Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-23

The Pacific Coast league baseball
season will open Saturday, April Z, and
close Sunday, November L.
On opening day Los Angeles, San
Francisco and Fresno will be at home
to Oakland, Seattle and Portland. The
opening series with each team will be
for eight games and, as has been the
custom in the past, there VIII be no
Monday games this season.
The Angels will play at home from
April until May 20, when they leave
for Portland and other northern cities
for a trip of six weeks, returning nome
July 8 for games with Fresno.
The schedule has been prepared ana
adopted and will be ready for publica-
ton Sunday morning, when the fans
will be enabled to study out the mean
derings of the Angels during the sea-
son of seven months.
The only change made in the report
of the schedule committee was in the
transfer from Los Angeles to Fresno
of six games between the Angels and
reformed tramps on the dates July 81
to August 5, both inclusive.
BY the dates assigned to the Angels
they will be at home on opening ana
closing days, July and during Fiesta
week, but will be away on Decoration
day and Labor day.
The season has been shortened one
month and the general admission price
has been reduced from 80 cents to 20
cents. This latter change is said to
be one direct cause of the cuts in
salary contracts of players which has
caused much hostile feeling among the
players.
Morley has not welded the pruning
knife on the salaries of his champions
ss zsnsrslly and literally as have other
ms-s gers and only two of the cham
pio-s have gone on strike.
So-ss" Baum and Warren Hail,
czrrs artists who contributed largely
u the successful chase of the pennant
Jss- season. are not at all agreeable
20 1hs reduced salary rendered them
a-5 assert that they will win no pen
rzncS for the Angels this season unless
The price is raised.
Salaries Not Cut
The difficulty arises from the fact
that the season has been shortened
thirty days and the players will draw
salaries for seven months instead of
for eight months, as was paid last
year.
In other words the players will re-
Ceive the same monthly salaries this
>eason that they received last season,
but will only be paid during the seven
months. The season extended over
eight months last year and the players
were paid for that length of time.
Morley has not cut the salaries, but
drew his contracts the same as last
season. covering the actual seasons
play. Some of the players grumbled at
this act. but when it was explained
that the season had been shortened and
the admission charges reduced 25 per
cent nearly all of them acquiesced and
signed their contracts.
Baum and Hall are excellent players
and are almost indispensable, but Nor
lev saws he cannot give them pay for
eight months when the others receive
salary for only seven months. 1t is
believed that both these players will
be back in the fold within few days
and that the lineup of the champions
will be practically the same as last
season.
1t was rumored yesterday that Nagle
had also refused to sign his contract
because of objections to the new rule
regarding salaries, but it is believed
that when he shows up for practice he
will sign the contract without any
great amount of persuasion, if he really
has baked as reported.
Show Well in Practice
The Angels are doing heavy practice
work these days, using the ball
grounds at st. Vincents. They began
to chase flies, run bases and renew
acquaintance with the bats Wednes-
day and under the stern (?) discipline
and tutorship of Capt. Dillon they are
blossoming forth in all their last sea-
son form.
These practice stunts furnish inter
esting pastime for the young La Joies
of Los Angeles and in the crowds
which attend the workout may be seen
many of the elder and once great
heroes of the town lot contests.
The Angels pitching staff is right on
edge now and going at midseason