St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-20
A BATTLE ROYAL BETWEEN
MESSRS. BARNES-FLYNN AND
MURPHY-MARTIN
T. MURPHY'S FOUR-BAGGER.
HE HANDLES THE COIN AND
WILL DOUBTLESS CONTINUE
THE GOOD WORK.
PLAYERS, SALARIES ARE o. X
All Hands Are Loaded for Moose
and Eager for the s-
Courts.


under a provisional government, SO
to speak.
Shortly after noon yesterday, the
hungry players succeeded in driv-
ing the quarreling managers into a
corner, and accordingly a secret
meeting was called by Manager
Barnes in an up stairs room of a
Hennepin avenue hotel. There the
players demanded that they be in
formed as to what was to become
of them, in this world at least. Mr..
Barnes started to explain, when
some one stated that the other end
of the push ought to be seen, too, and
struggled in.
AS nearly as can be learned it was
quite a stormy session. But when
it was over, Long John Healy, who
had been appointed a committee on
press matters, announced to the re-
porters that the players were given
ample assurances that they would
get their money.
From other sources it was learned
that the government in force now
consists of a cabinet composed of
the players, with Thomas Murphy
as treasurer. Murphy, at any rate,
handled the receipts of yesterdays
game, and as the players are the
most important creditors of the Or
ganiZation, he will probably con-
tinue to do so until the receiver is
appointed or the players say other
wise.
Meantime the scrap between the
Barnes-Flynn end and the Martin
Murphy end goes on fast and furi-
Gus. Murphy says the books of the
association have been taken from
the Office, including his check book
on the bank, and he proposes to
have the thief arrested for burglary,
as they were taken from a locked
drawer. Secretary Flynn says he
has the books, but claims that as
secretary of the association he is
their rightful custodian, and is re-
Murphy says that he is not entitled
to take them from the drawer in
Bookkeeper Booths desk, especially
when the lock was broken to get
them. Flynn says the lock was
broken before he took them, and he
took them to protect them, as a
number of strangers were using the
office as an entrance to the grounds
which they used for practice. There
you are. 1t is six Of one and half
a dozen of the other, very much
Kilkenny cats, and the players be-
tween the deep sea and old Pluto
himself.
1t would seem that the players
need a receiver, and also a payer,
even more than does Miss Barnes,
for Miss Barnes pa, Manager
Barnes, has in his pants pocket, or
the equivalent thereof, all the Min
neapolis clubs share in the re-
ceipts at Indianapolis, Terre Haute,
Detroit and Grand Rapids, except
what he had to pay for railroad
fare and hotel bills. None of the
players have received any of it, so
far as can be learned.
Manager Barnes refuses to turn
the money over to Murphy on the
ground that President Johnson has
forbidden it.
This phase of the matter, and per-
haps all others, will be settled when
the Western league holds its special
meeting at the West hotel on Mon
day. 1t is even possible that the
league will so deity cut the Gordian
knot that when the matter comes
up before Judge Smith next Satur-
day all that will be left of the Min
neapolis Base Ball association will
be the name, two law suits, a gar
nished bank account and John
Barnes pants pocket.
The league collects 10 per cent Of
the receipts of each game as a sink
ing fund for such contingencies as
the payment of players salaries
where the management goes up be-
fore the end of the year. This en-
ables it to put the Minneapolis club
in the field whenever and wherever
it pleases to fill out the schedule, and
it is intimated by some Of the base
ball enthusiasts that this will be the
course taken. The league as the
guarantor of the players salaries
can appoint whoever it pleases to
direct their movements, possibly
President Johnson himself.
If the salaries are not paid by to-
night the players are substantially
released, and the league can then
step in. Indeed, if any of the boys
desire to go they are at liberty after
tonight, it would appear. Some of
them have geed offers from other
clubs, it is said, and are restless, but
the majority are in favor of standing
by the ship, at least until the re-
ownership is decided.
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