Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-06-18 | Page 8 | Life of League in Peril for a Time

LIFE OF LEAGUE' IN PERIL FOR A TIME There was a stupendous rjuantit v of ir-nse but suppressed excitement in bas.-l-rill circles yesterday s'ore noon. The Tribune's accounts of tfce doings at Boise Tuesday, tog-ether with the representations representa-tions of the Salt La lie plavers were eagerly eager-ly read and widely discussed. As soon as the baseball moguls could do it. a meeting- was called of the maer-na'es maer-na'es who were in town, and a hurrv-up 'all was sent to Offdcn. The meeting was attended by Frank L. Gardner, sec- 1 Mia! oi tne .salt 1-ake !uh; George F. v asson. counsel for the club; V U Prown, vice president of thp Ofcden club; Ur. C P. J-Jarvieile, presidc-nt of Hie Murray Mur-ray club, and M. ii. Kans. president of tne Boise club. LOvery one uf the inaynales was strongly strong-ly of (he opinion that the suspension of three of Salt Lake's best plavers was a blow at the very existence of the league. A le'esram. in iv;,ponse to President , Murphv:- ciispa.tcli, was drafted and for-' w:irded. Then there was an anxious wait. At ! :;::it o'clock President .M urphv's replv i came. Its CfMilents brightened thin-s very nui-h. The lifting of the suspension suspen-sion undoubted 1- saved the leagtie A dispatch to The Tribune last night from Rutl;: gives President Murphv's view.-- and tli,. reasons for his action. .Mr. Murphy said: After carefully considering the Boise Fume. I have decided tha t t he sus-prm.-ioits of the rine players in question. ques-tion. Hester, Huelsman and Tonne-nia Tonne-nia n. v. ould not be as pftct ive as go'-l rinr-j. tnsfructed Tmplre Long;, nccker ainrg these lines, and ndvijr.i liiin of a fine on Hester and $L'j on both Knelsman and Ton-nn-an. lie is to collect these fines before lliey go into the game tomorrow. tomor-row. As the clubs a re not a 1 lowed to carry more than fourteen players, to have removed t hese three men from t he game would have sadly crippled t he Sa b Lake club, a nd the result would have been poor and entirely nnsat is factory baseball. Murphy added . he bad warned Hester that he would give him a suspension i f h,-- repeated tbe tactics that resulted in h's suspension for a we-k after the Butte snries.