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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1901
Page
3
A planning note warns the proposed Intermou League faces weak support and possible collapse. Key officials assess challenges in governance, scheduling, and member commitment while weighing future coordination across teams and venues.
The Intermountain baseball league may fold due to unsatisfactory Oregon Short Line rates. Salt Lake President Critchlow seeks rail fare reductions, with key clubs from Salt Lake Ogden Pocatello Butte Helena Great Falls uncertain. If rates fail, Butte Helena may join the Pacific Northwest league, while Spokane lands Jack Grim and reshapes its roster.
The Seattle Times notes W. T. Lucas and Jack Grimm are top candidates for key posts as Seattle weighs a six team Pacific Northwest league in 1902. Lucas reports strong support in Montana for adding Butte and Helena, rail rates hinder expansion, and salaries may rise to attract better players. Seattle, under P. E. Dugdale, is expected to field a strong club while Portland and Tacoma face management questions.
The Seattle Times reports Perry Quenan seeks a Seattle bout with Cal Hawkins after Hawkins balked at a five percent gate commission. Promoters may match Quenan with Young Gibbs if Hawkins refuses, with Quenan pledging $100 to bind a fight. Quenan to Sacramento soon, aiming for the championship. Mose Lafontaine referenced as an inquiry.
Special Correspondence from San Francisco reports that pugilist wives in New York want boxer manager Biddy Bishop to help reform their negligent husbands. He declines to act, citing possible disfavor among married fighters, and suggests recruiting Harry Corbett to organize the effort. He questions the constitution and bylaws of the proposed society.
A local paper comments on social reform schemes to improve wives social skills and curb vice, suggesting an educational institute run by grass widows to keep husbands at home. It also reports on Foley and Thomas after their Sunday twenty round draw, with Foley ready for another match against Young Jackson and a $2 side bet anticipated.
New Orleans track reports show the Rush winning the fifth race at 6 to 1 odds. Stewards suspend trainer E Trott er pending investigation after a bad prior meeting, and jockey Otis is banned for the remainder of the meeting for his ride at Luommeruck. Results list winners Hutch Miller Cadet Dagmar W D G Gates The Rush Donator and others across six races with times noted.
Olympia dispatch to the Post Intelligencer reports Attorney General Stratton replying to Governor Stogers on the status of the Northern Securities Company in Washington. Stratton notes foreign incorporation, interstate commerce, stock ownership actions, and cites Waters-Dierce v Texas and Standard Oil cases while outlining uncertainties about possible state action and whether a trust or unlawful combination exists.
The Marietta left Colon for Puerto Rico after a quick visit to Nombre de Dios Colombia where interests in mining establishments reported danger from unrest. With a brief stay the ship continued to San Juan as planned signaling no major threat requiring her detention.
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