The Daily Missoulian., 1912-08-06
TREASURE STATE TAKES A SHOT
AT LUCAS AND HANDS
COOLEY A 6UNCH.
STATE CIRCUIT BOOSTED
Butte Writer Is Strong for Montana
Oreanzation---MeCaf and Walsh
Come in for Their Share Of At
tention.

John II Rartery. IN his Treasure
state. takes rap at Union league
baseball regarding some of its mani
festaiions. He pays his compliments
to President Lucas, roasts Dick Cooley
for his attempt to get thug 10 as
sault Umpire Wright. hands ex- Man
aEer MdGaffcrty of the Butte club a
few hot ones and winds up by boost.
ing for state league In Montana.
What is to come is quoted:
McCaffcrty's exercise of managerial
power consisted in hiring and firing
cnterprising young athletes guying
them when they made errors and as
suming all the credit when they played
good ball He has gotten a job as
scout for Detroit. or ut least that Is
the newspaper account Of his depar-
ture, out just how he can Judge good
players for a big league when he failed
to pick or hold available talent for
bush organization Is one Of thosc
things that no fellow can find out.
When Mccaffcrty checked his tcle-
scope for Seattle. Jess Stovall was
named manager" and Mr. Walsh, an
estimable lumber merchant who owns
a large interest in the Butte Baseball
club. took off his coat and commenced
to sit In with the players on the home
bench
As / have already said. Mr. Walsh
Is a reputable and adrot lumber mer-
chant, but if there is one thing that
the Butte team does not need II Is an
introduction of the wood industry
There Is plenty of bone and solid con-
crete III the makeup of the team TO
build with" assuming that we want tc
construct viaduct or a storm cellar
but the sooner l.umberman walsh
abandons the Visionary Illusion tha
he knows about baseball, the soone
the Butte athletes will commence IL
demonstrate that they are baseball
players and not wooden men. Mag
nate Walsh belongs exclusively in th'
box-office when he can add up tht
profits and losses without adding t(
the general confusion of running tn,
team on the playing field.
a six team Montana league with {
square and unselfish sportsman lik'
Maurice Weiss at the head Of II woult
make more and waste less money than
any organization that contemplates tn
costly jumps aud the destructive IN
fluences Of trips TO salt Lake will
creatures of the Cooley stripe in
cluded. As for Mr. Lucas, Ills posi-
ton as we all know Is an undcrstoo'
graft. lie controls the brand Of base
balls used and not a BAN can he bough
without his name stamped on til
cover and the accompanying rnyalt
which goes to him personally. In TN
sale of young players developed IN tn
Union association, no doubt frcsidcn
Lucas gets another "Cut In" and tn
net results of all this legal graf
rowdy management, costly railroa
trips and agreement breaking is ba
for baseball bad for the real fans
bad for the whole cause of clean spor
and the future OF the greatest gam
yet devised by man.
The thing to do Is 10 sail right no,
for Montana baseball league. rowdie
and merccnary officials barred, an
1913 will witness a genuine revival G
real baseball, clean of gambling, fu
of honest rivalry and with higg.
and better development ot real base
bah athletes than the state has know
In 20 years.