The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-01
BASEBALL GAMES }
 ALL YEAR ROUND
Southern California League
 Wants This Franchise
STARS OF BALL FELL
While Many of the Great Players Are Gone Others Are in the Game With the Same Names And Are
 Also Bright stars

New York, February 2s.-(Special)-Foi the first time in professional baseball ap' plcation has been made for franchise to play the entire year round with nc intermission in winter. The application is made by the Southern California league and all the towns are situated in that section of the Pacific coast where snow and ice are not known and where the bathing is just as good in January as it l is in July.
 l A number of efforts have been made in the east to play baseball at night but the experiments have always proved un- successful. Cincinnati once tried to ar range series of powerful arc lights so that the baseball field would be as bril-
 liant at midnight as though the sun were shining, but that scheme was fruitless. and the pellet was out of bounds in the dark most of the time.
 Ball players come and ball players go, but it is a strange fact that the names of stars go on forever. Many great ball players have died or retired, but their names live after them, perpetuated in some cases by younger relatives and in others by younger men who just happen to have the same titles. Most of the great old cards of long ago have dupli- cates in names today and search through the leagues will turn up some | curious facts along these lines. In the National league there is still Ward, a Doyle a Ferguson, a Delehanty, Dew lin, a Sweeney, a Schaefer, Mccormick, Gibson. Bergen and a Ewing. In the American league the old names finger, such as Knight, Jones, Collins. Reilly Burns, Ryan and White. In the Pacific league there is a Cooney, a Doyle and two names once famed for hitting Thompson and Browning; also Griffin.
 Hal Chase thinks that a left-handed man makes a better infielder than a right-hander The famous first baseman of the Highlanders has written a disser- tation on baseball playing, and among the other things. has the following to say:
 q believe a left-handed first baseman is better fitted for the position than T18nI-ndnQtT. ne uStS tic ltLl Hdiiu TUT throwing. This makes snap throw to second or third much easier He natural ly faces these bases The right -hander has to turn round, losing valuable time. As to throwing to the plate, there is no advantage in either style. I believe the time will come when a rght-handed first baseman will be almost as rare as a left handed third-baseman now is. Fred Ten ney was the pioneer southpaw first sacker. He originated the sacrifice-killing play That is, on a bunt to him he tried for the man that was to be advanced. did the same thing before heard of Ten ney. It was as natural for me to do it as to play for the plate with the bases full and none out. For rfght-hander the play Is more difficult. He losses too much time in turning after getting the ball."
 It is said that Byron Bancroft Johnsons s salary as president, secretary and treas- urer of the American league Is s2o00o a year and when We figure that he will hold his numerous offices for 25 years. If he lives. 1t can be seen that Ban will retire A millionaire for he has side money making issues as well as baseball from which he derives revenue. The schedule for the American league shows that the season will run from April IA to October 9 with 154 games. Ban holds the longest tenure of office ever held by baseball president Ban is dead against syndicate baseball and one of the rules in the 1910 agreement of the American league Is that no syndicate shall Do allowed ex- cept as an emergency issue
 
 It seems but a few years ago that Stanley was hunting Livingston Tn Darkest Africa" and yet the Zam- besi river in the heart of Darkest Ar rica" has been chosen as the place where Richard Arnst of New Zealand and Ernest Barry of England will bat tie for the worlds supremacy in scul- ling in August. Football and cricket are staple games in South Africa and we might remark upon the fact that New Zealand, which was not so long ago looked upon as an out-of-the-Way spot on the world, furnishes one of the contenders for the championship in this coming sculling contest.
 Barry comes from sculling family although he has no brilliant record be- hind him. His older brother beat George Towns for the championship of England in 1890. The latter turned the tables on Barry In the following year and it was left for Ernest Barry to avenge his brothers defeat the next year.
 The National league schedule gave more trouble this year than any other question in many years except the chosing of a president for the contem- porary term. To me it looks like a case of greediness. The club owners are calling for more receipts. It is true that baseball players are getting high fancy prices have always been charged. Seats ranging from 50 cents to t1.50