The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-01-17

and costly plumbers the manage
ment stood by their players and
paid up even losing money.
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There were salaries coming to
the Spokane players when Presi-
dent Williams took hold of the
team. Not a player left under his
management without turning over
a receipt in full.
Yet the only man who has been
able to finance the Spokane team
and keep it clear from debt, is to
be knitted if possible, and substi-
tuted by some creature of Lucas
| who will obey his orders and vote
to pay the Lucas salary, regardless
of whether the players are paid or
the public is given good ball.
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| But Clyde Williams is a fighter
as well as gentleman sportsman.
He has the money and the back
ing to give the measly Lucas hot
fight and he's going to do it.
doubt much if snaky chicanery and
treacherous cunning is going to
prevail against the nervy fight
which President Williams and his
associates will put up against the
Lucas gang.
Lucas originally gave it out that
he was disbanding the P. N. l.. to
get rid of Walter WilmOt and the
Butte franchise which Walter held.
That WAS a popular move in Butte
because Lucas shrewdly put for.
ward John McCloskey to stand the
brunt of it and McCloskey is still
the idol of Butte fans.
But the real object was to get up
some sort of a scheme whereby
Clyde Williams could be robbed of
his franchise and he be punished
for daring to give Spokane better
baseball by applying for a fran
chise in the coast league.
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Lucas knows that next year
there will be division of the
coast league. He knows that Spo-
kane, under Clyde Williams, would
be in that league next year in an
effort to give Spokane the best
ball possible. He knows, too, that
once there is league in here with
which he has nothing to do it will
mean his deathknell as a salaried
president.
1t is for this reason that he is
making frantic efforts to organize
a league which will cover Spokane
for two or three seasons to come
and in this manner claim Spokane
as belonging to the territory he is
seeking to control,
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The high handed work Of Lucas
| Is demonstrated when he declares
Boise out of baseball when, as a
matter of fact, the Boise directors
have never met to decide one way
or the other. Also he declares the
p. N. L. dead when no meeting of
the directors was had. 800
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Salt Lake is not with Lucas, nor
will it be if Charley Reilly has any
thing to say. Walter Wilmot holds
the Butte franchise and Boise and
Spokane are holders of P. N. l.,
franchises. How can Lucas hold a
meeting by himself and declare the
league dead?
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But this he did because he knew
those members would not vote for
him for president. He secured, by
some means, a protection" for his
new league from the national or
ganization. 1t is there Clyde Will
liams, Salt Lake and Boise must
make their fight. If the national
commission does not sustain them
against Lucas the courts will.
Lucas must go.
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Jack Reilly has been practically
matched to fight Jerry Mccarthy
before the S. A. A. c. in the new
gymnasium. 1t is a battle which
will mark a new era in the boxing
game in Spokane and ought to
firmly establish this city as cen
ter of good ones.
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Former Manager ID. E. Dugdale
and Matt Stanley are trying to
break into the saloon business in
Seattle. They have applied for a
license under the name of Dugdale
G Stanley, but are into hot fight