Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-08
OUTLAWS FAIL IN
NOISY EFFORT
SENATORS ALLOWED TO PLAY
ON HOME FIELD
ATTEMPT TO BOTHER GRAHAM
FALLS FLAT
State Leaguers Found to Be Losing
Money Every Week They Play.
Eastern Magnates Back
Northern Leader

That noisy fretful, buzzing, mos
quito-like organization, the State
| league outlaws, has ceased to figure in
the reckoning of baseball matters on
the Pacific coast. Since the announce
ment of the break in their schedule,
and the change from the daily games
| TO three games a week series, the
outlaws have been slowly but surely
drifting on the rocks and now the frail
bark is being pounded to pieces on the
/ reefs of bankruptcy. The reason is not
! hard to find, but before going into de-
tails concerning the causes and effects,
1t is worth while to record that the at
tempt of the outlaws to seriously em-
| barrass the Sacramento team by plac-
ing an outlaw team in the Capital city
while the Coasters are away has proved
dismal failure. The stiff backing Civ
en- Charlie Graham, the Sacramento
leader, by President Ban johnson of
the American league. President Hey-
Ter of the National league and Presi-
dent Garry Hermann OF the national
| baseball commission is the cause of the
downfall of all those nicely laid plans
to hamper the Coast league teams.
A provision of the rules concerning
the relation of the outlaws to the Coast
organized ball teams states that should
the Coast league teams play on ground
occupied by the outlaws, this action
constitutes them outlaws. 1t Is sort
of unwritten law of the organized ball
forces, and is enforced I'm nearly every
case. But when the State league Sac
ramento team entered the Capital city
two weeks ago to occupy the Oak Park
diamond-the only available field in
that city--Graham got busy and in
wire correspondence with the eastern
magnates finally received assurance
that the Coasters will be permitted to
play on the same grounds which are
now used by the outlaws, when the
Grahamites are away from home. This
obviates any necessity of playing the
| "home series" at Oakland.
Sacramento plays Oakland this week
and then goes home for five weeks.
opening with Vernon.
Now for the outlaws condition. In
the first three games played by the
state leaguers in their reopening at
Sacramento the total gate receipts
were little over $500. Sacramento
draws as well as any other team in the
league and better crowds turn out than
| in most of the other cities. Figuring
that the other three teams play to the
same figure, the total receipts of the
state league for a week under the
present schedule would amount to
about $500. To stretch a point and
give the outlaws all the leeWay possi
BILE, we viii figure on a basis of $4,000,
arbitrarily increasing the receipts by
500. For month this means SS000.
The salary list of the league amounts
to $4,000 a month approximately. Then
travelling expenses bring that amount
up to at least $4,000, II not more.
Therefore, by most conservative es-
innate the outlaws are losing at least
$1,000 a month. every month they run.
These figures are furnished by Char
ley Graham. himself a former outlaw,
and are therefore authentic. This
money comes from only one source
the business men of the various cities
in which the teams are located. These
business men are thoroughly disgusted
with the brand of ball which has been
given them. The conclusion is so very
obvious that 1t needs no expression