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Show HUELSMAN MAY LEAVE SUET LAKE Salt Lake, Jan. 16. The Salt Lake club is threatened with the loss of Frank Huelsman.. Huelsman has written an earnest request re-quest for his release. He says he has an offer to manage a team' in Akla-honia Akla-honia and that he would like to take it up. The offer he says is very alluring. al-luring. Huelsman says thnt he came to the Salt Iake club last year with the distinct understanding that he w-as to be a free agent at the end of the season should a managerial position come his way. Now that the leadership leader-ship of a good club has been tendered him he would like to be officially let of; by Salt Lake. As soon as the letter was received there was much alarm. ' We surely can't afford to let the bir fellow get away from us," declared President George O Relf. Whereupon Mr. Relf sent some sizzling sizz-ling telegrams to Herbert Hester Salt Lake's manager for 1914, directing him tu gel In touch with Huelsman at once and to leave nothing undone to induce the hitting wonder to join hands with Salt Lake again this year. Huelsman is at his home in St. Louis. It would certainly be a calamity were Salt Lake to lose Huelsman. Last year Huelsman batted .422. He participated par-ticipated in 122 games, which Is the number Salt Lake played, meaning that the big fellow was in every game. He got exactly 200 hits, 22 of them homeruns, 20 three-baggers and 36 doubles. He batted In 126 runs |