Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-06


ager Of the St. Louis Browns, but
now directing the Washington
team in the same league, is visiting
his brothers, Tom and owen McAleer'
for month before returning to the
snowhound east to prepare for the
activities of the American league pen
nant chase McAleer lacks a heap Of
being a stranger here, although he left
here eighteen years ago and has been
back only once before. He thinks highly
of Dolly Gray and Walter Johnson,
Los Angeles boys who are stars of his
pitching staff. and also speaks in
great praise of the excellent work OF
our only Bull Perrine, former Coast
league umpire, but now on the staff OF
President Ban Johnson. McAleer be-
lieyes Gray will have the best season
of his career this year, and is enter
tanning great hopes that the crack
southpaw will be able to deliver the
goods. He promises that Dolly shall
have ample opportunity this season,
knowing that slight work does not
keep Dolly in condition. He is not
looking for players he says, but it is
noteworthy that Hen Berry and Hap
Hogan linger about him all the time,
as if they were keeping eagle eyes on
him and their players.
Hap Hogan and Hen Berry had an
other rag-chewing contest yesterday.
to the edification of the crowd that
listened. 1t was better than a week
on the Orpheum circuit From base
ball the kidding drifted to fighting and
wrestling, and both finally got to the
point where they were daring each
other to put something on the line if
you think So" A wrestling match was
arranged, minus the side bet, and will
be pulled off at Hens office in private
unless something intervenes to pre-
vent before they cool off. Hogan tells
Berry he is joke, and Hen replies in
a stage whisper that Hap is neglecting
to oil the wheels in his dome.
Jealous raging continues up Frisco
way because Wolgast refused TO quit
a real offer down here and go up there
to fight Nelson for nothing. One sport
writer in particular refers to Los An
geles as a "bush" town, and says the
Frisco sports wink when they hear
about Wolgast getting $4,000 for his end
10 fight Memsic, adding if he draws
$1,000 for the job he will be getting
more than he is accustomed to seeing
at one time. Los Angeles is the big
gest thorn that ever stuck in the
Frisco side. The sleepy heads in the
fight game up there consider them
selves lucky to pull off a big fight once
a year, being content to stage scraps
between fighters of the coffee and
doughnut class at other times. and the
fans up that way, in keeping with
what they have been accustomed to for
years, patronize them. They read of
fights here between scrappers like
Langford, Flynn. Wolgast, Nelson.
Freddie Welsh, Memsic, Papke and
others of that class every few weeks,
and wink again, disbelieving the tele-
graphic stories and really thinking
somebody down this way is working
off an advertising bunk on them. They
have had too much Coffroth and too
little McCarey up that way They
never hear Of fighters getting $4,000 and
$4,000 for ordinary fights up that way.
except when, once in awhile, a real
fighter strays along and gets hooked.
Then it is seldom. Frisco is the pre-
liminary to the Los Angeles main
event in fight affairs, as all the world
knows.
Chick Wright has decided to quit
amateur ranks for career as a pro-
fessional billiardist. While this means
q distinct loss to amateur billiards, it
also means that another coast star
sional cue artists of the world, and he
may be expected to get his share of the
legal tender that is distributed among
the scintillators of the green cloth
hereafter. Wright will beat them as
often as they beat him, at least.
It was thirty years ago this very day
that kind fate opened the eyes of a
most promising kidlet named Billy
Henderson up in the icebound regions
of Canada at Strabane, near Hamil-
ton, Ontario, to be exact, and twenty
six years later this handsome young
man woke up one morning to find him
self entranced and delighted by the
climate and scenery Of Southern Cali
fornia. Being inclined to athletics he
soon was connected with the Los An
geles Athletic club the leading ath-
letic organization on the coast, and
to mention one is to recall the other
most naturally. Billy is as popular as
it is safe for any young man to be,
and when his friends at the club be-