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Show Lira CAN'T BUY FRANCHISE Western League Moguls Will Offer Rights to Denver Next LINCOLN, Neb.. Feb 22. Failing to land a Western league franchise in Lincoln, President Te'arney and his committee will make an effort to sell tho franchise to Denver. An entire day of dickering wu spent. President Tearney staled that he had received sn extension of time to locate u franchise and instead of bo-lng bo-lng open on February -4 the cerrl-l . lory will bo reserved to tho WVstcrn league until March 3. This would give the league, he believed, time to get rid of tne Joplln franchise. E. E. Duncan, tho only Lincoln man interested inter-ested In landing the Joplin franchise, would not meet th terms demanded. Ho -declared that the league wanted too much money for the franchise, ; and too much outside expense was necessary to mako the proposal alluring. allur-ing. The amount askd w.is not disclosed dis-closed "Pa" Rourke. of Omaha, 13. W. Hanlon, Sioux City Charles Spiking, Spik-ing, and Charles Dox'.er of Des Moines and Tox" Jones of Wichita, Kansas. j and two Sidney, Neb., men. C. Atkinson At-kinson and W. L. Wh'.tlock, were tho others who wero interested In locating locat-ing :t club In Lincoln. President Tearney eald Sioux Falls, South Da- Icota, had phoned an offer of $20,000 but tho league could not consider ic. I oo |