Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-03-24
VERNON TAKES
ON SOX AGAIN
MEET THIS AFTERNOON ON
CHUTES DIAMOND
MAJOR LEAGUERs SEEM TO BE
UP AGAINST 1T
Villagers Have Been Remarkably Sue
cessful Against American
League Outfit This
Season
By PAY DAVIDSON

Baseball activities will be resumed
this afternoon at Chutes park, when
the classy Vernon bunch will go up
against the White Sox regulars in
next to the last game they will play
against the Chicago American leaguers.
Owing to the fact that the Nernons
have been playing the best ball Of any
Coast league team that has been sent
against the two divisions of the Chi
cago bunch. and the further fact
that the Vernons are looming up as
the dark horse in the Coast league
pennant chase the fans have taken
some interest in these ante-season
games and a good crowd undoubtedly
will be on hand to see the game this
afternoon.
-Four games remain to be played be-
tween the White Sox and the two
Coast league teams that will represent
Los Angeles in the flag chase during
the season that opens next Wednesday,
Vernon has done better than any other
team in the Coast league in the spring
training series. having won once and
drawn the second time in two games
PLAYED with the American leaguers.
The Angels have been beaten once and
have won the same number of times
The rivalry between the Angels and
the Vernons accounts for the drawing
power of the ante-season practice
games, as the Sox have not shown
enough class in any of their appear
ances here to justify the belief that
they class with the Coast league teams.
Unless Comiskey does something soon
to strengthen his regular outfit. the
hopes of Chicago American league
fans must depend entirely upon pros
poets.
In all the games played this season
between the Sox, regular and Yanni-
gan, the Coast league teams nave
shown at least equal class. Accepting
the statement at its true value that
the Sox have not been able to show
their real class because of weather
conditions, the difference still re-
solves to the discredit of the visiting
bunch. Comiskey has gone east with
a sinking heart because he knows that
he has not the classy team that has
won remnants in other years and I'M
less the regulars can show something
real soon, it is a cinch that the re
cruits will be given the choice over
the old heads on the team.
Fact is. the Pacific Coast league al
ways has been discredited in the east
and regarded as a bush league organi-
pathy Yet there never has been a
time that the Coast league teams have
been humbled by the visiting major
league clubs This year 1t has been
easier for the coast teams to win and
it must be admitted that in all the
games played this season the visiting
teams have been trying to win, because
of the repeated defeats they have sus-
tanned here and in the north.
With two teams playing the ball that
the two local Coast league clubs are
putting up, there can be no question as
10 the class involved in the 1910 pen
nant race in this league civic pride
may cause all of us to oNerrate the
local teams and look upon them as the
real contenders, but one fact must be
admitted-that the team that beats
them out must be team of real class
and not a bush league organization.
Los Angeles is filling out the MAJOR
league clubs with it's players every year
and if the results of games played
here this season are to be taken at
their real value, there will be a great
er exodus to the east next spring than
ever in the history of coast baseDal.
The game will be called this after
noon at 2:30 O'Clock, with Hogan send
ing his best twirling material onto the
mound in the hope that he will be able
to win the game Opposed to him VIII
he the best curVing talent or the SoX,
probably Ed Walsh, and battle royal
is in prospect. If the SoX sustain
another decisive defeat here, there is
apt to be some real changes In the
1ineup at the Chicago American league
Grounds on April IA, when the big
league season opens. Too much of a
good thing is enough for Comiskey
and unless his players can deliver the
goods in games with ''bush'' leaguers,
thew hardly viii stand much chance
against major leaguers.