The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-02-15
BASEBALL TROUBLE.
Woes OF O Pioneer Los Angeles
Magnate.
Mr. Peartree Would Like to Know Where he
Gets Il-Calicrnias Defeat
VALLEJO.

Already that anguish OF soul. the heart
ache and the long nights Of unrest that fol-
low the advent OF league ball into a hereto
fore spotlesS town have broken out In the
City of Angels. Professional base ball for
gate rece ipts only has always been pTOduc-
tive of more or less misery 10 some people
and always will be. And by this same token
the yankiug out by the roots OF a league
club, as in the case Of Sacramento, also
brings forth lamentations and crashing Of
teeth.
While the admission Of Los Angeles to the
leegue has bought visions Of wealth and
other Joys to Vanderbeck, Harris, Finn and
Robinson, It has hurled one entsrprising
young base-balliSt into a wide thick gulf Of
dark despair This young man is L. Arthur
Peartree Of Los Angeles, who visited this
city one day last week TO ascertain, If pos
sible, just here he should get off provided
he got off at all. MI Peartree had an inter-
view with the magaatps here, but he IS Still
in doubt as TO his fualdestinatiOn.
MI Pcartrce grief is caused by q supply
Of frst-class ball-park In Los Angeles, for
which there Will probably be no demand.
He owns the park IN question, and quiet
tip 10 the effect that tie league games are
to be perpetrated In another park, mile
or so away from lis park, has filed
MI Peartrre's mind with strange faTebOdngs
OF something or other, be knows not exactly
what. Hence his natural desire 10 inquire
into the future " e!Gare If himself and the
park. In ether words, where does i. Arthur
Peartrer get of?
Last fall Peartree and his partner,
GEORGE Turner, leased plot OF ground IN
tile heart Of the city and built thereon a
model ball-park. Their idea was 10 boom
the national paSume ana eventually secure
the admission of Los Angeles into the
league That town IS now IN It,, but from
what PeaTtTee says the boomers are not
They conducted the series Of winter games
recently ended and made some money, all
of which was expended in improving the
park
He WAS NOT LOOKING.
When tie proper time arrived PeaItree
intended 10 apply for a franchise, hire me
talent and run the baseball business in that
neck OF the woods himself he had q
hacker 10 furnish ready money and the
cable-CaT company, an important factor in
baseball these days, was also going to help
Mr.. PeaTlTes along.
Nothing occurred to mar the serenity Of
PeaTtree'S p ans until he learned one dav
that q young person named NandeTbeCk
had secured the franchise, deposited q large
sack Of SimOleaus rs guarantee OF good
faith and had 81 agent in he East round
Ing up plen0ms for Los Angeles. Even at
this stage Of the proceedings Mr.. Peartree
did not abandon al hope, but when he
heard that his same NanderDeCk was get
ting chummy with tie people who own the
Athletic bal.-pHTk further out Of town be
came up 20 san Francisco TO see about II.
From the remarks let fall by Mr.. Pear
tree during a conference IN the California
League Office Friday afternoon It is plain.
even 10 the most Obtuse, that he does not
relish the prospect Of being left alone In
the world Witu-a yawning bal.-paTk on his
hands. He feels that IN view Of what he
has done, the good hard dollars invested,
81 ssy nothing Of the more desirable loca-
tiC9 Of his park. the league games should be
played there. Should This be done Mr..
Peartree is almost certain that he can get
of somewhere; otherwise he is completely
and eYerlsstingiy ieiL
Il certainly does look as If Mr.. PeaTtTee
was playing the short end OF the new base
ball deal, but it is out Of the question for
the mUguates here 60 help him any. Van
'deTDecE Is running TIE business iG Los An
geles, and The selection Of playground
rests euti rely with him. But ( at any time
during the season it becomes apparent 20
thinking minds that a change Of base would
prove beueGriai to the new southern enter
prise, and Mr.. Pe3Itree has not moved his
park away or sold it, the chances are that
his cherished baseball dream viii De real
lied in part
As the case now stands MI Peartree is still
in the daIk regarding his final destination.
but as he takes bis sadieDed journey south
ward, he migltdo worse than TO get of at
Milpitas.