The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-29

San Francisco, which, you see, would be
close onto Dec. 1. before I could begin
training. I am sure that Jeffries will con-
sent to the change of date. as it is nc
more than right that l should be allowed
some extra time in which to prepare fol-
such an important fight.
BUNTs AT THE BLEAcHERs.
What the Baseball Boys Are Doing
The Schenectady Baseball association
yesterday signed Lew Whistler. of St.
Louis, to manage and captain its 1907
State league team.
Mrs. Jack Harper hopes that her hub
by will remain with the Robisons. lie
has evidently signed two contracts.
President T. J. Hickey, of the Western
league, has not yet fixed the exact date
for the coming meeting of the league,
but it will be some time next week
league manager thus far installed. He IS
looking for talent for Waco. Ted Sulli-
van will likely take Fort Worth.
There is to be a conference of National
secretiveness the moguls refuse to Gi-
yulge the objects of the meeting or where
it will be held.
Hugh Duffy may bob up as a mogul in
the Eastern league. Still, he may not
care about risldng the $4,000 dividends
that he saved out of his base-hit money.
Fred Parent. the clever little shortstop
of the Boston Americans, says he has
received contract from John L. BRUSH,
of Cincinnati, calling for $4,000. Parent
says he has no intention of going back
have signed with Boston. you know.
said he. land / think Boston is good
enough for me-"
There are enough stockholders in the
Toronto club to give big minstrel first
part. Over forty attended the annual
meeting.
Jack Powell bolted the Cardinals be-
cause he was fined 500 for going on a
toot during the past season. The fate
of Dowd & Co. may be his unless he
walks a chalk mark in 1902.
Speaking of law, Col. John 1. Rogers
thinks he has discovered six errors in
case. A reversal by. the supreme court
would simply wreck the American
league; but very few souls, save the
colonel think that the official fielding
average, of the Quaker court will be
changed.
The Cleveland baseball club has sign
play first base for the season of 1902
George La Chance, who has been first
basAlaal for Cleveland, goes to Boston
In the same position.
The Eastern Association of Baseball
Clubs. in which is included the cities of
Newark, Paterson, Trenton Whining
ten, Lancaster. Reading. Wilkesbarre
ana an Scranton, is being organized by AL
S
EaSton club, and who has been q man
ager in other leagues.
Frank Dwyer has not promised Detroit
nag winner, but 1t is a collar button to
quart. OF mushrooms that he has
made the proclamation "By-gimini-
c.1pes to give the city of Straits a bang
UP team. That is Dryers strongest ex-
pletive
Barney Dreyfus slipped out of Smoke
town without leaving his p. o. address,
and it is said he is in Louisville waiting
for the resurrection of the colonies book
ed to occur when Referee Tom Hickey
blows his whistle for the new" Western
lineup.
The immortal H. Donohue late of Chi
cago, Colorado Springs, and other places,
was caller at American league head
quarters. Tim limited that he was open
to engagement and that he did not feel
that he had been quite right in asking
the American league for 81 COO some time
ago. lit has since occurred to me-
said T.. that the figure might be q
little bit high. So I'll take $3975 and call
it square" AS there was nobody around
with authority to sign him, T. went
home disconnected.
What odds will you give" asked a
veteran baseball man of another, that
there Will not be a governing board of
professional baseball, with A. G. Spald-
ing, Ban Johnson and Pat Powers as it's
members, with absolute control of organ
| lied baseball throughout the country?'
| Charles s. Powers expects the National
! association edict declaring Toledo to be
| Western association territory, to stand.
| Toledo, however, is coveted by the West
| ern league people, and the fight for the
| future great city is one of the prettiest
| now on the diamond boards. The loss
| of Toledo would be a blow calculated to
: cripple the former organization, which
! ell but suffered humiliation last season.
| Man is born to trouble, and James N.
Manning figures that he is having more
than his share. He was no sooner outside
the American league breastworks than
land syndicate seized Exposition park at
Kansas City, upon which he claims TO
have a lease. Armed guards have been
watching the destruction OF the fence for
several days, and Manning, who expected
fat Thanksgiving day rakeoff at the
Missouri-Kansas football game, is afraid
he will have to seek legal redress.
Cleveland is baseballically as quiet as a
graveyard in Jersey on dark night. A
little CLEAN Of light struck the Foresters
when it was announced that Edward B.
Kenna had been signed to pitch for W.
r. ArmourS squad. Kenna is son OF
the late Senator John E. Kenna, of West
Virginia. He played with Wheeling last
season and is now quarterback of the
University of West Virginia football team
at Morgantown.
The annual meeting of the magnates Of
the National League of the Professional
Baseball Clubs, which is to be held at
New York next month, promises to be
the most important that has taken place
in a number of years. The magnates
will have plenty OF business to dispose Of.
They intend to resort to desperate tactics
in their efforts to prevent the American
league from gaining any further head
way on them. 1t is also possible that
systematic raid on the American league
players will be devised. That the Ma
tional league magnates have been stirred
! to action by the persistent inroads made
on the different cities by the American
league this year is clearly shown at
present by the conference which Is to be
held in few days between Andrew
Freedman. John t. Brush, Barney Drey-
fuss Frank Robinson and A H Soden.