Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-23
GOSSIP OF THE DIAMOND
BY RED PERKINS

W HE directors of the California Sum
mer league and Pacific league met
last night at the Edison building
and consolidated, making d twelve
club circuit. The teams and managers
are as follows: Santa Ana, E. Crolic;
Pasadena. Harry Dexter San Pedro,
III. w. Newton; Azusa, F. D. Stresshy;
Edisons, George NJ. Ward; Hoegees,
Bill Goodman (absent); Chutes, C. w.
Hahn; Athletics. e. J. Bondie; San
Diego, William Palmer; Salt. Lake, j.
E. Mitchell; McCormicks, ]. P. Nc
Cormick; Maiers, Frank Benkert
A motion was made and carried to
the effect that no newspaper shall be
designated as the official organ of
this league. The first games of the
league will be played October IL and
continue for a period of twenty weeks,
with the exception of Christmas and
New Year. Santa Barbara was
dropped from the league for the rea-
son that the jump from San Diego is
too long for the southern team. The
same officials who were at the head
of the California Winter league were
reelected and are as follows: Harry
Lelande, president; William Goodman,
vice PRESIDENT George M. Ward, Sec
retary; Red Perkins, recording secre-
tary.
1t was proposed to give the visiting
teams 40 per cent of the proceeds of
each game, while the home team is to
receive the remainder of the net re-
ceipts. President Lelande appointed
schedule and bylaws committees as
follows: Schedule committee-Harry
Dexter, George M. Ward J. C. Nc
Kay (for Newton of San Pedro), ]. P.
Mccormick and Harry Lelande chair
man; committee on by-laws-E. ]. Bon
die, William Goodman, Harry Dexter
and c. w. Hahn. They will meet next
Friday night at the city clerks office
at o'cock.
Birdie Charleton, captain of the
club has been attacked with the
climaticus disease so common among
all visitors in Southern California She
has become enamored of the brand of
sunshine on tap in this part of the
world and has contracted to buy five
acre ranch near Anaheim, for which
she is to pay $2600. She says California
is the best baseball country she has
struck and cites the fact that the game
last Sunday at the Chutes paid more
than three times as much as their
games in Oregon netted. She says that
she is finding it a difficult job to keep
her team intact, as the girls find their
affinities in the whirl around the coun-
try and buy a marriage license. She
has lost two of her best players in this
manner-Maud Crabbe found her affin-
ity in Evans, Ore, marrying a mer-
chant of that city, and Alice Lansing
married a ball player in Springfield,
Ore. A constable in a Southern Cali
fornia town recently walked out to first
base and proposed marriage to her, but
she was compelled to decline owing to
having a husband already She is the
manager, captain and first baseman of
the team and also is financial backer as
well.
The Maiers were defeated Sunday at
T-opico by the score of to l. Both
teams put up big league article of ball,
and the batting of Bennie Smith was
one of the features, his double and
triple in three tries being the star
batting performance of the afternoon.
The White City. baseball team desires
to hear from any amateur club in re-
gard to game next Sunday Call 1853
after o'clock.
George Ely, the one-arm wonder of
Southern California, thinks we'll of
Pitcher Elmer Reiger. Here Is what
George said last night while riding
home on a car: "Believe me, that boy
Elmer Reiger is some pitcher. He will
go to the big league next season If he
keeps up the pace he has been travel