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Show COAST WILL SEEK RATEREOUCTION Formation of 1919 . Circuit j Depends on Fares To and , From Salt Lake. J S' AN FRANCISCO. Tc. 11. If the : well known nnd Justly popular Vnited States government can ; be Indueed to shave a few dnl- . lrm nTf rrm rnunrt mp frrrs frwn ' I California to 1 tah next spring, the ' Pacific Coast baseball league will be , In business as usual, nnd the circuit i .will remain unchanged The magnates mag-nates are Itching fr the chance to j go. but they are also preltv certain, they will have to take the Itching out tin scratching unless there Is a rcdnc- ( lon In the cost of a Journey to Salt L k a. I Informally the league leaders gath-! gath-! ered the ther dav at Oakland to I discuss plans. Dr. Strub, Tom Htenhens, George Putnam and Charley 1 Graham were all on hand, represent -I Ing San Francisco; Cal F.wlng reire-' reire-' sented Oakland. John P. Cook Salt j Lake and Charlea J. Heeaeman Sic-rnmento. Sic-rnmento. Nobody was present to voice the opinion of either Los Angeles An-geles or Vernon. Heeseman reported that pTcrn-mento pTcrn-mento Is ready and thnt Hill Kod-rers wilt be set to work gathering his 1919 team Just as soon aa league policy In definitely determined. Also he slid ! that the Senators will do their training train-ing at home. None of the other mnrnntea had given much thouaht to training so far. Jack Cook said Salt Lake waa anxious to keep Ita place tn the league, and this started the dlacuaalon of the transportation problem. Cook waa delegated to communicate with 8eth Mann of the Interstate commerce commission and nllst his aid if possible in getting some sort of rate concession. The Snlt Inke trip la so expensive now that no club can make It without heavy loss. I r. Strub was delegated to visit Los A nee lea this week and confer with .lohnhv Powers of the Angels and Tom Parmody of the Tigers to act tltetr view a on the general sltua- I tmrv It wan decided also to send a j representative to thn meeting of the j minor leagues In Chicago next month. at which many mattera of Importance f to the r.-inora are to come up. Chiefly j will be disruaaei! the proosed diswo-t diswo-t lutlon of the national agreement, ad-I ad-I vacated by magnatea who object to the big league drafting avstem. I The length of the playing schedule ' for next aeason waa discussed, some I of the magnatea being for the 0)4) I schedule if thirty week a and others for shortening It lo twenty-five 1 i weeks. So much faith was expressed j I in a gr..t revival of baseball Interest t hat it is the general opinion the thirty-week schedule will he adopted. Thia will be determined when a regular reg-ular league meeting Is held In Jan-uai Jan-uai y. |