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Show SALE OF LINCOLN CLUB COMPLETED Lincoln, Neb., Jan. G. The sale of the Lincoln Western league baseball club and cranchise by Hugh L. Jones to the Lincoln Baseball & Amusement company, a stock company, was formally form-ally completed today with the signing of the contracts by the directors of the new concern and Mr. Jones. The sale price of the club was announced as 112,500. George R. Stone, formerly a member of the St. Louis American league team, now a banker at Coleridge, Neb., is the new president of the club. William Wil-liam ("Ducky") HolmeB, manager of the Lincoln club in 1906 and 1907 and later manager of the Sioux City Western West-ern league team, will again have charge of the local players. Manager Holmes announced today that he did not expect to keep many of the seventeen players turned over by Mr. Jones with the local franchise, but might use some of the men In deals for other players. |