Show AS IT STANDS TODAY Present Conditions and What Is Necessary Necessary Necessary essary to t Promote the Sport PLANS FOR STATE LEAGUE ONLY SOLUTION WHICH CAN MAKE IT lr A SUCCESS of Every day the question is asked RoW How I about baseball This means What will Salt Lake do for tor baseball this season Is it t to have base baseball baseball baseball ball at all and if It so what kind of baseball These questions cannot be an answered answered answered at present and they are mighty hard questions to solve in the future Big league baseball is out of ot the ques lues question question tion for tor Salt Lake this year Many may ask why but the simple answer is that there is no league nor is there any like likelihood likelihood likelihood of a league being formed of ot which Salt Lake can become a member True there is the proposed Northwest league which W H Lucas is organizing which Salt Lake could join if it it so wished To gain kain admittance it Is necessary to find findan an angel QI r a flock of ot angels willing to put up about for tor the good of the sport spott If any anyone one knows the address of such person and will kindly make the same known Mr Lucas will jump at the chance to help him separate himself from his coin oin Chance for fop Outside Angel AngelIt It is just possible that some kindly dis disposed disposed disposed posed person from the great northwest has a better opinion of the new north northwest northwest west league than those who have watched the checkered career of baseball in this section s of the country in the past Such Sucha a person might bo ha led to believe that thata a Salt Lake franchise In such a league would be a great money maker If any such there be it will only be necessary for him to make his name and intention known He will be given the glad hand in Zion Every mother and andson andson andson son in the city would get out and boost for him and his league There TrO will be beno beno beno no knockers while he Is his money to give Salt Lake baseball base aU Should a person with a dyspeptic disposition I start a committee of Inn will agree e to throw this individual into the Jordan where he could use his ham hammer hammer hammer mer on the little fishes A royal wel welcome welcome welcome come would wo ld be given any one who cared to tackle the proposition In Salt Lake up to date this person has not been lo located located located nor is there any likelihood of his being located Conditions as They Are The situation therefore resolves itself Into a state league Such a league will have to be one of semiprofessional ball The reason Is that there is not a city in inthe inthe inthe the state outside of Salt Lake which can support a professional team even I with a salary limit of under 1000 per month Salt Lake Lare will therefore have to adjust itself to conditions in the outside towns These Thes conditions are a semiprofessional al league where were the players are given a small salary and a position where they can earn a salary alary while not playing base bal hal This can be done In Eureka Park City Ogden O den Bingham and Murray These towns have supported such teams in the past and can do it again Again trouble arises because there does not appear to be any big industrial institution institution Institution within the city limits which would be willing to make places for a team of ball baIl players such as the mining com corn companies companies panics of the outside towns are willing willingto to do It ig is i possible however for a hustling manager to locate his team by finding employment among the different firms in the city Continuous Ball in Salt Sait Lake If a state league is formed it should play three games a week Friday Satur Saturday Saturday Saturday day and Sunday Continuous ball baU could be played in Salt Lake the same as it now Is in San Francisco in the Pacific Coast league Such an arrangement would give the smaller towns three days of ot ball every third week which the towns could c Uld readily support The time is now ripe for the organization tion of just such a league It is under understood understood understood stood that Eureka is already organized Gimlin is of the opinion he can gt get t Og Ogden Ogden Ogden den in line Une while as yet Jat nothing has been heard from Park City Murray or Bingham If this state is going to have any exhibitions of or the national game this season it is time those interested in these different cities should begin to sit up and take notice |