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Show NEWARK MAY HAVE FEB TEAM Former Yankee Scout Has an Eye on New Jersey Franchise. Newark. Jan 23 This city, a home of Sunday baseball, is likely to have a Federal league club soon. Arthur Irwin, the former Yankee scout, is now the head of a syndicate which has au eye on the Newark franchise and if Jimmy Gllmore, the Federal league president, can obtain $00,000 for the Kansas City club. It is currently reported re-ported in metroiolltan circles he will turn it over to the Irwin bunch. For tome time the Newark International Interna-tional League club, owned bj the Ebbets-McKeever combination of i Brookhn. has been subjected to severe se-vere attacks in the Newark newspa- 1 pers which are now advocating a Fed. j eral league Invasion of that city. Ir-win Ir-win has madp frequent visits to the i New Jersey metropolis and is said to have encouraged these attacks with the idea of creating sentiment for the Feds Tries to Sell K. C. Franchise. Gilmore has tried in vain to sell the Kansas City franchise to would-be-1 promoters in Cleveland aud Toronto, but the price asked has been a lead lng obstacle. A week ago It was re-ported re-ported that new capital had been sc-1 cured in Kansas City, but it Is known j that the Feds d not euro to keep that town in their circuit The admission of Newark with Sunday' Sun-day' games is advocated on the ground that Pittsburg could be shifted to the western wing of the circuit Buffalo, Newark and Baltimore, it is argued, would provide a more compact eastern wing with Pittsubrg. Chicago, Indianapolis Indian-apolis and St. Ix)uls in the western section Trwin has been talking mysteriously about a "new club" lately, and baseball base-ball sharps seem to think that he will bob up with a Fed club In Newark |