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Show BUTTE SEEKS BERTH IN HORTHWESTERH May Be Included in 1916 j if Seattle and Spokane Remain. SpCTinl to 'Hie Tribune. BI.'TTK, A up. 7.--Thfl succpeg of S;l11 T,ni:e in the f'oant c;iiie a direct beari on the bn-'ebji II sit 11 at inn in Hutte, whi'-h, t'fr the f i tm t, time in mnny vnars, i without ruiv baseltall. A proup of businejs men ;vho finanred the Huttn teams in the I'aeii'ir Northwent Jiii'l tin: Iici t ie Nut ioiial a lenue Salt, Laid was also in, br;lii". e that hieh-elass ball will pav here when 1'ninn nsHoeiat inn baselail failed, and thest; men point to the support Salt Lake has afforded real baseball. The hostility between the sent hern and northern eu lm of the Union association was too pronounced, and this feHinp would not have, been present had Sa It I .a ko and Untie, been in a better managed league. That, one of the Inrpe mining companies com-panies stand1 ready to dona (. 1 i be rally ral-ly to the sport., even to the extent of building a fine inside park as a memorial me-morial to one of the state 's briph test financiers, has been made known to the men who phi n to bri nj; bns'din II back next year. The statement of .Indpe Mc-f Mc-f !red ie ef the I 'ortla nd Const, le:iemrH tluit Scuttle ;uid Spokane may join the Coat. leiieue ni'.t hensnn li;is r;i I tj r up- ' w tin' earlv planv of hr locnl en tliasia.-1s. An effort to e.'i fr.nrhi-e in the ort ii we) ft'ii b-a - im is phi ti nt-d. It '. fJ1 in thih, company Hint Unit" won a pennant and the tans paid tin- tt-nm's : way a H1' left & little Burpluii. Wiien V j - 1 V toria wag wobbling, shortly nfter the season started, Hutte was sou nded on the- proposal to transfer the franc h inn hern, and there was even talk of switching switch-ing Bob Brown and his Vancouver players to But te. If thf inside park is forthcoming there will hfl enough money available to warrant the Northwestern league heads in cnnMderinc Bui to. But with S.pokan'i and Seattle in the Coast league the dtplance would bo too trreat to warrant, war-rant, ar.v rotifuderat iou heinrj given Butte. ( Ireat Vails, Helena and Missoula, wli ich had clubs in the I "n ion association, associa-tion, are likely to form a state league next year. Th is was ntt em pi ed this season, and some of the ex-Union assn-eiationists assn-eiationists boosted tin: plan, hut little headway was made. |