Show LOCAL BASEBALL r rIS IS IN A FINE MESS MESSI I t l' l Club Matters Bad Shape for fot 0 1915 1 f The question What have W we In Inin Inin inin in the shape of organized baseball U next season is furnishing a of material for gossip right no now one seems to know who's who or though j Organized baseball locally has b be left in itt such shape that it will wUl take whole army of or Philadelphia lawyers lawyers untangle it next nett season Several Sc persons interested are arc already aready al a a aready ready doping out a league for next s. s son ROD on with Ogden Pocatello Bo Boise ai au Salt Lako Lake as a nucleus but no DO one a pears to know where to start In the first place an organizer needed and he must have ha-e some mon monto monto mon monto to work with Next this torr t must be and it will ta ts tai money and aud hustling to do ta that Th Tb also who is going goin to find lind a way ont out the tho present mixed up state of fla rani this city 7 Tho The Salt Lake club quit tho the Sc head over ocr heels in debt aud abd some of 1 debts must be paid D bv anyone T w iv chooses to tako take hold o ot tho the local fr frai ha chise next year because organized ha a ball will insist upon that Then t tim the courts couris may insist that certain ot oil debts must be paid raid It is is doubtful i if the stockholders wh are arc ro interested in iu the tho be present franchise franc l I to the extent of about will vill iu put up any more mo money ey t to retain their present interests or to finance another team The Tho manner in which most ot o them responded to the tho recent assessment assessment assess assess- ment levy lev at any rate does not lent lend any auy encouragement Time The present corporation corporation cor- cor oJ 1 po ration is broke to be bo frank franl about it and what is more it has numerous hanging over its hea head The organization of another league this winter will not bo be a a- difficult matter matter matter mat mat- ter but will wilI the new a agree to toa a assume tho present franchise franchiso and ana plank down about at the very least leat to start with 1 Tho The unpaid p players players' salaries will have ve veto to bo ho settled of course as as the national board will never grant rant Salt Lake protection protection pro pro- again agnin until the players are arc paid in full fuJI for tho sal salaries set out in th their ir contracts not on side agreements however how bow ever Organized baseball will probably not have havo a ri right ht to insist that the other debts of tho 1914 1014 club be bo paid and a anew now new corporation could therefore find it out But would that be l tho o o right j 7 wa way to I go about it s is As things no now stand any per person on or persons b by making the tho pr proper per Continued on pare pace 9 I LOCAL BASEBALL Continued from front sport page pac tion and sending in tho the necessary ary fee fcc can secure protection for this territory and after paying payin the 1014 1911 players players' s eai- eai l laries aries ancs that remain due i ignore noro tho the present pres ent cut stockholders of the Salt bait alt Lake club According to Secretary Farroll Farrell of the national board Salt Lakes Lake's present stockholders have havo lost their protection on and really havo have nothing to show for their mono money In other words this is open Hopen territory Persons eo so inclined could form a anew ne new corporation i ignore ignore the present stockholders and circumvent every in incurred by the 1014 1914 cor corporation corpo o. o ration except tho the J salaries which remain unpaid Even at that that- however cr organized baseball might some da day rule that certain of the old debts will have ha to be met by uy the tho new v corpora tion Yes it its it's g a pretty mess and anyone who starts out to give give Salt Lao Lako or organized organ au baseball in 1015 will win have hav to do 11 sonic some figuring This Thie ha has bas been a bad 3 year car all over the tho I country and it i 13 s unfortunate that Salt Lake Lako had bad to find itself with a biggor bigger b bito to than it could chew during such anad an ad adverse eTSO season There is also still some borne talk about a apo po possible sible berth in the Coast league and it is learned that several everal local boosters are arc planning Claiming to attend the tho annual fall meeting of that or organization aJ with aview a view of putting in a club It Jt will tako all alt kinds of mone money to ta float such n a scheme and after that to straighten out tho 1914 1014 mess |