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Show Leagues to Fight Over Players National Association Won't Have Smooth Sailing Local Outlook Promising. War between tho big leagues and the minor leagues Is tho order of things for tho coming season. Tho refusal of tho American leaguo to raiso tho drafting prico' of players from tho teams protected protect-ed by tho National association means that this will bo tho. case. It will make all tho difference la tho world to thlB territory. Just now tho situation ns to tho Pacific Paci-fic National leaguo and tho National association as-sociation is shrouded fn doubt. Failure on tho part- of tho association to decide at this time on tha standing of tho Pacific Pa-cific National leaves It so. It is still a quoetion ns to whither Salt Lak will be In a leaguo playinj protorted or indo-pondent indo-pondent ball. But In the meantime tho National association as-sociation llnds ltsoif beset with somo difficulties, dif-ficulties, for a fight Is sure to mine with the old drafting prico In vogue. 0-And meantlmo Lucas and McCloskoy seem to have given up their I. lea of taking any Montana cities Into their new International Interna-tional leaguo. At least they aro quoted In Pacific Northwest papers as saying that only Puget sound nnd British Columbia Col-umbia cities will oompoas thut league. All these things being the case it looks ns though, protcelod ball or Independent ball, the Pacific National league is going go-ing to have no trouble at signing players, play-ers, and that, too, at rcaFonablo fnlarles. Within a short tlmo now Oharloy Rell-loy Rell-loy will bo back In Salt Lako and getting get-ting hi3 team together. And at tho same tlmo "Dad" Glmlln Is looking about him to eeo what he's going to do for Ogdon. Spring is closo at hand, and the aveingo Salt Lako fan seems to feel the chango of seasons In his bone?, for dlnmond talk Is gottlng more frequent every day. Autoists Losing Nerve. In an interview in an Eastern paper Barney Oldfleld says that the death o Frank Croker has had a depressing effect ef-fect on the rich young men of this country coun-try who have been Buch ardent devotees of the dangerous but fascinating sport. In speaking of the sad occurrence at Ormonde, Oldfleld said: "Thero Is no. doubt but what the death of Frank Croker cast a gloom over the Ormond meet. I think, too, that it took the nerve of quite a few motor-car drivers, and it would not surprise sur-prise me to see some of the millionaires quit the game. W. K. Vanderbllt only raced once or twice and went homo before be-fore the meet was over. W. Gould Brokaw positively refused to compete, although ho had his car in, which was driven by his chauffeur! "This man Fletcher, who broke the 100-mlle and fifty-mile records, was a new ono to mc He comes from New York and Is Just breaking Into the game. They tell me that he showed nerve making the turns In the century course, going -around on two wheels, which Is a dangerous experiment. "I only took part In two races, Just as I had planned to do. I won my heat in the world's championship race, but my slxty-horsc power car was hardly fast enough for the big ninety-horse power cars the Easterners had." |