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Show 4- Wild Heaves and Such -4 f All scheduled games in the Pacific Coast league were postponed yesterday. Salt Lake will open at Seattle today; Los Angeles will play Portland; San Francisco j will engage Oakland and Sacramento and Vernon will play at Los Angeles. Yesterday Yester-day was the first time in the history of the Coast league when all of the games were abandoned on account of the inability inabili-ty of the contending club being unable to reach their destinations. Walter McCredle, boss of the Portland Beavers, believes the Coast league would be more prosperous if the Los Angeles or tho Vernon franchise wrere transferred i to some other club on the Pacific slope. According to the Beaver manager, two clubs in Los Angeles will never pay In the Pacific Coast league. Mac stated that i there were lots of other towns on the I coast which could support a coast club, but did not mention any particular one; but the writer believes he liad in mind either Tacoma or Vancouver. League figures show that continuous baseball in the Angel City is not a paying pay-ing proposition. If Los Angeles patronized patron-ized the games like tho Bay City fans there would be no kick. Mac also approved of Bill Kssick's plan to put a purse in next season's race, but j suggested that the purse be divided i among tho three top clubs, 50, 30 and 20 per cent. According to Essick, a purse of $10,000, one-eighth to be put up by each club, would create more interest in the games and keep the players fighting all the time. Portland Journal. Spider Baum stipulated in his contract with Salt Iike that he Is to train with the Seals next year. Secretary "Putty-Put" "Putty-Put" had that put in, for a Seals' training train-ing camp without the Spider would be rat hoi' a lonesome place. San Francisco Chronicle. Special to The Tribune. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 26. Pitcher Pete Schneider, who was bought by the Tigers from the Yankees, arrived today and will report to Manager Essick tomorrow. |