The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-17
WESTERN is ALL IN
THE OPERA BoUFFE WAR COMES
TO A VERY TAME
FINISH
BILL RoURKE's OBITUARY
WiImot Has Clean Cinch ON Flour
City Franchise-Western
Loses All Save
Honor.

The end of the American association
Western league baseball war is in sight.
Outfgured at every turn by the mag
mates of the new organization, the West
ern warriors begin this week almost COM
pletely out of the running. Omaha and
Bill Rourkes town alone is the only dis
puted territory left for them. and with
the Whitfield following approaching the
conditions, there is but little chance for
a renewal Of the fight. Before many
weeks hurry by the Western fanatics
may see the Western return to It's old
SiX-club form, and peace will return tS
the throne.
Thomas Jefferson Hickey and his fol-
lowers have been working hard ever
since Bill Rourke rubber legged from the
Western to the American and back again
to the Western. While Rourke and Van
Brunt were being interviewed, and even
when President Whitfield refused to
kick man when he was down. Hick-
ey, Lennon, Tebeau and the other
American promoters were laying plans.
The several strings were pulled Satur-
day and Sunday, and now the members
of the new association have stopped
worrying.
Of all the towns in the American
claimed by the Western, Omaha alone is
left for the Whitfield league. st. Paul,
Minneapolis, Kansas City and Milwaukee
were claimed as Western territory but
the American men announce that they
have sewed UP this list of towns, and
that the Western will never get beyond
the claim stage.
The Western supporters have several
times started the story that Walter Will
mot would reinforce the Whitfield
league by placing a Western team in
Minneapolis. 1t was pointed out that
Wilmot is a favorite in Minneapolis, and
that the American could not expect to
draw against a team belonging to VIII
mot in that town.
WIImOt to BE I'm Minneapolis.
Walter Wilmot will be owner and man
ager of the American association team
in Minneapolis. Wilmot will have abso-
lutte control of the Minneapolis team,
the Minneapolis franchise and the parks
in Minneapolis occupied by Beall last
season.
Messrs. Hickey, Lennon and TebeaU
are the three members of the American
association circuit committee. These men
met in Chicago Sunday afternoon, and
awarded the Minneapolis franchise to
Walter Wilmot.
The story telling Of George E. Lemons
announcement that he was to purchase
the Minneapolis franchise, place Wilmot
in charge and control both the st. Pau
and Minneapolis team is a false tale.
Lennon will have nothing to do with
the Minneapolis franchise He does not
desire holding in Minneapolis. Dis
cussing the story yesterday, he said:
1.-THE American association franchise
has been awarded to Walter Wilmot. The
story that I will have an interest in the
Minneapolis team is all wrong. My
money for baseball will be expended In
ST Paul, and in st. Paul improvements
alone We do not want syndicate base
ball in the American association.
ST think the story was started by q
remark made early in the fight. Then
before we had made any plans regarding
Minneapolis, 1 declared that before the
Western could push us out of the town
UP the river, 1 would put team in there
myself Now the American has disposed
of Minneapolis, and we are not afraid OF
the Western at that point.
With the location of Minneapolis def
nitely settled the American men next