The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-07
LUCAS HANDS
TACOMA ALEMON
Shredder Sets Up Howl Be-
cause He Is FIim-FIammed
Out of His Franchise.

The Tacoma News is out with a hard
rap at President Lucas because the lat
ter transferred the Tacoma franchise to
BellIngham, Here is what the News says:
A fat, juicy, sour, ugly lemon.
This was the Easter gift that Lucas
and Dugdale handed George VI. Shredder
yesterday by transferring the franchise
of the Tigers to Bellingham. 1t was
raw deal and one that fans will remem--
Der. 1t was such that the death knell
OF Lucas in northwest baseball. so far as
Tacoma is concerned. was sounded.
Lucas and DUgdale had the whole
matter framed up months ago and they
accomplished their purpose-framing
deal whereby Seattle will get continuous
baseball the coming season. Dug is a stu
dent of Henry Harris. the representa- tive
plenipotentiary and mouthpiece extraordi-
nary of the Pacific Coast league, and he
learned his tricks of grab from his San
Francisco chief With the Mort hwestern
league as now constituted with Belling-
ham as the sixth city, Dug will get base
ball for Seattle when he is from home
and VIII rake in 30 per cent of the re-
ceipts and allow those furnishing the en-
tertainment to split up the balance after
me amount that is TO go to the league to
help pay Lucas several thousand has
been deducted. Pretty wise deal, don't
YOU think?
Northwestern League Wobbly.
without Tacoma in the circuit. it is
dollars to slOt-machine slugs that the
Northwestern league will prove wobbly
before the season has been on many
weeks vancouver is an uncertain base
bail proposition and Bellingham will
draw on an average of 1O0 fans a day and
some l.JO0 on Sundays. This will never
pay the expenses and salaries of two
teams. Aberdeen is only good because
of the fact that it guarantees visiting
teams at least $500 a week Butte is I'm
the throes of a strike from which the city
will not recover for months and another
setback is that Russ Hall will not have
twenty-five or thirty influential business
men back of the team, as was the case
last year
Spokane, with Quirn at the managerial
helm, may make some money, but the
team already signed does not give
promise Of brilliant work. and the fans
viii soon give the organization the cold
shoulder unless it is a winner. As far as
Dugdale is concerned-hush, keep it dark
he has signed a team which may have
suIflclent strength to finish out the sea-
son. The personnel is the funniest that
could have been expected and does not
appear even good enough for a Roasted
Peanut league.
Hard Blow to Shredder.
The turn-down was hard blow to Mr..
Shredder in that it taught him of the nm
gTatefulness of the powers that be. When
Mr.. Shredder notified Lucas last week
that the deal was off and he could not put
IN team, Lucas tried to hand the eIe-
plant to another business man. but the
latter gave it up in distress in a few
hours. Lucas then begged Mr.. Shredder
TO take hold and see what he could do.
He was promised all the time he would
require to shape matters up. Late yes
terday afternoon he managed to close a
deal for an option on five acres three
blocks from the terminal of the new Felt
line but two hours before Bellingham had
been presented with the franchise
Lucas UnaccountabIe Haste.
Prominent baseball enthusiasts are at
loss to account for Lucas hurried action
and the fact that he did not consult Mr..
Shredder just prior to making the trans
fer. 1t is argued that such a drastic
measure as the transferring of a fran
Chise cannot be taken without the league
meeting in body so as to give the par
ties affected a fair shake of the dice in
explaining where they are at But it's
Lucas way, and his ways are those of
the Cupid one.
Fans in Tacoma were inclined to smile
when it was stated that Judge McCredie
if he did enter baseball with the North
western, would have nothing to do with
Lucas. Was the judge right? He's a
Jurist and he certainly was wise.
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