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Show LEGION MAN IS IN BASEBALL John J. Sullivan, Author of Slnckor Resolution, One of Purchaser! of Seattle Club. A fust hiiMi'hnll club for Scuttle Is one of the ulins of John J. Sullivan of Sent tie, nil active member of tho Aniorli'iin Ieglon. lie has Joined Wnde Klllet'er, formerly manager of the I,os Angeles eliih of the Pacific Const league, nnil Charles J. Locluird, well-known Washington huslness innn In the purchase of the elul). Harry Wolverton, are-ot'-nianagers of pen-nnnt-chaslng hull cluhs In tho West, was selected to lend the club. Sullivan was horn In Massachusetts, but preferred the thrilling environment environ-ment of the West to the classic surroundings sur-roundings of Cape Cod. lie arrived In Senttle In 1904 nnd set nhout to i John J. Sullivan. complete his education In law In the University of Washington. A poor boy, Sullivan paid his way through the school by holding down a job in the post office. After his ndmlsslon to the legal profession, he became assistant as-sistant United States district attorney, attor-ney, and later assistant to the attorney attor-ney general in Washington. In tills legal capacity he served as counsel In many of the most Important cases In the West, among them being the prosecution and ultimate conviction of I. W. W. members, who shot down four members of the American Legion In Centralia, Wash., on Armistice day, 1920. Eleven of the thirteen accused men were convicted. Another case of Importance with which Sullivan was connected was that of the defense of Madalyn Obenchain and Arthur Burch, nccused of the slaying of J. Belton Kennedy, who were freed after three juries had failed to convict them. Sullivan's connection with baseball originated when he participated In the case of the Seattle Pacific Coast league club against gamblers who sought damages from park owners for their ejection. The Supreme court ruled against the gamblers, the de-?ision de-?ision now being frequently used to invoke the right of eviction in other .'ities. On winning this case, Sullivan ssociated himself with the new purchasers pur-chasers of the Seattle baseball club, md Is out to help win the pennant. During the war Sullivan was an nlisted man in the military intelll-;ence intelll-;ence section, playing a prominent part n the settlement of strikes among gov-;rnment gov-;rnment workers in the Northwest dur-ng dur-ng the war. He was one of the incorporators in-corporators wf the American Legion, vhen congress officially established he organization. He was the author f the "alien slacker" resolution idopted by the Legion, and was named o head the Legion's first national 'ommittee on the Japanese question. |