Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-04
BASEBALL WAR
ALREADY BEGUN
STATE LEAGUE COMMITTEE IS
HERE
COMES TO ORGANIZE PROPOSED
LOCAL CLUB
President Herman, Cy Moreing and
Danny Shay Arrive and Declare
That the Fight Will Be
to Finish

That the threat Of the outlaw State
league magnates to invade Coast league
territory next season by placing oppO-
sition clubs in San Francisco, Oakland,
Sacramento and Los Angeles is no idle
boast was given evidence last night
when President Herman, Cy MOreing
and Danny Shay arrived to put into
operation plans for placing a club in
Los Angeles. They arrived on the mid
night train from Frisco and registered
at the Alexandria.
President Herman gave out an in
terview in which he saidi: This is
to be a fight to the finish between the
State and Coast leagues, and it is not
of our seeking. The Coast league mag
mates saw fit to start the war by in
vading our territory with a club in Sac
ramentO, and now we will retaIiate by
placing clubs in all their California
cities, San Francisco, Oakland, Sacra-
mento and Los Angeles.
eve are not proceeding in the dark
in Los Angeles, as we have been in
correspondence with some of your
wealthy sportsmen who are willing to
furnish the capital to finance a club
here and we will confer with them
tomorrow. The State league magnates
and the fans, public spirited business
men in the various cities, have assured
us of ample financial backing in a war
to the death, and we are not going into
| the fight to lose.
stockton citizens have raised a big
war fund and have assured US of $10,-
| 100000 if that sum is found necessary
! in making our fight a success. With
ample financial backing in all the cities
we shall occupy with clubs we will
place strong teams in the field and en-
ter upon competition with the Coast
league clubs for patronage by the pub
( lie.
| I'VE will be in Los Angeles several
days but expect to complete the organ
| ization of the local club before we leave
! We cannot give details of our plans
| until this business has been attended
| to- but when the names of the local
men are announced they will be suf-
! ficient guarantee to the fans that the
| CLUB will be amply financed through al
| emergencies"
| There is no doubt that the national
| baseball commission, which holds its
annual meeting in Cincinnati, begin
ming today, will be notified of the situa-
! ton, and as Ban Johnson. president OF
| the American league, and Harry Pull
! liam, president of the National league
only a few days ago left the coast to at
! tend that meeting, after having fully
! investigated conditions here, the COM
| mission will have all the facts at hand
necessary for prompt and effective
action. That organized baseball will
! fly to the aid of the Coast league with
| n hn 81 hno i C.
! a vigorous and unrelenting warfare is
| not to be doubted, and a merry time is
| in prospect for all concerned.
| Los Angeles fans are not ready yet
! to welcome the outlaws. If the Coast
! leagues magnates proceed with plans
| that are in process of Development,
which include placing another club in
Los Angeles to furnish, continuous
| baseball here throughout the season,
the outlaws will find it necessary to
| draw many times upon it's war fund
| to support its Los Angeles club. Los
| Angeles fans are loyal and will remain
| so to the Coast league, the Angels and
| Hen Berry the gamest sportsman that
| ever lived anywhere. Hen and his An
! gels have won the exclusive affection
| of the fans, and only unwise action by
! the Coast league magnates can wean
| them away to the outlaws.
| With the outlaws on the ground and
| preparing to pitch their tents of war
| on foreign soil, it is up to the Coast
/ league magnates to get busy and COM
plete plans for putting in the sixth
club here. To attempt to go through
another season with an unsatisfactory
| schedule like that which has been in
! effect for the last three or four years.
! in the face of determined opposition
by the outlaws that will cater to the
favor of the fans, would be suicidal.
! and such thing is not to be thought
of henceforth.
In war to the last ditch the Coast
league magnates will not be on the
defensive in Los Angeles if it comes
to the front with fair treatment of the
fans, thereby indicating that the loyal
support of the Los Angeles cranks is
| desired, and that fair treatment will
be furnished in a sixth club to fill in
dates that otherwise would be unoccu-
pied during the Angels trips away
from home. With a sixth club in ope-
ration here, the outlaw club would at
tract such patronage only as would
be given to the semi-p professional league
clubs, which never affected the at
tendance at games between the Angels
and other league clubs.