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Show PBESIOERT SCHEDER MAKES BASEBALL COIN ! Jumps Are Sliorf. and All the: (.'lubs of Northwest Are 1 Making Money. Trlhunn Sprlal Sport In? Sr.Mre. POltTliAXD. Oregon. Sept. 7. Geo. Schreoder, president and principal owner of the Tacoina baseball clulf in the .Von h western League, announces tlmt he is .7,"00 aheail of the game and experts ex-perts to clear up a nice sum before the curtain is rung down this month. "It has been the greatest year in baseball we h:jve ever experienced in the Pacific Vorthwesl." said the Tacoma magnate. "In Tacoma we have just completed a 1 new ball park: I hat is, it was .built for i iie present season, and the way wo arc drawing all over the circuit is-highly s-itiafactory, nnd emphasizes the stand , uc havo taken for a Northwest League. Local pride ip what furnishes the r.iiek- t'U on which to run i. ball team, nnd af-ier af-ier two years of affiliation with fali I'oinia, 1 was more than ever convinced that the proper league should be made i up of towns in this section of the coun-r. coun-r. 1 have never been able ro figure out where money was to be mnilo in bneball when it'wa:i necessary to send on' cl.ib so far south as Los Angeles, and without a stopping point, between ; Portland and San Francisco. In our . league tho jumps are short aud conveni ' c ut, and all our clubs are making money. 1 Canadians are Fans. ' Pugdale will dear up nothing short ; nf Sl?."),im)0 in Seattle this year, and our 1 wenUesr town is Aberdeen", but as that. Huh is in the lead, they do quite well on rh road. All visiting clubs arc j giiiirmiocd $100 when they play on fj ray's Hnrbor. providing, of course, I hat two games of the scries are played. It would surprise yon to see the vyv'the Canucks turn out' at Vancouver Vhy. that town is really :i wonder, and mind von. I hey only piny five games there, as Sunday "ball "'in tabooed in liritish Co Inmhin. We frequently got $fi(fl and .JiSOO for the five game' serie there, and thn town ha been known to pny over ?PJ00 to a visiting club for one week's scries. "Tacoma and Seattle are veritable mints, for tho rivalry between the two towns creates the utmost interest in the. frame, and also it may be mentioned hat wo aro only a tew points ahrad of Dttgdale's men. Spokane, in spite of theTlow position of that team, is drawing draw-ing in tho most, satisfactory manner, and Butte is doing better than ever. 1 think we havo the most prosperous league in the country, ami 1 hope tho Mc.Crcdics will pfiiliate with us next season and not waste their good moncv in paying railway fares to aud from California. ' ' |