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Show ,llv, io L. ,ill i Oil r il PUI,IPI1R-CS33 LEAGUE TcuU Form a Circuit With Salt Lake the Only Line Town in the Entire List. y Walter Wilmct, the manager and chief owner of the Butte club inthe Paclflc National league, la In the city for the purpose of consulting: the Salt Lake magnates and of getting tome definite idea of what will be forthcoming forthcom-ing the next season. Of course, Wllmot has a scheme already al-ready framed-up. It would not be Wiley Walter if he did not. He proposes that the Pacific National cut out the coast towns entirely the coming season and form a plx-league club composed of Salt Lak, Ogden, Butte. Helena, Great Falls and either Billings or Missoula. How Wllmot expects anyone to make money vith a league like that unless they( hire a lot cf brushers and farmer boys to do the playing 1& hard to see. In the first place. Salt Lake is the only live town on the entire list. Wllmot was barely able to finish out the season at Butte last summer and the closfng games were played to empty benches in the copper burg. Ogden has never ehown that the baseball attendance was going to break down any bleachers on account" of overcrowding, and Helena was so poor a ball town that the club went to pieces two years ago from lack of patronage. Great Falls is a good little lit-tle town, but could by no means afford ot support such a ball team as the fans In this town, demand. Wllmot cracked his plate with the Butte fans last season, sea-son, and cannot expect great concessions conces-sions or attendance next season on account ac-count of his wile of the good Butte players play-ers at the end of the season and their replacement with a- lot of dead ones. It Is to- be hoped that the Salt Lake magnates will turn a deaf ear to any such proposition as Walter suggests. The baseball situation here is precarious enough as things stand, without any more mistake |