Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-16
NEW BASEBALL
CLUB ASSURED
WEALTHY SP0RTSMEN TO BE
ITS PROMOTERS
AMPLE FINANCIAL BACKING is
GUARANTEED
Freddie Maier, j. w. Brooks and
Harry Lelande Make Certain That
Continuous Ball Will Be Fur
nished Next Season
BY JAY DAVIDSON

Continuous baseball in Los Angeles
for the next Coast league season was
made an assured fact yesterday when
such wealthy sportsmen as Freddie
Maier, ]. w. Brooks, Harry J. Lelande
and half a dozen of their associates
undertook to complete the organization
of the new southern club in the league
for the season Of 1909, which was the
result of a meeting yesterday between
]. Cal Ewing, president Of the league;
Hen Berry, boss stockholder in the Los
Angeles club and chief booster of the
lande, city clerk, secretary Of the Los
Angeles club and an all-rOund baseball
booster, at which the new club was
launched. No organization was effected,
no location of the club was selected,
and no officers were chosen; but these
men met, discussed the situation and
decided that the new club should be
organized and that it should be a real
contender for the 1909 Coast league pen
nant. The names mentioned are suffi-
cient guarantee to the cranks that there
will be another Los Angeles club in
the race next season, and that Hen
up and hustle if they win another pen
nant.
Maier will be chosen as president Of
the new club and Lelande will be it's
secretary. Both have withdrawn from
the Angel City Baseball association,
which is the firm name of the Angel
club, and have identified themselves
and their fortunes with the new club.
Brooks also decided to go with the
new aggregation and these three men
are sufficient guarantee of the finan-
cial success of the new club.
After he was shown regarding the
financial end of the negotiations,
Ewing wound up his official visit to
Los Angeles and notified the inter-
ested ones that a special meeting of
the Coast league would be called for
Saturday next in San Francisco, at
which time the franchise will be issued
and the new club will be taken into
full fellowship. Maier will attend this
meeting and represent the new club,
which will be permanently organized
meantime. He said last night:
THE fans can depend upon it that we
will make the new club a sure go.
Sufficient capital is assured to guaran-
tee the success of the club, and we will
stand for nothing short of a winning
club. We will organize permanently
at once and get busy organizing the
team. Happy Hogan will be the man.
ager and captain, and Berry, Ewing
and all other Coast league magnates
will assist us in selecting the team so
that we shall have a real contender for
the pennant. The location of the club
has not been decided upon, but the city
that makes the best proposition will
get it. We are open for bids, and as
time Is limited, those who expect to be
considered should not delay in making
known their propositions. At this time
all cities under consideration are run
ming a dead heat, and until their prop
ositions are made known we will not
know the location of the club. If we
do not make Hen Berry get up and
hustle next season am no prophet
That is the kind of talk the fans
want to hear. Maier is an enthusiastic
sportsman, a thoroughbred and a crank
of the thirty-third degree. He never
was CONNECTED with a failure of any
kind, and since he is to be the directing
genius Of the new ball club the fans
have every confidence in a pennant
race next season that will be as excit-
ing as it will be interesting. The rival
~ between the two clubs will be in
tense and the factions it will create
should materially add to the enthusi-
asm Of the fans and make the game
better than ever in the southland.