Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-03

II INDOOR baseball, which had firm
hold in Los Angeles last year dur
- ing the winter months, will not
meet with it's accustomed popularity
during the coming eeason.
A year ago the Indoor Baseball league
was formed, with four clubs playing
the schedule, but so far this season no
activity has been shown in the game.
| There has been some talk of organizing
team or two among the military men
and playing at Southern California
suburban towns. Other cities have
taken up indoor baseball and there is
no reason why it should not prosper in
Los Angeles.
Player Henline of the Santa Ana
club in the California Winter league
this week received from the directors
of the Southern league the sum of
$102.20 as his share of the players re-
ceipts for his batting average during
the season of 1908. Henline batted 1902
for the season.
Ray Weisel, formerly of the Azusa
club, desires to hear from any Los An
geles team relative to taking a position
of backstop with one. Answer through
The Herald.
Cdptd1D Dill GOOOIIId1l VI Tic I1OSSGS
team in the California Winter league
has signed two feft-handed twirlers.
They are Annis, formerly Of the Hynes
club, and Phillips, a new find from the
Cotton State league.
Manager William Murray of the
Philadelphia Nationals is passing his
vacation at his home at Peabody,
Mass. Murray has many friends in Los
| Angeles.
Owns, Harry Pulliam's new umpire,
is well spoken of by the National
| league players who were in the games
with him last season.
Only two big baseball trades have
been pulled off so far this winter, and
st. Louis landed head up in both.
Hugh McBreen Of the Boston Amer
leans has gone to Hot Springts to ar
| range for new park, in which the Red
Sox will do their training next spring.
| Ira Thomas, the Detroit catcher, says
he will not go to Philadelphia if Man
! ager Jennings sells him to Connie
Mack. That's too bad. What on earth
will Connie do now?
Eastern league players are kicking
| because their salary limit for next
| season has been fixed at $3.50 a month.
And that is about eight times as
much as most of them got in Troy.
Harry Hoffman, catcher for the
Maiers ball team, received a New
| Years present of two bats that have
| been soaked in oil for two years. Some
ball players are not able to get things
that have been in soak for only two
| months.
The reason has leaked out why Ben
ME Smith and Bilande severed their
connections with the Maiers club in
the California Winter league ranks and
| went over to the Dolgeville team in
the Southern State league. It is said
because Manager Frank Benkert let
out Smith for faster material at left
garden Bilande got mad and
Jumped" Smith pitched a fine game
for the Felt Workers New Years day
and is a fast man on his feet.
There will be a meeting of the Cali
| fornia Winter league directors at the
office of President Harry Lelande next
Tuesday night at the city hall. The
meeting will be called at o'clock.
Jack Doyle has great baseball park
| out at the Southside Athletic grounds,
CHouSn several improvements could be
| made. The Herald suggests that Jack
place wire netting along the third base
line so that foul balls will not go under
the bleachers behind third base There
| is a four-foot railing along the third
base line, and with a little netting it
would save the outfielders the trouble
of either climbing or going under this
fence for balls that come that way.
The bell that Jack DOYLE has to toll
| off the number of runs must have been
made in the early sixties, for the sound
cannot be heard more than ten feet
| away.
| The eleventh series Of the California
| Winter league will be started off this
| afternoon between the various clubs.
| Following is the standing of the
| league: