St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-15
BALL ''FAHS, +" LOOK UP.
BELIEF THAT 4 WESTERN F3kNcHf- {
CAN BE SECURED
SUNDAY GAMES a NEcEs slTX.

mission to Play - Moore and
Costello to COX Friday Nightus
Mabcr Going Against a Cye-r
cIone-EiIiiard Gossip. ~
The Western Base Ball associat ion
is now AN assured fact. Five franchises
are practically placed. and three more
will certainty be awarded. The cities9
already decided upon are: Minneapes
lis. by John S. Barnes; Milwaukee, by
G. H. Cushman: Toledo. by c. q. Long,;
| Kansas City, by J. Ii. Manning; Detroit,
| by q. A. Vanderbeck. and indianapolis,
| by john T. Brush. 1t is proposed to
make the association a circuit of eight.
Among the cities applying for the three
remaining positions are st. Paul. Den
yer, Omaha, st. Joseph, Grand Rapids
and Rockford. 1t would seem that st.
| Paul. Omaha and Denver should be the
| three most available points. However.
/ it is understood that an objection Is
! urged against st. Paul in favor of Rock
ford, the assertion being thai, while
! Rockford is not seventh as large as
! st. Paul. it contains twenty times the
| enthusiasm OF his city, and would al
ford much larger patronage to the
| games than this place
| j. j. Ahern will be at the meeting of
the association at the Grand Pacific in
! Chicago on the 18th, and it is safe to be-
lieve that he will look out Tor the inter
ests of st. Paul. But if Mr.. Aheru
I must go to Chicrgo without the asSur-
ance that Sunday baseball playing will
| be permitted in the city, he will stand
no show whatever of winning. A dele
! CATION will interview Mayor Wright
upon the subject, and unless he gives
| positive assurance that Sunday play
ing will be permitted, the whole matter
! will be dropped so far as st. Paul IS
! concerned. There is no reason to doubt
that st. Paul will furnish a handsome
support for the games played here. and
the only thing standing III the way of the
city's entrance to the league is the want
of assurance of Sunday games. 1t is
believed that The mayor will gladly
grant the assurance. The probabilities
are, so it is stated. that the rules of the
national league will be adopted by the
Chicago meeting.
The sporting event of this week in the
! Northwest will be the athletic tOurna-
ment at the Twin City Athletic club Fri
day evening, when will occur the TWEEN
ty-round scientific sDarring match be
tween Buffalo" Costello and Dick
| Moore. This will be star performance
between two of the best of their class il
this line of work in the world. Dick
! Moore is the hero of a hundred of the
most brilliant contests ever brought off.
and has proved winner in every event
! He is so very clever that it is next to
! impossible TO score point upon him,
! He does not resort to smuggling, and no
| one has yet found an opening 10 admin
lister any smuggling upon him. He par
ries and ducks and lodges until his an
tagouist is worn out trying to score a
point, and through it all he improves
every opening to secure point upon
his antagonist.
Costello is cut after the same pattern.
II e, too. is the hero of a multitude of
contests with as good men of his class
as have been developed in any country.
| de is without doubt by tar the best
man Moore has been called upon to
meet. The outcome of the meeting will
be watched with great interest through
out the country, and many will be here
from remote parts of tile United States
to witness the coming match.
Moore Is training hard at the Phoenix
club under the handling of Tom my
Hogan. and Costello is in faithful train
ing Fort Smelling under the handling
of Sam Fitzpatrick, who trained Peter
Jackson for his contest with COrbett
two years ago.
Another striking event Friday even
ing will be the three-rOund scientific
contest between Billy Butts and John
McDonOugh. Shadow MaOer is train
ing Butts at the Twin City club. and
Young Collopy is training McDonOugh
at the Phoenix. These two men are
very evenly matched, and to forecast
the winner would be very good gamb-
ling game.
The carnival will include all kinds of
Roman sports, many of which have
never been seen i'll the Northwest, if in
the United States. They are pretty
and very exciting. These will he
among the most amusing features of
tn evening.
~
consin Cyclone, will meet at Fargo
Thursday evening tor a finish contest.
A special car will be run from the Twin
Cities to Fargo Thursday to accommo-
date all who desire to go.
Arrangements are making for con-
test between Shadow Maber and Dick
O'Brien at the Twin City club next
month. O'Brien is the lightweight
champion of New England. He has a
standing deposit in the office of the
Police News of New York of $500 to
meet any man in the world at weights
ranging between 142 and las pounds,
Dick Burge, Tom Tracy, Jack McAu-
life, Austin 5. Gibbons or Tom RYAN
preferred. Maber will have his hands
full Ill this match.
Now that the season of English bill
iardS in this country has come to a sud-
den close by the signal defeat of Ives
by Roberts at New YOrk-for which
Ives lays the blame to an injured hand.
while many claim that for the first time
in the history of American billiards a
match was iObbed by professional of
the first class it is worth while TO make
some comment. 1t matters little what
way his defeat was brought about: ii
can make but small difference in the
future. as the English style has not
come to stay. The games which took
place will soon be forgotten in the re-
vival of the American championship at
the fOurteen-inch balk line style, which
was forfeited by Ives to Schefer year
ago last summer, in Paris. Ives did not
9d " n N l.,
allowed the emblem to pass back into
} the hands of the donors, where it viii
probably always stay. ~
Two new tournaments are now ar,
ranging between Schefer, Ives and
SlOssOn-one at Chicago, the other at
: New York-to determine which shall
; be the American champion once more