Show HAP HOGANS HOGAN'S GREATEST DESIRE IN LIFE WASN'T EVER TO BE FULFILLED Although Venice Leader Won Pennants Pennant for Others Other He Couldn't Do So for Himself in Six Y Years cars Perhaps thc tho most pathetic incident In tho the untimely ending of ot Hap Hogan's Hogans Hogans Hogan's Ho- Ho gans gan's diamond career is ts that while the veteran player r who spent hl his en entire entire en- en tire Uro ba baseball activity on Coast league diamonds had helped win pennants for or some flome ono one else In tho the six elx years ears he had been at tho the head of ot the club he ho had never he been en able to capture one ono for the Tigers On several RC different occasions he had made a n wonderful right with teams which experts at the start of ot the season declared would bo be lucky I Ito to finish out of lost last place But Happy Happ Hogan surprised them all and made madea a grand fight tight for tor tho the flag only to loso lose out at the tho finish Tho average a base baseball hall fan tan cannot realize how much It m means ans to a manager manager manager man man- ager to at tho head of or the percentage percentage per pr- column Nor can enn the they realIze realize real real- ize what a n. crushing disappointment it must be to see sec tho the championship almost within your our grasp only to have o It il slip Hp away avay from you OU No manager has had th tho close finishes tin fin l heB that HO Hogan n has especially in 1911 and 1912 when he finished second second sec see ond onci In tho the race once orice to P Portland and once to Oakland No ono one knows knowlI how Hogan must have hove suffered In silence although appearing to take Uko it good from tram all outward appear appear- ances Each E year car tho the Venice manager would try tn to strengthen the weak spots in his team and start ot off on another struggle which he hoped would land lond what he had been striving for tor so long and earnestly Each spring Hap would come to Portland believing in his own heart that he had a a. team which would finally land lond landa a pennant |