The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-29
.LEUN()I WANTS 70 KNOW
WHERE HE IS AT UNDER NEW
WESTERN BASEBALL DIS
PENSATION
DID HIS BEST TO BREAK IN
st. Paul Man Passed Up Hickey's
Bunch TO Climb Into Ban
JOhnsOn's Big Red
Band Wagon.

CHICAGO, Dec. 2S.-George Lennon, of
st. Paul, made mighty effort today to
break into the new Western association,
as Ban JohnsOnS league No. q is to
be called, and succeeded to the extent
that he was recognized as the official
st. Paul promoter and his name was
hung on the slate for future action.
Five cities were definitely accepted for
membership, Detroit, Toledo, Kansas
City, Minneapolis, and Louisville.
Seven towns asked for the re-
naming three franchises, and the
question was put over to next
Wednesday. 1t was limited around the
corridors that Lennon was "Shylocking
the st. Paul grounds that, having closed
deal FOR the PARK, lie was offering it
to the highest bidder irrespective of the
purchasers affiliatioa. Towards night,
however, the members warmed up to
Lennon and his chances for 4 franchise
are now considered Of the brightest. ST.
Paul is wanted in the league as the nat
Ural rival of Minneapolis and Lennon is
acknowledged 10 hold the key TO the sit
uation. Lennon may have had some
idea of doing business with L. j. Hickey s
Western leag%e but the trick turned by
Jimmy Manning yesterday, leasing all the
available sites in Kansas City, killed the
budding hopes of Hickey outfit and
Lennon, like the rest of the would-be
magnatcs, hailed the victorious side with
great enthusiasm. The circuit, it is now
understood, will include Detroit, Toledo,
Minneapolis, Kansas City, Louisville, st.
raul and Grand ltapids While tne eighth
city will be the one tropp ii on By The
American league next week, either Ir di-
annapolis or Buffalo.
BIRTH OF A NEW LEAGUE.
At a meeting held this afternoon and
evening in TIE Great Northern hotel, the
Western Association OF Professional
Baseball clubs vas formed. 80 officers
were elected, this action b sil1g deferred
until next Wednesday, when an ad-
journed meeting will be held in this city.
A constitution and bylaws We're drawn
up and adopted, and it was then decided
to postpone the meeting for several days
until CpOTtunity had been given to look
over the field and decide which cites of
those which have made application for
membership will prove the most desirable
members. The management of the asSo-
citation will be under the patronage of tie
American league, as several of the mag
mates of that organization were present
to lend their advice and support in the
formation of the association The presi-
dents of the local organizations which are
already in the organization viii be as fol-
lows: Kansas City, N B. Karskadon:
Minneapolis, Clarence Saulpaugh; De-
troit, Thomas Navin; Toledo, Charles
StrobeL NO announcement was made as
to the president OF the Louisville club,
and when his nameNwas called for. it was
announced that it would be divulged at a
later date
All those present at the meeting today
expressed themselves as more than pleas
ed at the outlook for successful season.
and said that there would be no trouble
IN getting desirable members to complete
the organization. 1t is not q question of
obtaining members, they claimed, but of
selecting the most desirable from among
those who have already made application
for membership.
BIG BUNCH OF BOOMERS.
Never in local baseball history was Chi
cago so fuli OF magnateS and would-be
magnates as yesterday and today. and
never was there so much smoke or such
an amount of smoldering fire The Amer
lean league, the new Western league the
Western league of last seasonand Frank
Richter's supposedly defunct National as
ISOLATION. all made active appearances
in town. In addition the Gumshoe
league, the Hot Air association and the
Napor Bath circuit were busy from morn
Ing TO night, and the man who tried Ia
keep tab upon the different meetings was
worse off than the man who caught his
AK in the clotheslire while chopp:ng
Nndling after dusk. Nobody had ex-
pected any such disqualification of rival
and warning interests at the same hour
and collsions, of course, were unayoida-
BILE.
SURPRISE OF THE DAY.
The surprise of the day was the ap-
pearance upon the scene of Frank Richter
and the pheniXlike resurrection of the