Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-30
GOSSIP OF THE DIAMOND
BY RED PERKINS

w ALTER McCREDIE of the Port
w land Beavers has great expecta-
" tions that his club will win thu
Pacific Coast league pennant this year,
and from the mood In which the vet
eran manager seemed yesterday after
noon as he lounged in an easy chair at
his hotel on South Main street his ex-
pectations We're obvious. During the
| half hour conversed with him on the
subject of baseball his face was
wreathed in smiles.
When the Portland team makes its
debut this afternoon in the first game
of the season against the Angels at
Chutes, park, Manager McCredie Will
introduce several new faces in the
| Pacific Coast league. In the infield he
will present Olsen at short and Dick
Breen at second. Behind the bat there
| will be Armbruster and Murray, and
in the outfeld there will be George
Ort.
Jess Garrett the little Texan, will be
the only pitcher of last years staff to
be with Portland this year. The new
members of the pitching department
will be Speck Hardness, a former Ant.
geleno, and Kid Carson, two young
sters whom MAC" drafted from the
Northwestern league, and Roy Willett,
Coloradoans who is enjoying his first
season in professional baseball. Vance
Seaton, also with the Beavers. is q
California boy.
There Is strong belief that Olsen Is
head and heels better than Phil Coo
ney. Olsen is clean-cut man with
! brains, and McCredie will have no
trouble with the behavior of his short
stop. When Olsen.is not playing ball
he is receiving teller in a Kansas City
bank. In action on the ball field he
will remind the fans of Zeider. He is
just as fast as San Francisco's infield-
err, and IL anything is handler with the
willow.
Dick Breen, at second, has tight
pair of shoes to FILL for Pearl Casey,
his predecessor, is as near finished
keystone sacker as can be found In
any league. Yet Breen will give good
account of himself. He may not have
the general store of inside baseball
information tucked away in himself
as Casey, but he has a nice way of
getting in front of ball and blocking
1t, so that in case he does not hoist 1t
in the air he Is in a position to get
another wallop at 1t. Breen handles
himself much as does Lajoie, and, be-
ing with the Cleveland club. has pat
termed his playing after the big league
second baseman. The fans will find
that Breen Is much faster on his feet
than Casey, but of course he does not
get the opportunity as often as does
Casey.
Nothing need be said about Johnson,
for the coast league fans know well
what this third-sacker can do.
This season McCredie is going to
give Kennedy a serious tryout at the
initial sack. McCredie had him with
the training squad last season, but
Danzig was too good man at the
first bag to be succeeded by Kennedy,
nor had the latter the arm of the big
fellow who Joined the Boston Ameri-
cans. Once Kennedy gets a knack Of
meeting the ball fairly he will de-
velop into star first baseman.
In answer to the challenge publish
ed in an evening paper, the Colegrove
team is requested to telephone the
manager of the Belvidere club, at
Boyle 21S3, If 1t wishes a game at Los
Angeles.
Manager Thomas of the Woodill-
Hulse team was warm under the COL
lar yesterday afternoon on account of
the way the Dolgeville team handed
in the tabulated score of the Dolgeville-
Woodill-Hulse sixteen inning game last
Sunday. "Dolgeville gave itself credit
for fifteen hits, when it should have
been eight" said Thomas. "The
Woodill-Hu club were credited with
seven, when as a matter of fact, the
felt workers only got four. Further