Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-15
OUTLAWS MAKING
POOR PROGRESS
jim MORLEY REFUSES TO BE
THEIRS
DECLINES TO INTERFERE WITH
HEN BERRY
Informs Stockton Committee That He
Cannot Become a Party to Scheme
for Putting In Opposition
Team to Angels

The committee of business men,
three in number, that came to Los An
geles yesterday from Stockton to talk
over the local baseball situation with
Jim Morley, with a view to enllstlnS
him in the movement to put an outlaw
team in Los Angeles, got very little
satisfaction out of him, and, what IS
more, they never will get any salts
faction when they talk to him along
lines that contemplate putting team
in this city in opposition to the Coast
league team as long as Hen Berry has
control OF the Angel club.
Morley made no bones about telling
the committee that under any other
| circumstances he might consider their
proposition, but he fatty informed them
that there is nothing doing for him in
the role of opposition to Berry and the
Angel band. Jim might consider an
| offer to take hold of the Frisco team
in the outlaw league, but he positively
will not be identified with a Los An
geles club.
M. +. Gardner, lumberman and for
mer mayor of Stockton, was at the
head of the business mems committee
and did all the talking. He wanted
Morley to go with the outlaws and
put in a club in Los Angeles. They
| explained that the outlaw league pro-
| poses to expand next year into new
eight-club circuit, including San Fran
cisco and Los Angeles, with continuous
baseball in Frisco and regular after
| noon schedule in Oakland. The Ala
media team would be made the fall guy
| in the plans to give Frisco continuous
| baseball.
According to Gardner, the new out
/ law league for 1909 will include Frisco,
| Oakland, Alameda, Sacramento, Santa
Cruz Fresno, San Jose and Los An
geles. A nom conflicting schedule was
promised Morley for his local club If
he would go into the outlaw ranks and
there would be no fight between the
two Los Angeles clubs in the opposi-
| tion leagues.
Berry, on the contrary is going to
! Fresno to talk business with the rep
resentatives of the outlaw league,
minus the Stockton interests, and all
the clubs except Stockton have signi-
fled a desire to accept the terms of
the National association for entering
organized baseball, providing counter
terms made by the outlaws are ac-
cepted by the National association.
Berry says that the outlaw league
| will come into organized baseball Tor
next year, minus the Stockton Mofelng
interests and that club will be placed
in Stockton. He goes north ready and
with authority to meet the proposition
of the outlaws, which includes the re-
tention of the present State league ter
ritory, the retention of all players now
under contract to the league clubs and
a few other minor details.
Since the representatives of the out
law league have accepted the require
ments of organized baseball and the
Representatives of the National assocla-
tion have agreed TO the counter propo-
sition of the outlaws, it begins to LOOK
very much like an agreement ana a
settlement of the veXatious questions
brought about by the conflicting inter-
ests in coast baseball.
It is probable, and Berry says 1t Is
a certainty that the outlaws Will DC
taken into the fold of organized base
ball next year and made class Z
| organization. In that event club VIII
be placed in Los Angeles and Local
fans will have the opportunity OF sup
porting continuous baseball and tWe
| pennant- chasing clubs, one in eacf
league, operating upon a non-contlict-
ing schedule. This will solve the prob
lem of continuous baseball in Los An
| geIes, do away with the outlaw or
| ganization and tend to materially IN
crease the prosperity and popularity
of the sport on the coast Local fans
are with Berry, as usual, in his plans
and are anxiously waiting for the news
that he has succeeded in reforming
the outlaws.
a