Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1919-02-21

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~ minor league cities which have
4 n been victlmlzed by magnet
lied" baseball Unless II comes
through with n shake-down OF IA.
600 1t IN going TO be without baseball
this season and no one knows for
how many future seasons. and for a
city which has been az good n base
ball town as ST. Joseph. this Is little
less than a civic tragedy.
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That ~ Joe may see It's franchise
vanish within the next few days Is no
fault OF It's own. Time was when II
was one OF tho best baseball towns In
the circuit II still would be under
the right conditions but II certainly
has been "A much abused town during
recent years It's fate IN just what
would have been Tulsa's fate had not
Doctor Reisling and his associates
been wise to the situation and
blocked the plot OF the same men
who have put st Joe on the hummer
when they were about to close In on
the local territory.
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Jack Holland started NJ. Joe on
It's way to baseball ruin and T.. j.
Uanlon IN putting ON the finishing
touches. II Will bc remembered by
rulsnns that until this pair had bccI,
blocked and Spencer Abbott came
I down with n legitimate proposition.
u was Jack Holland and II. j. Han.
Ion who were mancuvcring for Tulsn
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| Holland and Hanlon represent n
| type OF baseball men who rapidly
are becoming extinct In the world
1 OF minor leagues, The day OF the
baseball explolter, OF highly mag
netized" baseball is past. These
same exploi,ers so often resorted
to an appeal TO the pride OF n city
| TO keep up baseball as a civic in
stltution that the public has come
TO consider Il 80 much OF civic
matter that II no longer wants to
leave control In the hands OF indl-
viduals who are In baseball for the
dollar alone, For that reason many
n franchise recently has passed out
OF the hands OF "magnates' into
tho control OF men who are both
sportHmen and town builders
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Members OF perhaps no other
Iminor league have been hit so hard
by "magnetizcd" baseball aa tho
Western league, Sioux City was one
OF tho first To rise up and secure pos
session of its own franchise. Wher
this happened lIanlon slipped int
possession OF the franchise at 81 Joe
but his" business interests were II
floux city and In Sioux city he stayeC
while baseball at st, Joe suffered be
cause OF this long -distarce manage
ment Much the same condition OBJ
tained at Joplin until few weeks
ago. The club was owned by Jacl
Savage hut Savage spent all OF hii
time in Kansas city. Finally Joplir
business men took over his holdings
paying $1,000 for the property anc
rights"
while things uudcuiab bly look blu,
FOR ~. Joe nt the present time, 4
IN hardly probable that u is goinI
to lose out The Western league car
hardly afford To scc the franchts.
taken fvom that city. and " H. alto
gcthcr likely That u deal will bc pu
over within n few days which vii
insure franchise being operate,
there by home interests.
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! Having developed "A benefit hahi
during the war, Kenny Leonard I
continuing the good work by boxinl
, for the Inmates Of the California
, state prison, Henuic can afford 4
give away little Of his stock whe,
he can drag down 100000 fuv tau
> professional engagement.
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T Stcchcr IS said TO he able 20 rN-
crt pressure OF 900 pounds on
his opponent with the leg scissors
hold. That's nothing compared 10
the squeeze put to the money bag
y 10y laughlin's manager last Mon
day night, llc demanded. and was
accommodated, that $1,000 he put
up by Reisler before he would get
into the ring
;. Already the mask II beginning {
Is be- penetrated. II NOW develops tina
the Dempsey willard agreement doe
not provide for u decision.
q The Blue football prospects at Ne,
Q Haven are rosy red
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Battling Levlnsky is modest bo
for one who claims a title. HlC de
- mands a guarantee OF orlv $4,000 I
e 20 TO Paris and swap punches wit
10 Georges Carpenter His maoRgc
= also has sent another feeler int
: Tulsa.
I The southern INTERCOLLEGIATE
n Athletic association has decided Il
g. docs not want any blot on It's rec
= ord; therefore II hns erased nil
rcYrdS of the year 1918.