Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-28
ATHLETICS
SEATTLE STADIUM IS ARRANGED
TO ACCOMMODATE GREAT CROWDS
GOSSIP OF THE DIAMOND
BY RED PERKINS


Sierra Madre and Alhambra In
Il invoking the aid of the old blue
laws to put stop to Sunday baseball
playing has caused q howl of disap-
prevail from the followers of the ma
tional pastime.
The fight for Sunday baseball was
especially strong in Sierra Madre, hav-
ing been waged all winter. but the
action of the board of trustees last
week ended the controversy and the
Sierra Madre teams' promised that
never again would they play the hit
and run game Sunday
Such action in Alhambra did not &C.
casion much surprise, but when en-
acted in the hustling sport-following
town of Sierra Madre it made the fans
sit up and take notice.
Alhambra and Sierra Madre can now
enjoy the distinction of being the only
two places in Southern California where
Sunday baseball is tabooed The action
means that a bitter political contest
will be waged with Sunday baseball as
the leading issue at the former town.
The players and followers of Sierra
Madre claim that is the only day they
can indulge in the sport and claim It
an undue and whimsical hardship TO
have to substitute Saturday games for
Sunday contests.
The players regard the action as the
encroachment of Puritanical ideas ana
are satisfied that the polls are the
proper and most satisfactory place for
the adjudication of the controversy.
In Gardena the same trouble is being
agitated, and to hamper advocates OF
Sunday ball playing a fence has been
constructed by those who oppose It,,
which intereferes with the diamond.
The Sentous school baseball team de-
feated the Lincoln grammar school or
East Hollywood Saturday afternoon on
streets by the close score of to 3. The
excellent work of the batteries and the
star catch of foul ball in the eighth
inning by Judd were the features of the
game. The lineup for the teams was as
follows:
Lincoln school-williams C.. Roche, S. ;
Hook, RI. Morton, CT; Watkins H.; He'd
ohock, 2b.; Limennan, 3D.. Poly, p; Jones'
1b.
sentous school--Jull. c.; Marlatt. 2o. /;
Herbst 1b.; Bctller. If; Cannon CT; Ray
mond, 3D.; Carlyle, D.; Hall, RI; Ainsworth.
IS,
Rumor had it in amateur circles
Yesterday that the citizens of Hunt
ington Park are up in arms against
Sunday baseball and have notified the
manager of that team in the Southern
state league tIltl ue .Wouiu h"NC say
days in which to think the matter
over. Might as we'll give him year,
as the schedule in the Southern league
will close before that time.
Manager Les Welton of the South
ern State league desires to hear from
Catcher LeBrandt regarding playing
on his team. Welton will have a new
slabster soon from the north named
Rowland, who is the only pitcher who
ever shut out the fast st. Mary's COL
lege nine of the Bay city.
The Bishop Company baseball team
last Sunday defeated the Ascots by
score of to 1. Owing to an oversight
this score was not published in Mon
days Herald.
While walking along Spring street
yesterday afternoon Manager Thomas
of the Woodill-Hulse baseball team,
leaders In the California Summer
league, was in such deep meditation
over the prospects of winning next
Sundays game that he fell over q
flower vendors stand, which happened
to be in his path, and as result all
the italians and newsies on the block
were about to lynch him. Thomas
escaped after paying several dollars
for flowers that could not be sold.
Edward Stewart is still waiting,
waiting for that signed contract from
the east, which has not arrived.
To show that The Herald is read
in ali parts of Southern California
the following letter was received
through the mail yesterday:
san Observation-Disclosures, an Indian
at one time a student at Carlisle In
dian school, was one of the principal
figures in a baseball game played here
last Sunday between a team from
Hemet and the Farmer Hotel Stars.
Hemet won by a score of IL to 6.
During the game several good plays
were made by both clubs. Several
other Indians were on the lineup. The
Indians played errorless ball. For San
Jacinto, Kirby Little and Albert True
were in the points, while Muriana and
], Lewis did the honors for Hemet."
Following is a revised schedule OF
the Southern State league for the re-
mainder of the league series:
April 25-Gardena. VS.. Florence Ora
hams, at Gardena; Pico Heights VS.
Rivera. at Los Nietos; Redondo VS.
Thistles, at Redondo; Huntington Park
VS.. Long Beach, at Long Beach; Dow
new VS.. Dyas-Cline, at Downey.
May 2-Pico Heights VS.. Huntington
Park, at Huntington Park; Redondo
VS.. Long Beach, at Redondo; Gardena
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