St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-29
GOING TO FRISCO.
SOME WESTERN LEAGUE TEAMS
TALK OF WINTERING IN
CALIFORNIA.
ST. PAUL TO BE AMONG THEM
PROSPECT OF STARTING A PEN
NANT RACE IN THE GOLDEN
STATE.
FOUR TEAMS ARE TO BE IN 1T.
st. Paul, Kansas City, Milwaukee
and Detroit the Teams
Which Are Booked.

Capt. Comiskey and four other
managers in the Western league
have laid plans for a season of win
ter base ball on the Pacific coast
that is likely to not only net them
considerable sum of money, but
will keep their players in good trim
and ready for good work at the
opening of next season. AS soon as
the season closes here, Comiskey will
take his entire team as it stands
at present and locate them in San
Francisco for the winter. Manager
StroutherS will take his present
team to San Jose and spend the
winter there. Manager Manning, of
Kansas City. will likely locate with
his club at Los Angeles, and the
Milwaukee club will go to some 9TH
er enterprising town in the vicinity
They will start a. race for the pen
ant, and have already begun the
schedule. The teams will alternate
in the cities mentioned for regular
series of games, and an effort will be
made to interest the lovers of base
that the venture may be a paying
one.
Capt. Comiskey spoke to his men
during the past week, and found
them all ready and willing to go.
1t is not known just how they will
arrange matters. The boys as a rule
desire to sign for the winter on
salaries, but it is possible they may
go on the cooperative plan, and
share and share alike. Comiskey
and his men and Strouthers and his
men will talk it over soon and come
to some definite understanding.
Deacon Ellis, of the Grand Rapids
team, when told of the scheme last
night, grew enthusiastic, or as en-
thuSiastic as the deacon can grow,
and it is probable that he, too, will
take a team to the coast and join
in the fight for a pennant on the
coast during the winter months.
go, some of the players are not Gin
with it," but applications have been
received from many of the Western
league players to be taken along,
and more than likely some of the
teams which go will be composed
of some of the strongest talent in
the league.
Capt. Ccmiskey, when seen at the
Windsor last night in regard to the
scheme, said that he is certain it can
be made to pay. The teams will tenn
o~iI. %.1- x4fl
towns in which they locate and the
fight for the pennant may be as in
teresting to the people on the coast
as it is to the people in the cities of
the Western league. 1t is certain that
Comishey's team as it stands will go.
The captain has had applications from
many players whose teams are not go
ing and he may take a club of twelve
or fourteen players. Information from
the coast is to the effect that such an
arrangement will meet with favor out
there and the people along the route
suggested are anxious that it should
come to a successful issue.
NOW while it rains a great deal out
there" said Capt. Comiskey, 1.-The peo-
pie don't pay any attention to the wet
and our games wouldn't be interrupted
to any great extent. [ have written to
several people on the coast who are
up in such matters, and they say come
ahead My boys are willing and
anxious to go. Strouthers says his
men feel the same way and Manning
has the consent of every one of his
players. Milwaukee will undoubtedly
go, and we are assured Of at least
four good teams. You would. be sur
prised to hear the boys talk about it.
They are enthusiastic, and I am sure
a good and exciting season of base
ball can be successfully carried out
there. I am going whether any of the
rest do or not, but the best of it is
they are going''