Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-11-20 | Page 1 | Coast Baseball Team Eyes Salt Lake City Franchise

I Coast Baseball Team Eyes Salt Lake City Franchise S Special to The Tho DAYTON Ohio Nov 20 William 20 William Lane owner o ot of L the Hollywood Hollywood Hollywood Holly Holly- wood ball club said Wednesday he will move his team to Salt SaIl Lake City unless rent at Los Angeles is reduced Other coast league moguls attending a minor league meeting here think that Lanes Lane's threat is largely a bluff Since transferring the Salt Lake City franchise to Los Lo Angeles in 1926 Lane has found the overhead costs at nt Wrigley park too heavy to tobe tobe be 36 a money making proposition The club has no territorial right in n Los Angeles and does docs not share sharen In n the concessions both of which belong to th tha Los Angeles baseball club which uses Wrigley field as its home jome field when Hollywood is trav trav- eling Well advised baseball authorities sa say that the Hollywood club has hastad had tad difficulty meeting the rental fees ees and that no rent has been paid i for or at least two seasons L Lane ne will stop in Salt Lake L. Cit City next week upon upon his return west from Tom the meeting at Daytona and visit with three directors of ot the I Hollywood club They are arc George Baglin J. J H. H Rayburn and J. J C. C Derks Rumors that Salt Lako Lake City may again become a member of the thc Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- Pacific Coast baseball circuit bring back memories of the old Bee teams that paraded before Utah fans in Bonneville park A decade has bas elapsed since William WIlliam William Wil WIl- liam Lane club owner took the Bees to Hollywood The Bees then became known as the Hollywood Sta Stars For several years Salt Lake Cit City was a hot baseball town The club drew good sized crowds and the team proved a paying proposition But this streak of ot good fortune Continued on Pa Page Pae Two Colu Column nn n I Two OI COAST LEAGUE TEAM EYES S. S S L L. L Continued from Pale Page One ended and the town was deemed no longer capable of supporting class classA A baseball The Tho 1925 season was a financial flop Oscar Vitt was the last pilot of oC the he Bees When the Bee team went to the coast Vitt still held the managerial managerial man man- reins Last year ear he was succeeded by Frank Schellenbach veteran pitcher Vitt how pilots Oakland Until the last two years the Stars proved fairly good drawing cards They The have home games at Wrigley field alternating with the he Los Angeles club When one of these teams was on the road the theother theother theother other played at home Tony Lazzeri New York Yankee second baseman is the last of the theold theold theold old Bees who is still pla playing ing in the majors and Tonys Tony's days are arc num- num bored Lazzeri known here as em up Tony was one ne of the he most popular players to ever everdon everdon everdon don a Salt Lake u uniform Frank ODoul manager of ot the San an Francisco Seals and a former Bee left the tho majors a year ago to pilot the coast team