Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-18

Happy Hogan finally has gotten his
pitching staff back into form and his
tielders are hitting the ball once more,
These two happy results of hard work
by the brainy captain manager explain
the joyful glide of the team back to-
ward the top of the heap. With a start
of to ] on the series with Portland
it looks like Hap might make good on
his promise to get backsfnto first place
before starting on the northern trip
next Monday evening. The team now
is going along at its regulation stride
and will be awful hard to clean from
now on. Happy is entitled to credit for
the able manner in which he is hand
ling the team and the success he has
had in pulling the team back together
again, after ii seemed that 1t had taken
a permanent seat upon the toboggan.
The largest crowd of fans that ever
attended a ball game at Vernon was
out yesterday to see the Villagers trim
the Beavers again and was rewarded
with another classy exhibition of how
to apply the kalsomine. The increas-
ing attendance shows that it pays to
have a winning team. The remarkable
record made by Roy Hit in the Thurs
day game, when he practically held
the slugging Beavers to no-hit per-
formanee, rekindled the interest that
had been tagging because of repeated
defeats of the Cutups It Is expected
that the biggest Saturday afternoon
crowd of the season will be on hand at
the Chutes this afternoon and another
great game should reward the faith
fuls.
Jess Orendorff, the Angel twirler who
was nearly killed when hit by a pitched
ball in the Angels-Oakland series last
week, has returned from the north and
attended the game yesterday after
noon. He is able to speak, but only in
a weak, half whispering voice. and ap-
pears to be badly hurt. 1t Is probable
that he will be out of the game for
several weeks. He was greeted by a
host of good friends, who were delight
ed to see him able to get around again
after his narrow escape.
Umpire Eugene McGreevy now is a
full fledged Angeleno, having decided
engaged apartments on South Main
street and says that he expects to
make this his permanent stopping
place. Mrs. McGreevy will remain here
when he is called north to umpire. be-
ing as delighted as her husband at the
lovely climate of Los Angeles.
Local baseball cranks will take some
pleasure in reading of the successful
debut of the old Los Angeles battery.
Koestner and Easterly, at Cleveland
last Thursday afternoon. Although
Easterly is now an old timer with the
Maps, Koestner got his first real try
out with the team, and he defeated
New York to 8. Interest in the big
league results is increased here be-
cause In nearly every game played in
the big league is to be found some
former Los Angeles idol.
Uncle Tom McCarey is a lucky man.
he was beaten out of the
Jeffries-J johnson fight, he lost only
the amount that his trip to New York
occasioned In the way of expenses,
while Rickard and Gleason are up
against it for the loss of many thou
sands of dollars. Uncle Tom thought
he had been badly treated then, but
he feels now that the hand of fate
was warding off the hard blows for
him in a most effective manner. 1t |
s a tough blow for that prince, Jack |
Ileason, and his partner, Rickard, and |
light fans everywhere sympathize |
With them in this troublesome hour. |
Gleason never did anything in his life |
o merit such an open handed, cruel |
blow smack on the snoot, and the |
porting world hopes that he will be !
Lble to pull off the fight in Reno and |
lean up a nice bank roll for his in |
lividual share.
1t looks like the decision of the gov
rnor and attorney general in their |
of the state law on box
ng contests means an abandonment |
# California as a fight center and |
hat in future championship matches
will have to be staged elsewhere. It
lso means that Nevada will again be-
ome the fight center of the country
nd that the big scraps must be staged |
here.