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Show Another Coast League Pennant Struggle Will Begin Tuesday; What Happened in Bygone Days PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE PENNANT WINNERS. Year. Team. Pet. 1903 Los Angeles 630 1904 Ta-coma 589 1904 Tacoma : 571 1905 Tacoma 583 1905 Los Angeles 606 1906 Portland 655 1907 Los Angeles 608 1908 Los Angeles 585 1909 San Francisco 623 1910 Portland 567 1911 Portland . 589 1912 Oakland 591 1913 Portland 559 1914 Portland 574 1915 San Francisco 570 1916 Los Angeles 601 Los Angeles won play-off. ANOTHER pennant race in the Pacific Pa-cific Coast league will begin Tuesday. It will be the sixteenth season of the Coast league and will .be the third season for Salt Lake as a member of the league. The opening games are: Portland at Salt Lake. Vernon at San Francisco. Oakland at Los Angeles. The season extends over a period of thirty weeks seven months and is the longest season of any league in either organized or disorganized baseball, base-ball, even exceeding in length the regular regu-lar seasons of the numerous bush leagues in California. Salt Lake plavs fifteen weeks at home and fifteen abroad. This season there will be one brand new manager George Stovall of the Vernon club. In a sense. Bill Bernhard of the Salt Lake club will be a new manager, although he was with the club three weeks before the close of last season. sea-son. Del Howard of the Oaklands is another manager who has not completed a full season in the league. Harry Wolverton, Wol-verton, San Francisco; Frank Chance, Los Angeles, and Walter McCredie, Portland, are die three, managers who are by way of being "old timers." The history of the Coast league, so far as it concerns the playing side, is filled with matters of interest for the baseball fans. The league has developed innumerable players who have "gone up." It has also developed some wonderful won-derful hitters and some great pitchers. The Pacific. Coast league originated from the outlaw California State league, of which Stockton, Sim Francisco. Oak-' I LEADING BATTERS IN COAST I LEAGUE. . ! Year. Player. Team. Pet. 1903 Lumley, Seattle ....... .387 1904 Frisk, Seattle 337 1905 Blankenship, Seattle . . .311 1906 Brashear, Los Angeles . .388 : 1907 Eagan, Oakland 335 1908 Slattery, Oakland 331 1909 Melchior, San Francisco .298 1910 Shaw, San Francisco... .281 1911 Heitmuller, Los Angeles .343 1912 D. Howard, San Fran.. .358 1913 Bayless, Vernon 324 1914 Fisher, Portland 355 1915 Heilmann, San Fran 364 1916 Fitzgerald, San Fran... .316 land and Sacramento were members. In 1001 Los Angeles took the place of Stockton. Oakland won the pennant in 1902. In 1903 two clubs were added to the league, making it a six-team affair. Seattle and Portland were the new members. mem-bers. Los Angeles wod its first pennant in 1903. . . History of League. In 1904 the circuit was taken into organized or-ganized baseball under the name of the Pacific Coast league. The only change from 1903 was the moving of the Sac-1 ramento club to Tacoma. Tacoma won the flag that year. 1 In 1905 the season was divided into j two sections. Tacoma won too first half and Los Angeles the second, and in tho I play-off the Seraphs won. The league wobbled badly in ISKifi on account of the San Francisco disaster. The Tacoma club was transferred to Fresno. Portland Port-land won the pennant. In 1907 the league changed .back to a four-club circuit. Fresno and Seattle were dropped. Los Angeles won the pennant by 93 points. It was a most successful season. In 190S Los Angeles again ran off with leading honors. The Angels had little trouble, winning the pennant. In 1909 the league expanded and two more teams were added. Vernon and Sacramento Sacra-mento were the clubs added. Sun Fran-j Fran-j cisco won the. flag after a bitterly contested con-tested race. ! In 1010 Portland won the pennant by j 12 points. Oakland was close behind, j The race was a big success. In 1011 1 Portland agnui won the