Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-12
HEN BERRY
GETS HOME
FROM EAST
SAYS CHASE'S SUSPENSION
MUST STICK
WILL ORGANIZE BALL TEAMS TO
PLAY HERE
Tommy Burns Talk All to the Rough,
and Sporting Writers Refused
to Fall for Near
Champ

Tear down the crepe, for the wanderer
is home again. He stepped off the Owl
Yesterday morning just as fat and just as
jaunty as before he made the trip to the
big village on the other side Of the
country
as to the identity of this illustrious perk|
sonage, and it's more than an even money
bet that the first guess is right. For HanI
Berry, the one and only baseball magnate.A
is too good to lose, and the real ones who
have been watching for his return were
dee-lighted to see his cherubic form along
the Rialto once again.
Hen accumulated some sartoral effects
in that dear New York, but he did not
spring them yesterday. "Wait until
something comes along" said the toupee-
less wonder, land I'll show the natives
some class that is class.
81 had the time of my life in the big
burg, but at that they couldn't trade me
The whole works for just one part of Los
Angeles. Those people back there lack
the spirit of the home ranch and you can
nave it all, so far as I'm concerned.
AS soon as he had been massaged around
the neck for a couple of hours Hen was
able to get his head down to a respectable
level and talk business. The tall build
ings had kept him looking up for so long
that getting back to earth was kind oe
a while.
"All that stuff about shooting the Pa
cific Coast league into another division
was all rot" said Berry. ITO begin with,
we have an agreement which says that
after three years we will always be in
class A and that no legislation of the big
leagues can oust us. Some Chicago man
made an awful talk, but when it came
right to a showdown we were there with
the goods.
Tommy Burns certainly made mutt
Of himself, saying that Jeff was a booze
fighter and could never get in the ring
again. Some of the sporting writer's fell
for his line of bull, but the wise ones
sidetracked him and refused to reach for
his i'll chosen press stuff"
Berry will call a meeting at the Rossiya
Wednesday night. at which he expects TO
meet all the professional ball players VINO
are now in Southern California. 1t is
Hens plan to get up a couple of teams
and to have Sunday games, with one on
Saturday if it looks like good PROPOSE
tion.
According to the action taken at a meet
ing which Hen attended while in New
York, Hal Chase has been suspended from
recognized league ball for life. The first
sentence imposed on Chase after he dis
| regarded the warning sent him and played
with the>San Jose outlaw team was a 500.
llue, anu WleH I1di kept rlBnC on WlCn
the Prune Pickers the powers that be got
busy and suspended him.
This sentence, as well as some others
CT a like nature, will have to stick" said
Hen. '"The big league magnates cannot
get out Of it, for they are on record
They do not care to reinstate Chase for
lear some other player will do as he did
| and then expect the magnates to show
the same leniency as they did with the
San Jose wizard"
Hen was to have called his meeting to
| night but the Jackson-Langford fight
spoiled his plans, and he put it off day.
There are plenty of well known PLAYERS
now in the city, and couple of teams
should be able to draw we'll
Since the big league magnates became
so strict with their players many of the
performers are rather bashful about
mingling with the winter game unless
they are protected. The teams which will
play here are to be put under the wing
of the Pacific Coast league and will be IN
no danger.