Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-13

nREsIDENT O'BRIEN of the
American association and Pat
a Powers of the Eastern league
seem determined to start another
baseball war and the attitude OF
the baseball bosses in showing the
white feather so suddenly at the
first threat of an opposition major
league indicates that O'Brien and
Powers will come close to winning
their fight. They want to drop
the Western and Southern leagues
into class b, so that their leagues will
have the privilege of making drafts
for players in these leagues. They also
would like very much to put the Coast
league into class r or elevate the
American association and Eastern
league into class AA, to be specially
created for these two organizations.
But they are Just bit afraid to try
such a scheme with the Ewing Berry
McCredie bunch If the special class
is created the Coast league will get
into it with the American association
and Western league, because it has the
population, prestige and class, not 70
mention the agreement with the big
brush bosses that it always shall rank
next to the major league.
Hen Berry and the coast fans are not
worried in the least regarding the out
come We are fighters out here and
If the other fellows do not want to as
sociate with us on q social equality
basis and treat us fair and honorably
they can go to the proprietor OF the
hot place. The old outlaw organization
on the coast kept the big fellows down
east on the hump for several years I'M
til they were tickled half to death to
get It into the fold of organized base
ball The Coast league needs the pro-
lection and association of the big
leagues Just about as much as a mill
lionaire needs a friend. If those fell
lows back that way want to hurt our
feelings by putting us in an inferior
class to the American association and
Eastern league, they can do so, but
we will not stand for 1t. Not for one
minute.
In just about two shakes of dead
sleeps tail, after they make the
Coast league subordinate to those other
minor organizations, Hen and Cal will
proceed to change their skins and be-
come outlaws and it will not take them
long to get such stars as Frank
Chance. Mike Donlin, Orvie Overall
Dummy Taylor and other big league
scintillants to come out here and fur
nish major league ball for the Coast
league fans. Yes, stree. Chance and
CnaSe Woulu not De poor dllrdCAlOnS III
Coast league society. The Coast league
can get along without organized base
ball can get along without It. So
ball can get along without it. So,
there is not such deep interest out this
way in the doings of the warning fac
lions as otherwise might be the case
If the big bugs could make us truckle
and SILVER in our boots.
These being facts, Mesrs. O'Brien and
Powers on one side and Pulliam, Herr
mann and Dryfuss on the other can do
Just as they please and get away with
it. But any old time they start out to
deliver a case of lemons on this side
of the big hills they will feel about
like a victim of the Haymarket riot.
Still, 1t hardly ever will come to pass
that the big bugs viii overlook or re-
pudiate the agreement by which the
Coast league came into the fold of or
ganized baseball, even though O'Brien
and Powers, the warning Irishmen,
would vote to advance their organiza-
lions ahead of the Coast league If they
could make it stick.
Billy Delaney says that Jack John