Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-08
SCOUTS CHANGES
AMONG COASTERS
BERRY RIDICULES PLAN OF
NORTHWEST LEAGUE
"FEVERED IMAGINATION" SAYS
ANGEL LEADER
Rumors of Assimilation of Northern
Teams and Dropping of Vernon
Given Quietus-Passes Buck
to President DugdaIe

Recent revival of rumors that the
life of the six-club Coast league is
| limited, and that next year the coast
organization will be extended to include
eight clubs, embracing three of the
cities now occupied by the Northwest
league, have been carefully run down
and are branded as products of a
vaporous brain and "a fertile magma
ton. Persistent comment has appeared
in several northern papers that the
| Coast league next would asslmllate
| the league which exists, but does not
| thrive, in the extreme northwestern
| portion of the United states. The idea
| propounded is that the Coast league
| will swallow up, will surround and en-
velope this league, and will swing into
the season of 1910 larger and stronger
and more prosperous than ever before.
Regarding the last phrase there is no
question, the answer is most decidedly
an affirmative one, but this oft pro-
posed plan that the Northwest league
! teams will consolidate with the Coast
| league is such utter nonsense that 1t
is necessary to state only the plain
| facts to refute all such preposterous
| proposals.
No less a parsonage than Henry
Berry, president of the Angel City
Baseball association, and believed by
many to be the next president OF the
Coast league for the season of 1910,
| has placed the matter squarely on its
merits, and in the light of his state
ment of the situation, the reports OF a
change in the personnel on the teams
of the coast are nothing short of ridicu-
| lous.
Following is a recent article on the
subject, concerning which, Berry's re-
marks, which will follow, will be en-
Tightening.
Flights of Imagination
The story was printed in monde
script organ of the outlaws, which APP
pears daily in Sacramento:
The life of the Pacific Coast
league as a six-team league is linz
tied. A movement is on foot among
the managers of the Coast league
at the present time and has been
under consideration for months to
extend the Coast league territory
northWard and embrace three cities
of the Northwest league in the
Coast league for 1910. Seattle
Spokane and Vancouver are the
three cities said to be selected to
join to the Coast league family next
year.
This action would mean that YER
non would have to be dropped to
make the league balance. Such
a course would also mean that Los
Angeles, after trying the expert
ment for a year, is not to have
continuous baseball. Whether this
is from their own choice or against
Hen Berry's wishes, is not known.
The extension of the Coast league
is to come as a solution of the prob
lem of cutting down the travelling
expenses of the California teams IN
going to Portland. This is a big
item in the leagues expenses. Max
ing a Coast league of only Califor-
mia cities would not be productive
of any great amount of good re-
suits, particularly financial ones,
and so attention has been turned to
expansion.
With Portland, Seattle, Spokane
and Vancouver in the north, the
California teams could make the
northern circuit on one trip north,
and thus save the jump back after
a weeks play. The establishment
of a. Portland team in the North
west league is said to have been
made to educate the northern cities
and form a sort of groove where
by the California, clubs could slip
into the northwest territory. 1t is
supposed to give McCredie loot
ing The permit to run North ,
west team in Portland was given
with the understanding that 1t was
to be for but one year.
OF the northern cities Seattle is
said to be the best baseball town.
Some think Seattle is the best base
ball town on the coast. The other
two cities, Spokane and Vancouver,
are giving the same good support
under Northwest league ball, and II
is figured that the Coast league ball
will take even better in the north.
This is shown in a way at Portland
| in the manner in which the NC
Credie two teams draw The Bea-
vers are by far the best drawing
card.
Drank Nonsense" Says Berry
"This story is rank nonsense" was
Henry Berry's comment. There are
several reasons. why the Coast league
will not invade the northwest ball
| territory, and principal among these
| is fine fact that the directors are OPP
posed to it and that it wouldn't pay.
Lack of class sums up the matter, ana
until the bushers in Washington statc
can show some real ball players TO lne
! directorate of the Coast league they
will remain where they now stand,
helplessly out in the colG
! "I,ast wear, you remember, l made
trim To Seattle and to Portland when
this outlaw ball talk came up. While
in the north I had several conferences
with President Dugdale of the North
west league also owner of the Seattle.
hall team He then expressed his de-
sire to enter the Coast league, and adj
vertised the fact that he had secured
| for his league two of the stars of the
hCoasters. As a matter of fact the two
men Whom he had secured had been
released by Oakland. the weakest team
in the organized ball fold. / pointed
this out to him and offered to bet him
$1,000 a game for five games that the
Los Angeles team would give him one
run each game and beat him If he
used any team in the Northwest league.
4offer Still Stands
81 want to say that this offer still
goes. If Dugdale can show enough
| class to beat the Angels in majority
of five games after we give them a
handicap of one run in each game
! will forfeit $1,000 for every game / lose,
providing he will stake a like amount.
| If he wants to get a line on the form
| of his players this would be fine OPP
| portunity.
"When l say there is no. class to
that bush league l mean it just as
quoted If they show little something
| like the ability of the Coasters to put
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