Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-03
RialtO Gossip

to any player and to team. Since he
has won his last two outs in such fine
style, the players behind him share
that returning confidence which he
enjoys in his own ability to win and
there are few pitchers that have the
great speed, curves and head of the
big fellow. All the fans rejoice in his
return to form and will pull for him
to again become the pitching sensation
that he was a year ago.
Happy Hogan and his Villagers will
stay at Portland another week and eX-
pect to improve their standing in the
percentage column in the northwestern
city. even if it is the most inhospitable
place on earth for a visiting ball team.
San Francisco seems to have the sign
on Vernon, but all tho other clubs look
alike to Happiness. The boys are max
ing q game struggle and consider the
team as the one that must be beaten
for the rag. Would it not be fine if
the pennant chase should narrow down
to the two home teams and would there
be any doubt about record breaking
crowds every day at local games? And
when Vernon and Los Angeles hooked
up for a series does anybody imagine
there would be a chance for all the
fans to get inside the grounds?
league bug i'm the selection Of a team
from the players in the league to play
the champion clubs of the major
leagues. How would this team stack
up against. the majors: HIT, Castle
ton, Sutor and Nagle, pitchers; Waring
and Berry, Catchers; Dillon, first base;
Roy Brashear, second base; Olson,
shortstop; Burrell third base; Bodie,
left field: Daley, center field, and Mel
.fr.I,A FfI11 Ar
cation it would about represent the
strongest players in these positions in
the league and would get about the best
players in the various positions.
AL Goodin, the gigantic horseman
has returned from the north and has
turned out most of his horses until the
fall meetings on the coast. He is TAX
ing life easy and feeling sorry for a
lot of other horsemen who are doing
the strenuous up around Salt Lake
CITY, scrambling for hay and ham. Al
was up through the bush circuit last
yeah and got about all he wanted of
it. 1t is hard grubbing for anybody
around that circuit if dependence Is
placed on the uncertain results OF
horse racing in the tall grass. I know.
Ad Wolgast has followed in the foot
steps of other champions and butted
into Journalism. He will write his
impressions of the fight for several
eastern and western newspapers and
expects to do a big business. With
Wolgast Nelson, Sullivan and at least
a dozen other scrappers writing expert
opinions as to how it was done and
how it should have been done, the
American public should have no diff
ficulty in arriving at a fair idea OF
it all.
Jeffries will be able to see friend
ly face in every portion of the big
arena Monday afternoon when he goes
in to battle for the championship, and
he will know that he has more of his
fellow townsmen around him than his
opponent, and it should, and probably
will make the big boy feel mighty
proud Should he lose, he knows that
he will still retain that same degree OF
friendship and admiration of his fine
qualities of manhood that he holds at
this time. The big fellows friends are
not the kind to turn their backs on
him even if the unexpected should
happen These friends are going to
Reno to see him win, and not one
| tenth of them would go if they thought
he had much of a chance of losing.