Show COAST LEAGUE MOURNS DEATH OF OFu HAPPY HOGAN I SUDDEN DEMISE OF OF VETERAN I j i LEADER COMES AS SHOCK TO 1 FRIENDS ALL OVER I CIRCUIT GAME AT VENICE VEN CE CALLED OFF Funeral Services for Noted Manager Will Be BeHeld BeHeld BeHeld Held This Afternoon Burial in San Jose I. I ISalt 1 Salt Lake begins the eig eighth th week of the 1915 Pacific Coast league season here today with San Francisco as opponents Owing to the j death of Wallace Bray manager of the Venice Venica team the Venice Venice- i t Portland game in Los Angeles has been called off President Baum Baura Baumis I is expected to arrive in Los Angeles this morning and it is expected he will make known then whether he will take any further action relative to postponements Henry Berry owner of the San Francisco I club E. E Raier RI aier owner of the Venice club and Walter Valter manager of the Portland club expressed themselves last night in favor of a a. general postponement of games today i The game today begins at i Today will not be ladies' ladies day j The probable batteries will be For San Francisco Killilay Francisco Killilay and i Sepulveda For Salt Lake Lake Claude Claude Williams and Hannah I Special to The Herald LOS r Os ANGELES Cal May In 17 Funeral services for Happy Hogan famous manager of the Venice Tigers who died lied at nt 2 O 0 o'clock clock this morning nt at his residence 25 W. W Yo Fort third Forty third street will be held tomorrow at the undertaking parlors of Orr and Booth The Elks arc are to have charge of the funeral servi services es Many men meu prominent in Pacific Coast baseball circles circes have e telegraphed they will attend the funeral They include President Al Baum of San Francisco A meeting meeting- of f. f Mrs rs Bray widow of the manager whose real name was Wallace Louis Bray Ed R. R owner of the Venice club John Kane friend of the family and relatives cs of Hogan was held this afternoon at which time the funeral arrangements were ere made It was planned to bury Hogan at his old home in San Sun Jose Out of respect of-respect respect to Hogans memory no game will be played here to to- tom m morrow orrow It was less lets than a week a ago o that the that famous manager of the Tigers was l by pneumonia Last Monday he went to bed with la Ia grippe which developed into double pneumonia A Dr C. C W. W Cook who attended Hogan Hog had the case well in hand Saturday Saturday Saturday Satur- Satur day but his patient had a ser serious relapse in the evening e Oxygen W was S used to prolong H Hogan's Hogans gans gan's life hut but it was of no avail Dick Bayless who has been handling the Venice club during the past week eek and managed Ta el i it all times in the past when Ho Hogan an was not present will vill be bc the temporary manager according to Ed Ell R. R l Ia Maier er president of the the dub club I 4 4 4 I I p REPORTS from Los Angeles cles sa say that Manager Dillon of the Angels is is' is it seriously thinking of placing n Speed McDonnell on first on-first first to succeed Bill Abstain Abstein as soon as Mac gets down to form Abstein has been in a abad bad slump up to date late and nd unless his hitting improves there is sure to b be a change at nt the first sack When the Ang Angels l and Oaks hooked up in Oakland sa says s 's Billy Fitz in the Oakland Tribune Abstein seemed to be he nil all the candy but since then f he he has bas been batting wretchedly Bills Bill's fielding can cnn hardly be improved ed upon but hut his hitting is away off color S If Abstein re regains ains his true form he will hold his job but he will have to to improve a lot lot lot-in in his batting The Los Angeles papers are arc saying saing that Rube Gardner may be purchased by the Angels I WALTER CREDIE M seems to have been stun stung twi twice e in the the George GeorgeV I V Y Kircher deal leal lea McCredie is known as ns one of the wisest managers in In minor league oas baseball ball i.- i. But just look at this McCredie traded Buddy Ryan a hard hitter who needed a change badly to Salt Lake for Roy Moran a n wonderfully fa fast t Continued on Following Pa Page e. e COAST LEAGUE MOURNS FOR HOGAN Continued From Preceding Page around nIl outfielder Then Moran bucked at the offer of playing for Portland and Mac thus traded him t to Atlanta for George Kircher Kircher had a brief try out With the Beavers ers but developed into a n alemond alemond lemond lemon d. d Here is where Mac got his bis first setback Kircher was then presented to the Aberdeen club by McCredie i free of charge fact is McCredie McCredie McCredie Mc- Mc Credie was glad to get g-et rid of him McCredie said that Kircher would never ne make a good ball player That let him out Last Thursday the thc Nashville club opened negotiations with Manager Barnes of Aberdeen for Kircher and Barnes sold Kircher to the Nashville club for 1000 McCredie not only lost out on Moran but even cn let 1000 escape his grasp And now Buddy n. n Ryan an is playing the game of his life for the Salt Lake club 1 C WITH ITH Bill Rodgers back at second I think that Portland will pOS possess S VY the greatest minor league infield in the country is tho the opinion of McCredie when he was told that Rodgers was coming back hack II I I like Bates better than Art Kores while Stumpf who will be shifted to short is a n better hitter than Bancroft but not as flashy a n fielder Derrick at first and Rodgers at second sec complete the greatest infield in minor league base base- ball |