Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-19

m HE final fortnight of play for the
Coast league season of 1908 begins
- tomorrow afternoon at the Chutes,
with the champions stacking up against
the Seals for the final series with that
club this year. The remaining dozen
games on the Angel calendar will have
no bearing whatever on the Coast
league pennant, as the rag has been
cinched for Los Angeles by the series
in Los Angeles and San Francisco
which ended yesterday. The Angels
now can lose every game remaining to
be played and still win the pennant, so
the real quarrel to be settled now is
the ownership of the honor of finishing
second in the season chase. This battle
will be a lively one between Portland
and San Francisco, with the chances
more favorable to the success of the
former club, as it is playing about as
good ball as the Seals and already have
fair lead for the position, so that
with an even break the honor will go
to the northwestern city.
Nobody can foretell just what the
lineup will be next season in the Coast
league or in coast baseball, as all talk
of reorganizing. expanding and union
izing the outlaws is of an indefinite
and unsatisfactory nature yet. How
ever, 1t is hoped that the outlaws will
be taken into the fold of organized
ball and that class b team will be
placed in Los Angeles for next season
and that the two leagues will play
upon a non-conflicting schedule, which
would give Los Angeles continuous ball
of variety that would prove more at
tractive at the box office and rs good
sport than any arrangement the Coast
league could make in that regard. The
sole objection to q second team, re-
gardless of its location, would be con-
sidered more in the light of Supple
mental" Angel team and probably
would not draw as we'll as a team rep
resenting the city in another league,
where another pennant was involved.
With such an arrangement the Coast
league would not have to bother about
expanding for another year, at which
time. in all probability, Seattle, Ta-
coma and Spokane would be ready to
get back into the Coast league and
make an eight-club circuit. When
Berry and Ewing return from the east
they probably will have something of
definite nature to announce regard
ing the plans for 1909.
Two big league stars, Fred Buelow of
Cleveland and Walter Johnston of
Washington, who will be teammates
next season In the Capital city of
America, were In the local semi-pro-
fessional games played in Los Angeles
yesterday and furnished the features of
the games for the day. Johnston made
his first appearance in the south this
season and was beaten in an eleventh.
ming game, toB. the champion colored
Giants team, against which Johnston
pitched, being the victors over the
Olives, for whom Walter twirled. He
famed twenty men and allowed only
nine hits. Buelow sustained a painful
and expensive accident while playing
his first game on the coast. when he
broke his left ankle in sliding to third
base during a close play In the eighth
inning of the game between the Edisons
and Hoegees. Buelow was catching for
the Edisons, which team was beaten,
to /, by the Hoegees. The accident
will keep Buelow out Of the game until
spring and may prevent him from going
to the Washington team next year. A
benefit game will be arranged for him,
to be played at the Chutes about
week from today. 1t Is proposed to
have Cap Dillon, who played with De-
troit at first base when Buelow was