The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-10-12
LEAGUE MEETING
THE COMING WEEK
Fate Of Utah Baseball Will Be
Decided Wednesday.
LOCAL CLUBS WILL ATTEND
CHANCES FOR A FRANCHISE
LOOK VERY BRIGHT.

NJ EXT Wednesday the big meeting
" of the Pacific Northwest league
viii be held in Spokane. and up
on the action of the managers of the
various clubs who viii be In attend
ance rests the fate of baseball In this
state next year. The question as TO
whether Salt Lake and Ogden will be
admitted or not viii come up along
with the other business of the league.
Salt Lake Will be represented at that
meeting by Buck Weaver and Clyde
Shropshire, and Ogden will be repre-
sented in the person of Frank Gin
lin, who has so ably handled the base
bali proposition in the Junction City
for the past four years.
The Ogden fans seem TO be a unit
for admission to the league and in this
city 1t is only hoped that Gimiin will
work hand and hand with Salt Lake
In an endeavor TO get the much-de-
sired franchises. 1t is a certainty that
Salt Lake will make almost any kind
of concessions that may be asked and
her representatives will come home
with a franchise safely slowed away
in their coat pockets il hustling can
get it.
Meanwhile emissaries from both
Vancouver and Victoria, British Co
lunbia, will attend the meeting and
make a strong bid for admission. In
this they viii probably be supported
in a haIf-hearted way by Seattle. Ia
coma and Portland. who will use them
as a leverage TO get whatever conces-
sions they want from Salt Lake and
Ogden. II is thought that Spokane,
Butte and Helena can be depended
upon to help this state out. President
Lucas is quoted as being entirely neu-
trail on the question, but those who
know the real feelings OF the presi-
dent are pretty certain that he will do
all in his power to help Salt Lake and
Ogden out.
The British Columbia towns cannot
have Sunday baseball. or at least have
never been able TO play on that day
in the past. This alone kills their
chances for admission in spite of all
that they can say or do. The Sun
day games are the biggest days by
far in all the Pacific northwest towns
and none of the magnates viii vote
for Vancouver and Victoria when IL
comes to a showdown, for this rea-
son.
On the other hand. Salt Lake and
Ogden have proven in the past that
they are good baseball towns, and Civ
ing them a franchise is not an exper-
iment. This city Will, if given good
ball, be the banner town of the league
and no one knows this better than
President Lucas Salt Lake and Og-
den would complete a league that
would not have any superior in the
country and they are so situated that
a schedule could be easily arranged.
Butte and Helena could open and
close the season here, while the other
teams are playing on the coast, and
then the two local teams could very
easily jump ont and make the circuit
with Butte and Helena.
Then when the coast teams made
the eastern trip they would be taken
care of by the four towns on this end
OF the circuit. Figure as one may, the
two local towns are so situated that
the league needs them as much as they
need a franchise. and unless some
thing Unforeseen happens at the Spo-
kane meeting, Salt Lake and Ogden
will go in the league with rush.