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Show 1 Pi iiG piflnnfijp LuLbb liiOiiLiita OUld Jli.-i i UllJ New Owner Proposes to j Make Coyotes Real Pcn- I rant Contender. i i 1 Special to T Triv;::e. SACRAMENTO. Dec. b. Alter a. series of meetings by the directors of the Sacramento Sac-ramento Pacific Coast league club, it was finally decided at last night's mooting to knock down the club to Louis Morein?. former magnate interested in the defunct California ta;o P-ascbn ii lc-:gue. wlrc. w;us forced. to wind up its aiiirs at uie out s-1 of the v'.ir. Moremcr is now a wealthy ram-h owner and makey his home h-trc. Tlie new owner says ho is going :r.to ihe game for ad there is in it. Ho also announced that lie would hnvo a hean-To-he:irt talk uiih. Bill Rodgors at onee- in regard to securing secur-ing new players for the team lor next -ear and that lie proposes to make a. pennant contender in earnest ot" the outut. At this conference the work lor next year will be mapped out. so that skipper Pill can begin scouting in a lew clay a for h:? players. Prominent Baseball Family. The Morcing fa mil v has always derived considerable "'kick" from association vith baseball. Cy Morcing was tlie real la the r of tho California outlaw league and. whih he started on a taik that was foredoomed to failure, lie at least made life somewhat some-what thorny for the Coast league magnates mag-nates for a time. "When Cy wanted a Coast league star he simplv stepped out and got him. Vh even lured Hal Chae awr- irom the big leagues at a time when Prince Hal was playing the best ball of has career. Nobody No-body in the game was too big for Cy to go after. "When the league was finally forced to go out of business, it being impossible to support the class of ball it was presenting present-ing In the cities of the circuit, tho Coast leaguers were happy to take Cy's Oak -land ball park league off his hands. The Coast league has as a result paid tho rent on the Grove street park regularly ever since, and the park has been used on rare occasions only. ' i Lou and Charley More ing were only casuullv interested in Cy's hateball activities. activi-ties. Having a few slick els, they probably prob-ably stood somo of the los.-es, but th.oy were not int'mately identuied with the league or Cy's clubs. They never )o their interest in baseball. howocr. and after they went to Sacramento, here they made a big fortune in wheat growing, grow-ing, they were ahvavs the most lp al of fans. A Feeder League. Talk of the organisation of another state league has it that Cy Morcing may com back into the held, managing tho Stockton Stock-ton team as a sort of farming ground for his brothers' Sacramento club. Stockton has never been much of a bail town since Cy iloreing dropped out of tlie game. Ho is the one man who could make, it a good ball town aeain. Tom Stephens, treasurer of tlie Pa n Francisco club, is anxious to get behind a San Jose club. With these two towns, PYosno, Mode:-to and Richmond, there would bo a complete com-plete circuit capable of &upporling a. good Sunday league and giving tho 1'uh.a an excellent ex-cellent Quality of baseball. |