Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-01-26

score. My infield will be the best in
the league.
Now. if we could make decent
showing with a team that was thrown
together on short notice and without
any team work before the season De
gan last year, it looks to me like we
should become contenders this season
with a team fully 100 per cent stronger
and with a strengthened pitching staff.
I shall be terribly disappointed if the
team falls to land one-two, and honest
Iy believe we will cop the bunting. The
club is backing me up handsomely in
my efforts to get a winning team to-
gether. and money is not being spared
in that direction. We certainly will
beat out the Angels and you can bet
on it,"
Hogan Deserves Credit
Hogan deserves great credit for the
results already attained in his efforts
at building up team for vernon tnat
will be a winner and a contender for
the bunting. Those who know what
a short time he had last season in
which to get a team together, and
view the showing made by the team IN
those circumstances, give him unlim-
tied praise for those results, and ac-
cept his statements regarding the l9lu
team with confidence that he knows
what ne is talking about and that he
will be equal to the occasion after he
gets a winning team together.
He realizes the necessity for strength
ening his infield and has gone about It
in a manner that indicates that he viii
be successful in organizing one of the
strongest defenses of this territory
IL at money and conditions can produce.
To race
each position and in doing so he has
gone after men of proved ability in
each position. He now is trying to
land Tommy Sheehan, the former
Brooklyn player, and probably Will be
successful, as his reinstatement is as.
sured. providing he will get back into
organized baseball, which he will do il
he is left free to sign with Hogan
Fisher, Brashear, Sheehan and Lind
say, an equally strong player at snort
gives Happy an infield second to none
in the league. both in defensive and
offensive work.
Strengthens Pitching Staff
Although he had a good pitching
staff last season, Hogan is not salts
fed to go through next season without
adding strength to this department, in
accord with his general plans for re-
organization and strengthening the
entire team. With this end in view,
he has been negotiating with major
league managers for some time in an
effort at landing two more twirlers OF
proved class and experience. He has
about closed for this pair, and believes
he will be in a position to announce
their names, with those of the third
baseman and shortstop, by Saturday.
The two pitchers he is after are not
has-beens nor mere prospects, so the
fans may expect a most pleasant sur
prise when their names are mentioned.
Hogan says that the plans of all
Coast league clubs for putting strong
err teams in the field for next season
indicate that the race will be a des-
perately fought battle throughout the
seven months Of play, and that he
does not propose to have a team that
cannot go out and stick with the front
runners all the way. He suggested
that the Vernon home grounds be used
only on Fridays, playing the other
days at the Chutes, because of better
attendance there, and in view OF the
expense attachd to building up a win
ming team.