Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-08-12
FUNNY STORY
FROM Los ANGELES
Says That Pacific Coast League
Wilh Absorb the Pacific
National
STRANGE THINGS MAY HAPPEN.
Statement That Spokane Wants to Get
Into the League is Repeated
We Are Left Out.

News readers Of this page win re-
call that several weeks ago we pub
lished. stories from northern papers 70
the effect that Williams OF the Spokane
club was trying to get into the Pacific
Coast league, and desert the Pacific
National organization, OF which Salt
Lake Is member
The statement was hotly denied by
the gentleman in question Next. Dame
kumor had it that the Boise club was
In the throes Of dissolution, and the
death Of the league was only question
Of hours-to hear the gossips tell il. 1t
was said that the McCloskeyites would
not come here for the last series with
salt Lake. But they came and did fair
~ we'll McCloskey declared that the
team would stick as long as there was
any team to play with. And they are
sticking.
The next terrible tale was that Salt
Lake was about to disband, and would
never leave Salt Lake for the present
series with Butte, But the team did
leave, and from all accounts is doing
right well at Smoketown. Now we hear
that the Butte team is about TO perish
But the best piece Of fiction comes
from Los Angeles published in the
Times Of that city II is 10 the effect
that the Pacific National leagues death
Is only a matter of hours and that
when IT happens, the coast people Will
have everything 10 themselves; that
Spokane will probably be taken in The
story Is published herewith for what It
is worth:
Stranger things have happened in
sports than one baseball league alb
sorblng another. but 1t begins to look
now as If this might be possible as a
result of conditions I'm the northwest
The finish Of the Pacific National league
Is about due, and any day may see the
end, and when this comes II Will mean
the control OF the entire coast by the
Pacific coast league.
Just how fast the northerners are on
the run may be imagined from the
fact that the Spokane banker who Is
the good angel for the Spokane team,
was in San Francisco last week trying
10 make a decker with some Of the
Pacific Coast magnates on a scheme
whereby Spokane could be taken into
the coast league next year. This Spo-
kane angel" practically admitted that
the Pacific National was a failure and
that the Spokane team was the only
one that had made any money above
expenses.
This northern emlssary was given
little encouragement by President Bert
and Harris and Ewing, because Spo-
kane could not be taken in unless some
other city i'm the same territory also
came in, to make an even number OF
clubs
ar Spokane should be admitted a
good California city might be found
In stockton which is In the central
mart of the state, close 20 san Francis
co, and was once a fine ball town in
the state league some years ago, when
Phil Knell and Jim Mcdonald were
stars. IT would be a halfway break
IN the long jump from here TO Seattle
or Tacoma. and as a winter town would
do away with the necessity OF playing
games ia Fresno.
Manager Morley of the local team
stated yesterday that there had been
some talk when he was in san Fran
cisco last week about taking In spokane
next year, but the discussion had not
led to anything denite. In all proba'
biity some such action viii be taken
for the northern circuit, as arranged AT
present, Is not entirely satisfactory ana
an effort will be made to patch II up
next year. for the coast League mag
mates wiz not give up the territory
they have not IN Seattle, Portland ana
Tacoma.