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Show BASEBALL MEN REPORT SUCCESS Salt Lake, Nov. 19. Only one change was made In the body of officers of-ficers of tho Salt Lake Pacific Coast league for next year at a meeting of tho stockholders at the -Hotel Utah yesterday. That was to make Manager Man-ager William O'Connor assistant secretary sec-retary In the board of directors In addition ad-dition to his present duties. Officers placed at tho helm this past season were re-elected by acclamation. accla-mation. The ballot, or oven a standing stand-ing vote was unnecessary, the spirit between the persons assembled being that of harmony. Of the 1735 sharo3 of stock In the club. 1343 shares were represented at yesterday's meeting. This constituted constitut-ed a one-sided majority big enough to transact all tho business, and tho 1343-odd shares of stock certainly did transact It. In Manager O'Connor's reports to tho directors and club owners it was learned today that during the year 205,000 paid admissions were taken in at tho local gate, which amounted to $105,000 receipts. The average gate in Salt Lake proved stronger by a fair margin than that of any other town in tho Coast league, even surpassing that of San Francisco, although the general attendance at San Francisco showed slightly better than In Salt Lake. The total assets of the club were given at $49,319.30, with $13,770 of that wealth in tho banks, and $15,-000 $15,-000 in the franchise. Also it is to be noted the 1916 Coast league dues are paid, which always bespeaks well. |