pennant after I a hard fight with Vernon. Hut 1 points separated the first two clubs. This was 1 the best year in the history of tho or-I or-I ganizatiou. j Oakland won the pennant in 1912 by a ' scant 4 points from the Vernon club. I : LEADING PITCHERS IN COAST LEAGUE. . Year. Pitcher. Team. Pet. 1903 Newton, Los Angeles... .744 1904 Newton, Los Angoles... .696 1905 Gray, Los Angeles 652 1906 Henderson, Portland ... .737 1907 Gray, Los Angeles 696 1908 Nagle, Los Angeles 706 1909 Henley, San Francisco.. .756 1910 Lively, Oakland 674 1911 Steen, Portland 667 1912 Malarkey, Oakland 645 1913 Williams, Sacramento .. .708 1914 Ryan, Los Angeles 686 1915 C. Williams, Salt Lake.. .738 1916 Ryan, Los Angeles 744 The pennant was not decided until the second game of the last day of the season. sea-son. - Salt Lake Enters. The Vernon club was transferred to Venice in 1913. Portland again wod the pennant with little trouble. In 1914 the Portland club won the pennant, with Los Angeles close behind. Tho Sacramento Sacra-mento club was put on the road under the name of the Missions in mid-season. In 1915 the San Francisco club, due to the great pitching of Steen ami Banm, won the pennant. The Venice club was transferred to Vernon during the season. Doc White was made manager man-ager of the Venice club after the death of Happy Hogan. The Mission club was replaced by the Salt Lake. The Saints under the management of Cliff Blankenship Blanken-ship made a hard fight for the flag, finishing fin-ishing in second place. Tn 1916 the pennant race was between Vernon and Los Angeles, with Los Angeles An-geles the victor. The fight for third place was spirited, Salt Lako winning the plum. During the season Del Howard How-ard replaced Harold Elliott as mnna.ger of the Oaks nnd William II. Bernhard succeeded Cliff Blankenship as manager of the Saints. Thomns J. Darmody heads tho Vernon club. Henry Berry is the prexy of the Snn Francisco club. W. V. McCreadie heads the Portland club and Frank I.eav-it.t I.eav-it.t is the president of the Oakland base-bailors. base-bailors. F. S. Murphy again heads the Salt I.nue club. Allan T. Baum is president of the Pacific Coast league. The player limit is fourteen voferans and four bushers, not ineluding the manager. The salarv limit is t.")00, with a "gentleman's agreement'' allowing $5000. The series (Continued on Page Three.) -ANOTHER FLAG STRUGGLE ML BEGIN TUESDAY Season of Thirty Weeks Will Open With Portland at Salt Lake; a Little History. (Continued from Page Ona.) between the clubs starts on Tuesday and finishes on Sunday. Doubleheadera are played on Sunday in ail series except the ones in Salt Lake and Portland. League's Best Hitters. With Harry Heilmaun and Justin Fitzgerald walking off with the indi-' indi-' yMual batting championship of the Pa-'iic Pa-'iic Coast league during the last two seasons, San Francisco leads the other clubs in producing kingpin hitters. Altogether Al-together the Seals have turned out five batting kings. Seattle, which held a berth in the league during the first four years of its existence, developed four champions. Harry Lumley, Emil Frisk and Cliff Blankenship being the leaders in 1903, 1904 and 1905, respectively. Oakland and Los Angeles have each had two leading hitters and Portland, which has won the championship of the league five times, has had but one real batting champion, Gus Fisher grabbing the title in 1914 with the mark of .355. Pick Bayless won the championship for Vernon in 1913. Sacramento has never had a batting champion and neither has Salt Lake, although Bunny Brief has been nosed out by narrow margins during dur-ing the past two seasons. Kitty Brashear, who is now of the umpires in the Coast circuit, topped the league in 1906, hanging up a percentage of .388, a mark which has withstood the onslaught of the sluggers for ten years. Truck Eagan, the famous old slugger, headed the league in 1907 and the following fol-lowing year his teammate, M. Jack Slat-terv, Slat-terv, won the title. Harry Mclehior was the first San r,onnicnn nlflvop trt uiin t V, t MUntdil lion. or and he was the first to drop below the .300 mark. The next year Hunky Shaw topped the list and he, too, fell below the charmed circle. Del Howard, who was manager of the Seals in 1912, headed the league in 1912. Hard Sluggers. Following are the leading batters of each club during each championship race: 1303. PUver and team. Games. Hits. PC J-fuTlev, Seattle 109 ISO .3S7 Van Buren. Portland ...205 2S1 .351 Dillon. Los Aneeles ...190 271 .300 w O. Graham. -Oakland ... 