Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-19
PRESENT SERIES
MAY SEE SWITCH.
Coast League Teams Are Fairly
Lined Up in Dash for Pen
nant of Season
ANGELS PROSPECTS GOOD
Berry Predicts Sacramento viii
Beat Vernon While He Is
Winning Games
ANGELS PROSPECTS GOOD

With every team in the Coast league
ranks playing at midseason clip and
the race for the bunting as uncertain a
proposition as one could find in the
annals of, the national pastime, the
series which opens all over the circuit
today will probably account for the
ultimate winner. So fast and furious
has been the play and so often the
changes in the percentage column that
the fans hardly know which way to
look, and as a consequence this years
strife is doubly interesting.
The Angels, who have been the SEN
sation of several weeks past, left last
night for San Francisco, where they
will open with the Oaks. With the eX-
ceptioin of Dillon. the Berryites went
abroad with their full fighting strength,
and unless the dope is sadly astray
should account for more than an even
break before they move up to Sacra-
mento next week to take a whirl at
the Capitolists.
The series with the Senators should
be one of the closest the local aggre-
cation has participated in since the
men on Berry's payroll struck their
real gait. Like the Angels, Sacramento
got away to late start, but their re-
cent efforts have proved that If they
had only left the barrier with the rest
of the flock they would be contenders for
first honors. AS it is is, Graham's gang
are making all the rest of the teams
look to their laurels, and the Angels
will be up against a much harder prop
osition next week than they are this
series.
At home we will have Hap Hogan
and his Villagers fighting to get within
calling distance of the leaders again.
The set to with Los Angeles, in which
the latter carried off the honors, almost
put his Happiness down in the cellar
division with less than an even split
on the percentage column, and Hogan
is hoping Sacramento will play back
to early season form and give his un-
derlings what they need, the long end
of the issue between now and Monday.
According to Hen Berry the Angel
pluggers are glad Hap is hooking the
Senators, instead of having them for
their own dish. Berry looks on the
capital bunch as the real dangerous
children in the league, and would
rather try out the northern climate on
Oakland before going up against the
valleyites.
These other teams have shot their
bolt" saws Hen, land from now on
there will be nothing to it but our side.
If Sacramento hadn't been so slow IN
getting started l would give them a
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third when the banner is unfurled by
us after the seasons percentages are
figured. The way matters now stand
Sacramento will be our greatest aid in
reaching the top, for while they can
hardly hope TO get up, the Senators
will do more than their share in beat
ing te other teams This is just what
we want, as we will be going right
along at our natural speed and can
take of them as fast as they come
While the rest of the mines are strug-
Cling in pairs the league leaders, Port
land and San Francisco, will be cutting
each others throats in McCredie's vii
lage away up north 1t should be a
pretty close cut between them for the
weeks honors, and with the Angels
trimming the Oaks and Vernon ac-
counting for Sacramento IS Hogan
hopes, changes in the Pacific Coast
league lineup should be in order.