Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-02-02
LUCAS & NJ CLOSKEY
TRIED To BUTT IN
On Their Recent Visit Here They
Did Not Dictate at
All.
WERE GIVEN COLO COMFORT.
And Then Renewed the Talk About
Organizing Another League There
viii BE- Baseball Here.

"Nover mind what Lucas or McCloskey
or anybody else has to say about tho
baseball situation here, let me tell you
that we are going TO have baseball. and
good ball at that II will be the Pacific
National league too
Thus spoke a prominent director Of the
Salt Lake Club this morning TO tho
News Then he continued;
This talk about Lucas ana McCloskey
organizing another league, am elght.club
circuit, Is al hot air Their league viii
be on paper. The people up north are on
to them and know what they did to dis
rupt the =. n. l..
"DO you know what they wanted when
they were down herc2 Well will tell
you They wanted to get back In the
league, but, OF course. Lucas wanted to
be president But # was too late. lie got
cold comfort for his pains, and we will
snow MIN that we can nave baseball with
out his assistance"
Since Lucas and McCloskcy left Salt
Lake they have kept up the talk about tho
new league, rival leagues, and outlaw
feagues. AT first they we're given consld-
cradle attention IN Helena and Butte and
also IN Boise But the press up north
sees things In little different light now
The following from tho Anaconda
standard is highly interesting and time.
ly;, 49,.
ing mp IN the Pacific National league
towns, there seems 10 be not q doubt
There IL a rift I'm the black clouds Of
war that hung over Butte such a short
time ago, The conflict then promised
10 wax warm, but now there is appar-
entity only one side TO the controversy
EX-President W. n. Lucas has appar-
ehtly by his long silence dropped out ot
the game, or 1t may be he Is lying low
and terrifying his position There are
good reasons, judging from the develop
meuts Of the last week, TO believe that ne
has not as tenable position as he ana
John j, McCloskey would have the fans
sanction OF Secretary Farrell and the Ma
uonal association OF professional base
ball leagues for his proposed northwest
ern league, but where are his cities? He
may have Vancouver and Victoria -. c..
and Bellingham, Wash, but his attempts
10 invade spokane Salt lake and Butte
have proved fruitless.
That he utterly failed to get any sup
port In these last named places was evi-
dent from his refusal to see interview
ers on his tour through Butte to Salt
Lake and back last week lie was twice
In Butte, but kept the fast so quiet and
got out SO quickly that j. was not known
until he had gone, In Salt Lake he had II
understood at the hotel where he stop
ped that newspaper men were not TO be
admitted 10 his room. When McCloskey
was seen down there he had little to say
nor has no made any satisfactory state
ments since his return to Butte. Very
evidently Lucas position is weakening
and no one knows II 50 well as he him.
self and McCloskey who has promised
10 stand by him through thick and thin
The Salt Lake magnates, Rogers,
Shepard and Geoghegan, are IN full SYM
pathy with the old league and control
the situation. Butte, McCloskey says, is
e.. l.,a .l,aN1 t.fN 4
liams holds the trump cards In Spokane.
All these are lighting Lucas and his pro-
lect for a new league. They are for the
Pacific National league. and feel assured
II will receive recognition from the Ma
tional association when the case is pre-
sented In It's true light. Already Secre-
tary Farrell has notified the Pacific Ma
tional league directors that the assOcia-
ton would give the case Its careful con-
siderauon. II justice Ia done the old
league viii naturally receive the protec-
ton for which II has paid and the fran
chise In Butte spokane, Salt Lake and
Boise Will hold, while the contracts with
players are honored, But whether this
Is the result or not, there is little doubt
the cities mentioned will have baseball
any way and under the direction Of the
same board that now seems to control
the situation"
That Lucas and McCloskey are aware
Of the fact that the Pacific National
league IL not dead, Is evident by their
frantc eHOrts 10 cause trouble IN the or
ganizatiOn now.
After failing to get in Butte and secure
the franchise held by Walter Wilmot,
they turned their attention to Spokane,
and II is alleged try to buy on Williams
An agent Of Lucas and McCloskey offered
Mr., Williams $500 to withdraw, but the
latter spurned the offer and Is standing
pat. Williams Is quoted as saying:
~ told the representative that under
no Consideration would I sell out TO Lu.
cas- or McCloskey All other teams IN
the league have stood by Spokane and
efforts to disrupt the league have failed
This will be- the only league I'm Spokane
recognized by the national commission. !
presume there will be an outlaw league.
we have placed papers In the hands
~ the sheriff to get the leagues books
from Lucas, but the officer has as yet
been unable TO do so, Lucas says Tho
books are not In his possession. ! know
that the book must account for 81 9O7 50,
and although a great deal has been taken
out OF that for expenses / stll believe
there is something coming TO the league.
intend the books shall be turned over 10
me, notwithstanding Lucas statement
that they are useless