Los Angeles herald., 1893-01-12
BASEBALL GOSSIP.
NEWS AND NOTES ABOUT THH
NATIONAL GAME,
Speculation as to the Programme for
the Coming Seas0n-Aggravating
Delay In Settling League
Difficulties.

Baseball league magnates in mapping
out the programme for 1893 is very try
ing to the nerves of the fans. to say moth
ing of its being detrimental to the pros
poets of the game itself. OF course there
is no fear that Los Angeles will not be
in the league. Professional baseball is
as much of business proposition as any
other branch of public amusement, and
no set of men endowed with enough
executive ability to set hen would
think for a moment of leaving out the
town that kept the pot boiling last year.
While the question of who shall manage
the local team may be weighty one
from the managerial standpoint, there is
still such thing az being too slow about
settling it. At the present rate it will
be the middle of February before this
part of the programme is arranged.
Then the work of collecting the neces-
sary playing talent will have to be un-
duly rushed in order to be in full readi-
ness for the opening of the season, with
the result that all the most desirable
players have been absorbed by other
leagues, and California patrons of the
game will have to be content with ma
terial that is below mediocrity.
But the first problem is in as much OF
chaotic state as prevailed a month
ago, with even more complex factors
added. Local enthusiasts have imag-
ined that this city was the only one
with managerial contest on hand, but
the following from recent issue of the
San Francisco Post opens new vista of
discord, or possibly new phase of an
old one:
"While Managers Finn and Harris
have never been backward about stating
that Robinson has been drawback to
the game the latter is beginning to think
that his colleagues would do well to
step down and out. An Oakland writer
recently said Colonel Robinson has
not been making very big howl this
winter about what he proposes 70 do
next season. This is indeed strange.
AS u matter of fact none of the league
managers know what is going to be done
themselves. The affairs of the league
are badly mixed at the present time.
Colonel Robinson told me the other day
that he thought the best thing that
could be done would be for Finn and
Harris to sell out. He will not be at all
sorry to see them retire from the field
OF DaB6OAll.
And thus the merry war goes on,
while the impatient fan possesses his
soul with patience, ii he is built that
way, or openly and loudly imprecates
the powers that be for thus keeping him
in the dark.
The scheme for coast league of six
clubs, three from California and three
from Oregon and Washington, has fre-
quently been discussed, and as often
dismissed as impracticable. According
to dispatch in San Francisco paper,
Count Vanderbeck IS now in Portland
on mission looking to the consumma-
ton of such an idea.
NOTES.
Los Angeles is developing into popu-
lar winter resort for baseball players.
There are at least half a dozen here
now, and there are as many more in
the country towns.
This is the first season in California
that there have not been semi-profes-
sional games played. The innovation is
not bad one in it's way, as it relieves
the cranks from the agony of cold finger
games and keeps the appetite fresh for
the genuine article.
Willie Lange, the tall youth who fin
ished last season as Colonel Robinson's
center fielder, goes to Chicago this year.
He has future before him.
Quite number of the younger play
ers of the California league last year
will be found in the national league this
season.
Manager Howe of the Cleveland team
is wintering at Hotel Green, Pasadena.
He is also keeping one eye at least open
for promising young talent.
Joe Shea was given benefit last Sum
day at the grand opera house in, San
Francisco. His home was wrecked by
the recent storm at the bay.