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Show IBEES RETURN TO SALTjLAKE CITY Successful Series With Oaks Ended and McCredie's Outfit Out-fit Now at Home. STANDING OF CLUBS. Won Lost. Pet. Salt Lake 32 26 .552 Los Angeles 34 28 .548 Sacramento 29 27 .518 San Francisco 29 33 .46 Vernon 29 33 .4fi.S Oakland 27 33 .450 SALT LAKE, .June 4. President Billy Lane of the Salt Lake club returned re-turned yesterday from his Jaunt to San Francisco, where he attended the meeting of the Pacific Coast league directors, di-rectors, and where, incidentally, he performed the act of keeping the .league in a state of cohesion, adhesion and stick-togetherness. Bill won't admit ad-mit that he did this, but even partisnn dispatches from San Francisco give liill the credit for it. Lane says that, while condition were regarded by the club owners as exceedingly discouraging, there was no talk in the meeting of ousting either Salt Lake or Vernon, or both. The owners of the San Francisco and Los Angeles clubs calculated that they would lose more money by closing down than they would by continuing. In the eent of closing their parks they would still have to pay tremendously high rentals called for by their leases, and, since everything would be goin' out and nothin' comln' in, they would be much better off by a continuance ot the pastime The Bee chief reports that he left the magnates in a much better frrme of mind than they were when the meeting opened. At the finish, 'he-were 'he-were all of accord that the league should go through a? it stands; that is. unless the "work or fight" order should now operate to take all the ball pla -ers. As to Railroad Rates. It now appears that the proposed increased in-creased 'railroad rate.-, will hit the league less severely than at first was thought According to a more or less authentic report, excursion rates, while abandoned in the east, will be continued in the west, but at increased rates. Under the rates mentioned, clubs traveling between the coast and Salt Lake would enjov a party rate of something like S4S, as compared with $40 now. There would be added to this, however, the additional charge of $5 each way for standard sleeping car taransportation, exclusive of the berth fare. All told, the cost of hauling a ball player to and from San Francisco or Los Angeles would be 69, as compared com-pared with about ?54 under the present pres-ent charges. All of this, of course, is far from being official, and the rates may be higher than these figures would Indicate. Indi-cate. However, it seems safe to say that, unless there is some patriotic reason for the league discontinuing, it will go through, and the owners will shoulder whatever deficit there may j be at the end of the season. nn |