The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-12
BRUSH BEATEN OUT
DOWNED IN THE FIRST BOUT WITH
THE WESTERN LEAGUE MAG
MATES.
OLD RULE STILL IN FORCE.
WEAKER CLUBS WILL SHARE IN
THE DIVISION OF THE SUR
PLUS.
-FOUR APPLICATIONS HANDED IN.
chises, and Columbus and Grand
Rapids Anxious to Remain.

CHICAGO, Nov. 1.-THE Western
Baseball league convened in annual
session today at the Victoria hotel
After deal of talking, which general
~ centered about the avowed efforts
OF John T. Brush to gain control of
the league. the meeting adjourned to-
ward midnight, having accomplished
almost nothing. MI Brush's plans. as
advocated by the Minneapolis and In
dianapolis clubs, for dividing the sur
plus in such a way as to shut out the
poorer ones, was defeated, and to this
extent the Cincinnati magnate was
beaten in the first inning
During the morning the directors
Charles Comiskey, of st. Paul; John
Goodnow, of Minneapolis; G. A. Van
der Beck, of Detroit, and Mat. Killilea,
of Milwaukee-met, and, after review
ing the official score, decided to award
the championship to Minneapolis.
Many reports were circulated con-
corning the efforts of Mr. Brush to
capture the two places vacated in the
Western league by the expiration Of
the year franchises of Columbus and
Grand Rapids To further strengthen
his hand it was said his supporters in
the league would endeavor to capture
the greater portion of the surplus for
the Seasonal fund that is formed by
turning into it ten per cent of all the
gate receipts and which has hereto
fore been divided equally among the
eight clubs of the league. w F. c.
Colt, Of Indianapolis, and John Good
now, of Minneapolis, urged these meas
ures before the Westerners, but their
motion was defeated by vote Of six
to two, thus leaving the old rule in
effect
Before taking up the election of Of
| Hcers for the new year it was neces-
sary to fill the two vacancies. Appli-
cations were received from the retiring
| clubs. Columbus and Grand Rapids,
and from Des Moines and Toledo. It
! had been understood that Omaha
would bid for a place, but no such ap-
plication was considered by the direc-
| tors.
| In the Auditorium rotunda this morn
| ing capt. Comiskey and Jim Hart had
! a talk over scoring that some par
| ties had given Hart for deliberately
| Gripping the Minneapolis team to
! strengthen the ST. Paul club" After
| the conference the Chicago magnate re-
| marked:
1--WE are scored for attending to our
own business. One day they say Min
| neapol1s is our farm and the next day
| we are accused of Gripping the millers
| by giving Preston and Connors to ST.
Paul The truth is that we gave Min
neapOlis the release of Walter Wilmot,
! Pitcher Hutchinson and Catcher Mo
ran, without a dollars worth of con-
S1deratlOn. In return we were to get
two of their best players. We took
Preston and Connors about the time
we got Pitcher Denzer. We had q per-
feet right to dispose of the two men as
We saw fit
President Ban Johnson, of the West
ern league, was at the National league
| headquarters during the morning and
announced postponement of the West
| err meeting until s tonight to permit
of palavering with the big league mag
! mates. He would say nothing about
! the fight of Brush in the minor league.
| Colt, of Indianapolis while inclined to
be non-communicative, thought there
| would probably be a return to the origi-
nal basis Of six clubs, from which a
new start could be made. Tom LOTUS
| expressed the opinion that he would be
able to get Omaha into the league
| which would mean the crowding out
| of Columbus for 81. Lotus had long
| talk with Freedman, which, it was I'M
| derstood, was directed to an effort to
| oOb IISiiCl ISuolc 1OI l1Ic IIlIIIOI league.
Later, however, the New Yorker said
| that he would give the cold deal to any
| proposition Of that kind.
| 1t was intended to have the Western
| league session follow the conference of
| the National league but President
| Johnson, finding all the directors in the
! city, decided to call them together i'm
! mediately. Minneapolis and Indian
! apolis, according to the statement of
| Mr.. Johnson, are ready to patch I'D
| their differences with the rest of the
| league clubs. Neither Mr. Brush nor
| Mr.. Goodnow will be present" he said
| before the meeting, but their proxies
| will be on hand. The situation was
rather embarre ssing, it is true, some
| weeks ago, but our differences will be
! ply misunderstanding from the start,
and the two clubs that apparently set
! about to get up. another league have
| regretted their hastiness and are will
| ing to join hands with the others again.
! L do not see anything that would indi-
! cate the prediction that we were look
| ing for a reorganization. Neither is
! it likely that we will establish team
| in Chicago. as has been printed"
Among the Western league men to
report to President Johnson were
| George E. Ellis, of Grand Rapids, w.
| f. c. Colt, and w. H. Watkins of In
| dianapolis, M. r. Killilea, of Milwau-
| kee, James H. Manning, of Kansas
! City, and Charles Comiskey, of ST.
| Paul.