Show WISE MEN SA SAY Y IT fl Hi 1 WILL BE VERNOI VERNOl VERNO I i TO QUIT q 1 i T E are still flying thick I L J au and aud fast last QU ii the coast anent i the tie changes in Coast league territory ter ter- ter- ter rit next year The latest dope has Vernon losing its franchise I Here Is' Is what a Los An Angeles eles scribe has hasto hasto hasto to say regarding the forthcoming shakeup shake- shake i up Portland has lost mone money this season I Furthermore very every team has lIas lost mone money in making the trips to the town of ot the am and for that reason the P. P C. C L. L bosses are thinking of dropping the club for tor the 1918 se season son Very few clubs ever m made de much money in Portland when the town was at its best The h railroad iI fare is high and the aJ h hP tn I weather bad bach Any time I a c duo club P plays 8 its full schedule in McCredie's home it is lucky Gener Generally lly two or possibly three games have to be called off each week j on account of ot rain For the last two years ears baseball has I not drawn the people to the ball park as liS asit asit liSit it did in the pa past t. t One reason for this is the failure Beavers to be up In tn the race has hns taught his customers I to patronize a winner and when he failed to produce a winner tho the fans did not show up at the tIle orchard I The magnates feel that if Portland I was out of ot the Coast circuit and the long jump wa was was eliminated several thousand dollars would be saved during the season I For that reason it looks as if It Portland is doomed Continuous baseball has not been een a abig abig abig I big success in Los Angeles for the last two veaH The fans have hav had too much baseball 01 I They get enthused only a big series Is 15 being played rest of the flie time Lime only omy a few ref Ter patronize the games I Inasmuch as the Lo Los Ange owns O the territorial rights to thi th tion it Is believed that the Vernoi Vernol I I will lose It its franchise for tor the t I Year Till This would give Los Angel teen weeks of baseball and It Iti i I opinion of or many mam men who have fo Coast league baseball for a a. years that the attendance for tor ea each would be much hl higher her TI 11 I Whether or not Owner Tom Da o of the Bengal and the 1 Portland will wIH be paid for tor their fran Is la not known That will be taken take the meeting M MIt It is almost a a. surety that the theft ule ole will be shortened At preset schedule is too long It starts the playing too early in the spring ar ar closing is too late The season 4 I 1 close about the time the worlds world's starts S j After the bi big bis gam games s In the Ea interest in baseball dies in ev ever rv s of the country Although Los A Ahas Ahas Ahas has had a club fighting for up to the last two weeks in the lat lal years th the attendance at the ball has been much smaller than it il shot Frank Chance vice Angels and former manager tol writer that the Angels lost mone money last three weeks of the season l despite the fact that the club wasing was wasing In ing a fight for the flag a iii All this ma may not be e threshed j. j the coming meeting in San Fr Frai That which is 19 not cleared up w settled ed at the annual meeting cleague e c league bOR bosses PR la later tel in the year |