The Saint Paul globe., 1900-12-26
new LEAGUE SEEMS \ GO
GEORGE w. BURNHAM Is DIRECTOR
FOR JOHNSON'S NO. z
CIRCUIT
GOSSIP OF THE BALL TEAMS
President Hickey, Of the Western.
As Real AnGry--The Old Conan
cha Is After Short
stop Long.

CHICAGO. Dec. 25-George w. Burn
ham. directing spirit of the auxiliary
league which Dan JohHson will run
next season as an adjunct to the Amer-
can league. is putting in his time to the
best possible advantage in Chicago.
6urnham announced yesterday that ar
rangemerts We're practically completed
up to the point of signing players. 1t
is now understood, and practically adj
mitted by Burnham, that Jack OCon-
nor, Jack Clements. and Charlie Dexter
viii head teams in the new league. re-
ceiving salaries of about $1,000 for man.
aging and emoluments footing up prob
ably $l,100 more.
''OCOnnor is the man we want most
ri ALL said Rurnham, land We will make
him enticing offers to get him into our
organization. There is a lot OF good
baseball left in O'Connor yet, and he
has the head and skill for managing du-
ties. As to the rank and file of the
players-wel, I guess there won't be a
lot Of fast and likely men left on deck
when the National league finishes that
cut of sixteen men per team and the
American cuts to fourteen! The discards
OF the two leagues, together with some
young bloods from the little teams, VII
give us all the men We need and good
men, too.
HICKEY IS MAD.
Real war, of the hottest kind, will wage
I'm the Weste-n country next spring. Pres
1dent Hickey Of the Western league is
as mad as a hornet over the move of
the American to organize a junior as.
sociation. Hickey has been making ar
Tangements to take possession cf Kansas
City. Minneapolis and indianapolis ana
now sees his hopes bitterly blasted at
the eleventh hour.
Hickey has the protection and backing
nf ita No = +fsF.o loaer <ff ff,a
p first clashes of the season between the
National and American will be over the
territorial rights of Hickey and Ban
Johnson
In American league circles it is evident
that the National leagues haste to award
Minneapolis and Kansas City to the
Western league is considered the oppos~
ite of friendly, the argument being
used that those cities have not been va
Gated as Yet by the American league,
and viii not be so until the league holds
its meeting ard votes on its new cir
cult
The meeting. President Johnson said
yesterday, would ne held some time
between Jan. and Is.
COMISKEY AFTER LONG.
There was a persistent rumor in town
yesterday that President Comisl1ey OF
the White Stockings, was after Herman
Long, the crack shortstop OF the Nation
al league, to play with his Twentieth
Century champions. At base ball head
quarters 20 confirmation of the rumor
could be secured, neither was any de-
NAL made
President Comiskey was inclined to
treat it as joke, and remarked: We'll,
II the National league is out after Nick
Padden, | don't see why l shouldn't get
an equivalent in return, AMI / reckon
1t would be pretty even exchange if L
got Long"
President Johnson, Of the American
league, smiled still more broadly at the
Tumor and replied: Herman Long
would lock pretty we'll in a White Stock
ing uniform out at the South side
grounds wouldn't he? And ave been
told he would like to play there
When asked il such a move would not
be sufficiently aggressive to prevent
any possibility OF a reconciliation with
the National league, Mr.. Johnson said:
Il don't see how that would be any
more an act Of hostility than BoSton's
attempt to sign Capt Padden away from
Comiskey. If we should try to get Long
mind, I say if we should-and the Ma
,.tional league called it an act Of hostility
they would be confessing that they COM
= menced hostilities in going after Pad
den 1t wasn't Manager Seiee's fault that
he didn't set him.
Additional color is given to the rumor
COmiskey used when it became known
that Boston had been tampering with
Padden. He was highly inCenSed at Sc
lees action, but it was suppo .ed Pad
den's loyalty had settled the difficulty at
the time. 1t is also strengthened by the
weH-known fact that Long himself is anX-
iOus to play in Chicago because his home
is here. Last season the Chicago Nation
al league club made an effort to get Long,
who expressed desire to play here on
the ground that he had played so long
in Boston that he could not do himself
Justice at all times. The deal. If ever
st got as far as that never was consum-
mated. as Chicago had nothing TO offer
in return that Boston wanted. This year.
with the American league breaking away
from the National agreement there is
nothing to prevent Comiskey's signing
Long. SO far as base ball law goes, if he
Is willing TO play here at American
league figures. The chief obstacle is the
Players union. which has issued a man
ifesto forbidding National league PLAYERS
TO sign win the American league ex-
rept by consent of the players commit
. 'e'' -
MANNING IS CONFIDENT
KANSAS CITY, Dec 25-Jimmy Man
ming, the former owner of the Kansas
City team now the head of The Wasting
ton club, returned to this city in much
BETTER spirits than when he left. Three
weeks ago Manning was far from feeling
as confident of the new move as John
son and his associates but since his trip
to Washington all fears have been dis
PEELED and the local magnate is smiling
and confident of success in the natoa's S
capital.
Everywhere" said he. ST was royalty
received and on all sides was assured
that nay team would receive the support
of the Washington press and Luhii, They
do not ask pennant winner. All Wash
ipgton wants is a team that will finish
about the middle A team put in the Gao.
ital by the National league would moi
pay. OF this I feel certain There i;
a bitter feeling there against the older or.
ganzation and the newspapers there told
me Washington was tired Of being tho
Nationals dumping ground. 1 will build