St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-28

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The GLOBE sees in this general DISPOSE
ton TO sell out and get out state of
unrest which indicates very clearly
that the association will not live the
season through. Ii clubs are evincing
such yearning to stand from under
before the prospective great receipts of
July 4 are turned into various
yawning treasures. what will be
the state of things about July Is? Fran
chiseS which can now be bought for
few thousand dollars will be offered be-
fore the end of three weeks as gift.
Before the list of August at least two
teams will go on the financial rocks, and
not many moons later the association
will doubtless breathe its last. 1t is all
very pleasant to play ball for fun, and
advertise ones town for month or so,
but when it comes to going into ones
pocket for $500 and 81 600 at shot to
keep the uniformed athletes afoat, it is
just about as full of merriment as hav-
ing a fortnight's siege of infiamma-
tory rheumatism. Several gentlemen
who live not thousand miles from
Denver, Sioux City, Lincoln and Duluth
are having lot of fun of this sort right
now. and it is going to get aw.ully tire
some before the Ides of August. HI
spite of the fact that his team led for
weeks, Dave Rowe and his hackers have
lost money steadily Oh the Lincoln
team. st. Paul lost money heavily from
the middle of May till the team was
transferred to Duluth, and now Jay An
derson and other Duluth gentlemen are
taking a hand In the losing. Sioux
City has always lost deal of money,
and more is going where it will never
come back this year than ever. Denver
is also way In the hole. Van Horn put
up Doodle t+ strong oe early d ai in the
with Denver and Denver with
him two weeks ago and now the club is
in other hands, but is scarcely drawing
the guarantee money for the visiting
clubs. President Mccormick, too, is
watching the clouds and showing a dis
position to get in out of the wet If some
body will hand him an umbrella. His
remark about being behind on the sea-
son, is, however, probably not patterned
after Washington. Kansas City has
made some money. Minneapolis little,
and Milwaukee is a trifie to the good.
This is the situation. Four teams have
lost money and four have made little,
but the four which have made money
cannot carry the losers to the end of the
season. 1t looks like case of the in
evitable. What cannot live and thrive
must die. There is no middle ground.
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This being the status of base ball in
the West, it is hardly probable that any
ST. Paul gentlemen or syndicate of
gentlemen will buy franchise for this
city at this juncture. A man with half
an eye can see the breakers ahead. and
he would be a very foOl-hardy individ-
ual who would put up the several
thousand needed for park Oh the east
side of the river and team capable of
winning at least half its games. Any
gentleman having $1,000 or $4,000 with
which hes has an itching to part can
get more enjoyment out of 1t by taking
a trip to Europe than putting it into
base ball just now.
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Let it not be forgotten, however, that
st. Paul is just as good base ball town
as it lever was. But base ball fever is
something one has TO catch IN the early
spring in order to enjoy all of its de-
lights. ST. Paul had the fever this
spring, but twentythree doses of Wat
kins' pills turned it into a violent chill,
and the town will not recover until it is
touched by the winters froSts again.
The GLOBES advice to everybody Is
to keep cool and give base ball wide
berth the remainder of the season.
Next spring. if a syndicate of gentle
men will get together team which can
play winning ball, the fever will seize
the populace again and the syndicate
will make money.
Right here the GLOBE wishes to pay
its compliments to a trio of Mime
apolis scribblerS who are constantly cry
ing "St Paul is too poor TO support a
base ball team" This is libel. There
is nothing the matter with st. Paul.
The town is all right, butt has not been
given winning ball. The Sanity city
has been outrageously treated by sew
eraI gentlemen who acted on the prin.
eiple that anything was good enough
for st. Paul. They have all burnt theiI
fingers, and there is plenty of fire here
for others of the same Xix. Let some
one give us the best there is in stock
however, and see how the town viii
back it. The Minneapolis scribes who
write this kind of slush have probably
not lived in Minneapolis many years
Their attention is called to the base bal
teams which represented that enter
prising town under 'Bob'' Foster anC
Pope" Gooding. They did not draw
flies. 1t wasn't, however, because Min
neapolis was too poor to support team
On, no! Inc CLUBS SIOOQ near The 100
of the list, and the proud Flour city
merely waited until Morton put in
winning team. st. Paul is waiting.
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The fight going OH in the Western as
ISOLATION for the pennant is very prett.
one among Omaha, Lincoln and Mil
waukee. The last two are SO close tina
the percentage must be carried out fOu
places to decide which leads. The,
stand Lincoln .6037, Milwaukee 1904
The lead of Omaha over tn,
pair is about half game, so
all around the three could no
be much closer together. Minneapolis
too, is we'll IN the contest, and Kansa
City is by no means out of it. Of tn
other three Duluth is playing the hes
ball, having won the last four game
and threatens very soon to move up
peg. In the National league ever,
club is below the 900 mark, rather re
markable thing after a season of tel
weeks. New York has had rather
bad week of 1t, aud Chicago has puile,
almost up in line. Boston and Cleve
land are both gaining. and Philadel
phia, in fifth place, is only ninety-si
points behind New York. BrOoklyl
has moved down to sixth place again
but is still formidable candidate 70
the pennant. In the American associa
ton it is uip and tuck between BoStO
and st. Louis, with Baltimore clos
third. The other five teams do not aI
pear TO be in the contest. The record
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