Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-02-20
WILLIAMS GIVEN A
GOOD HEARING.
,.,,ooaI Baseball Commission LIS
''' ,,os % Charges Against
Lucas
NE OUTLOOK IS ENCOURAGING
.,,,o to Word From Spokane
"" ,",,, aas Given Up Idea of New
Northeast League

So, clouds that have been hover
me u'' mo local baseball world LOT 30
bs O'e, hedpplng 90 dispense ana WIZ"
lons alu r,e from New York where tie
re'n' rsassb,ll commission has Deeh III
Nauoh'' Az sty Is beginning to clear
Es SSH ,be press dispatches ahhounIyu n's
up'" .o a, mere. II was not generally Known
p,,'pry, .do H. williams Of the spoNono
ihal W. ia Now York to lay the case
aDo "' n J.. before the board MT
o. uo nsd not been in the metropolis
,"'i long before he was able 10 Se ,,o, q"
,"5 ,,raglng report TO Pfesiden' N'S"''
Of tho league. .,,, ~ tlme in
,t. case before the commission,
faptb ,,lde me most u IT, JudBlnB IlUni
aHd y, U 10y lhat were heard from mem,
tAlt Williams made cle9I Caa,, 1 "a
pI@oA Mai Lucas had nsT ,pI,Fas'o' "
Eo condition of ailalIs IN we .si,n made
w. Ieornc. While the copnlsslul, Hh 'uo
iona lya.s,"n mo hrarng 1t Is now beheV-
no ItpH ne findings Will be IN FAVOR OF
% Wy, M and we will have league paIl
win protection, TOO. - Van
baIg allowing from Spokane ana Nan
LAR n g.. indicates that Lucas ~ ~
s oly,p M an idea Of organizing Ii loasu0
50 uas indications the baseball war
fIvlu "bo Pacific National league ana
s"N6ttbwpstern league headed ny W
" tncss * ended AdVicos say that Luz
~ bas given up the idea or FORMING
Zone Gat win take IN any OF me Cluea
s5sl of the mountains ne VIII Io ,lIl ~
Sgsdi no forming a league Consisting Oh
ll.s,u,,,or IA a Victoria. b. c., BelllnS-
VS., and Everett. wash The four
l.H,o sinh As more practicable one
KEN was az hrst planned by Lucas,
vticb WAS 10 consist Of spokane, Butte,
ifiena Victoria. Vancouver ana san
ioge The baseball people on the coaal
mid not see that league CONSISTING
Vvtbbo iet named cities would pay The
sS,SSes say IL would be necessary Tor MI.
,a,9s and MFR. McCloskey to coniine
homsolyes TO the coast cities or leave
I,ebaU In that section alone
Nlr Lucas decided that the formation OF
an International league consisting OF Iout
Is,ms would be "a much safer investment
han 10 engage On a war with the Pacific
National league. which was prepared 10
~ ontiaw rather than give up tho ter
fior that Is thought rightly belonged
10 IL
WILL SETTLE AM1CABLY.
Tho action Of the coast towns piactlchl-
/, leaves the Pacific National league in
,rSlsnuied control Of the territory II had
bst wear with the exception that Helena
AID Ogden have been added to inc
Naguc. ,...,
hague and the Northwestern league,
vhlch was 20 have been heard today, Will
r-0bablv be settled amiCably the new
territory on the coast going 20 Lucas and
uf territory claimed by the Pacl1o Ma
tlnal remaining as II Is.
A, FAR az the Northwestern league Ia
fotcorncd. IL would have taken o great
m,ay Of money TO build a ball park I'm
G0kane and other cities east OF tho
FOUNTAINS. as every member Of the Pa
d0c National league had already obtained
lease on tie grounds, and is In rcadi-
rcis 70 sign players. The following dis
patch was received from Vancouver yes
bfd0y.
Vancouver Under Lucas plans,
iouI team league IS now being formed,
consisting of Vancouver Belllngham,
porca and Everett, with Aberdeen as
substitute Tor Victoria N the last men
toned place can not qualify. A meeting
IS TO b. held at Seattle the last Of this
week for the purpose Of posting forfeits
ana signing contracts by delegates. All
Che teams are TO fare alike and the profits
oud losses are 10 be divided equally This
y as far as the proposition has gone at
the present time"