Salt Lake Herald | 1901-12-04 | Page 7 | Would Thwart Butte Meeting

WOULD LO THWART t BUTTE MEETING M E TING t f Attempt to Head Hea Off ff Utah Ninn tana League HELENA HAS iJAS RAISED O Ow w s TO jour PACIFIC if NOME OB PH i WEST f I H i Mont t Dec Dee At a MId held here hie tonight a committee was wu ap appointed appointed pointed to confer the manage J a of k the th Pacific Baseball Ba league gUe le Ie ge to see upon what terms erma Helena Butte and aDd Great Falls Fall may become members of that league leape next season Helena BeIa raised today as us a guarantee for a team tea next season and it te Is 1 proposed to se that tSat t t sum Bum to te Butte Butt aw aM Great I Falls SM ar asoia aJIo Ji raI ii red rea to tit j ever S be n Thel The Jat two dibs wanted to Co enter the Intermountain league but ate are to go wilt Helena Heena 1 r The above bove meeting was w wa probably h bald ld to forestall tle the meeting to be held hed In Butte to form a Utah Montana league for next season easo For som time Butte But H len and BUt Belt Lake parties Jartin have ben been quietly working to fur furher her the Interests s of the r dame in m the taUt tain country This Thia seemed best accomplished accomplished b th the formation of a tana league Both Ogden and alt at Lake Lakein in Utah and Helena and Butte in Mon Montana Montana Montana tana are axe good cities and are the only towns in the tM th Int country jud jig ag from past pan experience nce that can make m k the d e gome Ki IDe a go After carefully considering the th situa situation tion those the interested in the formation o oa or of ora ofa a league called a meeting which will IU b be held in Butte Th n The Salt Lake club sent eat a representative re to 0 this meeting with instructions to tu favor the form forD tion of a Considerable interest has hea been worked r up u over this league in both t Helena Heena and a an S Butte and aud prominent baseball ba eb U enthus enthusiasts p lasts of those tho towns favor the combine combination tion Uon of the Ole two states Meanwhile t J a of the tile Pacific t ball bait I t ams ama have been looking IO with longing lO D eyes ees el toward the two Mon Moo Montana Montana tana tane towns Undoubtedly tio agents of 3 the I Pacific coast league have been quietly working w for some time to defeat the pro pre proposed posed polled league With Utah out of the way 7 the Montana towns towne would be forced to join joIa the tM Pacific coast league or play bal baUb by With these facto t cL to ID vi Vj w it l is s easy to understand the at t Helena ena last night on the eve of the Butte meeting ting However from rite distant ans M tt looks louk as aa if It Butte were w re rethe the V to in die situation and Butte favor favori e e league In peel erel k the Ue Northwest league leape Phe na outcome of the Butte meet meeting r InK ing ln today tod will win ba bt b watched with interest by Salt Lake e fans