Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-03
AZ WENTY- THREn for oakland.l

ut WENTY-THREE for Oak la n d.
That's the hoodoo number, and is
n that of the fast and snappy ball
players who will try out with the oaks
at Hayward, Cal. If there Is skidoo
In connection with this the manager of
the Oakland team has no fear and ex-
poets to make a good showing against
the. other strong clubs in the Pacific
Coast league. The personnel of the
team Is unusually strong this season
and President Walter is more than
satisfied with the men in the lineup.
To start with, there are six catchers
Two of them, Lewis and LaLonge,
were with the club last season. The
new catchers signed are e. o. Marx OF
Twin Falls, c. d. Thomas of San Jose,
Edward Murphy of Akron and Peter
J. Noonan of st. Paul. The Oaks have
seven pitchers four of whom were with
the team last year.
The old men are II. e. Nelson, Tyler
Christian, Willie Hogan and j. A.
johnson. Hogan's contract was re-
ceived the other day. The new men are
George Boice of Reading, Louis Maire
of Bay City, in the Michigan league,
and T. A. Topnesen Of st. Paul. The
infield will include two new men--Don
A. Cameron, a first baseman from Terre
Haute, and Mike Breyette, sh Drtstop
from Burlington. Frank Truesdafe Will
be at the keystone sack, and Bernie
McCay, who coached the st. Vincent's
baseball squad of Los Angeles this
winter, will act as field captain and
play the real estate sack.
In the outfield there will be George
Van Haltren, George r.. (Duff) Lewis,
Frank II. Adams Jimmy Cook, Frank
Carroll of Utica and Howard Murphy
of Lincoln. Van Haltren may be used
chiefly as a bench manager. Jack
Harmon of Elgin has been signed as
a utility man.
Bull" Perine, former Pacific Coast
league umpire, pitched winning game
for the Independents against the Uni
verslty of California the other day in
San Francisco. Perine twirled heady
game.
The manager of the San Pedro Point
Firmin baseball club desires to hear
from either the Woodill-Hulses or the
Racycles regarding a game next sun
day. catcher is also wanted. Answer
this challenge through The Herald. 4
Clarence Marshall, the elongated
pitcher, formerly of the Pasadena team
and later with the Portland club of the
Pacific Coast league, will report soon
for spring practice with the Seattle
club.
Pitcher Scott of the Chicago White
Sox team saw the first workout OF the
Vernon team the other day and made
the remark Hap, this is great town
for baseball. l think 1 will come to
Los Angeles next winter to spend my
vacation. Your amateurs are the best
this side of the Rocky mountains, and
no faster base runners can be fouHi
elsewhere"
The Los Angeles Gaints will play the
Thstles next Sunday in the second
contest of the afternoon. The Thistles
are tied for second place in the per-
centage column. Red Taylor Will act
as official umpire.
The Cornwell stars defeated the
Bridge Street stars yesterday afternoon
by the score OF to 6 on the Cornwell
diamond. John Lee and Charles NC
Clure were the batteries for the WIN
ners. Lee famed sixteen of his OPP
ponents, allowing but two hits.
pitcher Miller of the Woodill- Hulse
baseball club is pitching fine ball for
the Electrical Wire Workers, and dur
ing the last three games has allowed
but nine hits and not an earned run.
The Pacific Telephone company of
Los Angeles gave the Esperanzas of
Pasadena the "hinky dink" last Sun
day, failing TO show up on the Crown
city diamond. Next Sunday afternoon
the Esperanza club will try conclusions
with the Whittier team on the Grown
city diamond. Manager Montana wants
games with any Los Angeles clubs.
Howard Murphy, one of the Oakland
outfielders who was playing on one of
the teams in the California Winter
league, had the time of his life with
Kid Mohler of the San Francisco club
while speeding on the train north
ward. Howard framed it up with the
conductor of the train to give Mohler
berth 10. and while on the way to
Santa Barbara somebody stole the
Kids boots and they were not found
until several hours afterward.
San Diego won victory over the
Pasadena club last Sunday by score
of 7 to 2. There was really nothing
in 1t after the first inning, when the