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Show LEAGUE MEET SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 31 The moguls of the Coast league will convene con-vene at the St Francis hotel tomorrow afternoon to discuss affairs of great importance to themselves; that is, they are expected to do that, but maybe may-be it will bo just one of those meetings meet-ings that work the bellhops and the boys in the white Jackets to a stale bordering on exhaustion. Still that is hardly likely this time, for this has been one of those lean years in baseball where the turnstiles rusted and huge deficits were mado in the bank rolls of the club owners, so water may be the beverage. There has been a lot of preliminary talk about fixing up the circuit that will make it possible for the club owners own-ers to take in enough dough to at least move the players around. Judge MeCredie'is on his way from Portland and will be here tomorrow morning. He has so many figures to show that Portland is a better baseball town than Los Angeles, that he 1b carrying car-rying excess baggage, 'the statistics being checked in a large trunk. Tue old judge Is the figuring kid and once he puts on his specs and dives Into the dope he will have his follow moguls gasping for air McCredies Peeved. Walter McCredle is here waiting for the uncle, and aftor the meeting he will probably go to Los Angeles and I work during the winter. The McCro-Idios. McCro-Idios. uncle and nenhew.-are'lnia-soft, t spot, in a way, for they do not care whether Portland is kicked out of the league or not. If Portland is dropped that town will hook up with the Northwestern leaguo and a tight little circuit of good towns will be organized with a class A rating. Johnny Powers of Los Angolcs is said to be tho chief mogyt in the agitation agi-tation to drop Portland, and his talk is chafing Walter McCredie until he Is crying aloud for talcum powder. "From the way he talks, I guess Johnny is running the league," said Walt yesterday; "so we will have to wait untl he gets here to find out what Is to bo done with us. "I understand he made the crack that if Portland and Salt Lake were kept in the league he would refuse to tako his team to those two towns next year. That would be dreadful If he breaks away. I suppose he will form a little league of his own. "Johnny is the smartost man in the league, so it is only natural that he should want to run it. This last season sea-son was a tough one on all of us, who had to dig up the dough, and wo are all so tame that we can be led around without the aid of a chokebit. None, of the boys is carrying his head very high right now. After Salt Lake Also. "Speaking for the judge and myself, we don't care what action is taken about uropping ronianu. we uouiu make more money in a Northwestern league than by staying with the Coast league, so if Powers is trying to throw a scare he can just go ahead saying 'Boo.' " As a mattor of fact If Judge McCredie McCre-die really wants to keep Portland in the Coast league, Powers will have a fat chance getting him out. Cal Ewing and the judge are close friends, for they worked hard together to save the league after the firo of 190C. If the judge wants to stay, Cal will stay with him. Jack Cook of the Salt Lake club is a former partner of Cal, and ho would vote with Cal and Mac. because if Portland is dropped, Salt Lake will go, too. That makes three votes, and, as there are only six directors and President Presi-dent Baum is not allowed to vote, Powers would have a tough time putting put-ting it over, even if he convinced Hen Berry and Tom Darmody, and he has yet to get the demon manager on his side. The boys will do a lot of talking tomorrow to-morrow afternoon and then sojourn for dinner. Then they will' talk a lot more. Hen Berry is a serious minded business man, and he may be depended upon to put on his little stunt of playing play-ing the "Star-Spangled Banner" with one finger on the piano when his partners part-ners are discussing graye affairs. There is no way to dope this meeting. meet-ing. Something big may be put over, and then again it may be just a talk-fest. talk-fest. The things that are gnawing at the vitals of the club owners may be put over until the annual meeting late next month, but tho gathering tomorrow tomor-row will give the men a chance to exchange ex-change opinions. |