Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-14

A Walton seems to be interesting
"a a lot of people along the Rialto
"A as we'll as those who visit the
aerial exhibitions south of town, ii
one is to Judge from the strange
scenes along the primrose way every
afternoon. The aviation fever was
more pronounced yesterday than at
any time since the airships began TO
fly. All one has to do nowadays along
the Rialto to collect a crowd of one
or two thousand persons is to stand
out in the street or on the curb with
another conspirator and point to the
skies, look in the same direction and
shake the fingers as if tracing the
flight of an airship. About 1000 per-
sons between Second and Fourth
streets on Spring yesterday afternoon
fell for the old trick and Bazed for
long periods of time at the skies IN
an effort at. seeing an airship that was
not in sight. So intently did they look
that all of them were able to distinct
ly- see the evening star directly over
head at broad noon, despite the glare
of brilliant sunshine. Tom Jones,
Jack Ripper and Hen Berry had heaps
of fun trying to show the muititudes
the airship that was not there.
Tom Jones is to be highly commend
ed by fair-minded sportsmen for his
stand in the negotiations with Sid
Hester for the Nelson Wolgast fight.
1t begins to look like Hester was en-
gagged only in the task of breaking up
the match, instead of being in earnest
in his efforts to get the match for his
unnamed and INDICATED club that may
never exist. Jones is looking after the
interests of Wolgast and is showing
rare business acumen in the manner
in which he has conducted the nego-
tiations.
Hen Berry and his three brothers,
Frank, Clarence and Fred, left last
night for Bakersfield to look over the
extensive oil interests there. Those oil
fields have made multimillionaires of
the Berrys and inasmuch as they al
ways have been high class sportsmen,
their good fortune is received with
much pleasure by their friends and
associates in the business and sport
ing world. Hen will be gone until Mon
day and may go on to Frisco to see
how Danny Long is getting along be-
fore he returns.
Contracts for 1911 will be mailed to
all Angel players today and as they
must report to Cap Dillon the last day
of February, 1t is expected that all con-
tracts will be signed and on file in the
club offices within n fortnight, For
tunately, there are no grievances or
salary questions to adjust this season.
Dillon begs to assure the fans that the
rag for next season will be captured
and brought back south without much
trouble.
Gray is of the opinion that major
league players should not engage IN
winter baseball games, owing to the
unreasonable risk taken thereby. A
player who engages in winter base
ball takes the risk of being injured
and put out of the game indefinitely,
accompanied by loss of salary and pos
sible reduction of his notify stipend;
as the case of Jack Bliss proves. Dolly
is in excellent condition for spring
practice and will be one of the main
stays of the Washington club next
season If given chance to work often.
Mexican Pete Everett may be man.
killer in the ring, but it seems that he
is taking an unusual risk of losing his
prestige in failing to train properly for
his scrap with Jim Cameron next
Tuesday night. Cameron is no bear in
the ring, but he is long enough and has
arms long enough to make big fat
overgrown boy hustle to get to him, as
he proved when he twice stopped the