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Show ; LEASE LEAGUE I PARKIN DGDEN I C. N. Sutton and Joseph Goss I Will Give Junction City I Union Team. I IMPROVEMENTS COMMENCED I ON THE BALL GROUNDS Franchise Applied for and AH I Arrangements Made for a Successful Season. C. N. Sutton, manager of the Orphcum theater, and Joseph Goss. manager of the Orpheum in Ogdcn, have leased and are improving a baseball park, where they expect to play an Ogdcn Union ns-soclatlon ns-soclatlon team In 1912. They have made the first application for the Union League franchise for Ogdcn. Besides being the first applicants they have the only park .H In Ogden that Is practicable for the use of a league team. There can be no doubt tliey will get the franchise, as they are both men of high standing in tho business world and Mr. Sutton has had large experience as a baseball magnate and official. They are so certain that they can put Ogdcn In the Union association for 1912 that they have gone to w'ork Improving the park. They have a long lease on tho Glenwood baseball park and will remodel it after the plans of the Boise baseball park, which Is admitted to be the best in the Union league at present. All the plans have been drawn for a horseshoe H grand stand and bleachers and teams arc already at work leveling tho ground. For the past ton days rumors have been circulated that John McCloskey was coming to Ogden. The object of that re-port re-port was to arouse Butte to the danger of losing the league franchise. May Get McOloskey. Messrs. Sutton and Goss would like to get McCloskey and his Butte team, but the Montana metropolis Is now aroused H and the better class of sportsmen up there are trying to assure McCloskey of better support next year. Despite fro- qucnt rumors of McCloskey coming to Ogden. It Is by no means certain yet that hc will leave Butte. If the street car company In Butte can be Induced to build another track and -give adequate transportation facilities, McCloskey might remain; Certainly if he cannot - make a success of baseball In Butto It is utterly useless for anyone else to try. for there are few baseball men In the United States who are the peers of mm Strenuous Mac. Butte citizens have been .mm brought to the realization of this and thev are trying had to assure him suffi-clcnt suffi-clcnt support to koep him there next mm year. With the poor support that has been given McCloskey. his team occupies ..mm a respectable place in the percentage mm column and if tho fans up there had mm glvon them proper encouragement thoy would undoubtedly have -been further H along than they are. If McCIoskev does leave Butto. the mm team and Union franchise will purely go with him and almost as certainly thev mm will come to Ogden. Messrs. Sutton and mm Goss believe that McCloskey is the very mm best man they can get and they Intend to give Ogdcn the best manager and best .mm team they can possible put together. Both these promoters stand very lugn . mm In the estimation of Union league ofti- MMf clals and with the owners of the other B clubs. They will be an addition of which mm tho Union league may well be proud. mm Mr. Sutton's practical experience in base- .mm ball is assurance that Ogden will have a mm team which will uphold tho city s pros- mm llBEverv one who Is familiar with the H sport fovlng public of Ogdcn and the mm towns between Ogden and bait Lake can mm imagine what crowds will attend tno mm games between the Ogden Union league team and the Skyscrapers. With a close mm pennant fight on. both cities would draw patrons from miles around The acquis!- mm tlon of Ogden will holp the Skyscrapers. Um besides giving a city as enterprising as the Junction City proper representation jmm on the baseball map. mm Ogden will support baseball generousb . mm provided It Is good baseball.J This Jias H been proved by the number of Ogden fans who attend the Salt lake games. Under tho management of two such wide-awake -mm promoters as Messrs. Sutton and Goss. mam tho venture is sure of success. MM When Mr. Sutton was asked concern- Ing his plans last nlghf he said that it MM was a littlo too early totalk much about Mm them. He confirmed the fact that Mr. mm Goes and himsolf had made the first apt mm plication for a Union league franchise for mm Ogdcn and that they had leased the park. mm Praises President Lucas. 1 went up to Boise recently to Ret MM plans of that ball park and we "tend mm to model the Ogdcn park aTter Boise s. mm said Mr. Sutton. "Of course, we are mm counting on getting the Union assocla- mm tion franchise, which Is a matter to lie HI settled at the meeting of the association Mm after tho season ends. As we are the mm first applicants and as we now have the only park practicable. I believe wo shall have no opposition for tho franchise. Then mm we shall give Ogden a first-class team, mm "If McCloskey leaves Butte, which I understand Is bv no moans certain, w shall be glad to get him and his team. H Mr. Sutton recently returned from a mmt trip east, during which he saw teams II In nine minor Icaguos. He said that mm none of thorn was so well managed ns tho Union association. KH "President W. H. Lucas." continued Mr. Sutton, "Is tho ono man essential to t lie- Union association. Ho Is the beat minor flfll league president In the United Statos. mm The discipline he enforces and tho way Mmt In which he conducts tho league wins the IBM admiration of every ono whose knowledge mmm qualifies him to be. a judge of the work- mmm Ings of these smaller leagues. mmm Mr. Sutton believes that Cliff Blanken- flfll ship deserves great credit for making Hfl the Sk"scrapers the team they aro. Bnfl "Starting in with only a few seasoned flHfl players," said Mr. Sutton. "Blankenshlp BBfl has simply accomplished wondors. i flj know what a difficult tos,k ho hod before mmm him. Deveroaux and Spencer were of HH much assistance to him, but there are mmm few baseball men who could have dono SH what Blank has accomplished." BflJ Well. In 1912. when Ogdcn and Salt flfll Lako arc fighting for the Union asso- KB elation pennant, there will be some hot 'flfljl times In this vicinity. HB |