Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-18
MAJOR LEAGUES
MUST Be GOOD
FRANK DILLON IS ANXIOUS TO
PLAY HERE
Joe corbett Goes Into the Hat Busi-
ness, but viii Play Baseball
Next Season In Coast
League '

Mike Fisher has found out that the
big leagues were talking about reopen
ing the draft on the Tacoma club. and
instantly recognizing a chance to again
get himself into print, he has been
fuming and threatening to blow up at
any time, but up to last accounts was
still able to blow off enough hot afr to
keep the pressure below the danger
point. Lately he has been telling sto-
ries about his losses at the race track.
but as everybody knows that he still
has the first piece of money he ever
owned, his eloquence has not served
its purpose.
Mike has been shouting to the four
winds that if the big league drafted
two more of his players he will be an
outlaw all by himself and take the
major clubs stars away from them
whenever he wants to. Husk Chance
and Danny Shay, who belong to Chi
cago and st. Louis respectively, are
the men he says he wants and declares
he can get them.
At the last meeting of the directors
of the Pacific Coast league it was de-
cided that the league would stand by
the Tacoma club and protect it from
unfair measures. When the national
baseball commission met recently,
President Bert of the coast league
telegraphed President Hermann that
the Pacific Coast league would not
stand for any tampering with the Ia
coma club, and the members of the
commission spoke only in whispers
after that.
Every year fans on the coast hear the
old bluff that If the eastern magnates
do not behave the coast league will
withdraw from the national agreement,
and the beauty of the whole affair is
that every time the time honored threat
is repeated the managers of the big
league are frightened nearly into fits.
The big fellows came to the coast
suing for peace, and they made all
kinds of concessions to get the coast
magnates to sign the agreement.
The Pacific Coast league can go it
alone as well or better than when ham
pered with the agreement. When the
league was an outlaw it was hardly
big league, for he would jump to the
coast every time. Then he had to be-
have himself, for he could jump no
farther. AS outlaws the coast mag
mates went after any man that looked
good to them, regardless of contracts,
and they usually got them. The fans
on the coast unanimously approve the
action taken in protecting Tacoma and
many would like to see the national
agreement discarded.
Many local fans remember Tip
O'Neill, who was elected president of
the Western league the other day as
the second baseman of the old Victoria
team of 1896. He will Immediately be-
gin a reconstruction of the league, and
several of the cities that did not pay
last year will be dropped and the
league bolstered up with new towns.
Frank Dillon, who played first base
and captain of the Brooklyn National
league team last year, is anxious to
play with Los Angeles next season
and wants Manager Morley to buy his
release from Ned Hanlon. Dillon says
he is tired of playing in the east and
wants to play again on the coast 1t
is understood that he can be bought,
but Brooklyn wants a big price.
The announcement that Joe Corbett
will embark in the hat business in San
Francisco has rather put a quietus on
the talk about his playing in the east
during the coming season. He will be
there, though, in Seals uniform, and
the coast fans are glad of that.
Manager Russ Hall of the Seattle
baseball team says he is getting to-
gether a first-class team. In securing
DUSTY" Miller he believes he has made
great hit. Miller played with the Chi
cago Nationals in 1902 and made a
great record. He must not be con-
founded with the original Dusty" Mil
ler, who wore Memphis uniform last
year.