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Show OAKS SURPRISE OF COAST LEAGUE By Edwin F. O'Malley j LOS ANGELES. April 22 The sur prise party In the Pacific Coast league 'In the first ten days' play Is the showing show-ing made by Oakland under the leadership lead-ership of that Apollo of wester baseball. base-ball. Del Howard. The Commuters look to be a patched ip bunch, the newcomers new-comers being seen at second, short and centerfleld. It will take two mighty good players to fill the berths left vacant by Rod Murphy and Billy Lane. Del Howard, however, Is a clever manager and must have seen some-thinis' some-thinis' in Leifer, Christian and croll before be-fore he assigned' tbem to their respective re-spective positions His organization lsl rather an experimental affair, which later on may develop into one of the best in the league He is buttressed well in the catching department with old Honus Mitze wearing a mask. In the heaving line he is singular- j 1 w K 1 .... ,1 ... J U ... . K W n men in the league, Messrs. Proueh and Speed Martin. Thee two should win many a game for him before next j October crawls around. They have' been tried and not found wanting, and! barring accidents, should be twirling them over in great shape in the clos-i ing weeks of the season. It is too! early to declare that Del is playing far beyond his strength, f - who! knows but what his three new men j may prove to be exceptionally strong, in which case he would have an excellent ex-cellent chance to finish in the urst division. di-vision. Bill Essick Is surprising the wiseacres, wise-acres, Q number of whom hinted that ho had the worst club in the league.1 This weakness has not been borne out) in the light of the first two weeks' I developments. The Tigers held their own up Sacramento way and with any kind of luck would have grabbed the 1 series. Their first two games with the Angels showed them to he well balanced in all departments. Bill's pitchers are all going good, especially Quinn whom many regard as the best slabman on the coast. Borton and Long are beginning to find the ball. Mitchell Is making good at short and the two old standbys, Dales and t hadbourne, are playing with their former brilliancy. BS8i k is looking for several more players to strengthen his club and unless all Bigna fail we look to see the despised Bengals finish in the first division. The Angela are going along on the even tenor of their way. They have losl several games through ill luck at a critical stase ,,t proceedings Kille-fer'B Kille-fer'B arm is still a little weak, a handi- cap which has prevented his nuking! a number of double plays. The arm isl on the rnend. however, and ere lon?l we should find Red holding down the! sack satisfactorily. J Zeb Terry ia ihe brieht particular! star In the Held. Hia work thu- far! has simply been phenomenal All the! Hollochers in the world could not harel played the short field anv better (nan I he has played it in the last ten days 1 Hardly a daj passes but what he pu'u, I Off the sensational. I Crawford Is doing gTcat service In right. It could not. be improved on Z Kllis g playing the game of his life in left. Bole's efforts since the sea- son began easily distinguish him as J the bei catcher in the league Walter la also hitting the pM I Pertica' prom j Ises to be the find of the year on the coat. FIttery, however, has pitched indifferently and his three defeats ml succession account for the Angels t:- I ing so far down in the percentage col- 1 umn Paul, however, is a crack heav-1 er and is sure to win many ga es fori his team. ? When Harry Wolter joins Bill Rod-1 ger's h.ys the Senators will have been 1 strengthened at least 15 per cent Wol 3 ter is one of the headiest, players In I the game and always plas best on' the coast. With Harry and Griggs in j the line-up. Rodgers has a twain of j sluggers second to none in the west j These two worthies should break up j a game or two now and then with their 1 war clubs. Rodgers will undoubtedly I atrengthen hia nine as he goes alon? He is none too strong in the pitching' department. SOUTHERN LEAGUE. At Little Rock Little Rock 1, Nashville L At New Orleans New Orlean- 9, ailanta 2. At Birmingham Birmingham 5, Mobile 13. A1 Memphis Memphis -Chattanooga 3 game postponed on account of Chat- J tanooga failing to make train connec- tions. TEXAS LEAGUE. W. L. Pet' Dallas 6 3 . 667 Fort Worth 5 3 .625 Waco 4 1 .500 i Houston 4 I Shreveport L' I .333 1 San Antonio J 7 300 I Yesterday's Results At Dallas Dallas, 3; San Antonio, j 0. At Houston Houston, 5; Fort I Worth. 9. At Waco Waco, 6; Shreveport, 6 (Called end tenth, darkness) SEVEROID OUT OF GAME. ST. LOUIS, April 22 Catcher Sev- I eroid of the Browns, one of the besl -j men behind the bat, is ill with pneu- II monla here. It was stated that h'1 j will be unable to participate in -ji games for some time He took tic!' I while at the training camp at Shreve- J port. La , and has been recovering verJ slowly. |