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Show Northwestern Torn Wide Open by Internal Fight Presiden.1 Fair ol Spokane Indians Hitler Against bujjdale; May Try to Qt Into Coast League Next Season. in that pftrhupH hii open hr;ik with hif- .'H''H is not tlit ooorai to put$t He balidi ii it -I ba ih jtbiolutolv or rait, fchat ha hol4i tha whip hafid on tin- ittuatlon rijht now, beaauia pfa ononly avowied ntantlon ' ahaklos "IT i liin pipribunq Aggregation of hat pftaa era and (opfidulu ttutnglari aod tbaif wa j that hi ''", Lf ba frUbaa, gp through with it. ilc kBoifi tli at t h'y itiraly niiiht uto ibair vary liv dopaadi on Bpokaoa being "i tbolf (aagua next yaar. Dn they wni a Flttlfl tow l.onl ielrcuit OVat on tin- Huiiiul in 17'l? 'I'to'y proti Rbly OJ r 1 hut Kpokafifl fuiiK will Htatn hcli in 1 1 Fair hoIi-II y jiI rofuid to glVI an putflidar a i'Iihik-c (( npi'into 1hti.. i Thai being tba eaaa, maybp tboy ww , ili-n tn -iimMii hji'I niayi'i Karr ran put nvee Horn tiling lik': lliin; I'arr's l-'Itimalum. i-'ii ut No Beattlfl nsn can aaafia bo i pTortbWMtarn laaguo praal4aat I 00attd Any two alub ownarp tu prevent the inhl firaaoiJ alt'-ration of the labadalfl art it muy oriiitallv be drftft-M, drftft-M, but it in nut oaraf D0 altered when tognu fighting for first piaca aro 11 1 fpctod. Third- No umpire thnt ban ever unrked fur the Northwestern leaguu -hail be employed in 1916. 'It ftrikea mo tliat with g eJagn alato like that . ' ' RnaaxV Karr, home wort if eonf iderire m tip- Jeanne might be rajtorad ami if tliat aan b4 done, J :v i prefer, ju tlie'-e urji 'ftoin times, thta league to mi gUalgajnatlOB with the Coatt, where, we nnift all realize, the expeoM m i' ii arfliljf and our ebgneat for a league IgadJDg team are DSDCb baa. "' will not enter this bague another eur nnlcai I am aatorad of a new ileal all Hrop-l. Hut 1 htill retain home pride in the Obi league ai it Daffl to be, and ome hope that, although it is very siek. it nay bfl ; Sited through. "The North weaiern league ha a warm pot in my heart. Before I get th rough with it I'd like to win a pen riant In it. It hup daveloped a lot of atari for the DlaJor 'eague, and it is the ireuit In whr-h BpOKSSO Iwlongfl, g"'0-gTaphleaU g"'0-gTaphleaU y. aithOttgh I believe Spokane i nut about too good a ball town to be hrneped alongi' towim like Ta-I Ta-I '-orna. Aberleen and Victoria." By J. Nr.WTON OOLVEB. S' U A N K, Sept . U'.'i. Once again President T. 0. Karr, owner of the Hpo kaju I nd in us, Iiuh had to hii bmit to a btualllaUbg ftolab by a ball team f ton which lie had every reason to expeet muob. The Elnslp of the IfllB pennant hopes was even more bitterly disap pointing than that ot It'll, miu'.i in 191a a six gOlbe load 'UB bjsl in the laat three weeks. l-'nrr is too good a sportsman to roar gbonl bil "lined ajabltloQj but it 'k a fiinob he is doing a lot ol thinking. A vcai ago he was inclined to blame pii Kail pla crs, and he made a nolemn ow last Beptenibor that not a man - izaoptlag Jobaay Wuifii ami Joe ah man of the lot that drew salary from htm , dun n g the OlOting WOOkl of t he Hl I eaaipaign, should ev 01 again indorse in-dorse his checks. He relented to th' extent of rein ita ting in good favor Wynn Noyes, alter he had Wvnii prac- tleailj iol( to Omaha, but be topped off a round dor.cn playei r. Btunea League Heads. Hut now he is not bo r-ure that bil pla ur are altogether at fault. He is wondering if the official adminlatrattou of the tottering old league has nut been pn .lv mucb to blame for what baa hap pencil. Of course, he Knows that bis ohlb imply blOW Up, but he i wondering if almost anv ball team, compelled to stand (or what his men hud to stand, might not have wobbled Minilurlv wh.u the potted and pampered favorites of a pari loan power came from beh no I rapidity and uo g":''g gt a bit tough. He is a big, oti- going, long-aufrei ing, good Batoned ebap, is K. r. Karr, slow to ' rile ' ' ami plenteous in pa tienCOj but some t tungg that have hap poaod this rear have got under his sk.n and inayb- some of his fellow mag nat es, who ha e imposed upon him ami jobbed him. an now are laughing at him, are likely to do some sweating before another April rolls around. I Briefly, K. (X i'arr hat thrown down the gage. May He Lively Fight. ' ' I in 111 doubt which of two courses to pursue," aatd he. "I have just about made up by mind to tell 'em to go plumb straight to Halifax with their bague and make a fight to put Hpo-' Hpo-' kaoo into the t oast league next year. I do not know how J would fare in inch a move. They would poasiblv put an outside man into this town with the Northwestern league franchise and the right. aad)ev . .i-. . . . ; baseball, to op-erute op-erute here. 1 don't know if the fans would stick with me or not, and 1 dou t m ind saviug that I'm giving oat this interview sort of because 1 d like an 1 expression from them. "I'll guarantee to give Spokane a ball team in the Coast league that will make a respectable showing. 1 believe L Va dOttO my part the lust three years to put together clubs of undoubted abii itT. This year my team made the pace almost all tho wav. My men were treat ed right, none of" them had his salary cut, although all the other clubs did i;t right and left. I have not passed around the hat and asked for eharity. although other club owners have done that. 1 have lost money, hut I 'm not kicking and I'll still take a chance." The alternate idea that tomea to Farr |