| Show Does Salt Lake Want to Get Into Coast League 7 1 Now Is the t Time to Act By W. W D. D B B. B Well gentlemen how about it Do wo we want to got get into tho the Coast league We Ve have talked a whole lot about a Coast league berth for the nast past ten or twelve years but wo we have never nover taken any any definite action in the way of making ma-liing a real effort to get one Tho The opportunity for admission to tho the Coast league is here all statements to tho the contrary not ing But wo we must act Indirect applications applications' J and letter writing will not turn the trick Several of tho the Coast league directors have llave not yet ct been warmed up to Salt Lake but they can bo be brought around to our way of thinking All AU that thatis is required is for some somo representative business man manto manto manto to go to tho the coast and there act net as 3 Tc Ten Te Rickard did cUd when ho landed lauded the tho Johnson fight plank fight plank down about in real money and indicate a desire de sire siro to do business Tho Tile city that will make tho the best bid for the tho forfeited forfeited for for- Sacramento franchise will laud land It Sacramento to and Seattle are aro really considered out of tho the question question ques quos tion by those who know v. Salt Lake and San Diego aro arc therefore the tho only likely towns If Ie the Coast league returns to Sacramento It will simply bo be a repetition of what happened last summer and this on top of a present indebtedness of ot approximately Cal Ewing of tho the San Francisco club looks kindly upon Salt Lakes Lake's application and McCredie owner of tho the Portland Beavers has come out o openly a 4 favoring this city It is therefore simply a a. Question question question ques Ques- tion of ot how much this city can cnn show tho A. A A. A directors directors tors in the way yay of e coin in and real sincerity This is a bad time timo of tho the year to broach roach tho the subject subject subject sub sub- of raising money for a a. ball t team am In Salt Lake After tho the holidays and when spring approaches c everybody talks baseball and it is not so 80 difficult a matter to interest moneyed men in baseball Now though is the tho time to act on that Coast league franchise A Coast league franchise would give tl this s city no Ito end of advert advertising There Thero aro are only two twenty big cities in the tho tho- tho United States that can boast of baseball class right next to the tho to two o major leagues It would mean 11 b baseball baseball base base- e- e ball bill of a a. class cias like liko that enjoyed by Baltimore Buffalo Milwaukee u ee Indianapolis Kansas City Columbus Louisville San Francisco Los Angeles and other big cities At a recent meeting of tho the Coast league the tho Sacramento Sac Sac- franchise w was s declared forfeited and a com coni- committee committee was named to investigate into tho applications of Sacramento San Sm Jose San Diego Seattle and Salt Lake From rom tho coast papers we wo learn that this committee will expect at least four weeks to think wa matters over It behooves Salt Bait Lake Lako therefore to jet get busy It has bas been stated that t it will mIl tale tako take t to buy tho Sacramento francl franchise but tho the chances chance are arc that it will not require anywhere near that amount of oC money The Tho Sacramento club owes ones approximately and unless c tho the franchise is sold to some other city it will be up to the league to meet this indebtedness There i isn't sn t a league loague in in tho country that has to spare this fall and if Salt Lake would agree to meet this amount and md also alm guarantee the tho Coast league directors that it means s 9 it is a safe safo wager that the tho franchise franchiso would come comp cro Wolverton Wolver- Wolver ton and Jacobs paid a good deal lell more than to Jack Atkin for the Sacramento fr franchise a few fw years ago A Salt Lake franchise in tho the Coast lea league would bo worth 51 and but for the tho bad year of 1914 1314 it would bo be cheap at t 2 It would give Salt Lako Lake five times that much good boosting and advertising Twenty thousand dollars lo s like Uke a whole lot of or money to turn over for a baseball franchise at this time timo of the tho year but it would look small amail in inthe inthe inthe the spring of tho the year especially for an AA berth Tho The extra tacked on to the tho Sacramento Sacra Sacra- mento debt by the other five Coa Coast league directors is iB to servo merely merel as balm a-balm a for the injured feelings of Wolverton and Jacobs and I will venture the guess that hat if Salt Lake will merely show a little pep pcp BO so that tho the directors can convince themselves them them- themselves selves relves that this city is serious and thon then if tills this city will agree arCe to pay tho the Sacramento debt of the Coast league will jump at the chance of landing another city with more than a hundred thousand population It certainly is worth trying for because the chanco may never nover come coine to us again What in addition to the tho purchase price would it cost to got get into the Coast league That Tha t depends If S Salt lt Lake were awarded tho the pick of tho the 1914 Sacramento club it would cost not to exceed to land laud a good club especially if the club had a manager manager man man- ager of the Cliff Blankenship type to develop young oung material There is not a manager in the Coast league or Northwestern league who has sent as many absolute absolute lute sand letters lotters to tho the big show and big minors as this same Cliff Blankenship who is now a resident of this city Thou Then there thero would probably also ilio have to be a now V park A few v thousand dollars dollarD though would fit Walkers Walker's s field into as fine a plant as would be bo needed until the club could begin to earn some money Salt Lake with 50 and nd cent 75 ball as ns It had in 1911 when Dick Cooley cleared about and with the increased attendance that would bo be sure suro to conic come with a a. class of or ball next to that of tho the majors could easily hold its own in tho the Coast lea league ie and perhaps make money in Los Angeles San Francisco and Portland also Just as tho the other Coast loague league clubs do How about railroad mileage That's just lust tho bono bone of contention with some of the true Coast league directors whenever Salt Lako Lake is mentioned over there thero If they will but take a 1 pencil and sit down to figure the they will arrive at results that will probably surprise them The train service between Salt Lake and Los Angeles and Salt Lake and San Francisco is bettor than that between either cither of the tha two California cities named and amI Portland Tho The service between here and Portland is also good is there much better bettel service than that furnished furnished fur fur- between hero and California by the tha present competing comp roads at an any rate A little figuring would also show the tho Coast league magnates that the railroad fare regular ar from froIn Salt Lake to Portland is 11 47 1713 cheaper cheaver than Ulan from Los Angeles to Lo Portland Tho The tiling thing can bo be worked out nicely but it remains for some hustler to get got busy immediately Cal E Ewing owner of the San Francisco club turned down an offer otTer of for his club theother tho the other day At that rate a Coast COlst league franchise ina in ina a a. livo live city like liko Salt Lake Lako ought to be bo worth orth or 01 25 23 It is is not at all impossible that tho the committee co which has for its purpose the tile selection of a successor to Sacramento will nil stop off in this city while en route to tho the annual minor Ica league meeting at Omaha November 10 0 This committee consists of President Allan T. T Baum Sauro Frank Fl-ank W W. Leavitt of Oakland and J. J Cal Ewin Evring of or San Satt Francisco |
