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Show rlKtUnril nllli American. That Cleveland will ba In tho National Na-tional leaguo again next season Is ths latest In tho baseball world, but whllo this rumor may attract attention clso where, It Is not likely to bo credited here, writes a Cleveland correspondent. correspond-ent. DIspntcLcs from tho cast stato that tho national organization Is anxious anx-ious to get a foothold In Cleveland again, but they do not stato how It Is to bo done This may bo all very well from a National leaguo standpoint, but there nro several other considerations, one of them Is tho American Leaguo and another Is Cleveland This city has had enough or tho Nntlonnl Leaguo methods as they aro conducted nt present pres-ent and It would only require n llttlo tlmo In looking over tho situation to ronvlmo tho magnates ot that organization organi-zation of tho fact One question put to Mr. Frank ilellass Itoblson, lata ot Cleveland, would undoubtedly elicit a convicting answer. The Amerlcnn Leaguo took n clmnco In Cleveland when tho othir organization organiza-tion declared that baseball was dead hero. Itcsults show that tho National league method and not tho gama were tho ruuso of tho downfall. When questioned about tho nbovo dispatch, tho owners of tho Amorlcan Leaguo rranchlso In this city smiled audibly. Neither Mr Kllfoyl or Mr. Somers toook tho matter seriously, "Wo will bo In Cleveland with nn American Leaguo team next' season," said tho former, ' nnd wo nro not open to propositions from the national organization" or-ganization" Tho second plan suggested would moot with more favor nnd It la considered consid-ered as qulto a compliment to tho American nnd ns ,qulle a comedown on tho part ot tho National League, which latter organization has evidently discovered dis-covered that It must meet tho former na an equal |