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Show If TRAVEL BY mm not The Transportation Strike Throws Los Angeles Base-ballers Base-ballers Into Panic. Special to The Tribune. LOS ANGELES, Calif., AuC. 23. On account of the street railway strike there will be no Sunday morning game here tomorrow between Sacramento and Los Angeles. In the afternoon, at Washington park, however, there will l'O a doubleheader, the first same starting start-ing at 1 o'clock. It will be the first Sunday afternoon doublt header in years here, and a record crowd is expected out. Because of the strike, which today extended to the steam lines, Business Agent Morley of the Angels telegraphed to President Baum of the Coast league to get 'the other clubs in the circuit to cooperate in efforts to revamp the playing schedule so that the season sea-son may be closed without interruption. Just how the schedule is to be revamped re-vamped Morley does not know, passing that to the head of tho league. However, How-ever, the strike has precipitated upon the clubs a real crisis, some say the worst situation since the San Francisco earthquake of lDOti. Travel by Auto. The Angels are slated to go to Portland Port-land for a series next week. If they had to make the trip by boat they would just about have time to shake McCredie's hand and take a returning boat to this city. In ca&e the strike is confined to Los Angeles the trip to San Francisco will be made by automobile or boat. From that point the clubs will be able to get to Salt Lake or the northwestern towns. The Vernon club is at Portland this week and was slated to arrive here Wednesday morning for a series with Sacramento. The strike may prevent the arrival of the team, or if the players play-ers make the trip by automobile it will be a tired lot of pennant contenders con-tenders that will face Sacramento. Association Stars. President McGill of the Indianapolis club of the American association promises prom-ises to bring some baseball phenoms to the coast for the post-season championship champion-ship series beween the AA pennant-winner pennant-winner and the Pacific Coast league flagholdcr. "Duke" Reilly, he asserts, is the greatest infielder in the minors today. Also, he will bring liogge, pitcher, who jumped from the White Sox to the Feds. Still another is Catcher Schang. McGill expects the spitball will prove a handicap to the visiting midwest players, but he adds: "We have some wonderful curve-ball pitchers, who, I believe, will fool the Coast league batters." McGill is a great booster for the Coast league, and lie may become financially finan-cially interested next season, as his home is in Los Angeles and ho is 'tired of making so many tronscontinental trips to look after his Indianapolis club. George ("Rube") Ellis, veteran Angel, is $500 to the good as a result of the benefit game for him Thursday at Washington park. |