Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-07

ID ASEBALL now takes its proper
n place as the premier sport and
for seven months or more local
fans will have the privilege Of see
ing big league ball every day and
sometimes twice on Sunday. For the
next three weeks, the White SoX teams
win furnish contention with the Angels
and Vernons and then the Coast lea
que season will open for q seven
months run. With the showing that
the Angels made yesterday in their
first public appearance of the sea-
son, the fans have good cause to en-
thuse regarding the prospects of an
other pennant for Los Angeles. The
Angel band is fully 80 per cent strong
er than it was a year ago, because all
the men are In good health and great
playing form right now and for the
further reason that Hen Berry has
added some good class to the team in
the new men secured. Bernard, of
course, is the old reliable and his
steady playing in right and heady
work with the willow means much
strength to the team. Gill is showing
up like veteran at first and Roth and
Murphy, at third and left. respective
ly, promise to prove real finds. Both
are doing great stickwork, in addition
to fielding their positions perfectly.
Eddie Maier is willing % wager
large sum that Vernon Will beat out
the Angels They may do so, but
the fans know that. if they do, they
will win the pennant, and just so the
bunting comes south, there will be no
complaint heard from any source
hereabouts.
Berry took a lot of satisfaction out
of the game yesterday. Afterwards
he said: Talking about Vernon beat
ing us out of the pcnnant race. Why,
it is ridiculous. They beat Bakers
field to 2, while we put the kinks into
the White Sox 13 to 3 and could have
made it twice as bad hal the boys
Maier will not be so frothy about the
mouth when he reads the Two scores
made today, when Vernon barely
missed a trimming by Il bush town
aggregation" Hen weighed in after
the game and showed that he had
gained thirteen ounces, one for each
run scored
Glass is written in box car letters
all over that fellow Murphy He
fields left garden like Rube Ellis and
hits like a LaJoie. Will he make good?
Hardly, only he looks like one of the
leading batters of the Coast league
for 1910 and if he does not finish right
alongside the topnotchers in fielding
percentages, shoot me for fool.
Roth also is a most satisfactory
piece of machinery. The way he
covered third yesterday and smashed
the ball when his turn rolled around,
almost made the fans forget about
Jud Smith, than whom there is none
better in the Coast league.
Daley taught the sox to believe in
him when he nailed Kruger at the
plate by a beautiful throw from CEN
ter field, after retiring Barrows by a
pretty running catch. The throw was
as accurate as if 1t had been bulltt
carefully aimed. Just to prove that 1t
was no fluke, Daley did it again, only
this time the SoX baserunner, who was
on third had sense enough not to
try to pull off anything.
Judge Nagle, in his Imperial Valley
league uniform and as full of gin
ger as the Mississippi. is with water
in flood time, delighted his many ad-
mring friends by pitching almost no
hit ball in his turn on the slab and
batting at a 1000 clip for his two times
at the plate. This is the first spring
training series that he has been in for
two or three years and he is as right
as a fox. which incidentally means that
he will about eclipse his unbeatable
record for his first year with the An
gels.
The White Sox will play at Covina
this afternoon, at Redondo tomorrow
and at Long Beach the following day.
Then they come back to town and I'm
ish out the week with the Angels and
Vernons. BY the time they get back
for the Thursday game at the Chutes
they should be thoroughly thawed out
and ready to furnish some excitement.
The Angels set an awful pace yester-
day for the Vernons to follow. Hogan
will do it or bust his suspenders. A
score of 13 to is hard to beat when
two teams of the class of the White
Sox and Angels are making it, so Hap
COVINA FANS HAPPY