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Show NOT LIKELY TO DROP BEAVERS FROM LOOP San Francisco Magnates Think Reported Utterances of Los Angeles Owner Are Ridiculous. Special to The Tribune. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 2!. San Francisco baseliall magnates, and this includes President A. T. Baum of the Pacific Coast league, as well as Henry Berry owner of tie San Francisco eluVj, and the backbone of the leauge. place no credence in a reported interview front Los Angeles by wliich John F. Powers of the Angel 'club is reported as favoring fa-voring dropping Portland from the Coast league in favor of some other city in the northwest and expansion or the league to include possihly Seattle. Spokane and Taconta. First of all, they decline to believe that Powers made any such statement, which is characterized as being ridiculous ridic-ulous in the extreme. Second, it is asserted as-serted that Judge McCredie has always been regarded as a stanch supporter of the Coast league, and the proposition of dropping the Beaver club has never been considered. So far as league expansion ex-pansion is concerned, while it is admitted ad-mitted the subject will likely come up at the annual meeting, no plan has been formulated. "T would rather not discuss such a ridiculous proposition, " said President Baum. t(To my knowledge, there has never been a suggestion of throwing Portland out of the Coast league. Indeed, In-deed, such a thing would be foolish, especially to trade Portland for either Spokane or Taeoma. Either city is poorer from a drawing standpoint' than Portland and it would simplv he out of the frying pan into the 'fire. "As to the question of league expansion, expan-sion, it is my personal opinion that the i nasi league directors will vote against expansion at the annual meeting " |