The San Francisco call., 1906-11-04

not the Coast League magnates secure
! their services7 Simply because these
1 younk rsters can make more money by
playin in the bushes. This seems
stranae, but nevertheless it is a fact.
and ia cts are hard TO beat, even In
baseball. .
For distance, likely lad plays with
winning team in the State League
The fanA' are beginning to get imbued
with the pennant-winning spirit, and
they ther efore take great liking to
the young ster. If he comes from a for
eign town influence is brought to bear
TO secure tlim profitable job where he
plays balm He generally receives a
good salaty from this employment,
while the money he gets from playing
Sunday ball is merely a pickup.
For years. the managers Of the Coast
League teams made the grievous mis-
take of sending East for players who
were nothing like as fast as the home
talent This discouraged a great many
likely-looki.aa. lads who would have
gladly performed in the Coast League
then, simply for the chance and the
possibilities afforded
SAN FRANCISCO FANS LOYAL,
To think that Coast League man
ayers for We: hrs overlooked such men
as Hal .Chas z, Joe Nealon, Ferguson
and a host of others. When any of the
boys from tn bushes were tried out
they invariably made good, a great
many of theni becoming stars in the
big leagues after year or so. of ex-
perience around the Pacific Coast cir
cult.
That San francisco is the greatest
baseball city of it's size in all the
world no one will doubt. 1t is wonder
ful the way this city has supported her
baseball teams And in spite of the
fact that during the last eight years
the metropolis of the Pacific Coast has
had but one nine that brought home
the pennant. This fact fully illustrates
the loyalty Of the local fanatics.
There is no other city in the United
States that win turn out the crowds
FIVE days in the week and eight and
nine months in the year like old San
Francisco used TO do. Imagine the re-
suit Of trying this plan in New York
and other million inhabitant cities.
True. they draw tremendous crowds
while the pennant race is hot, but when
their team drops behind the fans cease
turning out and the season in that city
becomes a joke
Then. again, New York and the other
big cities have just about half as much
baseball as San francisco There
never was continuous ball in any of
them. But it always went in San
Francisco, and the teams always man
aged to clean up a bundle OF money,
too.
MONEY MUST BE EXPENDED.
There is no use trying to make week
day ball go in the smaller cities of
California, such as San Jose, Stockton.
Fresno or like towns. The Fresno ex-
mates of the league that a town of its
size will pull a crowd on Sundays and
holidays only. There is talk of taking
in San Diego, Pasadena or Venice next
season.
The business men of these small
towns generally put up enough money
to carry the teams through the season.
but the visiting teams are continually
complaining and a general air of dis
satisfaction prevails. 1t is bad for the
entire league TO have a dead town on
the circuit for IL usually tends to de-
moralize the good cities, especially those
in the north, which generally like TO
hammer California whenever they have
a chance
If the magnates of the Pacific Coast
League expect to make next year a
good baseball season they will have to
start right The first thing to do is to
get a real baseball grounds in this city
II should be fitted UP in a classy man
ner, with swell grandstand and not a
rattle-trap affair like the one that
graced Recreation Park for SO many
years.
The game should be properly adver-
tised and the teams managed on the
order of the big league mines. Disci-
pline should be brought into play and
the stars taught TO know their places.
Loafing on the field has done more
to hurt baseball in California than
anything else. Slow games also helped.
The grabbing ball players are not toll
Grated in any of the big Eastern
leagues. so why should the long-suffer-
ing fans of the Pacific Coast be COM
PEELED to pay their good money for the
privilege of listening to a lot of second
class tossers harangue an umpire?