The San Francisco call., 1913-11-12
BIG De Al 6
IN I ERE:ST
THE FANS
DevIin and Hogan Showing
Much Speed at the Gath
ering of MagnateS
By JOE MURPHY

BY JOE MURPHY
The Coast league magnates are
getting busy at Columbus, and the
fans are sure to hear of some i'm
portant deals until the session ends.
The announcement of the sale of Bill
Leard by the Oakland club to Venice
was the first piece of important news
that came over the wires. Then came
the announcement of the purchase of
pitchers by the Oakland and Venice
clubs.
Arthur Devlin. manager of the
Oaks. seems to be bent on business.
and he lost no time in showing his
managerial hand. He started off by
selling Leard to Venice and this deal
was followed by the purchase of Rube
Geyer. a pitcher of the St. Louis Ma
tional league club.
Geyer has been with the Cardinals
for some time. He was rather inactive
this season, in fact, some Of the rec
Ords fail 10 show him. In 1912 he
pitched rather frequently. He won
games and lost IA which gave him
an average of 1888 This was not so
bad, considering that he was pitching
with a weak second division team.
The records of that year show that
he was in Al games, but only finished
in six. He is weak sister with the
bat, his record for 1912 being .20s.
Hap Hogan is getting down to
business right off the reel. With the
purchase of Leard from the Oaks he
followed this lead up with the pur-
chase of Hank Chelette of the st.
Joseph club of the Western league.
Chelette. like Geyer, is a right hand
er. He is a big fellow and is said
TO have world of speed He only
had fair year with the St. Joseph
club in 1913.
The fans are anxious to hear from
Del Howard. 1t seems that Howard
IS having some trouble in getting the
players he has in view, and up to
date he has not been able TO spear
any talent Charley Doom of the
Philadelphia National league club
seems to be anxious to get Catcher
Walter Schmidt. but Doom has no
players TO exchange that Howard be-
neves would be worth while making
the deal
McCredie of the Portland club is
looked upon as one of the big guns
by the magnates at Columbus.
A winner is always in the limelight,
and McCredie has established a record
since he has been manager of the
Portland club that he can be proud Of
dispatch from San Luis Obispo,
signed by McGraw and Callahan, says
that the globe trotting big leaguers
VIII arrive in this city tonight. They
are scheduled 10 play al Oakland to-
morrow, but the outlook for a game
at this time is anything but promis-
ing. All that the fans can hope for
Is that the weather clears up so as to
give the stars a chance to show what
they can do. The lineup of the teams
for tomorrow's game is announced as
follows:
Giants-Snodgras center field; Ma
gee, left field; Lobert, third base;
Doyle. second base; Merkle, first base;
Doolan. shortstop: Donlin or Thorpe,
right field. and Meyers. catcher.
White Sow Weaver, shortstop
Rath, second base; Speaker. center
field; Crawford. right field. Chase,
first base: Schaefer. second base:
Evans, left field; Schalk. center.
The pitchers have not been an
nounced. 1t is probable that Russell
viii pitch for the Sox. while Tesreau
IS due TO work for McGraw's combina-
tion Of pennant winners.
The fans were of the belief that
Walter Johnson, the great hurler of
the Washington club of the American
league. was with the globe trotters,
games for the Sox when the teams
first started out but he quit the team
IN the middle west
According to a statement issued by
Manager Jimmy Callahan OF the White
Sox in the south. there is little chance
of any of the Coast league clubs get
ting Joe Berger. Callahan said that
if Berger failed to stick at second
base he would be used by the Chicago
club as a utility infelder. Happy Ho-
gan is not on the path of Berger, but
apparently he has given UP hope of
landing him, as he has signed up
Leard 10 hold down second base dur
ing the coming season.
X
Callahan confirmed the statement of
Henry Berry that Harl Maggart
would not join the Chicago club Mag
wrote to Comiskey, saying that he
wanted to stay on the coast. and
Commy thought ball player had
rights which should be respected. II
cost Berry just $4,000 to keep Mag
gart, and ne looks to be worth every
cent OF II.
Gilbert NJ. Anderson of the Gaiety
has invited the globe trotting ball
players to be his guests at the per-
formance of the Candy Shopv to-
morrow night. Anderson is originally
from Chicago and he is a great ad-
mirer of the White Sox
It IS very likely that Jack McCar-
thy viii do some of the umpiring in
the coming series between the Sox
and Giants.