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Show LUCAS' SUCCESSOR NOT MAKING GOOD SOME BOOST -FOR LEADER tf nil i on (By J. N. Carver In the Spokane Spokesman-Review.) When . th Korth western toago director di-rector last fall decided to dispense wltt th Mrrtoas of W, H. Locea they explained that they wet tired of th domination, of th nmplrea, and th oonal stent and anfllnohlng support ampins always got from Mr. Local in opposition to th personal Interests of wh c Northwogtarn leago magnate mag-nate er player happened to b hart. They wr th toen wh wer petting ap thalr good, hard sola for th anpport anp-port of th teaga and they wer th one wh ahould dictate th management manage-ment of lis affairs. Was aa ampin to b rated aa above their personal la-terests? la-terests? Hah I They said they war tired of hiring a behemoth ampin and s pigmy ball player. They insisted that th ampin am-pin wer taking th life out of the gam by not allowing s little kicking and aenpping on the part of the players. They blamed President Lucas' ctar umpire system for the failure of Portlaad fana to patronise Northwestern North-western league garnet of 10 in the rose etty. . . ' Ralph Frary. now a National league umpire, exemplifying on of the most absolute1 and fearless of President Loess' field lieutenant, waa also dispensed dis-pensed with at th demand of certain cer-tain magnate because he lived ia Spokane, Spo-kane, the deadly rival of th magnate' mag-nate' team. Very fine. A has umpire! Vive le player! Viva U magnate I Now we shal. have soma real baseball. Now we shall hava Bom life In tbe garrvca, Victoria riasco Egtrlbatlon. But, oh. what a headache nowt Friday's Fri-day's fiasco at Victoria waa only tha fourth Incident of th eeaaon where play-era, play-era, permitted to take undue liberties with umpirlcal rulings, mad a fare of tha greatest gam th sun ever shone on. loot peraonal friends by th -or for th league's executive depvrttrvenl, di- Rusted fans In a new tow a where the tagu was trying to butld up a c Hen tele, and Involved th president wh la no more a president than tha smallest salaried sala-ried player In tho laagu In ooo mors nasty, 1)1 smelling squabble. Th dlrctors will get together and decide what ia th eaaiest way out of tha mess, and tall the dear, harmless president what to do, and. after making him th "goat, will themselves go hack to their several homes, try to make feaa-ible feaa-ible excusea and kick about tho Btlm patronage. , liCnaU'i sUU ft Faro. j Th ooneluaion that th North wee tern magnates hava mad a roaring fare of I their administration of th 111 league affairs ia as plain aa mud. Paaebatl can't he run this way. It len't In the cards ans never was. ' Th Northwestern league needs Lucas, or a map of his typo, and needs soma mora FYs rye. Maybe If Llnd-say Llnd-say I let aJone, ho will b all right, but the fact also remains con dual ve that Lindsay hasn't shown tho right to make hlmeeir hoa whether tha magna tea want him or no. Ban Johnson Is as mighty a csar In his domain as ever was any Russian Rus-sian ruler, but he haa the finest, beat sys-tematlsed, sys-tematlsed, smoothes, running baseball league In organised nasebair and his towns are pulling enormous erowds. Here, gentlemen, is one answer to your tm plaint of slim patronage, and pmba-ly pmba-ly as eomphatie aa any other answer from th fana. Tour games lyour games, If you ploaee, you made em hav been slower and longer drawn gut than In th ten years' history of (he leaguo: there haa been mora rowdyism, mora dirty playing', mor senseless wrangling wran-gling than aver before. The Northwestern Northwest-ern league patrons don't ltks It. Aek them tf they do. They may pot particularly particu-larly and personally want William H. Lures, hut they want tho Isagua run Uk h ran It. Public Ooafldonoa Wanlaf. CandldtT. gentleman, the . Northwestern league patrons are losing con ride no In your administration. Hav a car, lest they loaa confidence In you, which Is a calsmlty Infinitely greater to be feared- Of course, this ts offered aa merely the personal opinion of the writer. It goes st the risk of being called "knocker and disloyal to the Interests of th leaguo, to which th writer believes he had been as keenlv loyal aa any .newspaper man on th circuit. It Is not said In sny spirit of disloyalty. Th eeaaon la young and there la time to rectify th tntstaa If he be right In assuming there haa bean a ml etake made. Jos Conn ts as grand a fellow parson-ally parson-ally as ths Northwestern leagu ever had on Its board of directors ana, considered all around, qulta the heat sportsman that ever had anything to do with the league. He Is many times a batter sportsman than he la given credit for heing. and. unlaaa ths writer Is a mile eft, will one day be on of tha moet popular m agnates w hava ever had. when the people know him better He can be trusted to do the right thing In tha broader Interests of the league In th long run. But, Joev. old hov, is down with th bunch tn this th biggest mistake the leagu over mad, and ha ought to realise it. |