The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-09
FIGHT NOW ON
FOR SPOKANE
Lucas and Williams Both Claim
Washington City.
HOGG DOES GREAT WORK
LEADING AMERICAN LEAGUE I'm
GAMES WON AND LOST.

For a town that has not the least sem
blance Of 4 ball team, there is consider
able doing I'm baseball circles UP in Spo-
kane IL appears that when the P. y.
league breathed its last il did not Kill
the game in the Washington city by a
long ways. and IL reports are true Spo-
kane rs yet to have a baseball team, and
maybe two of them
Reports from there say W. H. Lucas is
now on the ground and is trying 10 do
everything in his power TO get the Beiling-
nam franchise transferred to Spokane.
wong with Belllngham il is intended TO
transfer the Victoria team to Butte and
make up a league for the rest of the sea-
sou with Vancouver. Everett, Spokane
and Butte as the circuit. The Northwest
ern iedgue-the Lucas ieague--is in pretty
bad circumstances at the present time.
and il is claimed this change must be
MADE or il is all off with that league
BEFORE Lucas can carry out his plan 1t
against him in Spokane. This he is now
trying to do President 9. H. Williams
carried out, means death to the Lucas
plan end also the Northwestern league.
Williams IS now in Tacoma, where ne is
Trying 70 make a deal with Mike Fisher
TO transfer the Tacoma team TO Spokane.
Tacoma is weak town in the coast
league. and has always been, and VII
llams hopes to get Fisher to move to
Spokane. This would be the far better
plan for the Spokane fans as il would
give them a much better league than the
N0rthWestern- II is the old fight between
Williams md Lucas, and it is hard to
N.
The amateur baseball teams of Utah
and southwestern Idaho are hitting a
pretty fast pace at the present time, and
When the time comes for final settlement
II IS likely there Will be number OF base
Dali directors who viii find that they
are paying pretty dearly for the sport
instead of playing amateur players and
ietting each town fight it out along these
lines. several small towns are importing
men who cannot be obtained for anything
snort of good salary. with the result
mat some half a dozen small towns are
This it will be impossible to do from the
attendance which means there will be a
ueIlclt that somebody will have to stand
AS IN everything else, 1T is possible TO
oVerdo the thing, and from the class OF
men now playing amateur baseball in
TINS part OF the country, it looks as if
many OF the towns have a bigger prOpo-
sition on their hands than they can han
ole While ii viii give the public good
baseball for the time being, the reaction
IS pound TO come. and when it does il
MI De harmful to the national game.
Next season, when some enthusiastic fan
starts out TO raise money for a ball team.
ne will meet with little success from those
viii be back to the town lot basebai IN
again. Nearly all of the surrounding
t Owns can support amateur ball; but when
Ihey Lry 10 put teams in the field strong
enough for a minor league il is bound to
result disastrously for the game in time.
me Sporting Life. of PHILADELPHIA
ewes the pitching records of the teams
or the American league up to and includ-
Willie -HogE the leading pitcher of me
Pacific National league last year. and
generally recognized as the most brilliant
%oungster who ever wore q, Spokane uni
form, 10 be the leading pitcher on the
New York American league pitching
staff.
Hogg has officiated in the box for
Clark Griffith's team IL ten con1pIetc
games ard has won Just half Of them
aithough his team to June . had won
less than 40 per cent of its games. The
1lgures gave Walter Clar son. the Har-
ward university star. an average of $50
In but four games. but Ciarkson is not
at present working for Griffith. having
been farmed out to Jersey City. Al Ortiz
has beef worked the hardest OF any OF
Grffth's twirlers. but HOgE is next haV-
ing pitched one more game than tho
mighty Chesbro and two more than big
Jack Powell
The New York correspondent in tho
Sporting Life has this 10 say OF HnEg' :
work:
Billy HOgg continues to show great
promise ard only his wildnesS mars his
work. He held Collins champions down
10 two hits in seven innings in Boston
AID the only runs scored were due to
Wild throws By Chase and Dougherty.
Old Cy Young shut out the locals. so
Hogg work WAS wasted