St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-03
"Unele Dick" Unanimously
Chosen President of the
Western Association.
The Choice Of a Secretary
Postponed to 10 O'Clock
This Morning.
Horton Said to Be Seeking to
Succeed Himself in
Office.
Results of the Races Yester-
day at Nashville and
Elizabeth.

There was big crowd of diamond
emblazoned ahd well-dressed men
around the corridors of the West hotel
yesterday. They we're the owners,
stockholders and managers of the teams
represented in the Western Base Ball
association, and they were in Minneap-
oils for the purpose of attending their
annual meeting. The eight clubs
comprising the Western Base Ball asSo-
citation were represented as follows:
J. s. Mccormick and c. o. Brandt, of
Omaha; W. o. Finkbine and w. +.
Warfeld, of Des MoineS; w. l.. Van
Horn and Dave f. Rowe. Of Denver; A.
y. Taylor, of Milwaukee; K. h. Null
cahey, of Sioux City; Henry Hach,
Fred Glade and 5. @. Morton. OF Mill
neapOlis, and MesSrS. Thompson, Roach
and Poupeny, of st. Paul. The meet
ing of the board of directors was the
first business in order. The board is
composed of MeSSTS Mccormick, OF
Omaha; Finkinbine. of Des MoineS;
Dave Rowe, of Denver, and R. f. Null
cahey. of Sioux City. ST. Joseph has
representative on the board in Man.
ager Truckenmiller, but he was absent.
After
BARRING THE NEWSPAPER MEN
out of the room the board considered
Secretary MOrton's report, which
showed a balance of about $500 remain
Ing IN the treasury. The auditing COM
mittee. however, found a shortage of
about 20 cents IN the books, which Mr..
Morton paid. Attorney LOugbrake, of
Minneapolis, who represented st. JO-
Seph by proxy, as given chance to
make a plea for admission 10 the board
as a representative of Mr.. Truekeh-
miller. of the St. Joseph club. But the
application was denied on the grounds
that St. Joseph had forfeited the right
10 representation by the nOn-pay-
ment of dues. The st. Joseph
club was behind S245 for dues,
and the directors seized on
this violation of the constitution
not exclude them from the meeting of
the board. but by a formal vote declared
the franchise forfeited. Mr.. Long
brake, the ST. Joe representative, made
a strong protest for what he called JUS
tice. He reviewed the circumstances
attending the purchase OF the franchise
for 5000, and wanted the association to
take the franchise and sell it. As his
club owed the association S246 dues, be
was satisfied that the officers should de-
duet this amount from the money re-
ceived for tine franchise, but he wanted
the balance turned over to the st. JO-
seph Base Ball club. This proposition
did not meet with much favor, and the
board of directors positively refused to
take any action in the matter further
than TO declare the
FRANCHISE FORFEITED.
and the seat occupied by Mr.. Trueken-
miller vacated. Two contested games
were brought up for consideration. The
first considered was the game between
ST. Paul and Sioux City, which was
called by Umpire MeDermott and given
TO st. Paul. After considerable talk the
whole matter was tabled. which practi
cally gave st. Paul a victory. The sec
Ond protest also came from Sioux City.
which entered vigorous remOnsTrance
against the famous Sioux City-Milwau-
kee game, at which Pitcher BuTdick
officiated as umpire. 1t didn't take the
directors long to decide the case,
and when the decision. was
rendered IN favor of Sioux
city that club was richer by 800 than it
was before. The annual meeting of
the association was held in the evening.
President POupeny, of the st. Paul
club, opened the ball by moving an
amendment to the constitution, prOvid-
ing for the consolidation of the offices
of president, secretary and treasurer.
Then there was a big wrangle.
Four of the clubs were opposed to the
proposed change, and after considerable
time had been spent in Speechmaking
the motion to consolidate the offices was
defeated. There was more or less dila-
tory talk which in no way pertained to
hi ~,
had apparently forgotten that there was
any business to transact when Presi-
dent
MCCORMICK RAPED
sharply on the table and said: Gentle
men, election of officers is now in ord
er." Sam Morton, of Minneapolis
nominated j. S. Mccormick for the Of
fee of president and treasurer, and
Uncle Dick" was elected by acclama-
ton. Before any one could be nOmi-
mated for the secretaryship, some one
moved to adjourn until this morning.
aud the motion was carried. What will
be done at the meeting to-day, no one
can tell. Secretary Morton has declared
time and again that he would
not be a candidate for re-elec-
ton, but all day yesterday he
was pulling every wire that he could to
SECURE Jne OIilc6t III GnlS lie was ABLY
seconded by his partner. Henry Hach,
who took the delegates under his es-
pecial care after the meeting adjourned,
The arrival of Jim Hart, the ex-man-
ageT of the Boston league team, who
has been mentioned for the secretary
ship. helped in measure to complicate
matters. Mr.. Hart said last night
that while he would accept the office
If rendered him he was not going
TO make a fight for it. 1t was
also conceded that If Morton could not
secure the Office himself he would
throw whatever influence he had to c.
c. Chase, of Oshkosh. President Nc
C0rmick is loyal to Morton, and will do
what he can to keep him in his present
snug berth. The meeting his called for
this morning at 10 O'Clock, when the
question will be settled.