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Show Illlfll I Undercurrent of Feeling, However, How-ever, That Vernon Will Not ' Get Through Season. SAN FRANCISCO, Doc. 25. According Ac-cording to Proxy Bauni, there is so much harmony in the little old P. C. L. these days that you might think the board of directors was the original sextet from "Lucia," or something liko that. But they do say that the recent love-fest in the City of Angels was simply the oil of hope smoothing the troubled waters of doubt, and that nobody no-body got a dislocated elbow patting himsolf on the back. For instance, the furrows of care seem to be somewhat deep upon the brow of Tom Darmody. Tom has gone right on with his plans for the coming season, having signed up Bill Essick to do his mana'ginlng and also purchased "Dutch" Reuther to do a certain amount o pitching. But there is an undercurrent of feeling in the league that the Vernon club may not be able to weather another an-other season. Darmody was forced to dig up many a peso last summer to meet the salary roll. The Tigers had lost all their old-time road popularity and when they played at home nobody no-body seemed to know anything about it. The only time they drew anybody was when they were competing com-peting with the Angels, and that was never much in the way of competition. competi-tion. I Several members of the directorate I have privately expressed the opinion I that Lob Angeles is doing its share if i it supports one team properly, and f that the league would be better off if ) the franchise was transferred to an- other city. Here 16 the Rub. But right there comes the rub. Tho other city isn't to be located so easily. Hen Berry has suggested Fresno, and yet it was only three or four years f nrrn flint TTrm Inst n TirF IIHIa nffrf nf money backing a class D club at Fresno. Still, with the proper sort of backing, a team at Fresno might contribute con-tribute its shade. It wquld do well enough, on the road, andit certainly could not do much worse in any way, .! either baseballically or financially, than Vernon did" last season. ,-; The only other city suggested is San Diego. And this suggestion has a ! .certain amount of backing, indicating I that the citizens of the border town arc in earnest, while those of Fresno i are content to wait. Suggest San Diego. If During tho meeting of the directors l one of the visitors in the Van Nuys I, "corridors was "Overcoat" Jack Atkln, j the race track man, who formerly II owned tho Sacramento club. . Atkin '' said when he sold the Sacramento culb 'ij that he was anxious to get out base-1 base-1 1 "ball, because there was too much r. strain on his nerves. Ho had been ;j used to the race track, where action is ( ' quick. In baseball you sometimes i ' j have to wait fof seven months before . j the race is settled. Atkln couldn't 1 1 stand it. But, as a matter of fact, the I game has never lost its fascination for J him, and ho wouldn't mind taking anil an-il other whirl at it. ij , During his visit to Los Angeles he made the statement that he would be willing to back a Coast league club in San Diego either by taking over one ' of the franchises of the present organization or-ganization or by assuming a new franchise if the league was expanded to eight clubs, J Get Busy Next Month. Interest in baseball will have a real j revival about tho middle of next . I month. The magnates will star sender send-er j Jng out their contracts and tho man-agers man-agers will start the gathering in of , players to fill the vacant places created by the army draft and th'e big league recalls and purchases. So far j . only one club has announced its train -i i ' ing camp. The Salt Lake Bees are to , - go to Portervllle. Oakland. will, in all i probability, return to Boyes Springs. Hon Berry sort of specializes in pickle pick-le ing out a new training camp ea,ch year. LI He hasn't made up his mind whether l to go north or south this coming I spring, but, unless some special in-II in-II ducehient is made, he will not take l.'r his cub more than forty or fifty miles fir iway from San Francisco. Stockton, Ult Santa Rosa, Napa, Palo Alto, San jl Jose, Santa Cruz, Marysville, Merced and Fresno have all been suggested as I -possible training places for the Seals, |