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Show 'JEDGE' M'HE IS tie mm kid i : Produces Bewildering Array Ar-ray of Numerals to Prove Portland's Power. fcjper-ial to The Tribune. PORTLAXD, Ore.. G;t. 27. Down In Iais Angoles Johnny Powers, owner of the Anpels, find Tom Darmody, owner of the Vernon xlub. lire urging: the dropping of Portland and ttie suhstitut ion of Sacramento Sacra-mento in the Coast lea sue on "account of the transportation." I Sacramento had iln bJtcKest week in' tlifi history of basplall there fn 1913, when ii had a clutnre to liat Portland out of the pennant in the next to the last juries of the season. Portland was in first plare and the Senators In second, a. fr- points beJiind. iierord crowds for Sacramento turned out, but Portland's share was only Sl.HtS.IM. The next and final week Tl'appy Hopan ami his Vernon T !; rs came along and lor some lime Die famous Happy complained com-plained that: Portland had taken ail the money there was in the California capital, ns lii's clulj drew only $400 for the six K.inies. according to ilap' of I en-repeated statement. Jedge Has ibe Figgers. . Incite McCrodie's figures of gate, money produced here show tlmt if powers is f?o p;ucr to have ?ai.Tanu?nto taken into t lie lea sup the logical thing to do would be to drop Los Angeles instead of Portland, as in tho six years the Senators were in the circuit, both Port la nd and Vernon paid heller than the. Angels, based on the Portland business with the two southern clubs. The average per week of what the three clubs in question paid Portland in i the six years and what Portland paid on i' ii average to all ( 'nnst league clubs fdmwH tha t t he Beavers produced more I money than either Pos Angeles or Snera- ', men to and was shaded by Vernon, due t to its league record-breaking week 'with the Reavers in 1911. Vernon, which has not been so persistent as lis Angeles in beheading the Portia nd cluh, far outstripped out-stripped its metropolitan rival In the six years. In Portlanad's Favor. In the six years' average money paid Portland per week the records show the following: los Angeles. Vernon, J-O-tj.tif, : Saoi.-imonto. $77 1. Mo. - and Portland Port-land paid an average lo the other five eluhy of ?1S1.L'1. Sacramento, it is conceded, paid Port -In nd more than it paid any of her ball 'hili. If Portland paid an average of MSi;.21 to other Coast league elubs during dur-ing the six years encompassed by the seasons sea-sons of r.Hi! to 1114 and Sneramenro but f 771 to its besi dra wing card Port-In Port-In ndy. balance of $10M.S is left in Port-latid's Port-latid's f.-' vol. This amount every week I lien wbl more t ban pay transportat ion iron i yan l-'ra nciseo, t he hub of t h o league, to Portlaiiii and return, and give the Coast league clubs more for their treasury t ha n Saeraiiienti would give wit hout the ra ilroad problem. The six-year average record of what money I he 'three clubs in question paid P'r'tlaiid ,-.cr week and the average Portland Port-land paid the ot her five ("oast league clubs per week follows; r a -1 -1 : I 3 1 ; ca I - ; ''"'f. $1.13S.!l:i.? SSI .TS t W7.y t i?io.i i,s.s i n! 4 7.:.s '.mm.m i'1!!. 1,4;'.'. s; :i,.Miii.s: f.::..:'i l'.i'C'T.t. 1912.1 l.!J.Ti 1.7:'fi.:"L' l.olii.:M i,t.s! :.r:' i. ."::!. :.ic:.:.o li'n.i l.vo.Tsi .o.".:;ii! s:i-.ss j.boo.n Tot.l?s.779.fi:i SI'.'JiU f4.i'.:;i .7.7 1 1.: o T . v. 'jl.'L''.'.:! $ L'.OL'.'.1.' ? 771. S- 1.SC7..L'! 4 |