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Show BASEBALL IN OF ALL SORTS ZIOWITORS Minor League Magnates on Way to San Francisco , Pay Respects to Salt Lake. Salt Lake was full to the brim of baseball folks yesterday. There iv-ere more than a hundred in town. They were at all sorts, from majors to bush-ers. bush-ers. There -were about thirty members in the minor league moguls' party, which is on the way to San Francisco to attend at-tend the meeting of the National Association Asso-ciation of Professional Baseball clubs, which begins Tuesday. This party is traveling in two special cars and is being escorted by Norris L. (Tip) O'Neill, who says he is president of the Western league and has the documents docu-ments to prove it, in spite of persistent rumors to the contrary. Magnates Amazed. The minor league magnates opened their oves wide and their ears wider "ur" "-! "V..M ,,.ou ii.jvi...-J in Salt Lako in a baseball way last summer. Salt Lake, they admitted, was just about the only ball club they had heard of in recent years that paid a dividend, divi-dend, and let the people know about it. Also thev were astonished at the tales of crowds that filled the big stands to overflowing every Sunday and sometimes on Saturday. Moreover, they hail never believed that Salt Lake had" a brand of weather that permitted a schedule to start in Iarch and finish in the latter part of October and play every game called for on that schedule. Indeed, it was a revelation to those magnates who have been struggling all summer long to make both ends meet only to wind up the season with the ends' still far apart. Upon their arrival, the minor leaguers were taken on a sight-seeing trip about town. Then they went to the ball game at Majestic park, and after dinner they continued on their way Californiaward. Says Feds Are Doomed. Ed G. Barrow, president of the International Inter-national league, whose circuit has been hit harder thtan any other by the federal fed-eral league, believes that the Feds will soon pass away. ('I think some of the monrved men in the Federal will buv into the "National league, and that would end it. It is a certainty, so far as I can see, that the Federals will never be absorbed bv or- The Federals have dono more to the International than anv other organization. organiza-tion. They have put clubs into three, of the cities in which Barrow's machine operated Baltimore, Newark and Jersey City. Trades at Meeting. The annual meeting of the minor league magnates is the occasion for a lot of trading of ball players. It is the occasion, too, for talking economy. Every league president will tell the other league presidents how it is. Thev can't stand the expense. It will he ruinous, if they continue as thev have, been going, etc., etc., an, I in the end they all go home ami begin to get as good a lot of hall clubs for next vear as they had before, and then some! That the minors have been hard hit during the season there can he no doubt. About forty-fivp minor leasrues stnrled the season and oulv twenty-two of them ended it. That, at least, is evidence that all is, not gold that glitters among the minor leaguers;. The principal business of the meeting meet-ing at San Francisco, according tn J. H. Farrcll, who is the National association asso-ciation secretary and treasurer, will he the election of a national hoard. M. II. Sexton of Rock Island is the president of the association now, hut he has announced an-nounced his intention of retiring from baseball. ''He may announce that." smiled Mr. Farroll, ''but we are net going to let Sexton quit; he's too good a man." M ho They Are. The minor league party includes the following: M. II. Sexton, Rock Island, 111., president pres-ident National association. J. H. Farrell, Auburn. X. Y., secretary secre-tary and treasurer National association. F.. (1. Barrow, New VoiK, president Inlernational league. T. M. ( hivingtnn, Chicago, president I AmericHii association, and Mrs. t'iiiv ingtnn. (Continued oa Following rago.) BASEBALL MEN OF ALL SORTS H ZI01M 1 (Continued From Precedlnn Fift.) N. I.. (l'N.-tll. prciil-nt Western lt-a,lo. 4;. 11. I.aui.')i, Hirnnni-hAni, Ala., JTv-i l,-i:t Soiit horn .soiat ion. N. 1'. onii. Mavon, Ga., prersi '1 1-11 1 Sontil Atlnntlo Ir.sL-'li. i . F. Moll. Milwaukee. presi.IeDt North.-rii I, iiK'ue. A. K. Tim",'. Milwaukee, owner Mil loiiir.,,,' Ann-roan a-o,'iatlon ,-lnh. W . II. 0-1,1111,, llirioii,"l,am, Ala., owti-or owti-or l'.ir'i-ini.'l'Htii ,-liib. .1 T. H:l.i-., liftifiiport, lo-wa, Thrfe- I I-A1.-.I.-. V. .-.i-.-r Morn-, Fort Worth, T.-a, r-r.-.i-i.-nt T,-.i lraf;:i.', ami Mrs. Morns. P. I.. l..-prae. Fort Worth, Toxa le.. -i.e. ,1 i!.. l'r. P. H. .'ar-uii. outh Hcii'l, In.i., an-1 M r.. i ar..n. I. "ins I'e.'i .-r, owner Loneil, Ma-s., oliir.. T. H. Murnane, Lowell, presi.ient New Fi oli.n l ..---,... W. F. ila.v.-s, I'ti.'l. N. Y.. .-Inb owner. Hii.'o liobi-rnith anil H. P. W'ilspn. I'iiioiniiati, (.obi'tnith baseball manufae t tl rer. M. F. Ju-fi.'e. Keokuk, Iowa, .-bib, i .Tfal nsr,.-i:ition. .lohn llollan,!, owner St. .Joseph Western West-ern league ebib. yi. .1. Finn, F.astern afsoeiatinu, Sj.rinfjf iei'l. Ma's. .1. T. M -Fh any, ( hiear-o, seeretary to Charles A. romiskev. owner (Jhi.aco Ame.-i,-ans, :in,1 Mrs. MoFlvan.v. Players Go North. The All-Anierieann and All-Nationals lett In -t ni-ht tor the northwest in pursuit of the a, bled baseball iflorv an-1 tli elusive dollar. There are fifty in -lie partv. wbo b is eon.iurted by bank , . Han-Tott, business manager of the ineinnati National leafnie i-luh. Fifteen Fif-teen of the hall , layers are accompanied accom-panied bv their wives. The elubs will play in Poealello to-,-iav, in Twin Falls tomorrow, in Shoshone Sho-shone Wednesdav and in Boise Thursday. Thurs-day. Thereafter they fro to Baker ( ity and T'en,ll"ton, Ore., Spokane, Wenat-,-hee and Seattle, Wash., Portland, Ore., and eoneludc 'ho trip in San Francisco on November |