The record-union., 1897-07-30
new BALL LEAGUE ASSURED.
1T WILL COMPRISE THE BEST
STATE CLUBS.
Sacramento Will be the League
Headquarters-Sat and
Sunday Games.

Manager Morton has been endeavor-
ing during the week to find out
just where Sacramento stands in the
State baseball tournament series, and
has about come TO the conclusion that
Sacramento has been frozen out For
ways that are dark and tricks that are
vain, the committee in charge of the
tournament are like the heather Chi
nee, peculiar.
The Sacramento clubs are expected
to play in other towns for their ex-
penses only, but when the San Fran
cisco clubs visit this city they expect
TO receive the lions share Of the re-
ceipts, and the committee backs them
in their demand.
In the pitcher De Costa affair they
finally expelled him, and had his ex-
pulsion published in the papers, and
the next week they allowed one Of their
teams to play him. The clubs that are
on the inside with the committee can
have anything that they want, while
the other teams get nothing. When
the committee has no further use for a
club it puts il up against the strongest
teams in the tournament and shoots
it out as they did the Corkers.
Hence, it has been so difficult for
Mr.. Morton to tell just where he stands
with the committee that he has de-
cided to drop it altogether and viii
devote his time to the organization OF
a State League. A meeting viii be
held in this city next Wednesday even
ing for the purpose of perfecting the
organization
Mr. Morton said last night that the
general outlines Of the plan had been
agreed on. He had heard from the
managers Of all the leading clubs out
side of San Francisco, and they have
agreed to be here next Wednesday
evening prepared to organize a State
League that viii leave San Francisco
out in the cold. He has offered to pay
all the expenses of the club representa-
tives attending the meeting.
The Fresno Club has deserted the
tournament people, and its pitcher,
Louis Balsz, is now in this city, but
Will rejoin the Republicans when they
appear in the new league. Santa Rosa
will be in the State League, as viii the
crack team Of Santa Cruz, and it is
expected that the people will see better
ball playing than ever heretofore.
shall be the headquarters of the league,
and Manager Morton of the Oak Park
Athletic grounds will be a ''magnate"
beside whom McNeill and the other
San Francisco managers will be but as
pigmies-
In order that the local admirers of
the game may not be without their
,srral entertainment this week, Mr..
Morton has made arrangements to have
the strong Fresno Republican Club play
two exhibition games in this city with
the Corkers, and he viii strengthen the
latter team materially for the games
The first game will be played on Satur-
day afternoon at $50 o'clock, when the
battery for the F'resnOs viii be Thomp-
son, the phenomenal left-handed twirl-
er, who made such a splendid showing
against the Santa Cruz team last Sat
urday, and who got only two scratch
hits off him, and Chance, the elongated
backstop who is said to be the strong
est thrower on the coast.
The battery for the Corkers will be
Jack McCarty of the Fresno team and
Pop Alvord of this city. McCarty is
a twirler who has few superiors in this
State. Alvord is too well known to
need introduction to Sacramentans. He
was Louis Ba.lsz' first catcher
The second game will be played on
Sunday. The Fresnos win play their
regular team in each game, with the
exception that in Sundays game
Chance and Balsz Will be the battery
for the Corkers, and the FresnOs will
present Thompson again.
These games viii be in the nature Oh
benefit events for the new league, ana
all the proceeds viii be devoted toward
the expense to be incurred in getting
it under way. 1t is expected that for
this reason, in connection with the fact
that the games viii be first-class exhl-
bitions of ball playing, the Sacramen-
to public will patroniZe them hberally.