Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-06-24 | Page 9 | Lucas Slated to Walk Plank

LUCAS SLUT 1 TO WALK PLANK I k to Be Retired From I Presidency, ril Charles H. Lane of Butte, I jlil I Is Said, Will Succeed : rn 1 B 'Williams and McCloskey, Formerly, I Stanch Supporters, Are Now. Ar- '1 xaigned Against Lucas. j H ''ilssi Special to Tho Tribuno. mIjB EUTTE, Mont, Juno 2a As a result of ) H troublo brewing in Paclflo National r'B league circles. President Lucas is j slated for roUroment and Charles H. r'iB Lane, president of the Butto club. It is rllifl stated, will probably manage tho leaguo ijlB for next year. Tho troublo that is brew- : i!B Ing started over tho mobbmg of Umplro liB Frank Jones at Salt Lake, and It now lfl dcvolons that C. H. Williams of tho Spo- 'sH kano club and "Honest" John McCloskoy. ) formerly a stanch supporter of Lucas, '- aro now arraigned against him. The b Butto baseball management has never been overfrlcndly with Lucas, and as Salt ' Lako has unsheathed tho knlfo against him, thc statement that thoro will be a I new president for tho Paclflo National 11 leaguo is vory probable. )" "Wo aro going to mako a fight for i ftkol Roach," said President Lane of tho Butty ball club today. "Roach rightfully 'H belongs to Butto, and If ho docs not play iH hero we are going to seo that he does not IH play with Portland. Roach was awarded f lH to Butte by tho National Association of ; Minor Baseball Leagues, and McCloskey , IH was censured for giving him his alleged bsssfl release. Tho mattor was then appealed to iHsfl the national commission, and that body, ' IH without hearing a bit of evidence from H our side, decided against un. It was a 1 high-handed procedure. Wo pay for pro- tcctlou and gat none. Now that Roach 'IsH has been released by Newark, and signed liliaH by Dugdale we Intend to reopen tho affair again." UsH