Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-27
GOSSIP OF THE DIAMOND
BY RED PERKINS

q ANITA MONICA high school boys
~ have succeeded in arranging the
~ game between Santa Monica and
Long Beach at Santa Monica. Last
year Santa Monica team journeyed to
Long Beach for the baseball game, and
this year they went there to play foot
ball, SO Long Beach saw the point when
Santa Monica said it was time to nave
a game there. One of the hottest games
of the season is expected. Long Beach
recently defeated Los Angeles high
school by score of to 3, and Santa
Monica beat Hollywood to A. 1t is
hard to tell which of the four schools
will be in the finals for the champion
ship honors. Polytechnic high school
must not be sighted, as several good
players and slabsters are connected
with the Washington street institution
Should Santa Monica high defeat Long
Beach, in all probability there will be
no. team in the league that can stop
the fast seasiders from taking the lead
for the race for the interscholastic pen
nant.
Fred Hoyt will catch, D. Sweeney
will act as sub for the receiving end
of the battery, Turk Delhi will care for
the mound, Jackson and ThurSton will
hold down the initial sack, J. Lugo will
be at second, while c. Hoyt will be at
short stop. G. Henry has been a fast
man at the real estate sack and will
play that position. The outfieIders are
&. Grippe, r. Stevens, F. Lugo, G. Stew
ems and Haskell
On top of the injunction served upon
me, which was published in The Her
aid the other day, I received the fol-
lowing letter from Manager J. E. Glenn
yesterday:
"TOR9r SIR AS T0a7, 0,,,, -,
this evening over the phone, 1, as man
ager of the Santa Fe baseball team of
San Bernardino, the leaders in the
league for the pennant of the Southern
California Association baseball league,
do hereby notify you in writing not to,
ana warn you against paying out any
Of the entrance money which said
league intrusted to your keeping until
the season closed, which was to have
been term of twenty-one weeks, and
was to have been divided as follows,
viz: so per cent of the gross to the
winner; 80 per cent of the remainder
to the second place winner; 20 per cent
or the balance to the third place win
ner.
"It has just reached my ears that
some of the tail-enders in the race for
first place decided to withdraw and
had a resolution passed that they be
given their entrance money back,
which is strictly in violation of the
rules and regulations of the league.
which read that any team that drops
out prior to the end of the schedule
shall forfeit the entrance money.
We have now played fourteen games
and have won twelve Of them, and as
the leaders in the league, as a team,
and as a director of said league, L here
by notify you as the treasurer that
unless the schedule is played out, we
demand the first place money, which is
$50, or so per cent of the gross en-
trance fees, which was s12O, or SIS for
each team, and the league consisted Of
eight teams.
am not trouble hunter and do
not want to make trouble for anyone
else, but 1 will sure do so unless this is
handled as per our original agreement
when the league was organized
I have notified you in plenty of time
to avoid any serious troubles, and will
hold you responsible for the money
which is in your keeping. My attorney
suggested this as a first step, and we
will await reply from you regarding
this before we go any further in the
matter, for when we start legal pro-
ceedings the costs soon run into money.
and we do not want to put a big debt
on anybody unless it is necessary. Now