The San Francisco call., 1910-08-23
OAKS AND ANGELS
TO HOOK UP HERE
Seals Must Take On Portland in North
And Vernon Meets Senators

Oakland and Los Angeles are billed
to furnish the baseball excitement for
the fans this week They will open
this afternoon at Recreation park for
a seven game series. Although Oak
land is looked upon as a foreign team
and a dangerous rival of the Seals
here IN San Francisco. still it has
great following among the fans, and
for this reason. there is bound to be
plenty of action and excitement when
play ball" time rolls round today.
Oakland took three games out of six
from Portland last week. and the other
was a sixteen inning tie, the teams
standing two all when the cloak of
darkness spread itself over the Port
land diamond
There is but half a game between
Oakland and Portland in the pennant
race. This means that if Oakland and
San Francisco can win this afternoon,
the Commuters will be in first place
and San Francisco will trail only a
couple of points behind the Beavers
for second honors. Can any fan in the
world imagine more exciting baseball
contest?
Oakland starts against Los Angeles
with practically its full strength. 1t
likely that Slim Nelson will do the
The Angels always have been easy for
southpaws, and as Slim is the only side
wheel shooter with the Oakland outfit,
they will depend upon him TO win at
least two games during this series.
The Angels and Oaks will each ar
rive in the morning. and both teams
will report at the Valencia street lot
where practice will be indulged in till
playing time rolls around. The Com
muters figure to be a bit stiff after
that long ride from Portland, but at
that, an hours workout in the hot sun
should fit them. for a fast encounter
on the diamond
Oakland has made more headway
than any other team in the league dur
ing the last month. and for this reason
it stands more than an even chance of
taking the series away from Los An
geles. The Angels are now tied with
Vernon for fourth place. They are in
the swim for the pennant after month
of setbacks, so this series counts for
a whole lot with them.
Before the Villagers departed for Los
Angeles last night Manager Happy Ho-
gan slipped a ticket of release to util-
ity Outtielder Jimmy Smith. Hogan
would like to have kept Jimmy on the
lineup, but orders came from head
quarters to cut down the staff bit,
so Happy had to obey the command
According to the latest rumor on the
more of the Vernon outfit will be given
a ride on the getaway wagon within
the next few days Hogan had 20 men
on his staff last Sunday afternoon, when
he got the office to dispose of the
services of at least three of them. AS
Hit has been faring very badly of late
his name appears first on the dismissal
list unless the present program is
changed
Happy Hogans protest of the game
with Oakland on August IL will not
stand, according to the ruling handed
down by President Graham yesterday
afternoon. Hogan protested this game
on the ground that umpire George Van
Haltren called an Oakland runner out
at the plate and then reversed his de-
cision and declared him to be safe.
Van Haltren was closely examined by
President Graham and he stuck to the
story that he did not alter his decision.
He insisted that he had both hands in
the air and did not wave either of them
till he called the Oakland runner safe.
According to the rules of the league
President Graham was forced to abide
by Van Haltrens decision. Thus Yer
non loses a chance to play an extra
one with Oakland.