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Show II In case of Strike No Tie-up in Coast League Games Will I Occur by This Move.. I San Francisco, August 31. Wholo- I' sole changes may be made in Hie I Coast league schedule and running I methods next .Monday, if the railroad strike takes place as threatened. ! In order to prevent a tie-up of the strike takes effect, President Allan I Baum announced tonight that all trav- U cling could be made by water, the N Salt Lake club being moved to Sac- I ramento temporarily, and the games ! .played as usual. After the strike Ij conditions are bettor, the Utes will be moved back to Salt Lake. "Interest in baseball will be just as great even if the strike goes into effect," said President Baum, "but we can play no games in Salt Lake, as it is Impossible to reach that city j by boat. Therefore we would move the club to Sacramento for the time being. That will give us a complete six-club circuit, with no railroad traveling trav-eling necessary. "From Los Angeles to San Francisco Fran-cisco wo can travel on boat. The same goes for the Oakland and Vernon Ver-non teams. Portland can he reached on the Great Northern Pacific lino, in faster time from San Francisco than the trains take. "By moving the Salt Lake club to Sacramento, it can also be reached by boat, the teams going up the Sacramento Sacra-mento river from San Francisco. On the whole I believe the plan a good one, but of course We will not resort to it unless we have to. By doing that we do not have to change our schedule. The only possible alternative al-ternative would be to change the schedule so as to give Portland continuous con-tinuous baseball until after the strike, I and Portland is not good enough as a -baseball town to attempt that. "This way everything should work out all right. Once before we considered con-sidered traveling by water whenever when-ever possible, but some managers objected ob-jected to it as a few players became seasick, so the plan was abandoned. Now we may be forced to adopt the idea." oo |
