East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-08-22
WILL NORTH YAKIMA
JOIN TR| LEAGUE

North Yakima, Wash. Aug. 22,-
The Tri-State Baseball league. COM
posed of Boise, Idaho; La Grande
and Pendleton, Oregon. and Walla !
Walla, Washington, Us about to bring
It's season To a close Already steps |
are being taken for "A reorganization
of the league for next year. The man
ayers all around the circuit seem to
be very anxious to have North Yaki- |
ma join them the coming season.
Bearing upon the subject the fol- |
lowing telegram from Wala Walla is |
of interest to local baseball people,
So successful has been the first !
season of baseball in the western Tri- |
state league that it is q certainty the |
circuit will be extended next season
to include six towns and possibly |
eight, according to August Bade, who
has been all over the circuit several
times and has talked with all the fans
in the four cities now interested.
North Yakima would have been in
the league this season if the PROPOSE
ton had been understood and the
commercial club there is going to help
back the game next season. Hunky
Shaw will be the playing manager,
If it can be arranged with Seattle. If
it had not been for the balk in North
Yakima plans last spring the league
would have started out as a siX-club
| circuit, with Baker Ore, the other
| point. Baker is strong to enter next
! year and has one of the essential
] in, h, oil, l,,ll
| park.
Want salt Lake and Ogden.
Down around Boise they are hot
| for extending the circuit to include
! Salt Lake and ogden, and there are
a good many fans right in Walla
| Walla who would like to see that
done. 1t seems salt Lake isn't salts
| fled with the Union association and
everything points to an Inter Noun
| tain league practically within the
| state of Montana for next season,
which leaves Salt Lake, one of the
best ball towns in the west, without
any league affiliations. 1t would be
a great circuit. with Salt Lake at one
end, Spokane at the other and Walla
! Walla and Boise as the principal in
termediate points. Ogden is a good
ball town, too, of about 10000 peo-
PIE, and it might come into the cir
cult.
There will not be any trouble about
getting into Spokane. Cohn is favor
able to the scheme to have the Tri-
state play in Spokane when the
Northwestern is away, thus giving
that city continuous ball. Although
admitting that not a club in the
league will this season put by a nest
egg, Bade said that the ball parks
built represent solid assets and that
no club has really lost anything, in
asmuch as every one is better pre-
pared to go into the game next year.
Walla Walla wifi probably have
several good men to sell, which will
go far toward paying for the park
and putting the club on easy street,
he said. Harmon will go to Spo-
kane, Johnson to Vancouver, Pitcher
Kelly has also improved wonderfully
this season and Bade confidently de-
clared that Kelly could go into the
Northwestern league now and win S
per cent of his games.
Gives COhn Credit.
h Bade freely comedies that the Spo-
I kane magnate is entitled to great
. credit for the help he has given Wal
! la Walla by sending down all his
. spare first-class material, which is
responsible for keeping the Bears in
the lead most of the season.
A Pendleton, with Robinson, a crack
: second baseman, to turn over if one
of the big leagues wants him, alsC
q has a chance to make little on sales
, Mays, who has been pitching fol
! Boise, is also said to be a possibilit,
for faster company next season. La
Grande has not developed any grea
. pitchers, but Futrelle, a hard. .hittnL
o third baseman, looks like a goOc
g prospect.