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Show COAST LEAGUERS ILL MEET SOON Angel President Thinks Session of Directors Will Be Held Dec. 10. Tho first concreto evidence that the Pacific coast league is on its. way to a renewal of its pennant races is con- i tainerl in a dispatch last night from Los Angles. This dispatch quotes John F. Powers, president of the Lou Angeles club to the effect that the league li-iectors li-iectors will got together at Wan Fran-ciseo Fran-ciseo Decrniher lu, or thereabouts. President Lane of the local club has received no notice of a meeting, but if he did get one he wouldn't fall dead of surprise. "I expect there will be something stirring pretty soon now," said Lane yesterday. "The first tiling would be a meeting to find out just, where we are at, and I look for a call almost any tiny. K very thing is pointing to a resumption, re-sumption, and the indications are growing grow-ing stronger even- day." The Los Angeles dispatch quotes Powers in this wise: "The matter of railroad rates will be the most important thing to be taken up at the coming meeting of the Pacific coast league. Tf the present war-time rates are kept up the transportation question will cripple us badly. We have hopes of lower rates. There are many questions to be handled at the meeting, and I have no idea of what the general result will be. We have strong hones of playing in 1019. The league oftieiais will meet in 8an Francisco on or about December in." Yesterday 's dispatcher from "Washington "Wash-ington announcing the abolition of some part of the war tax on railroad travel is taken as a forerunner of material reductions re-ductions to follow more or less rapidly, and there appears to be ground for the belief that by the time baseball season opening time rolls round, the railroad situation will have become favorable once more. At any rate, the project for a league meeting is a long step and one significant signifi-cant of good things to come. |