Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-02-28
GOSSIP OF THE DIAMOND
BY RED PERKINS

AIRY MYERS of Pasadena, for
mer manager of the Myers
Juniors, which the Newsies base
ball club trimmed by a score of 9 to 5
in one of the most exciting games Of
baseball ever witnessed on a Pasadena
diamond and who also defeated the first
team earlier in the season by a score
of to 8, with Bonnie Smith i'll the box
against Grey, has blossomed forth as a
baseball magnate again. He is signing
a team that promises Dexter's Passc-
dena club will look foolish.
Bulger Walsh will play the key
stone sack and captain the team,
Parker viii play left field, Richard and
Gould will cavOrt around right and cen
ter fields, Joe Judd will hold down first
base, Walsey will be on third base and
Sampson will do shortstop work.
The battery will be one of the strong
features of the team. Pete" Wachoh
will do the catching and Ritchey and
Snow will be the slab artists. Harry
Myers may also get in the game for a
short time, and he will show the fans
he is still ball player and not a has
been" The new team will be strong
in but carriers and utility players, for
no less a parsonage than Tom Judd is
to be utility man and Carson win be
DOSll1OAl
Of Jump" McQuinston has been Sc
lected.
If Walter Johnson of the Santa Ana
club was looking for revenge, he got
full measure when he shut out the San
Diego team by a score Of IL to last
week. 1t was certainly a case Of too
much Johnson. Jess StovaI had an off
day, but it was the first offense Of its
kind this winter
Covina is going baseball mad About
two months ago the Covina baseball
team was organized, subscription was
taken up, suits were bought for the
team and grounds leased. Since then
things have been moving rapidly. Good
material was plantiful and first-class
team was put on the diamond from the
start. The first game played was a
10-inning affair with Chino, which Chi
no won. Since then, however, it has
been one unbroken chain of victories
for Covina.
The team was put on a sure thing
basis last week when a number of the
prominent business men of the city got
together and formed a stock company
and placed a nice sum of money at
the teams disposal. The old suits were
sold to the Covina high school team
and new ones were ordered at once.
Inc team VIII now be known as the
Covina White Squadron, and the suits
will be the best that money can buy.
The body of the suits will be white,
with green trimmings, and the same
color scheme will be carried through
out, the coat being green with white
cuffs, white pearl buttons, white old
English CO.. on left breast. Small green
c. showing through white diamond on
sleeves of coat. Brooches will have a
small green bead running down outside
seam, the caps having the same kind
of bead on the seams. Stockings will
be green, with a broad white band.
The team has been considerably
strengthened and is ready to meet all
corners, barring none.
This afternoon Covina play River
side on Covina's diamond, and Sunday,
March Z, the Western F. A. club of Los
Angeles. March II it will contest with
the Woodill-Hulse club.
George E. Covert is retained as man
ager and H. G. Libby is captain. Co
VIVA wishes to hear from other teams
in regard to organizing a summer
league.
A double header will be played at the
Boyle Heights Athletic this afternoon.
The Cuban Blues will clash with the
Neidmores in the first game. The Gu