The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-05-02
SACRAMENTO WILL BE FACTOR
IN COAST LEAGUE FLAG RACE
Oakland, Los Angeles and Venice Look the Best,
but SoIons Are Playing Classy Ball.

With the Pacific Coast League one
month under way in the 1913 pennant
race fair line can be had on the vari.
Gus teams and the percentage columns
and the box scores of the games so far
| played show that the race should be
an exciting one, with Los Angeies, Oak
land and Venice the contenders and
Sacramento the dark horse.
San Francisco seems to be weak in
many departments of the game, partic.
ularly in the box, while Portland seems
to be woefully weak in the catching
department.
Los Angeles got away to an excel
lent start, that is there were no star
men out of the game and the signing
of Maggart in Days place and John
son in Berger's place, hasn' 7 hurt the
team by any means, for Maggart is hit,
ting like II house afre ard running
bases far better than DAILY ever did.
Johnson is hitting wei and fielJing well
also.
The picthcrs are holding up well and
the rest of the team is playing tip top
ball.'
Oakland was seriously handicapped
when Harry Ables broke his finger and
the injury to Carl Mite, the crack
back stop of the. league added to the
Oaks troubles. Hogan of Venice had a
lot of the hard 1trck of baseball by
having his two catchers injured, as well
as some of his pitchers laid on the
shelf.
Sacramento has far better team this
season than last, particularly in the
pitching department and behind the
hat. Arrelanes though isn't showing
his last season form and this has been
disappointment to the fans.
San Francisco has been a disappoint,
ment and it again demonstrates that
the bushcr who sets the world on fire
in the training camps doesn t always
pan out in the real pennant race. Me
Carl as a first baseman has been a
failure and so has Cartwright at third
4; and Wagner at second. Spencer behind
the bat, il good when he is good, but a
Eman cant play baseball and have night.
Fly sessions with old John Barleycorn.
Ewings pitchers are his real worries
though and barring one Of two men, the
Seals are woefully weak in that depart
ment of the game.
Portland is well supplied with pitch
crs, has good outfield and good in
field, but in Berry and Fisher the Beav-
ers have two of the worst catshers in
the business and game after game has
been tossed away here, which should
been won.
AT that it is long race, there ane
six months yet to 20 and many strange
happenings will take place between now
and then, but the Coast League raco
looks now to be between Los Angeles,
oakland and Venice With the shade in
favor of the first named
National League.
Disappointments' have been many in
the National League race so far, Teams
which had been picked as world beat
ers are foundering along in the rut as
if they We're SHIPS without captains or
rudders, Chicago and New York look
the best and the. Way the two teams
are fortified with pitchers it looks as
II these two will be fighting it out at
the end. Wien Murphy signed Roger
Bresnahan the catcher, he got a man
for his team who is one of the hest, if
not the best catehers and baseball men
in the game. Right now il is said that
Roger is the real leader of the team
and Evers.
Pittsburg and Philadelphia are doing
well, but not as well as was expected
and both might prove a surprise, but
to beat either Chicago or the Giants,
the two teams will have to play far
better than they are playing at the
present time
The real big disappointment of the
, National League teams, Is Cincinnati
Joe Tinker has tried with might and
main to build up winner, but seems
to have failed. Time and again the
team has outbatted its opponents as
. well as outtclded them, but for some
reason or other they appear on the
short end of the score and invariably
by one run.
. Perhaps Tink6f's luck will change
, but fans doubt il. Brooklyn, Boston
and ST Louis are figured as in seasons
past, merely teams TO fll up the cir
cult.
American League.
Wise dopesters of the mainland, moi
all of thet. but some of them. picked
) Connie Mack s Athletics as the pen
nant winners Of the American Leagut
, and the team seems to be living up "a