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Show Gives Very Little Credence to Story of McCredies' Plan to Buy Seals. PORTLAND, Nov. 8. Knowing the situation here, very little credence is put in the story from San Francisco to tho effect that the McCredies are trying to purchase the San Francisco franchise. Judge McCredic laughs and denies it at this end, and Walter McCredie does from San Francisco. This does not make It so, but known conditions are against such a move. If either of the McCredies aro dickering for the franchise, fran-chise, it is Walter and not the judge. It is a well-known fact here that when Heriry Berry purchased the Seals the McCredies wore also bidding for the franchise, and offered Cal Ewing 250,000 for It This offer was not turned down, but the next thing the McCredies knew the club had been sold to Berry. The McCredies were not going to handle this deal alone. M. J. Branden-stoin, Branden-stoin, a well-known coffee merchant of San Francisco, was going to furnish a certain amount of the cash, and a downtown location had been selected to construct a new park. It is possible that Walter McCredie may have interested Brandensteln at present, and as he Is a very wealthy man could purchase the club if he wanted to. Tho McCredies themselves could not swing the deal without outside assistance, assist-ance, as they have lost in the negih-borhood negih-borhood of '$20,000 in tho last four years, and a great deal of Judge McCredies Mc-Credies property is in timber holdings, which have been very backward until lately. There may be something In the wind at that Judge McCredie had phoned President Blewett of the Northwestern league that he would go to Seattle on Tuesday night and hold a conference with him. Ho failed to go, and said later that he had an Important business busi-ness engagement here, and that he would go after Blewett's return from the minor league meeting at Louisville. Louis-ville. It seems peculiar that Walter McCredie Mc-Credie did not return with Judge McCredie Mc-Credie from San Francisco. Any negotiations nego-tiations from Sacramento could ho handled han-dled here as well as in California. The Portland president was extremely noncommittal non-committal when he returned, as far as giving any lighton Walter's plans were concerned. |