Show PRESIDENT LUCAS DROPS OROS DEAD AT HIS HOME IN II MISSOULA i t 1 A Mont Sept Sopt 16 William William H H. Lucas president secretary and nd treasurer of the Union Association of ot Pr PrOte Professional Baseball Clubs dropped dead very suddenly at his homo home in this hiS city yesterday Death waa wae due to aortic c I I Mr l L Lucas cas had previously and tar for or several BC days ays complained of ot experiencing difficulty in breathing but bu his complaint com corn plaint was ws not doomed serious Death came very suddenly Mrs Lucas was in tho the act of ot placing a a. plaster l' l on his Ids chest whon when with scarcely a he c fell forward into her arms dead Durin During the tho season just closed those Interested in baseball in as 85 1 as others who have como coma in hi personal por per contact con t with him bim have ha learned to Lucas Lucus and his biB sudden sud ud den don death has bas occasioned real sorrow here Manager cr p of tho Missoula team and the officials of or the local league wore coro the first to ho bo notified noti JoU fled fied o of tho the death and have havo assisted in in m making tho funeral arrangements The Tho body will be bo sent ant to Portland for lor burial bur ial laI leaving ing Mi onla Wednesday ay B Besides his bis wife Mr Lucas leaves eaves a n stepdaughter to dau Miss oxy Boxy Smith of of- Portland Port JI JIto land a a. si sifter Mrs Henry henry- Randall of oc Portland and antI n lL brother William Lucas of Timber Valley VaHey Wash Tho stepdaughter step daughter ht r will arrive arrivo arrive hero here today tolay It is understood hero today that F. F of Great Grent Tails Palls vice vico co president pros pres ident of the Union association will come to Missoula at once onee and assume charge bar o of the tho associations association's affairs Never Been Seriously HI ru Mr Lucas it was said bad had never nover bt been en seriously ill in his life lifo but friends who knew him intimately h hero ro state that several days of strenuous work in connection with his report to have ha been submitted to the officials of the league at Lt th their ir meeting in Great arent Falls next week undoubtedly had much to do with bringing n about abon the thc sudden attack that caused death neath I WAS A GREAT ORGANIZER SPOKANE Wash WasIL Sept W. W. W H. H Lucas has hIlS been Identified IdentifieS with baseball In hi the w tom part of ot the country since the late eighties when he organized d the Northwestern le league ue which Included Duluth Minneapolis and St. St Paul with LucaR Lucas as m manager n of or the club That league was was' absorbed later by tho the AmerIcan American Amer ican lean association 3 Lucas come came to the Pacific Pa northwest In 1800 ISIO and organized the Northwestern I league e which Included Include Portland Seattle Spokane and Tacoma This Tills league lasted last last- ed d two years H Ho lie two years scars as manager er of the Kansas City club In the American association and then was In Inthe Inthe Inthe the lumber business In Wisconsin He to the northwest t In 1900 organizing or or- tho the Montana state Ita league ue In Including In- In eluding Helena Great Falls Faiia Butte Butte- and Anaconda Tho The following year h hf he organized the Pacific Northwest west lea league ue with the tile four towns town that ele In the Northwestern tern or organization He le was oona president of the league through four stormy pa seasons ol saw the tl league expand to fin nn eight club organization or or- and was driven out of ot northwestern baseball after the bitter bittern n fight ht between th the tho northwestern towns cities s. s Formed Union Association To Cuca was wu directed one of the peculiar orders ever recorded In the northwest The Tho superior super court of Spokane Spokane Spokane ane county issued an Injunction forbidding forbidding forbid forbid- ding J Lucas to organize conspire to or- or or to discuss dIscus baseball within the city of Spokane His JUs next organization was perfected In t 1303 to 05 When h he banded the Vancouver tr Everett Wash Wash WasiL and Victoria B B. C. C league Learue This organization tion was jollied Joined later b by Spokane Butte Mont Tacoma Wash Seattle and Portland PorUm Mr Ir Lucas was not elected o l president dent of at th tho Northwestern North league at the expiration of ot the season of or 1910 jo and Immediately Im tin- mediately be began an the or organization of or the Union association which has halt Ju just t closed its Us second season n. n TINE PINE TRIBUTE OGDEN Sept 16 John Jolin John J. J said s. today I have known William H. H Lucas for the past twenty nine y years and was as Intimately associated d with him much of ot this time During all of ot this time tim I rc regarded him hint as the squarest man In baseball la Its fact his firmness t on was r his only fault fauL As Ali regards reg his ability I believe be- be lIe lieve he was the tile b best baseball president president dent In tho the countr country barring barring- none Tt It Is almost certain that nope none had bad a 1 better knowledge of or baseball not only from the standpoint of or tho the game me It Itself It- It self but In tho th business end of the sport port The announcement nt of or his death dalh brings to m me one of the tuie greatest great- great z est et sorrows of or my life Ute |