Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-12-14
Technical Claim of Western
Association to Territory
Must Be Removed.
REAL BALL PROMISED TULSA
Holland Would Buy Out Scott ;
Guarantees Pennant
Contender.

President T. W. Dickerson of the
Western league has felt Tulsa's base
ban pulse again. and he has pro
nounCed ii excellent.
Jack Holland, long leader in base
ball of the middleWest and possessor
of franchise which he proposes to |
plant in the most fertile spot acces-
sihle TO the Western league, also had
his finger on the artery yesterday. He
likewise expressed the greatest salts
faction.
Both men were outspoken in their
appreciation OF the baseball possibh-
tiles OF the oil metropolis and voiced
keen desire TO see Tulsa and Okla
homa city supplant Hutchinson and
Denver in the Western league next
season
Here is what must he done to put
Tulsa in the Western league:
1. The Tulsa trrritor, must he Of
ficiali, vacated by the Western as~o-
citation.
>. \ deal must he made for the
baseball interests OF !. l.. scott, who
has the right To play organized base.
ba,l in Tulsa.
). Tulsa fans must subscribe for
fi,c hundred season tickets.
Jack Holland and the Western
league will do whatever else Is neces-
sary TO giving Tulsa class \ baseball
next season-the dream OF Tulsans
ever since they secured their first
taste of the national pastime.
Visit Prolonged.
When President Dickerson arrived
in Tulsa Yesterday from oklahoma
city he expected to spend n few hours
here and then catch "A o'clock train
for the north yesterday afternoon. lie
,1Fs. a
survey of the local field and then con
tinue his round Of the other cities
which are desirous of gaining entranc,
to the Western league
Before noon the proposition had bt
come so warm that he prevailed upon
himself to postpone his departure uu.
til today. Together with lack Hol.
land. who came from Kansas city tC
meet him here he called upon Score
tary Douglas of the Chamber of Gem
merce and other Tulsa business mer
and $50 encouraging were their dis
coverieS that when they tucked thu
bed covers under their chins last nigh
at the Hotel Tulsa, they had made uI
their minds that Tulsa undoubtedll
would he i'm the Western league rae,
next summer.
Tulsa Ripe.
Unusual authority has herr veste,
iu me- stated President Diokerson Las
night "bv the action of the board q
director of the Western league, VIII,
have given me absolute power of nr
ranging for the transfer " the Den
Yer and Hutchinson franchises Yes
tcrday ! was AT oklahoma city. Nov
/. have seen Tulsa Short tho thes
visits have been, ! am convinced tha
the Western league could not do bette
than Incorporate these two flourish
ing oklahoma cities i'm its circuit
also know that neither of these tw
cities ever will huNe a better oppor
Uu,y ia get the class Of baseball the
ueser>' Furthermore II one or tw
little matters can be adjusted, | be
l,ve we will be playing bah here neN
May"
Holland seconded everything Pres
dent Dickorson had to say and de
clared that Tulsa would have pen
nant contender II he should bring hi
franchise here
Both President Dickorson aud NJ
Holland made it plain that they cam
not as intorlopers that the Wester
league had no desire to encroac
upon territory OF another league. bl
it was understood by them that oS
cept for bare technicality the tel
rtory now was open and that the pa
irons Of the two cities who for yeal
had desired Western league frar
chises, would welcome "A chance
get It.
Territory Must BE Freed.
First OF the zone or two little ma
ters" that must be adjusted befoi
the Western league can come in'
Tulsa Is the official release OF III
Tulsa territory from the Western al
sociation. Technically the Tulsa te
rtory as well as that at Oklahou
city belongs TO the western associ.
ton. Practically, however, there
no Western association For a
practical purposes tSat organi2atio
ceased to exist last Labor day. Secr'
-. tary Douglas OF the Chamber of Con
merce today will take the matter