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Show "BILL", JOYCE DROPS OUT ! AT MISSOULA i i Fails to Sell Baseball Fran-! Fran-! cbise; Owes His Players. (Hpaclal to The Telegram.) ' MISSOULA, Mont., Aug. 18. Aftct unsuccessfully attempting to eel I the Missoula baaeball franchise laat night, William Joyce, who. earn here laat spring to assume control of, the local club in tba Union association,' threw up the sponge and ha quit tbe game. The player will probably be held together, to-gether, as a eompaay ie Deing formed to rarry tbe club to tbe end of the aea- on. ... Jovre leave owing hia mea approx- 7 imatelv $1200 and baa other debta also about 'town. The latter he will probably prob-ably nettle. The climax to a bad baseball base-ball aituation came yesterday when , only 1340 waa realized on aa advertised benefit double header for th playr. Of this Joyce ia said to have taken in about 12.r and refused at Jast night"" conference to give aa accounting.- The gate receipts, 114, and outaide aale are being held for distribution among tbe player. - |