The San Francisco call., 1908-12-31
STATE LEAGUE NOT
CAPTURED BY
REGULARS
Directors of California League
Refuse TO Fuse With Organ
lied BaSebaIImeH
By T. p. NJ agiIIigan

After a meeting OF the board Of oi-
rectors of the state league at the St
Francis hotel which lasted more than
rour hours. the officers OF that organ
.zation decided last night to. do just
what they decided to do more than a
week ago-have no truce with organ
led baseball.
The league directors thrashed the
baseball band wagon, but all The dele dele
proposition 10 get into tie orsablzed
gates with the exception or CharleE
Graham Of Sacramento favored lnde-
pendent baseball
1lree hours duration in favor OF or
panized baseball, but his plea was
fntfle 1t was not his fault however,
as he talked long alsa earnestly ior ms
frank Herman and Cy Moreing We're
a1tpointed a committee to secure
grounds either IN Oakland or San ran ran
eiseo Cor a team IN one OF these cues
They viii report their findings IN a
week The delegates present were
Frank Herman. San Francisco, Cy and
Biz Moreing OF stockton; freo swan swan.
ton and Ed Lind OF santa cruz
charley Graham, Sacramento; W, F.
rooney Freso, and Al Jarman or san
ose.
win be held in this city the early part
81 next month, the exact date TO be
given out later.
When the sports are resolving their
New Years resolutions 1t would be q
..Ood. almost a grand, idea for the local
baseball magnates TO get together ana
Solemnly avow to put high class pail
team in San Francisco. This would be
a brilliant idea, but from what the
writer has seen Of the coast maSnates,
DE is led to believe that brilliant
IDEAS" are not their long tuxedo
When Ewing goes east lie should try
and pick up a few ball players who can
nav ball This is no simple task. yet
81 should not be beyond the powers Of
..r5insrv intelligence aud a fair bank
l0ll to land ball team IN san iran
cisco that would at least be more
creditsble than the recent ones the san
francisco owners have been palming
of on the san Francisco fans.
Truly il was a lovely bunch Of dock
walIOpers that carried San Francisco 3
baseball honor last season. MOllusks
of the diamond. baseball mechanics.
with no more art In their playing than
SO many draymen, We're these bone
proved boys who called themselves
with the probable exception Of Rollie
Iefdcr there was not baseball artist
in tic whole lot Of Seals. Zeider was
your baseball artist, q man VINO nad an
eve TO the color Of the game, a player
who saw over. beyond and above the
mere shelxels he received for his work
As ball club Danny Longs team
played baseball largely after the man
uer OF Kipling's gun bulocks. They
could play the sort Of game that was IN
front Of them, but they could never
create situation which required more
thinking than 2 capable yearling rabbit
could do.
Baseball appeals 10 every class, and
when the proper article is put before
The public they viii patronize 10 lib
orally But the deck hand article OF
bah served up 10 the fans here last
season was not the kind calculated to
enthuse those who attended the sport.
For the benefit Of the Coast league
and other class A leagues the writer
woul6 offer suggestion which he feels
in his heart should be adopted by these
80 called organized baseball' people.
II relates TO the drafting rules. AS
these rules, or rapines. are now con-
Quoted. a major league team is at lib
ortv TO draft one player from each team
ia a class A league, and II IS not a
casr Of HObsOn's choice with them.
They left as rule, the best man on
the team.
Vow the writer would suggest that
when the major leagues wish to draft a
,,fa.rer they should be compelled to
lake a chance. In other words. 1t seems
10 me that the name OF every player
o1 = team from whom the majors wish
10 draft should be placed in a hat and
some disinterested party draw. Then
when the drawing is made. the club
owner or his representative. making
the drawing should be forced TO take
the player thev draw.
Right now the drafting rule allows
the major league club owner doing
lie drawing 10 despoI a class A team
~ its best player IL he has not been
disposed Of before the drafting season.
This drafting business gives the
purely commercial club owners too
big q fence to hide behind Before the
drafting season these baseball bucca-
ncci-s viii dispose OF the best players
they have on their team and then hide
behind the excuse that they had to
lo it or the stars would be drafted
The selling Of S9tor and Zeider are