The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-03-01
COAST HAD
OUTLAW BALL ONCE
"Aneel" of Portland Club
Recalls the Turbulent Days
of 1902.

while Portland generally seem e.r
while .,,th - tbe Federals, though iar
.anorea - from the scat OF war, 1nsre
us is this citv a certain group OF pro,n-
-. -, - BUSINESS men who have wnoie
,ome dislike for the feaeia po..1snd
ard all il stands for, says Inc ~ shn,,t
o,eoonian. That feeling CONES comes Tout Tout.
tbrp,,oh active association wat watrod hI1t
isw, baseball, and 1t IS NOV eaa nao tSa new
sympathy, which they pear IVA
organization: .,o hacked the
MaN taam of 1909, which was :, =
aenhar of the Pacific Coast r1 1u.ia aua ~ 70
,nemoei % inst one Of them. There arc
league :. r,ore who share his spirit. III
90 :. fn,apine being director on .a a I'D
vhen vou went to bed az biga1'i a 'iiound
wo,a iIp the next morning ahu That
that half your club was ;nuterestine
was 9aSc a5ces w wbich we had in keeping
o. poprtiand on the baseball map pe;oT n
fon5 - cold Mr. Fleischner with sls ~
as he thought of the strenuous ueS
twelve years ego.
Strife Is Recalled.
u1t was fight and keep on f!gaa,ns garass
II started when Portland WltnnisN lst
from the original Paclflc Noi'n"o''
ern league, headed by Lucas. r;no;nal
{" Hank Harris, then sne taa1n p, had
Imm. Iner nm two or three times tine year
before in an attempt to reach an .ho W.,
gers+a,5ing between Portland ana .ne
Taiiforn;a - state league, then the ois
| thing on the south coast. s ,bo
nU9n 1902 Portland seeded from IN, t1H
LEAGUE, and tried to take seattle VIZ ~
| II lack Marshall, then seere.ai -
the Portland club, was sent noi,h b;p,
| see Dugdale and attempt TO nav Sortb. %
change his allegiance from 'ne -'0''n
| west to the California. :, =
G.Duadale could not see enough In ~ .
and we went over to the SaHiSInsat nt
| State and made the Paelflc ooas'
! ioaon,e Imcas and his crowd were I'M
y, n,eS;atclv up in arms. The PaeiIic
1 Coast league put team In Sea.tie
and Imcas came all the way down Ihs
coast ,.,.o. but the
startling times which followed ana lhe
money we kept sinking in that team
and league will never be forgotten, ano
make tbe base for our aversion 70 any
thing which sounds like 'outlaW base
ball.
Success Means End of War.
"Of course if the Federal league II
a success it will probably pecome,
mart of organized baseball. II 1t dle
not. there would be nothing but wal
and in the end bring the downfall o.
the game, D.
be well fortified with its contracts, tnt
Portland team of the outlaw league
| of the Coast was not so successful. one
| day Portland had team and the mex
day half of the men were gone TO an
other cline.
Time and time again, Portland wouie
advance the transportation TO soms
PLAYER back east He usually had
| family, and transportation for all hat
| to be forthcoming. When he got ou
here, be would Just as often as no,
| mmp over to some of the. Northwes
teams of organized baseball. atte'
playing one game.
The organized league immediately
established teams In Portland, SaI
| Francisco and Los Angeles. Thai
killed the game for both. The long hau
from Los Angeles to Butte was more
than the Northwest league could stand
and it soon went out of business as IA
as opposition to the Pacific was con
| cerned.
Portland kept on losing money, anc
| when it did start to make money Mr
| Fleischner got out. He was the San
gels that put Portland on the baseball
| man