Third misunderstanding.
Outfielders-Larry Piper, Doyle and
Enwright.
The above is the formidable array Of
baseball talen that the management
is figuring on for this years Sacrament
to club in the Coast league. On paper
and in reality such an aggregation
would make an awful run for the pen
nant. A capable set of batteries with
stone wall infield and fast out gar
garden topped off with some of the.
hardest clouters in the game, such q
team would be in a position to make
Frank Dillon's Angels soar high.
OF this coterie of ball players Brown,
Byrnes, Whalen, Raymer, Shinn, Jan
sing and Larry Piper have been Sc
cured. Baum, Emerson, Byrnes and
Doyle are being counted upon and the
only extremely doubtful ones are Nea-
lon and Enwright. Nealon, who is IN
Sacramento, is waiting for news
from a business venture which he con-
templates entering in San Francisco.
Enwright says there will be no Coast
| league baseball for him this year be-
cause of pressing business. Harry VOL
ters, the great southpaw from San Jose,
| cannot be secured because the st. Paul
| club owns him. Both Cooper of Marys-
vile and Lilly of Sacramento will be
given chance to make good with the
team.
| Besides getting the franchise for a
Sacramento club in the Coast league
1.-THE visit of Managers Curtin and Ora
ham was a fruitful one, for Jimmy
Shinn of last years Santa Cruz team
was landed for short and Larry Piper,
| formerly of the San Francisco Seals
but last year with Winnipeg in the
Northern league, was secured. Not a
| bad acquisition if the records of these
| two formed the basis for the deal
Shinn finished the State league last
| year with a shifting average of .315,
and Piper led the Northern league with
the beautiful clip of 1863.
So many of the forty-six baseball
players with whom Walter McCredie
| has been corresponding for his Pacific
Coast and Northwest league teams
have signed contracts that he feels in
a position to give out the probable
Portland lineup and their division into