| Show JUDGE i COMES BACK AT At AL BAUM Issues 1800 Word T ord Statement Also Iso Asks Sacramento to Dig Up Some SOllIe Kale Special p P PORTLAND Jan lan 22 Judge 22 Judge MCCredie MC- MC McCredie Credie in in a lengthy hy statement given to the newspapers today answers an au- vers President Baum Bantus Bantu's s 's criticism rim ro- g the a adoption option of a n new flew name by h the Pacific Coast International l league a nl formerly the Northwestern He not only defends the action but also Intimates that If It the Coast league president does docs as ns he is quoted and tries to keep the tho Pacific Coast International International Interim Interim- from raising Its Us classification from Crom rota cla class s B to A A. A Baum Basin will find himself himself him hUn self in Its the center of oC a warm WO fight tight FI Figures are arc given Iven to show that the tha Pacific Coast International line has practically th the same real population at present that the Coast CORst has and In conclusion conclusion con cost elusion ho states state that not many years ago tho the Northwestern league offered the Coast circuit for Cor the Portland Portland Port Port- land franchise which was as turned down cold Jud Judge e opines that this money mone a would assist greatly In iii In financing a a. club at Sacra Sacra- mento mentor The whole statement which consists of nearly 1800 words cites facts and figures which It will bo be hard for tor the Coast league executive to got get around No one ono knows known better than Judge Mc Me- Credle Credie that no sounding high name or orall orall all the ar arguments In time the World orld will I bring tho the fans out at tho the local parks but he does not propose to let his late lato constituents start tart something and then permit them then to finish it lie Ife knows as does anyone conversant err with conditions not only here but In 1 Tacoma and Seattle that the tho Coast lea league directors pulled a boot bool In not I taking all nil three cities Into tho the circuit I In Portland alone the tho population has has' Increased over within the tho ho last three months on account of the shipbuilding shipbuilding ship ship- building Industry These men all make snake big wages wa es and it will be continued along the same lines for tor years after the war is ended Ju Judge ge McCredie today wired Sacramento Sacramento Sacra Sacra- mento asking why ho has not yet et re received received ro- ro the check in payment for tor the eight ball players sold them Charlie Graham wrote that the Sacramento di directors directors directors di- di rectors were to have ha had a meeting me Un last I Tuesday and and anel that the tho mone money would be besent besent sent at once This deal was to have been for cash on an account of the thc price paid with Judge to repurchase any of the men who might bo be lost b by draft He Fie cannot understand why h the dela delay unless Sacramento which Is not thought to be overburdened with coin of Df the realm should bo be harder up for Cor read ready cash than generally imagined The Thc local owner propounds tho the following following fol fol- fol- fol I lowing question What hat would happen should Sacramento not bo be able to start I the thc season Beason or should get into financial difficulties The answer Is that either San Diego or Fresno would have o to take the team or Salt Lake would also lave have to be thrown out of tho the league |
