The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-26
SEALS WILL
OPE n On
NEW Lot
Cal Ewing Says He's Sure to
Have Splendid Plant in
Readiness
By JOE MURPHY

The grounds at Masonic avenue and
whipped into a modern baseball park
by a big force of laborers and me-
chanics, will be baptized by the Seals
and Tigers next spring when the sea-
son Of 1914 starts
J. Cal Ewing has come out with the
positive announcement that the first
game to be played on the new
grounds will be the opening one of
the season scheduled between San
Francisco and Venice.
These teams will walk into a
maiden field" said Ewing, "as the
dedication win be made on the open
ing day Of the season, which 1 plan
10 make a big occasion
The games scheduled in spring be-
TWEEN the Seals and the Chicago White
Sox viii not be played on the new
grounds The park will be ready be-
fore the opening of the season, but
! am going to keep the doors locked
until the season starts.
The new park will be ready long
before the season starts. but no base
ball viii be played on it until the
opening of the 1914 campaign
Yesterday was a big day for Del
Howard, who spent it in Los Angeles.
IT was Christmas as well as being
the birthday of the leader of the
Seals Del confessed that he has
reached the thirty-fift year of his
career, and he does not look any older
Baseball players are worse than SOU
brettes nowadays when it comes to
coufessing ages. You can always tack
on five years to what they say they
are. and you viii come near having
their true age
When the globe trotting baseball
players left on their tour of the world
they were outftted like a lot of
fashion plates. If one was to Judge
the vocation of the tourists by peer
ing into their innovation trunks, the
conclusion would be reached that
they were either a collection of veal
thy gentlemen on a tour OF the land
or else they were representative of
some big clothing houses exploiting
something new in the wearing ap-
parel line.
Their trunks contained the follow
ing articles of wear:
Tuxedo.
Full dress suit.
silk hat.
Opera hat.
Opera coat.
SILK sOX.
Pumps.
White mufIIer.
White gloves.
White cane.
They were also stocked with a full
line of everyday wear.
McCredie declares that Carl Mite
of the Oakland club was the best
catcher in the Pacific Coast league.
with the exception of Gus Fisher. He
says that he waived on Mite because
the latter was desirious of PLAYING
in the International league. 1t is
Mercedes idea that Devlin secured
Catcher Howley from Montreal in ex-
change for Mite.
There win not be any spring sea
son games between the Angels and
White Sox next year declares Henry
Berry OF the Los Angeles club. He
has discovered that these games be-
tween his team and the big leaguers
take the edge off the opening of the
regular season. Berry plans to have
his team train at San Bernardino. and
II VIII remain there until March 81
The third baseman whom Henry
Berry Of the Los Angeles club expects
10 get from Clarke Griffith of the
Washington Americans may be no
other than Joe Gedeon, the tall, rangy
Sacramento lad who played with the
Seals the season before last
Gedeon was with the Senators last
season. but he saw little active duty.
The washington club has such a sterl
ing infeld that there was but little
chance Of a recruit breaking in.
II Berry secures Gedeon he should
prove a valuable man for his club. He
looked like promising youngster
when he left the Seals.
X
The globe trotting ball tossers are
due to arrive in Australia on January
or B. According to reports the play
ers are having the time of their lives
and are being royalty received at
every place they visit
That Jimmy Johnston has no chance
OF ever reaching the San Francisco
club was made certain by a recent an
nouncement of Branch Hickey of the
St Louis Browns. who declares that
he would be ready to take Jimmy over
If the Cubs passed him up. Hickey
said that under no circumstances
would he waive on Johnston.
Walter McCredie of the Beavers has
couple of players he figures to make
good They are Pitcher Jeet and
Catcher Haworth of Pendleton. They
will be taken along with Mercedes
Pacific Coast league squad so that
Mac can look the youngsters over
thoroughly.