Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-26
ATHLETICS
n EATHER-wEIGHT and light

II weight challenger, Ad Wolgast,
- and his manager, Tom Jones, left
last night on the o'clock owl for San
Francisco on their way east for a
months trip, which will include a
weeks engagement at the Trocadero
theater in Chicago, and also stay at
Wolgast's home in Cadillac, Mich. At
ter the journey, during which Ad may
meet a couple of lesser lights of the
ring, Wolgast will shoot straight for
Los Angeles, now his adopted home, In
which he expects finally to meet Bat
Ting Nelson for the lightweight cham
pionship struggle.
Phil Brock, the Los Angeles favorite,
has been offered a bout with the Silver
Bow Athletic club of Butte, Mont,
and If Dick Hyland will box Brock,
Tom McGinty, manager of the CleVe-
lander, will cinch the date for Brock.
Fifty-five per cent is offered the hght-
ers. and two round trip tickets. The
result of the wire talk concerning the
match will probably be ,,iade known
today. McGinty is also considering Il
match with l)aunv Gcc dr1ar before
the Hammond Athletic cob of Eihm :
mond, Ind, to be held the latter part
of August.
Happy Hogan gave out yesterday
that he is negotiating for new pitch
err, but for once the genial Irishman
closed UP like q clam and refused TO
talk. Just think of Happy refusing to
say a thingl For three minutes l
talked carefully around the supJecs
and then Numbered straight into the
middle of it hoping to startle him into
naming the man. But Hap said ne
really didn't know the name of the
pitcher. Thought he would find out to-
morrow" Wise Happy. May your
white lie be forgiven. The new man,
it Is known is playing on a local semi
professional team. Hap says he's big
and he's good. Until the showdown
comes we will take his word for it,
Umpire Derrick, the gray-haired blue
coat who lasted a short time In the
Coast league, is on unfriendly terms
with the fans in the Texas league, &C
cording to the published accounts OF ms
experiences. Derrick's quavering melo-
dies as he called the decisions and his
thin, gaunt figure remain in the minds
eve of many of the coast fans, and the
work of the "old man" in the glla
monster country might prove of interest
to the local fans.
Before detailing his history among
the savages of the southern lands It
might be we'll to relate that at time
not far distant this season Derrick
proved himself the fighter he claimed TO
be in the Coast league. In Los Angeles
Derrick quit under fire, but in Texas
he Jumped into the press stand and
chased a baseball scribe out of the
grounds. Now for the tale of the
present:
1.-THE decision which Umpire Derrick
rendered against the Nets Sunday
which gave the game to Dallas was
not the first time Derrick has handed
games to the Giants this season. But
then there are some who boldly charge
that Derrick is a failure at any other
sort of a job-even a failure at drag
cling a cotton sack through the cotton
rows-and he has to umpire to make
a living. And Joe Gardner of the Dali
las club may be a friend of Derrick s.
Who can tell? Derrick might have
been fired from the league long ago, but
for friendships sake or other causes.
Derrick displayed some of the same
sort of favoritism for Dallas as that
which he uncorked Sunday in the re-
cent series at Dallas In which San
Antonio and Dallas were the contend
ers. AS a result of his home umpir-