The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-02
A CHANCE FOR MONTANA
Prospects Are Good for a Base
ball League.
THREE MONTHS OF SPORT
A Plan to Transfer the Pacific North
west League Teams to This State.
Borchers VIII Size Up the
Situation.

There is a chance for Montana to have
a baseball league. not a very big one.
but one big enough TO give the fam
their fill of good baseball for the bal
ance of the season.
The Pacific Northwest league has
gon up, n there is a plan on foot TO
have the entire four teams transferred
TO Montana and play a series of games
to last two months, or perhaps three. If
the weather remains good and the en-
terprise pays. Manager Eschle of the
Butte baseball club received yesterday
a letter from the manager of the Port
land team in regard to the transferring
of the entire league to Montana. Man
ager Borchers anticipating that the Pa
cific league would go up in a few days.
The letter is as follows:
Il drop o a line to find out how
you feel in regard to baseball. I have
charge of the Portland club in this
league, and the way things look 1t is not
very promising. All the towns are draw
ing fairly well, but the railroad fares
will surely eat us up. We will have
to drop Spokane, n when we do there
is liable to be a break in the league.
Now, all these teams are very cheap.
Not a man in the league draws more
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we had the four teams in your country
we all would makes some money. Butte,
Helena, Anaconda and Great Falls
would make a nice circuit, and it would
not cost a great deal to nov the en-
tire four teams to Montana. Let me
hear from you in regard to this
Mr.. Eschle Immediately answered Mr..
Borchers' letter. He told Mr.. Borchers
that he thought this could be made a
good baseball country, but he would not
advise him on the matter. He told him
he had better come to Butte himself,
visit the other Montana towns and de-
eide for himself as TO whether il would
be a paying proposition to move the
league to Montana.
Il expect Mr.. Borchers here in a few
days" aid Mr.. Eschle to a Standard
reporter, 'and I suppose his decision
will settle the matter. He is practically
the head of the league. | would not be
i'm favor of transferring the entire
league to the exclusion Of our local
players. We have a number of good
men who are local favorites, and as
long as they do good work they should
be kept on the team. We could COM
bine the teams. The best players on
the Tacoma, Portland, Seattle and Spo-
kane teams could be added to the best
men of the Anaconda, Butte. Helena
and Great Falls teams, and then each
team in the Montana league would
ave some popular local players to give
zest to the race. / believe that the
teams could make some money by play
ing for two or three months in Mon
tana. The railroad fares would be much
less than what it has cost them to move
around in the Pacific league. In Helena
last Tuesday there were 1,400 paid adj
missions to see a game with Great Falls.
That shows there is plenty of baseball
enthusiasm over there. Anaconda is all
right, and / believe Butte can be
screwed up to the proper baseball pitch
by one or two good games. Old Dali
rymple of the Chicagos is one of the
Pacific Northwest players, and PARROT
Is another"