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Show iJ FAILURE TO GET GROUNDS American Lcajue's Offer for land in Hew York Is Rejected. NEW TORKi Jan. S. The proposition proposi-tion presented to the directors Of he Interborough' Rapid Transit company by John B. McDonald to buy the prop-' prop-' erty on Lenon avenue, between One Hundred and F'orty-flrst and One Hundred Hun-dred and Forty-third streets, and then lease it to the American Baseball league for a site in this city, has been rejected. reject-ed. Men interested- In baseball were omewhxt amazed when they heard of this failure. ' Hector ClemenB,' a director of the American league, who is in the city, said, however, that it was another league than the American that made the offer to the Rapid Transit company. He paid - that the league had already obtained ob-tained suitable grounds here. |