Arizona republican., 1911-09-20
BALL FANS GALLERY
 OF NOTABlES
Copyright 1911 by w w. Aulick)
 Ne. 73. HENRY V. LUCAS, The Sugar Bowl.

! Every now and then there comes a
 tide in the affairs of baseball which, taken at it's flood. leads to temporary | fortune. Most competition is this way. Always it doesn't last Before Keith & Proctor got together-when they were fighting for the star acts-vaude- vile players reaped the reward. When | the consolidation came the cuts came
 in the salaries. Tom Powers. who
 makes pictures, got rich while two
 rival newspaper publishers fought for his services After a while they
 stopped fighting And so in baseball. Young Harry VI Lucas. a St Louis millionaire. started to boost salaries nearly thirty years ago-and stood
 the gaff for a year. Ask any baseball
 boy with a memory what man was
 bigger than Washington, and hell tell
 you St. Henry, meaning Lucas.
 The players of the day complained
 of i'll treatment poor wage and lack of depreciation. Poor fellows" said
 good Master Lucas, my heart goes
 out to you. How would you like double salaries?' Fine! And no
 onerous rules and regulations?' Greas only We don't make you on onerous
 thing: what does it mean? And your own playing schedule. so that if you've a hankering to play in one city no flint-hearted manager shall sell ycu off to another" Immense. Very good. my nObles. let's form league of our own" Which was done. MT Lucas. out of
 the loving kindness of an exceptional disposition and private treasury that would make John D. look like a mendicant, established what was termed the Union association. Oh, to
 be sure, there were associates. but Lucas was the parent of the enter prise. He gathered together choice
 collection of players, started clubs in
 dozen or SO cities. and let the boys write their own tickets. You can figure for yourself how long a life
 was coming to an organization of this sort But the players referred to
 him openly as the Napoleon of base ball, and he was happy. When he wasn't around. in hearing. they called him the Sugar Bowl
 Anyway, Lucas was game. He got
 things moving in many localities. He
 had his roster of players such as Fred Dunlay. Joe Quinn. Tim Murnane. Tom Pratt. Mike Scanlon, Dave Rowe. Dan OLeary. George Schaefer, and that sort. Class. eh? And among the clubs which stuck around till the windup cities such as St. Louis. Gin cinnati, Baltimore. Boston and Pitts
 burg were represented. There was big splashing in the baseball pool
 for a time. but you know how it is " hen you throw a stone into the pond. its bound to sink, no matter how many nipples it makes. and the rip pies die away, too. in short order. So it was with the Union associa- ton. A year was enough.
 Lucas couldn't make the venture stand up. He lost a huge wad of
 money, but he cared nothing about that. He lost the battle on the face Of things, but he accomplished some thing for he taught owners the les son of greater consideration for the lplayers who made profits possible. And SD his fight wasn't altogether in vain And while it lasted it was
 great sport-for the players. And the
 hired men swore by him. Even to
 this day, youll find some old timers
 who'll tell you a king of England
 was named after Lucas of St. Louis,
 better called. indeed. Henry V.