The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-09-24

Some Sort of an Agreement
FRANKLIN VIII Attend the Chi
cage Meeting in October--Re-
suits of Yesterdays Games.
BUFFALO, N. Y, Sept. 23.-It seems
certain that the Western league will
have a team here next season. Ban B.
Johnson, president of the Western
league, has been here since yesterday,
and this afternoon made this signifi-
cant remark:
Next year the people Of Buffalo will
have the opportunity of judging how
much stronger the Western league is
than the Eastern"
President Franklin, Of the Buffalo
Base Ball club, said last night, as he
has said before, that he was disguised
with the present Eastern league, and
would like TO cast the fortunes of his
club with a better and faster league,
one composed of larger and more i'm
pOrtant cities. There is only one such
league in the country besides the Ma
tiOnal league, which is the Western. It
is to that league which Mr.. Franklin
will transfer his Bisons if a place is
made for them.
President Ban Johnson and I are
now in conference in regard to this
matter" said President Franklin, land
1 have strong hopes that our negOtia-
tons Will bear fruit satisfactory to all
concerned, by which l mean the West
ern league, the base ball patrons of
Buffalo, and then, of course, myself"
Mr.. Franklin declined to say just how
far these negotiations had progressed,
but it is safe to say that he will be on
hand at the Western league meeting in
Chicago on Oct. II, and it is also pretty
fair betting that he will return home
as a Western league magnate. There
are some who think that he is already
one.
L recognize the fact that the people
of this city are entitled to the best base
ball which can be given to them, and
so long as I am at the head Of Buffalo's
professional base ball interests, | pur
pose to give it to them" continued Mr..
Franklin. Il recognize also that the
cities of the Western league are very
important, both in the matter of COM
merce and population, two facts which
lend to their drawing powers. 1t VIII
be a great deal more expensive to con
duct a Buffalo club in the Western
league than in the Eastern, but If 1 can
see my way clear to make expenses and
something more, I will make the
change. This, of course, is upon the as
sumption that the Western league will
make place LOT my CIuDI WHICH, din
given to understand, 1t is ready and
anxious to do. Detroit, Milwaukee, In
dianapolis, Minneapolis, st. Paul and
Kansas City are all fine base ball towns
and the managers of nearly all the
clubs out there are conservative base
ball men Of long experience from Pres
ident Johnson down. COmiskey, Mack
LOTUS, Wilmot, Vanderbeck, Stallings,
Allen and the others know the game
thoroughly.
"If 1 take my club into the Western
league I will get together team that
will win a good deal more than half of
its games. 1t would be sure to draw in
the West as nearly all the men would
be new in that section. Then, too, the
Western teams ought to draw very we'll
in Buffalo for the very same reason"
To be on the safe side, come what
may, President Franklin a few days
ago forwarded to President Nick
Young, of the National league, the
money necessary to protect this terri
tory.