Show I Of I JUt Y LEAGUE I SnAKY AGAIN I President Lucas Holds Out 1000 for Two Months' Months I Salary The exchanges and pis from fromI I the tho cities comprising the circuit of the ill-fated ill Intermountain league would I lead one to believe that t the e Fourth is wobbling of July or organization again I bling badly on its last pe peg pegs s even now that it has been converted into a Montana Montana Mon Mon- tana State league Judging from the manner in which the good players are jumping that organization organization or or- for greener fields would also bear out the dispatches Clyde Hall Fred Annis Annie and Slim Slim Marshall have deserted Farnsworth at Bozeman Case has left Marshall without a third baseman baseman baseman base base- man at Butte Woods and Pender have also jumped and several others are reported reported re re- re- re ported as being on on their way vay The reports which were sent out to the effect that large crowds are turning turning turn turn- ing lug out to see Farnsworth's team at Bozeman are far from being correct Joe Toe Marshall on his Ms return to Butte gave out the statement that the total receipts at Bozeman in the opening game was just 86 the equivalent to admissions or about as much as Farnsworth was in the habit of taking in for grand gland stand alone in a Saturday Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- day game here A report from one of the tho Montana towns this mornin morning is is that many of the players layers in the new league are arc practically stranded Pender is reported reported reported re re- re- re ported to have returned to Boise after havin having been successful in working the tho mana manager er for just enough money to buy a n ticket on Marshalls Marshall's Butte bunch has about all flown the coop although it is taid eaid that Colonel Owens is still still on CD the job job buying t the tho he boys boysan meal an occasional William Wiliiam H. H Lucas the man who started started started start start- ed the thO league and who said he would show the people how to make malte a success of the league league and and you better get into the band wagon and boost is about the only man who has come through the storm financially better than he went In Lucas had nothing to lose at the start and made each of the clubs put up as a guarantee guaran guaran- tee Now It is stated that he has charged 1000 for his two months' months salary The one great trouble with the entire to gO crowd be that at i the each i head Is t of lh the et league get out appears fP withas with withas as little loss as possible All through the season one has been watching the other to see that neither would spring something something something some some- thing unawares unawares all all were afraid that the oth Others rs might be pulling something from the bottom of the deck and the result was that they all forgot all about their ball teams and the patrons of the game It was laughable to see eee and Barnes In their maneuvers Some of ot the things which transpired will make good future reading matter Farnsworth appears to be the only man In the entire brigade among those who had their own money at stake who acted seriously and who dug Into his pockets good and hard It sounds fishy to hear Johnnie Barnes Con or William Villiam Lucas say that they lost any money in fn the venture It Is to laugh |