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Show I OUTLAW BALL I SHOULD WIN I Pacific Nationa! Has I Big Chaaces. jm Past History Shows Amount K of Power of National U Board. Lm Attention to Details Will Mako Suc-4 Suc-4 cessful Season in This Section raj cf America. l Now that It Is all over we liave the consolation that this "protection" M wasn't such a, big thing to strive for, IIS ftrte" a11- oc course, this is tho usual vm consolation he who comes out on tho 1 under side of the pile always admlnls-W; admlnls-W; ters to himself, nevertheless it la En based on truth in this instance, glf tho cities of tho Pacific National leaguu s!, want to see good baseball, they need ' only put forward the efforts they have In the past and they will not only have ; rattling good baseball, but they will 17 have this "national board" coining to them with "protection" held out on a sliver platter. Clique Controls Board. Now, these statements are based on history. In the first place, the "national "na-tional board" has come to be known In tho East, by the best sporting writers in America, as "controlled by a little clique." And these Bame sporting writers, who work in such cities as Chicago Chi-cago and New York don't, in speaking of dealings with the major leagues, hesitate hes-itate to say that this little clique is working always for Its own selfish ends. Recently the major leagues turned down the "national board" on the drafting draft-ing question because of this very fact. Never Won Out Yet. But, selfish or not selfish, clique or no clique, the national board hasn't '. thus far ever clubbed any one into the shelter of the protecting wings of the r national"" "Sssoclatlon at least, not in the WcsL In fact, the history of this part of America goes to show that the outlaw league invariably not only wins out in a light for territory, but is invited in-vited back into the fold to be given everything at the expense of those whims the board formerly protected. Witness the case of the Pacific Coast ' and the Pacific National league a year ) ago In the Northwest. : Public Is Ungrateful. This baseball business simply amounts to getting your territory and getl.ng your grounds, and getting your players. Then hold them. That is the whole thing. The public likes baseball. It likes convenience. And It goes where it can see the best baseball and to the grounds it can most easily reach. If the Pacific National league will now get down to real work nnd arrange details, de-tails, It will play through a successful season and will completely control this territory, which rightly belongs to It. Time Now to Work. As to the recent action of the "national "na-tional board," there Isn't any use dls-. dls-. cussing that. It has been taken, and itf that's all there Is to It. But there is v3 plenty of room for thought In other directions arrangement of details for ' the coming season. When these things have been perfected, along the lines on which work is now being done, tho league will stand on Arm ground and will stand where Lucas and his league will fare as ,Lucau and his leagues seem to have fared in past baseball wars in the Northwest, |