St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-28
DIAMOND DOINGS.
A Disagreement Between Mr.. Hunter
and His Team Results i'll New
Manager.
St. Paul Walloped Yesterday by Terre Haute
in an Exhibition Game.
league and American Association Records
Compiled to Saturday Night
Chanae of Management.


AZ a meeting of the directors of the st.
Paul Base Ball association yesterday, at the
West Seventh street park, it was decided to
release Manager Hunter and put in his stead
Mr.. A. NJ. Thompson, OF st. Paul. The
ground of the action was the failure OF the
manager and the players to work in harmony
The members Of the club have generally been
opposed to Hunters playing with them, be
ieying that Barnes should have been allowed
to play center field The dissatisfaction,
justly OF unjustly, grew day by day until last
Thursday, when petition, signed by all the
members of the team, was presented to the
directors asking for Hunters release, ac-
companied by the threat that they would
refuse to 90 on the tour OF the
league towns with him. The story goes
that Hunter suspected Foley of being the
ringleader in the attempt to have him re-
moved and sought to get the upper hand by
giving Foley his release. The members OF
the team then got their tempers up to l5O
degrees Fahrenheit and limited at such dire
things as wholesale designations, etc. Inc
directors next stepped in, and, after mature
deliberation, decided to bring the troubled
waters down to state Of calmness again by
change of management and the reinstate-
ment of Capt. Foley. The internal dissen-
sions of the club are to be deplored, and sub
sequent events will determine whether or not
the action of the directors was tempered with
wisdom. Mr.. Hunter, the retiring manager
is entitled to great credit for the work he has
done At this moment it should not be for
gotten that he came to ST. Paul after every
one of the Northwestern league
teams had been selected and made up the
St. Paul nine from the cuttings OF the
base ball clubs Of the country. The GLOBE
predicted then that st. Paul must necessarily
stand very low in the league, and what we
said has been fully verified, not from poor
management by Mr., Hunter, but from the
lateness of the day at which it was deter
mined to enter the contest. AS good players
have been available from time to time Mr..
Hunter has secuted share of them until he
has built the team to great strength, and it is
now one of the strongest in the league. Of
ten games played in two weeks eight of them
have resulted in victory for the home club,
two of them being taken from the champion
Grand Rapids nine. The finances of the
team, too, are in good shape. We under
stand the association has good balance in
the bank. The trouble has not risen from
the ine1liciency of Mr.. Hunter as manager,
but through a disagreement with certain
members Of his team. We trust Mr.. Thomp-
son, who now takes up the rcins, will be able
to keep his team well in hand for the re-
mainder Of the season. We have great faith
in his judgment of good ball players, and be-
lieve his management VIII be energetic and
successful. 1t is to be hoped there will be
no more discord in the team. Its members
should phil together and play ball to win in
everysgame The future of base ball in ST.
Paul depends almost wholly upon the result
Of the trip beginning tomorrow.