Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-10
Large Number of Leagues Among
Amateurs and Professionals
Indicates Banner Year
MANY OTHERS TO BE FORMED
Los Angeles Now Has Distinction
of Being Amateur Baseball
Center of America

organizing in one section and another
as fast as promoters and captains can
arrange meetings, with parks becom-
ing more and more numerous from
beach to valley town, the national
game has grown into a sport of which
the sand dune players of few years
ago had never dreamed. Players of
caliber that ~romises to become the
foundation of future Coast and major
| leagues. players who might vet be only
substitutes on the veriest school boy
nine, have all flocked to the game of
games and as a conglomerate mass,
bid fair to make Los Angeles the lead
ing amateur ball center of the coun-
try.
The outlook of most of the amateur
teams has been leagueward. With the
formation of a league comes regular
schedules, freedom from the worry of
timber for the formation of mines and a
general confidence that goes far to es-
tablish baseball on a basis from which
it cannot easily be ousted. The team
organized from a mixed class of play
erS, gathered from organizations far
and near, has but little in common
and something must be done to create
a team spirit, inspired by which the
individuals will combine a little de-
sire of winning for the home teams
sake with hopes for his personal honor.
This is the secret of the success of
the college nine. Even in the major
leagues, in fullfledged professional
ranks, one will find the ball magnates
watching for the man who possesses
a spirit of affiliation, something that
will cause him to down his own chances
and drown them in the general spirit
of the team. This is the feeling that
makes a man take no chances when
there is a possibility of getting a
straight putout rather than an assist,
but causes him to let another man in
on the play. The inferior team that
has organized enthusiasm many times
defeats a team that is composed of far
superior individual artists, but lacks
that essential feature. Truly, I'm unity
there is strength"
ALLEN is PRIME BOOSTER
Scotty Allen, the king of Southern
California's semi-pro baseball, one Of
the most unselfish of local promoters,
is in the game for the sport there is
in it. He is not interested financially
alone, although with strict economy
| one may sometimes eke out a precar-
ious existence with the game national.
but for the real spirit of the game. He
is now seeking to interest local play
ers generally in a proposition of organ
izing the miscellaneous collection of
| diamond stars into leagues, playing
regular schedules and keeping their
| schedules when they have once made
them.
Pick the crack mines of the city and
bring them together. Organize one
league, or. If that would not be feas-
ible, divide the aggregation into two
or more groups. Use the National and
American leagues as an example. Play
the season schedule and then play off
the championship between the two d1-
visions. This would arouse the inter-
est of the fans of the southland and
place the game on footing that would
shame many similar organizations of
the eastern cities.
Valentine of the Glendale team, is
another wideawake manager who be-
lieves in league work and in publicity
through that means. He has been
wedding out his team until he now
has it in condition to meet crack teams
of any record. Hilliard, his head slab
artist, Is a discovery of his. and he
believes he has a find From the
consistent work of the young HEAVIER,
others are becoming converted to the
theory. The Glendale squad has locked
horns with Occidental college and
beaten them decisively; they have met
the University of Southern California
and came off with another victory.
They have beaten the best of the best
tine has been one of the causes OF It's
great success.
If Bacon would join with some of
the high class locals with his Whittier
team and arrange a regular schedule
of some kind, there undoubtedly would
be something doing among the fans.
He is another of the local managers
who has a genius for ''finds' OF all
kinds. Hatch, the Whittier pitcher,
was the lad who furnished the no.
hit. no-run game of Sunday against
the +, A Tigers, and there are few
professionals who could do Is well,
even against a team of the fourth
| class.
Organization of managers and teams
would not be a bad idea and com
bine of this kind would be a consid-
cradle spur to the slothful fans around
the local diamonds. The Trolley league
is now the leading organization in its
class in the south. It's managers have
found it to be a success from the start.
There is now many a rumor in regard
to the revival of the Southern State,
the city, Interurban, and many of the
leagues of last season. A good board
of directors for the league will decide
the story.
There is nothing that harms anna
teur baseball las much as the failure Of
a league, no matter how seemingly
unimportant. There is no reason why
a league, rightly managed, should fail,
and the failure always may be at
tributed to the lack of ability among
the directors and acting managers of
the organization. Pick the men care
fully, but pick them anyway. The
amateur game as now played is a lit
tie too scattered to arouse proper in
terest among the fans. Get together.
Leave wrangling at home; concede
few points and let somebody else con-
cede some more. Then organize and
organize with a purpose In view, the
purpose of making amateur baseball in
Southern California the best sport of
them all.
The Haas Baruch team is anxious to
secure games with out of town teams
for next Saturday afternoon Address
r. HaulsbY care of Haas Baruch
company.
Tho third game of the Oxy-U. s. c.
schedule will be played sometime dur
ing next week, exact time and place
to be announced later
The Teddy Bears. one Of the head
line teams Of last years season, is
again in for the real thing this year
and is desirous Of securing games for
Sunday afternoons. in particular for
next Sunday when Manager Save is
anxious to secure a game with some