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Show wnimm of OUTLAW LEAGUE NEW YORK, Dec. 21. The United States League of Professional Baseball Base-ball clubs Is the name of an organization organi-zation formed here tonight, which proposes, pro-poses, according to its backers, to start an "outlaw league" this summer In the east with five cities New York, Brooklyn, Reading, Washington and Richmond as a nucleus, and Baltimore, Bal-timore, Newark, Pittsburg, Cincinnati and Buffalo as possibilities. William A. WItman of Reading, Pa former manager of the Pennsylvania State league, was elected president, secretary and treasurer of the league tonight, and franchises were granted to E. C. Langraf and J. G Lazarus of Richmond, Hugh McKinnon of Washington, Ambrose W. Hussoy of Brooklyn and to WItman for Reading Mr Witman said ho was not at lib-ertv lib-ertv to say to whom tho New York franchise would bo granted, hut. that "three prominent Wall street men .had been negotiating with him for it " oo |