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Show KELLACKEY MAY BE TAKEN FROM BOISE Albany, N. Y., Club Has Prior Claim to His Services, and Honest John May Lose Out. THERE Is a possibility that Hugh Kcllackey, the ex-Elder who was recently signed to catch for the Boise team, may not be allowed to play with that aggregation after all. Albany, N. Y., has a prior claim upon his services, according to Secretary Farrell of the National association, and it is quite probable that the big Canuclc will be taken from the Boise ranks. Shortly before Kellackey was released by the Salt Lake club. President Lucas served notice upon the directors that Kellackey was claimed by the Albany club and that Secretary "Farrell had approved the claim. Thiw was one reason rea-son why Kellackey wns turned, loose. Now that Boise has secured tho Canadian, Ca-nadian, the matter seems to have been completely forgotten. Tho claim of thn Albany club, however, still holds good and Kellackey may be called home at an3' time. ' Hnnnivan, the new outfielder, lias been taken out of the field and is now covering third base, while Fred "Weed is holding down the middle garden. Bill Hausen has been wearing his batlimr uniform of late and has hit almost everything that came his way. Dad Clark has also been hitting some, landing three two-baggers in Friday'a game at Butte. Butte fans are out with a big roar because of the weakness of their team. Wilraot has promised" better work and still insists that he has the strongest club in the league, once they get going go-ing properly. Thirty-seven thousand persons witnessed wit-nessed the ball game at New York yesterday yes-terday afternoon. This Is the largest attendance in the history of the game. The game was between New York and Cincinnati, eleven innings to a tic. V Fans who kick on tho quality of baseball handed out in the Pacific National Na-tional league will have to side-step when they arc confronted with Friday's Fri-day's game at Spokane. Eleven innings, in-nings, with a score of 2-1 is as goefd and better than many of the big league teams can boast of. Next Tuesday our own dear Elders will be seen at "Walker's. The Boise Babes will also be here and with good weather some fast baseball should be seen. Contrary to the expectations of many, the Saints did hotter while away than they did at home. They are no longer at the bottom of the heap and arc playing as good ball as any aggregation aggre-gation In the league, Wc ought to get at least half of the scries with the Infant?. |