70 73 .329 Eaean. Sacramento 206 262 .320 ' Meanev, Sail Francisco. .219 251 .309 1904. T--nsk, Seattle 272 .337 intan. Tacoma - .229 .310 iW3vaham, Oakland 70 .310 Bernard, Los Ansclea 231 .30$ MeCredie. Portland lf.4 -301 Hlldebrand, San Fran 239 .284 1905. Blankenship. Seattle 106 127 .311 Brashear. Los Anueles ..1S9 19S .304 Nealnn, San Francisco. 207 20S .2SS McLean. Portland ISO 188 .281 Fnpan. Tacoma 210 214 .277 Mosklman, Oakland 138 114 .257 190B. Brashear, Los Angeles.. 65 92 .338 Mitchell. Portland 164 203 .351 Kane. Seattle 156 168 .341 Knieger. Oakland 161 2U .316 Williams San Fran 142 146 .309 Woltcr, Fresno 137 157 .285 1907. Eaaan. Oakland 194 237 .33.1 Melchoir, San Francisco. 66 67 .305 Dillon. Los Aneeles ...181 192 .304 McCredie, Portland 16S 1S2 .300 190S. Slatterv, Oakland 99 l;9 .331 Rastorlv, Los Angeles. .123 116 .309 Danzig. Portland 180 204 .298 Williams, San Fran 19S 200 .270 1909. Mclehior, San Fran 195 206 .29S .lohnson. Portland 205 195 .293 Mvers, Sacramento .... 76 82 .291 TWI1. Los Angeles 1S1 181 .2S9 Murphv. Oakland 112 125 .287 Marllnke. Vernon 210 210 .2S6 1910. Shaw. San Francisco 155 346 .281 Knieser. Portland 63 65 .281 Peirv, Sacramento 190 193 1279 Dalav. Los Aneeles 224 218 .262 W. Hosan. Oakland 200 193 .261 Carlisle. Vernon 224 206 .25S 1911. lleitmuller. Los Angeles. 78 103 .343 Ryan, Portland 190 247 .333 Stinson. Vernon 164 177 .317 Mancert. Oakland 114 137 .314 Panziff, Sacramento ....199 222 .292 Powell, San Francisco. .175 195 .290 1912. P. Howard. San Fran.. 98 123 .358 Fitzserakl, Portland 52 55 .355 lleitmuller, L. A 151 186 .335 Bnvless, Vernon 199 228 .318 VVan Buren. Sacramento. 127 120 .314 Patterson. Oakland 138 157 .303 1913. Bavless, Venice 193 230 .324 Speas. Portland 91 99 .319 Magsert, Los Angeles. .201 226 .316 Johnston. San Fran 201 228 .304 Shinn. Sacramento ....154 162 .302 Gardner. Oakland 134 lln .285 1914. Fisher. Portland 139 156 .355 IV Howard. San Fran... 83 80 .3.-2 Wilholl. Vernon 35 67 .349 Woltrr. Los Anircles ...203 263 .328 Gardner. Oakland 153 156 .306 OiT, Sacramento 131 lo2 .30a 1915. Ueiltnann. San Fran.... 98 135 .364 Brief, Salt Lake 82 119 .363 Wolter. Los Anseles. ..150 186 .r...fl .liiungton, Oakland '-06 274 .3 18 Wllhoit, Vernon 177 220 .323 Fisher, Portland US 11 -31s 1916. Fltzeerald. San Fran 132 133 .316 Kemvovlhv. Oakland ...200 231 .814 Brief, Salt Ulke 11,5 2'-'7 Bassler, I.os Aneeles ..124 106 .304 Snuthwortli. Port la ml... 171 188 .300 Bates. Vernon 203 225 .285 The Best Pitchers. Los Angeles twirlcrs have led the Pacific Coast league in pitching in seven sev-en out. of the fourteen years that the organization has been in existence. Doe Newton, Dnllv C.rav and Jack Ryan each heading' the list twice. Portland and Oakland pitchers have each topped the list, for two seasons and San Francisco, Fran-cisco, Salt Lake and Sacramento slab-stc.rs slab-stc.rs were the leaders in the other three vears. Cack lleulev of San Francisco, who was the leader in 1909. hung up the highest percentage of games won, winning win-ning thirtv-une and losing ten games for a mark of ,75ii. Hoc Xowtou and lack Kvau, both of Los Angeles, hold the second best percentages, .744. New-n New-n winning thirty-five and losing -iiwolve in 19H3 and Kvan winning twon-tv-nine and losing fen last year. In 1 !(" Walter Nagle won eleven straight r, games for Los "Angeles and in other seasons a number of twirlcrs have hung |