Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-14
CAPT. TIM FLOOD
ADVISES CHANGE
WANTS TO CHANGE NORTHERN
CIRCUIT TO ROCKIES
seraphs' Second Bsseman Says That
Tacoma, Seattle and Portland
Don't Pay-News Notes OF
the Diamond

and Salt Lake are being seriously con-
Esidered by the Pacific coast magnates
as coast league possibilities to replace
Portland, Tacoma and Seattle.
Flood was the father of the scheme
and after his club lost something like
$4,000 on one northern trip he suggeste1
to Manager Jim Morley his idea of
abandoning the northern towns in
| favor of the Rocky Mountain cities.
Morley seems to think well of the prop
osition and has taken the matter uD
with President Bert of the Pacific
coast league. Timothy is enthusiasts
over his scheme and expresses himself
like this:
while the northern teams in the
coast circuit are strong III playing
qualities, they are weak in support.
The division of the gate receipts on the
basis of 20 per cent to the home team
and so per cent to the visitors makes
IL impossible for the southern teams to
break even on the trip receipts and ex-
penses.
ION our last trip north we were gone
seven weeks and were receiving from
$25 to $35 day for our share of the
gate receipts. That did not pay hotel
bills, to say nothing of transportation
and other expenses. When we were
tied with Tacoma we played five games
of the series to decide the champion
ship in the north and received as our
share exactly $500, had we been tied with
Denver and gone there to play it off
we would hardly have drawn less than
$500 under the same division per-
centage.
'When I spoke to Jim about it he
thought well of the idea, but President
Bert seems to think the circuit would
be too long. This objection as to dis
tance answers itself. Los Angeles will
soon be connected with Salt Lake over
the new route and it is estimated that
the time between the two cities will be
21 hours.
"This will place Los Angeles and Den
yer less than SO hours apart. That
means we could play Sunday in Los An
geles and arrived in Denver in time to
play Wednesday. At the present time
it takes sixty hours to go from Los
Angeles to Seattle. The new circuit
would include Los Angeles, San Fran
cisco, Oakland, Salt Lake and Denver
and Colorado Springs.
Portland is one of the best baseball
towns of its size 1 have ever seen, but
| the attendance at the other two
northern towns more than counter
balances this. I think the northern
towns should be in the Northwestern
league, where they belong geographi-
cally."
Whether Manager Morley Of the Los
Angeles club will be able to keep Doc.
Newton and Hal Chase is what most
of the local fans seem to be pondering
over. Newton has led the coast league
for two seasons now, and if he remains
will probably do it again. He was
drafted in October by the New York
Nationals. doc" is really great
twirler, and if he takes care Of him
self will make a record in the big
| league.
Hal Chase, who is the biggest base :
ball find Of the year, needs no intro
duction to the fans of this section, for
there was hardly a more popular man
with the Seraphs than this young
prune- grower. He was also drafted in
October by the New York Americans.
Manager Morley says that the agree
ment between the major and minor
leagues stated that men should be
drafted only in November, and as these
players were both drafted the month
previous, he thinks he may be able to
fans hope he can.
Harry Colgan, the we'll known UNI
pire, who signed with the coast league
for last season, but who was so i'll that
he was unable to fulfill his contract, is
much improved in health and would
like chance to work in the west.
He has written to the league man
ayers to see if they will put him on
here, and it is quite probable that he
may be seen on the coast next season.
If there is anything Los Angeles fans
would like to see it is the removal of
some of the umpires now officiating in
the league and their places filled by
better men. This would help to do
away with so many protested games.
Some of the coast umpires are as good
as any in the business, but others are
not.
Jim Morley has signed bush league
pitcher from Nevada for next season.
This wonder, who is a left-hand
twirler of great fame in his own parts,
goes by the name of Goodwin. He has
been playing in semi professional
teams and has been in the habit OF
striking out fifteen or twenty men in a
game. and naturally his fame spread