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Show M'CARTHY HEADS COAST LEAGUE Decides to Accept Re-election to Presidency After General Requests SAX PBAKCI8GO, Jan 7. William If. McCarthy announced here lust night thai b bad decided to P I In presidency Of th- Pacific Coast Baseball league, to which he recently was re-elected His final decision came, be said, after Presidents Louis Mot-nip. ,r Cal EwmK and C. n sirup, of the Sacramento, Sacra-mento, Oakland and San Francisco clubs, Secretary George Putnam and Ifanager t'harles Graham of the San Francisco elub had called on him and urged him once more. In view of ihelr plea. McCaith declared, to stay out of the presidency would be an Injustice In-justice to them. l 1 PLEAS M ni McCarthy's statement was as follow fol-low .-. 'I have consented to reconsider my determination and to accept the presidency presi-dency of the Pacific I'oast league because be-cause of the demand i hat h.v come from all sources. The fans up ar.d down the coast have besieged me with ictteri the baseball writers for the dlffi rent newspapers have been equal-1 equal-1 insistent; a great number of the players have cither visited or written mo. Men in all walks of life havi ursed me t. remain, anil finally tho request has come in uch a form from i be owners of the different teams thai i can not refuse the call IPIR i INI! s i VLL, "line would be less Ihsn human not to be appreciative and grateful fur the sentiments thai have been ex-presse'd, ex-presse'd, even though it Is iho love ,,f the game rather than of the Individual that inspired them. ir ever then was a doubt in mj mind as to the hold baseball has upon the people this experience has certainly removed It. "While ia) original decision w.tr, reached In anger, it was not in malice. I want to help not to hurt. Perhaps, like the cAIm that follows the Storm this will be productive of a clearer understanding, un-derstanding, a bitter feeling and a more harmonious and united effort for the real betterment, of the game. Then; Is and should be only one objective ob-jective for all who really love i.ase '..ill and that is to shield it from eve'rj suspicion and doubt, and to protect It In every reasonable way. To this nd 1 promise to bend ni every effort ef-fort " |