Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-01
BASEBALL CLUBS
BEGIN PRACTICE
HOGAN'S CANDIDATES SHOW
GOOD FORM
CAP DILLON SATISFIED WITH
SHOWING OF SQUAD
Program of Hard Work Mapped Out
for Both Camps Today-Ex=
pect to Get Better Line
on Players


the Pacific Coast league who were on
hand to Join in the initial warmup of
| the spring practice made their debut
on Jack Doyle's pasture yesterday
| afternoon, there was a good attend
ance of the talent in the bleachers to
get a line on what Hap Hogan had up
| his sleeve for the coming season. AL
| though there was the restraint of all
spring practice in the workout, 1t gave
a fairly good idea of what can be ex-
pected of the village aggregation, and
the consensus of opinion was that the
Vernonites would have to be reckoned
with in the fight for the pennant.
Happiness Hogan, in uniform, per-
sonally directed the workout, and it
was the same old Happy. with the
same old smile and the same old get
up and 60 To one watching this vet
eran of the agme from a place Of van
tage among the tiers of seats, the
feeling that here is some one that
knows the ins and outs of the game
from A to u is the first to impress
itself. Then, after watching him han
die men awhile, behind that mask of
smiles you know that sagacity is there.
| When the practice draws to a close
and you have listened to his words of
warning to go easy for an hour, you
become thoroughly saturated with
| y
of arguing to convince you that Hap
was not the Napoleon of them all.
Big 5aseman Good
But Hap sure has picked a winner
| for the initial position in Fisher. That
husky is as finished a first base prod
uct as has been seen in action on the
Vernon diamond in many a day. AL
though there were no kinks let out
yesterday by any of the workers Fish
er displayed enough in some of his
| work around the first station to show
| that he is there. His manager is
tickled with his showing, which speaks
volumes for his ability.
Brashear, working out at second,
| looked good and it is safe to say that
the keystone territory will be no weak
| spot in the Vernon lineup this year.
| And another one of the few of last
| years players who are back in the
| lineup who showed up well was Right
Fielder Coy. AS this outfelder has
| been playing winter ball with the
| Santa Barbara club lie is nearly right
| right now
| Brown, who will be the change
catcher with Hogan, helped the man
| ager work out Shafer and Hensling,
| two twirlers who were on hand to
commence getting the kinks out of
their hinging wings. Then there was
Stoval, who alternated between work.
ing at short and in the outfield. He
| looks strong and should be a tower of
strength to the club.
Burrell, who has been signed to
work in the third base territory. was
not on hand to work out, and Jimmy
| Kerwin, who became famous playing
Winter league baseball with the Nc
| Cormicks and later Joined the ranks
of the Santa Barbara club, gathered
in the rollers in this section of the
diamond. Names and owens were two
other Mccormick team players who
worked out.
Today more of the candidates will
be on hand, and the practice should
be still more interesting and a better
| line can be drawn on the relative mer-
its of the players.
Angels Work at Chutes
On the Chutes grounds, Cap Dillon's
Angels did their preliminary work Of
the spring practice and the grounds
presented a busy scene, eighteen men
| gently tossing the spheres in the arm
| limberingup work at the same time.
| This leaves but four to report of the
| entire number signed by Hen Berry.
These are Roth, infelder from Michi-
| gan; Thorsen, of the twirling staff
hughy Smith, last years regular back
! stop, who is at Fresno, and Howard,
! the Iowa second baseman.
| Some of the candidates have been
playing winter ball and consequently
were not afraid of hurting their throw
| ing wings and from some of the strong
arm work performed the exercise as
| it progressed took on the appearance
! of an advanced practice instead of the
| initial showing.
Cap Dillon seemed we'll satisfied with
the appearance of the men, and from
the good condition the players seem to
be i'm it is expected that there will be
no dragging in the spring workouts,
and the team should round into form
| i'm short order