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Show UC AS PUTS FORTH A WEIRD LINE OF ARGUMENT rne 1eiegrm w m recetpt of a clipping from the Spokesman-Review of Spokane, containing an article by W. It. Lucas; ex-president ex-president of. the Pacific National league. The clipping was accompanied by a request re-quest by John J. McCloekey that the article ar-ticle be reprinted in The Telegram. Mr. Lucas says that Spokane will ba In his Northwest league this coming season, although he does not say how he will dls-j dls-j pose of Mr. Williams and the present Spokane Spo-kane club. He denies that Williams was . offered $1500 to step down and out of the baseball control at Spokane. Much of Mr. Lucas article is devoted to roasting Mr. Williams. He says that Wll-Hams Wll-Hams was disloyal to the Pacific National In that he tried to break Into the Pacllic Coast league with Spokane, and says that he did this without letting the other clubs of the Pacific National know what he was trying to do. Also that Mr. Williams de-aired de-aired to end the Pacific National season a month before It was over, which was prevented pre-vented by Lucas, much to the betterment of the standing of the league. Lucas also says that he was requested by President McMillan of the Boise club to return the protection fee which was deducted from the draft price ot Player Starkells. McMillan saying that Boise would not be In the league this season. He bases his statement to Secretary Far-rell Far-rell of the National association on this statement of Mr. McMillan. He also say; thst Williams of Spokane protested against the deduction of the protection fee from the draft price of Pitcher Hogg, who was drafted by theNew York Americans. Amer-icans. He says that the demand of Boise, for the protection fee was equivalent to a forfeiture of the Boise franchise. He calla the recent meeting in Butte a "fake" meeting, and saye that the national na-tional board is with him to the last man, and thst he has not misrepresented facts. He also says that he has not misappropriated misappro-priated any funds, and that he did not state that he did not have the books with him when they were asked for at tne meeting In Spokane on September 30. lie maintains that it doea not Imply that he has been guilty of sharp practice becauea fie refuses to give up the books to Mr. Williams, who was designated at the Butte meeting as the person to receive them. He says that the books are balanced bal-anced to a penny, and that they are of no use to him, and that he will give them up to any one to whom they properly belong. He argues, however, that they belong to nobody, as the Pacific National is dead, and so refuses to give them up. He concludes con-cludes as follows: . "This territory belongs to the Northwestern North-western league, which will furnish good, llvelv, snappy and clean ball to Spokane and the other cities In the circuit. This we will guarantee. Yes, Spokane will have a flrst-class manager and a flrst-class flrst-class tesm in the Northwestern league. That is a certainty." |