The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-22
PREP AIRING FOR
LEAGUE NEE TING
Five Cities Are Now Assured Of
Bcrths in New Union
Association.
THREE TOWNS SEEKING
SIXTH PLACE IN LEAGUE
Tom Kelly VIII Probably Take
Over Franchise for Ogden
Baseball Club.

ARRANGEMENTS arc being made for the
compile ton of the organization oil inc
Union Baseball association, which VIII
provide Salt Lake and other intcrmoun-
tain cities with bi; league baseball next
summer, Franchises have been awarocd
in four OF the six cities To comprise lle
league: Ogden has a cipch on the MN
franchise. and for tho remaining iran
chiSc there is lively scrap on between
Twin Falls. Missoua and Helena.
The final settlement OF the COMPOSE
lion OF the league will he settled at INC
first annual meeting of the association m
which will bc held In Butte about DC
ccjnbcr |. Al this meeting salt Lake
Ogden Twin Falls. Boise, Bntte. Great
Falls llclcu, aud Missoula will be rep
will he chosen tu comprise the league
Salt Lake. Butte, Great Falls ana BoE'e
aic already cared for in the organiZa-
1ion and the indications are strong That
The other two clubs win be located ut
Twin Falls and Ogden. leaving Helena
and N1isSoulu out al the race
Membership Is Granted.
Although no formal meeting Of the
league has been held as yci, w. H.
Lucas. for years The president of tne
Northwestern league, has been informally
decided upon 10y the promoters OF the
league AS tho president of the ncN as
sociation. He represented intormaly NE
new league al tlc annual meeting ui
Baseball Leagues in Chicago few days
ago. The convention gave Nh Lucas
protection Oh tho territory involved III
the organization OF the new league ana
awarded him IL scat in the convention.
The Union Baseball association was ior-
mally admitted 10 membership In the
national association as class league.
Mr Lucas leaves Chicago for Butte TO-
day 10 be there for The first meeting
nf The new league AT this meeting the
membership In The league will be decided
7lpon OFFICERS will nc selected and IL
committee appointed 10 draw up a
The headquarters of tho new league
will he in Salt Lake. OFFICES Tor thc
in the Newhouso building. l.. y. Thicl.
owner of the Salt Lake franchise. has
commenced work ON the new baseball
park al Ninth South and state streets
and viii have it completed long before
1hc season begins Cliff Blackcnship'
mauaIcr and catcher for the Sal, Lakc
team, has already signed several coast
stars for Salt Lakes Team. Salt Lake
has started carly and from the prcscut
indications should have pcnnant-win-
ming team
nf tho Milwaukee team Of tho American
association. will manage the Butte icam
oC tho league. He has secured GOV
crai former big league STARS and all Butte
vs. behind him i'm his efforts TO land tho
ianuanl. Billy Neal. formerly scout
for the Philadelphia club has taken the
Great Falls franchise Barney Dreyfuss
is behind him, and the prospective Fi-
rates viii bc' given a try-ont with Great
Falls. Jack Cody, who has the Boise
franchise, is negotiating with Calgary
far the release of Hugh kellackcy In or
d"r to set pim 10 manage the Eoiso
tenn.
Kelly Arrives.
Tom Kelly, WHO starred in baseball in
Salt Lake and other western cities half
dozen years ago. rcachod hero Monday
from San Francisco. He is eager for Il
Ira'lchisc in the now league and Nil
Kelly will so 10 Ogden Today In COM
pauy with Mr.. Thicl- To look over the
situation. Later they viii go 10 Twin
Balls Hoi.e and Butte. ront"rrins with
q The club owpcrS OF. those cities
Kelly is "A baseball man Of no mean
ability. He Began his professional
rccr With Spokane IL 1901 as pitcher
and outflelder and finished the season
with seattle. Nineteen three found him
with Butte and during the sycar 1904
he pitched and played cenier Beid for
Salt Lake City. He wss in the Call
had team In the Oregon Stale league in
1907 and 1903. Last Year he managed
The ChchnIs team Of the Washington
State league and was uosed out for the
lrcIN5ut by but ono game.
ltc is q brother OF the famous king
Kelly. isst year with Dubuque. He has
coached some Of the best college baseball
teams In the west and has brought out
brought out Gardner, who haa been sold
tn Bob Brown To Pttsburg and Coleman
tic. star ~Hh pi,tsburs. Frcinc. with
crs who were taught baseball by "Fsthnr
Tom. II WAS willie coaching the teams
OF Santa Clara college and tho Univcr-
sity of Oregon that hc made his greatest
hii and also found some Of the men he
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