Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-05-01 | Page 26 | Landis to Hear Coast Protest

Landis to Hear Coast Protest SAN FRANCISCO May 1 I UP UP- UP Backed by Harry Wolters Welters Stanford Stanfor baseball coach and director of ot th the I American Olympic games Edward Edwardl Slip SUp Madigan militant St. St Marys Mary's I college coach to today ay sought to enlist enlis the aid of the Pacific Coast confer confer- ence in m protesting the signing o ot of Francis Kelleher St. St Marys Mary's third baseman by the New York Yan Yan- kees Madigan said he would ask members members members mem mem- bers of ot the conference to regard th the Kelleher case as a showdown test tes with the tho major leagues in the matten matter mat mat- ten ter of the big circuits raiding eel col college lego lege athletic teams and lodge an official complaint with Kenesaw Mountain Landis baseballs baseball's high higi coal commissioner missioner It was learned Kelleher now a sophomore at St. St Marys Mary's plans t to quit school and join the Yankees a aa as asa asa a rookie on one of the clubs club's farms He is regarded as the outstanding Pacific coast intercollegiate player