The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-01-23

the said W. Fl. Lucas be required to
account to the Pacific National league
for all moneys received by him in his
official capacity of president, secre-
| tary and treasurer during the year
| 1904"
Yesterday the p. n. l.. directors,
after fully establishing their claim
that the league was not defunct, did
clever thing in electng a president
from Salt Lake, William d. Richel.
Rishel has been for some years
sporting editor of the Salt Lake Her.
aid He is an enthusiastic baseball
| fan, square and loyal, and there will
be no danger Of autocratic admins
| trations or crooked deals such as
characterized the Lucas reign. He
such will be welcomed by every fan
in the P. N. L. territory.
| o O o
| OF course there will be fight on.
That goes without saying. e
Lucas is now trying to organize
enough coast towns to carry Butte
along in the paper league he has and
| thus Gust that town, the only one he
has a ghost of a show in, from the
p. N. L.
| Through McCloskey and Wharton,
Lucas has a hold on Butte, as there
can be little done there without the
| street car company. The intent of
the Lucas crowd is to ruin the game
in Butte, if it is the only way to
keep Wilmot out.
That is about the only thing that
can be done in this territory and it is
likely that Lucas and McCloskey will
go up against another San Francisco
| Waterloo.
Here in Spokane Lucas is making
a play for support. He has secured
one or two of the men who last year
tried to bride John McCloskey with
an offer of $1,000 to thrown down
Williams and these men are being
used in. talk that new ball park
will be built.
Everyone knows that Spokane can
not support two teams and the men
who go in with Lucas will only go in
to lose their money--with the ex-
pectation that Lucas will be able to
deliver the coast franchise to them
next year when the new coast league
in the northwest is formed. But as
: Lucas will not be allowed a look in
for that organization his premises are
already NIL
Lucas is trying to make capital out
of the fact that he and McCloskey re-
fused thousand last year to stand
by Williams. Williams had paid his
money into the league and it doesn't
look as If a man should try to farm
his credit for refusing to do q
crooked act, which would have result
: ed in his downfall a year sooner.
1 young Jamie is the name of ar
aspiring young fighter at Springdalt
who stepped into the ring Saturday
e night to show his hackers what q
l great man he was. The boy might
have been all right but he was ,pitted
against Fred Forbes, one of Jacl
= Reilly's stable. and Forbes let Out
one early in the game which put
i'Young Jamie" into dreamland
y Jack Reilly refereed what Their,
was of the bout Forbes is to figh
= kid" Scaler at Ritzville, "Wednesday
Y night.
s o o o
i There are already two bids in fol
f the Mccarthy Reilly go as agains
t the S. A. A. c. The fight is a gooc
: one and money is freely offered OF
s the result.
e 1t may be the athletic club will
+ not sign up tonight. in which even
i a meeting of the other clubs will b,
s held tomorrow to see what can b,
: done in the way of having the fgh
e open in the opera house
: Whoever handles this go will hav,
= another good go in the matching o
= the winner against Jim Burrow
t again. WILLIE b. GOODE.
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