Show LUCAS HANDS TACOMA A LEMON Sets Up Howl Be Because Because Because cause He Is FlimFlammed Out of His Franchise Tho The Tacoma News Is out with a hard hanl rap at President Lucas because the lat 1st latter latter ter transferred the Tacoma franchise to Bellingham Here Is what the News says saysA saysA A fat juicy sour our ugly lemon This was the Easter gift gitt that Lucas and Dugdale handed George M 1 yesterday esterday by b transferring the franchise franchio of ot the th Tigers to Bellingham It was a araw araw araw raw deal and one that fans will remember remember ber It was such that the death knell knoll of Lucas In northwest baseball so far as Tacoma Is concerned was sounded Lucas and Dugdale had the whole hol matter framed up months ago and they the accomplished their purpose framing a deal whereby Seattle will get continuous baseball the th coming season Dug Is a stu student student dent of Henry Harris the representative plenipotentiary and mouthpiece extraordinary extraordinary nary nar of the Pacific Coast league and he learned his tricks of grab from froni his San Francisco chief With Hh the Northwestern league as nw now constituted with Belling ham hani as the th sixth city Dug will get base ball for Seattle when he Is from home and will rake In 30 3 J per cent of ot the re receipts and allow those furnishing the en entertainment to split up the balance after the amount that is to go to the league to help pay pa Lucas several thousand has been deducted Pretty wise deal dont you jou ou think Northwestern League Wobbly Without Tacoma in the circuit It is dollars to slugs sIngs that the Northwestern league will prove wobbly before the season seison has been on many man weeks Vancouver is an uncertain base basc ball proposition and Bellingham will draw on an average av rage of fans a day and some 1500 on Sundays This will never neer pay pa the expenses and salaries of two tW teams Aberdeen is only good because bC of the fact that It guarantees visiting teams at least a week Butte is in inthe Inthe inthe the throes of a strike from which the city elt will not recover for months and another setback Is that Russ Hall will not have havo fhe or thirty influential business businessmen men back of the team as was the case last year ear Spokane with Quinn n at the managerial helm may maKe mane some money mone but the team already signed does docs not give promise of brilliant work and the fans will soon give the organization the coI col cold J shoulder unless it is a winner As far as Dugdale Is concerned hush keep it dark he has signed a team which may ma have hae sufficient strength to finish out the sea season season season son The personnel Is the that could have been expected and does not appear even good enough for a Roasted Peanut league Hard Blow to The turndown was a hard blow to Mr in that It taught him of the un ungratefulness ungratefulness gratefulness of or the powers that be When Mr notified Lucas last week that the deal w Ww ws s off and he could not put In a team Lucas L cas tried to hand the ele dc to another business man but the latter gave it up tip Jn In distress in a few hours Lucas then begged Mr to take hold and see what he could rould do He was promised all the time he be would require to shane matters up Late yes yea afternoon he managed to close a deal for an option on five fIe acres three blocks from the terminal of at the new Felt line but two hours before Bellingham had been presented with the franchise Lucas Unaccountable Haste Prominent baseball enthusiasts are at a loss Joss to account for Lucas hurried action and the fact Tact that he did not consult Mr just prior to making the trans fer for It Is argued that such a drastic measure as the transferring of ot a fran franchise franchise chise cannot be bi taken without the league meeting In a body so as to give the tle par ties affected a fair shake of the dice in explaining where they are at But Its Lucas way wa and his ways was are those of or the Cupid one Fans in Tacoma were Inclined to smile smila when it was stated that Judge McCredie if it he did enter baseball with the North Northwestern Northwestern Northwestern western would woula have nothing to do with Lucas Was Wae the Judge right Hes a jurist and he certainly certain was wise |