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Show PHDSPECfTOH " 1W Money to Assure Berth in League Not Yet Raised, ' but Promoters Are Hopeful. SfflnJ to T!.e Tribune. SAX FKANCISirO. Cal., Xov. SC. Vrcsi.lcnt A. T. Banm of thp Pacific (.'oast lciiip r.sys the situation looks brighter fur Sacramento to have a club iir t'nr t oast leapio than at any time since the application was made. ( hnrlev Graham has been here, talked things" over with fc'jium. jlcnry Berry and Cal J'.wine. San Francisco and (.takland magnates, respectively, and has gone back to Sacramento much encouraged. en-couraged. These men have a plan which thev 'think will make it easy to raise the mnnev necessarv, but they ;re not nivulginu" what it is. The money has not vet been raised, but Graham hopes to hae thines in shape to make a deti-i-ite proposition to tlie league within the next week. Ttao McCredies will be paid a reasonable sum for their players and it is proposed to establish a fund that will see the sa,.ramento club through the season. Graham explained when here that it would not be hard to sell stock in a Sacramento club if the business men could be assured that the club would be run along business lines. The former extravagant regime is remembered there, and they want 110 more of that, lint if the club is run as Graham and Cu-tiu ran it for six years, when they built up a business which was valued at .ti7,001 after starting on a shoestring, shoe-string, then Sacramento men will not put in their monev, so Graham'savs. It is likelv that at the annual meeting meet-ing of tho league all the club owners w-iTl agree to chop expenses, and that will help Sacramento. |