Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-08

Los Angeles and San Francisco will
be the contending factors at Chutes
park this afternoon, when the week
doings on local Coast league diamonds
are scheduled to open Because OF the
long jump from Portland, Where
Berrys boys performed last week anu
Monday of this week, the Washington
street lot has experienced two days OF
inactivity. and the fans feel as though
thew had been deprived of their pet
sport for some time.
But despite the delay in getting
started there will be no lack OF games
before the Seals go on their way ana
with the Angels. According to the
schedule double-headers are scheduled
for Friday, Saturday and Sunday ana
q pame will also be on tap MONDAY.
THE Saturday show will be real
double header-two games IN the after
noon-and the usual half-hollday
crowd will get its moneys worth. the
Fridav morning game will be staged
at Vernon and the after lunch snow
While the Angels were holding down
their sections of the Pullman the Seals
were certainly enjoying themselves.
Reports from Catalina, where the
whole flock went Tuesday morning,
indicate that the San Francisco bunch
getting action on their time, and every
member of the team will return to the
frav all the better for the two days
nlid-season outing.
Mohler will offer his full fighting
strength in an effort to get the Seals
back in contending position to strug
gle for the rag. When Bodie was lald
on the shelf a couple of weeks ago San
Francisco showed a decided slump in
its form, and members of the team
seemed to feel the loss of Ping and
his mighty club. However, their ac-
tions against Vernon in the recent
series would dispel any idea that they
are still in the doldrums, for the Viii
layers certainly offered wide target
for the northern sharpshooters to pep
per at.
be handicapped for the first game or
two of the session, mainly because
travelling from Portland to Los An
geles is not exactly the kind of stunt
Calculated to instIll life into bunch
of baIl-tossers. However, with the
familiar home grounds and crowds in
front of them the Angels should rap
idly get their bearings and hgure TO
make it an even thing with the VIC
torious Seals.
While Nagle seems to have struck a
slump the rest of the Angelic slab de-
partment is as strong as usual. Cas-
tleton is the only one bit off color,
and he will probably improve from
now on. Criger, Tozer and Thorsen
are all shooting them over in good
form and can be depended on to pack
their share of the burden. Delhi may
also prove of some use to the team,
for the last time he went on the hill
the big boy appeared to be in full
stride. Klein, the other member OF
Berrys mound department, is still too
green and too redolent of the brush TO
be called on for real service, but ne
may be used after game Is either
won or lost beyond recall to give some
real pitcher a rest.
Taken straight through 1t looks like
one of the best series yet, and the fans
will undoubtedly be out in force TO
help the Angels along. Hen and his
boys have by no means given up hopes
of winning the pennant and while tins
same spirit is hard for the followers OF
the game to share, the locals play good
enough ball to keep the best of them
guessing and always provide the fans
with their moneys worth.
Bodie is due some time this series
to break the worlds record for home
runs. According to corrected figures
the hard hitting Seal is now tied with
Buck Freeman for the world S record
in a season-twenty-five fence-clearers.
Freeman made his mark some years
ago, while a member of the Wash
ington Americans, and it has stood
without an equal.
The Coast league season still has
nine weeks to run, so Bodie has the
chance of his life to establish a record
that will stand some buffeting before
it is shattered. Ping is batting in full
stride now and if he doesn't pass the
thirty mark before time is called on
local diamonds his many admirers will
lose some nice bets.