Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-16
ANGELS RENEW
REMNANT RACE
BEGIN SERIES TODAY WITH
SAN FRANCISCO
CONTINUOUS BASEBALL NOW is
FULLY ASSURED
Venice and Sacramento Get Franz
chises In Coast League, and Seattle
and Tacoma May Be
Readmitted

By the grace of Cal Ewing and the
oversight of his freak schedule makers
Los Angeles baseball cranks will have
the privilege this afternoon OF going
out to ChuJes park to see real game
of baseball under the auspices or the
Pacific Coast league, in which the
Angels will play a leading part. Inc
league champions have been away
from home since May and introduce
lions will be necessary for the fans to
renew the acquaintance OF other days
when the prodigals entertained record
breaking crowds at the Chutes Cal
Ewing and his San Francisco team
will arrive this morning and will OPP
pose the Angels, by habit and neces-
sity, in the SIKH game series that starts
this afternoon.
The team will be at home three
weeks, entertaining San Francisco.
Portland and Oakland in the order
named, and then will go north again
for a tour of the circuit that will re-
quire four weeks. While at home Hen
Berry promises that the Angels Will
regain the leadership OF the league,
and everybody knows that Hen always
makes good on his promises. Hen
also makes a further bid for popular
ity by announcing that every day, ex-
cept Saturdays, Sundays and holidays,
will be ladies days" upon which oc-
casions the womenfolk will be well
come to all privileges of admission TO
ground and grandstand free of charge:
Every Thursday will be kids day.,
when the juvenile megaphones are IN
vited to make themselves numerous
around the park and root as nolslly
as Chief Kern will permit.
Continuous Ball Assured
There will be continuous baseball
in Los Angeles after this season. Hen
Berry finally is in a position to speak
officially and positively upon this point,
and he says with all the emphasis at
his command that the league VIII pc
enlarged to six clubs, and possibly Will
be made an eight-club league, at the
December annual meeting. The ex-
pansion of the league Is a direct re-
Spouse to the unceasing cry from the
south for continuous baseball. ana 70
that end Venice or another beach CITY
near Los Angeles will be admitted as
the fifth club and Sacramento VIII De
the sixth club. Berry says:
you can say positively that there
will be at least six clubs in the league
next year and 1t looks very much like
there would be eight clubs. The league
will be enlarged so as to admit Venice
or another seaside city near Los An
geles to give us continuous baseball,
and while we are charging, Seattle and
That would make an ideal circuit. with
no cause for complaint regarding
schedules.
"No definite arrangements have been
made as to who will get the franchise
for the club near Los Angeles. but the
fans need not worry on that score. 1
will guarantee that when the franchise
is awarded the fortunate city will have
a team that will compare with any OF
the other clubs in the league and one
that the Los Angeles fans will sup
port. The club will play on the Angel
grounds when we are away from nome.
except Tues days and Sunday mornings.
And, by the way. the addition OF ven
ice means that we will play double
headers every Sunday in future. as
is done at Oakland and San Francisco.
Want Seattle and Tacoma
"The league In reality owns the
Seattle and Tacoma territory, and as
near as we can ascertain the PROPOSE
ton of bringing these cities back into
the league meets with favor OF the
fans in those cities. Dugdale, the
Seattle magnate, is a bit inclined to
kick at the suggestion, but he will not
be permitted to break up the plans If
all other details are satisfactorily ar
ranged There are many advantages
possessed by an eight-club league that
cannot be had by four-club organiza-
ton. The teams will draw better pat
ronage, because the fans do not want
to see the same teams in action too
frequently, while the pennant race
would be much more interesting.
'Now let us have peace in the ranks.
Let the fans come to the front and
stand by us for the remainder of the
season and we will have continuous
baseball next season and just keep win
ming the pennant season by season. The
Angels had little hard luck at San
Francisco. but that Is to be expected.
We are in second place and within easy
distance of the front, so 1t will be no
big job for us to get back out in front,
and we will be there when we start
north again. We will finish there, too,
you bet"
Sacramento Gets Franchise
It Is considered a cinch that Venice
will get the fifth franchise in the
league, and already 1t has been decided
to award the Sacramento franchise to
Ed Kripp, a wealthy sportsman of the
capital city of the state, and he now is
busy at arranging a baseball park that
he says will be the finest in the west.
Sacramento is a. growing city and the
fans are weary Of outlaw baseball and
are delighted at the news that the city
is to be taken into the Coast league
fold. The city is large enough to sup
port a league team, and there is no
hitch about money affairs to finance
the team.
All this is joyful news to Los Ange-
les fans. Six clubs will be satisfac-.
tory and will give sufficient variety
in the league membership, so that If
the league fails to get Seattle and Ia
coma there will be no howl coming
from this end of the league. The north
western cities are desired as members
of the league under the new order of
things, but are not necessary for the
success of the league OF six clubs.
With continuous baseball assured for
next year, double-headers every Sun