St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-05
THE TROUBLE SPREADS.
Kansas City's Rival Clubs Enc
brOiIing the Big Leagues.

Another move has been made in tho
Kansas City imbrogliO, says the Sport
ing Life, and further complications have
ensued, and there is every probability
of the biggest kind of alrOw-a row so So
rious, in fact, as to perhaps endangeI
the national agreement, as the Americar
association appears determined to hell
the Kansas City Western club at AMI
and every cost. Full details of the latest
phase of the trouble cannot be given il
this issue, but an outline of the facts
will serve: The Western association
at its spring meeting in Chicago, weeR
before last, made a blunder and weak
ened its case by changing the franchise
of the Kansas City member from Mr.,
Menges individually to the Kansas City
Western association. The association
club has seized this technicality, and
upon it based another demand for the eX
pulSlon of the Western club. The
point is raised by the association club
that the transfer of the franchise makes
new club of the Western association,
and that under Section of the na
tiOnal agreement it cannat play in terri
tory already occupied by a club party
to the national agreement. OF course,
this is merely technicality, as mere
change of ownership of franchise does
not or should not affect the priority OF
occupation, but it may serve. The
Kansas City association has asked for
another immediate meeting of the
board of arbitration to decide the right
to the Kansas City territory under the
new point raised and the association is
backing up the demand, Secretary
Byrne being specially active i'll assists
ance. Chairman Rogers, however, has
declined to call a meeting at present on
the ground that there exists
NO LEGAL NECESSITY
for such meeting. He has written the
members of the board as to the proper
course of the board in the matter. Ha
holds that, even granting the correct>
ness of the position taken by the assOci-
alton CLUB under the sixth article, that
club can make no move against West
ern club until that club has actually
played game in Kansas City; then the
Western association must be notified OF
the violation of that section by one Ot
its members, the penalty of which is exc
pulsion by the Western league. Tho
Western league failing to act. the mat
ter becomes an issue between tw0
leagues and the interference of tha
board of arbitration can then be in-
and legal way to bring the case once
more before the board of arbitration,
1t is certain, however, that the board
will sooner or later be called upon ia
again pass upon the question, and then
will come the tug-of-war. The associa-
ton members of the board of arbitration
are evidently in.with their eighth club in
every contingency, and only the league
members of the board now stand be-
tween the Kansas City Western club
and destruction. Upon the last conSid-
Grafton of the case the board was equally
divided, the association members
unitedly voting for their club, while the
league members, to a man, stood out
for the minor league club, state of af-
fairs which has already led to some cold.
ness between the two big leagues. Al
the next hearing another tie may leava
the case in the same irritating tangle,
and row between the two big leagues
or conflict between the united minor
leagues and the major leagues would be
among the pOSSibilitieS