The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-24
fHlCkEY'S .EAGUE
! nIAGNATEs OF THE WESTERN ARE
ABOUT TO FORM NEW AS
ISOLATION
ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS IN
The Club Owners VIII Meet in
Kansas City This Week
to Perfect Organ
izatfon.

This week, If the present plans of the
magnates are carried out, Thomas Jeffer-
sen Hickey, George Tebeau, George Len
non. ct al. will present a new organiza-
ton to be known in the baseball world
as the American association.
: The Western league magnates Will meet
some time this week at Kansas City ana
at this meeting the league will 90 out of
existence and the new association win
be born.
That the plan to organize the new as
ISOLATION has been agreed upon there re-
mains no doubt. The circuit has been
decided upon and the managers are all
Seady for the new organization. The
Circuit is to be composed of St. Paul,
Minneapolis, Kansas City, Chicago, Mil
waukee, indianapolis, Louisville and
either Toledo Columbus or St Louis.
Milwaukee papers have already an
nounced the fact that the Beer City is to
be represented in the new Hickey league,
Hickey has admitted that a team will
he located in Chicago and the only hitch
in the way of the founders of the new
league appears to be the eighth town Of
the circuit.
Toledo is already claimed by the West
.ern association and it is hard to believe
that the new league will attempt TO
break into ST. Louis now that the Amer,
lean league has announced that 1t has
secured baseball site in that town.
Chicago may support three professional
baseball teams, but it is asking almost
too much of St. Louis. Columbus looks
the favorite in the selection of the eighth
| town.
/ The magnates of the new association
| will be old friends of the Western league
fanatics. With the old Western league
| under five-year agreement it was neces>
sary when attempting the organization
[ of the new association to obtain the con-
sent of all the magnates of the old or
( ganization. The promoters of the new
I association secured this consent by pro-
viding places for those not care for
| the new association, in the reorganized
\ Western league which will consist next
( season of Denver, Colorado Springs,
/ Pueblo, Lincoln, Omaha, Sioux City, Des
! Moines and st. Joseph.
{ Dale Gear with Jimmie Manning's
I Washington American league team dur
7 ing the past season, has purchased an IN
I terest in the Kansas City team and WIN
| be introduced to the cowboy fanatics
! next spring as the business manager OF
/ the Blues. George Lennon, of course, win
| remain in control of the st. Paul team,
| and the opinion is that A. B. Beall win
| start his second year as president of the
Minneapolis baseball club
l. ReaII Had a Hard Time.
S Beall has his enemies in the ranks az
/ the magnates and there is no doubt but
| that these men fought to keep Beall out
( of the new association, but the last re-
| port from the Minneapolis club owner
( had him still in possession Of the Min
| neapolis franchise and the Nicollet parR
and Minnehaha park sites.
! Irresponsible fanatics and baseball crit
| les can be blamed for much of the feel
! ing against the Minneapolis magnate
! The Minneapolis correspondent Of the
| Sporting News furnishes one example or
| this. In his weekly communication to
| the News this man declares that Bean
|. was not liked by his players, that he
failed to secure proper manager for
the team and that the newspapers were
against him.
Beall had plenty of trouble with his
/ team. There were players who -soldiered
! during the season, but, with one eXcep,
4 ton, the newspaper critics sided with
! the magnate and refused to blame him
for the slump of his team. Magnate
/ -Beall during the past season enjoyed one
/ of the fercest runs of hard luck ever al
! dotted to a baseball manager. lie spent
! his money and worked hard to give Min
neapolis q winning team and with an
/ other year in Minneapolis the chances are
more than even that he will make good
with a team that will be in the race
! from the beginning to the end of the
+ season.
4 William Rourke is another who may
+ figure in the new league, although from
! the data at hand RourlSe looks consigned
I to worry along with the reorganized
! Western league. Rourke has always in
! sisted that Omaha deserves a good base
! ball team. By his vote he could have
checked the organization of the new as
ISOLATION but the new association IS to
/ he organized and that means that Rourke
! has either been convinced that Omaha
must grow some or that he will be given
the franchise in one of the new cities
| taken in by Promoter Hickey.