Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-09
AMATEURS DISLIKE
AUGUST BASEBALL
Hot Season Too Severe Test for
Enthusiasm of Diamond
Artists
WINTER LEAGUE PROPOSED
Continuous Baseball in the ANA
teur Ranks Will Be This
Years Feature
LEAGUE PROPOSED


Southern California have lost some of
their ardent spirits in the heat of the
season and have degenerated into a
machinelike state of mind that invites
the bite of the grabbing fever germ and
leaves them open to the attacks of the
protested game grievances that spring
up like mushrooms overnight in the
minds of the amateur fandom.
The hardest test of the amateur dia-
mond follower is the August part of
the schedule, and many of the leagues
are feeling its effects. In the Intercity
organization troubles of all kinds have
developed and the league now holds
the unenViable record of more protested
games for the season than any other
local organization of its kind. The
Echo playground team seems to have
been the chief offender, or victim, as
the case might be- and only one game
was played in the schedule in which
they were participants that was not
protested on account of some real or
fancied miXup in the ruling or the play
The number of leagues binding the
local teams to local play has worked
a hardship for the suburban squads,
and many of those organizations have
suffered greatly from the trouble in
persuading team to make the out-ot-
town mines as members was Contem-
plated, but has not been carried out
to a success. There is a need and it
has been felt all along by the local
amateurs, of some central body for
the government of play. Many of the
eastern cities have found the plan
great success, and the middle west has
not been slow to take up the idea.
The plan followed out in New York
that has been made pattern for many
of the eastern baseball haunts is
general amateur baseball meeting on
some holiday that would permit the at
tendance of the majority of those in
terested in the sport. The meeting is
generally turned into picnic and
everyone interested in the game, fans
and players, their wives and families,
flock out to the annual amateur base
ball boost of the year. At this time
and place there is elected a committee
of six who are to have absolute con-
troll over the amateur ranks during the
ensuing year. Each team arranges all
it's games through a central booking de-
partment and pays small sum toward
the support of the parent organization.
In this way every team is assured of a
weekly game, and there are few pro-
tests through misinterpretation of the
rules, as all umpireS are passed upon
and examined by the committee of six
in charge. The scheme is a good one
and could be worked out splendidly in
our local baseball circles. There is a
need and a stringent one of something
of this kind, and the New York plan
appeals to many of the local ball
boosters as the only way. Send in your
ideas on the local amateur baseball
troubles and give the other fellow a
chance at your experience. The Herald
will be glad to publish extracts from
such letters and give the amateur base
ball boosters the publicity which they
need.
A winter league is the next kind of
an organization to attract the local
diamond faddists, and there is a great
deal of interest already aroused in the
prospects for continuous ball in the
amateur ranks. A league of twelve
teams is now nj the process of fOrma-
ton, and will become a factor in the
baseball map about the first of the
coming month. Sunday ball will be
played throughout the winter, and
every player who is interested is re-
quested to send in his name for the
league ranks.
Indoor baseball is making quite hit
at Long Beach, and the sheltered ma
tional game numbers among it's ardent
supporters rev OF the regulars IN the
Southern State league.
Two more games will conclude the
regular schedule of the Intercity
league, after which the tied and pro-
tested games will be played. The
schedule of this most important side
of the league program is as follows:
August 27-Goldsmiths VS.. Echo
Parks at Echo park (protested).
August 27-Bshops VS.. Wielands at
Thirty-eighth and Alameda (tie gamel.
August 27-Los Angeles Stoves VS..
Y. NJ c. A. at L. S. c. (protested).
September 3-Echo Parks VS.. Globe
Mills at Echo park (protested).
September 3-Wielands VS.. Alhambra
at Alhambra (protested).