The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-25
AMERICAN TO MEET
HICKEY CALLS MAGNATEs OF NEW
BASEBALL ASSOCIATION TO
KANSAS CITY
TROUBLE AHEAD FOR WESTERN
Rourke, Whitfield and the Other
Western Fighters May Be Re-
buked for Their
Mad War.

| While Whitfield and the other leaders
| of his fighting Western band are en-
deavoring to locate the exact position OF
| A. B. BeaH, and incidentally to discover
| where the Western league is at, the
! American leaders continue hard at work
| en- their plans for the 1902 season.
| Hickey has been OH the move since the
| Chicago meeting of the new association,
and he is now ready to make showing.
He has called a meeting of the American
| association for Monday, Dec. 80, and
George E. Lennon, president of the st.
Paul team and the other magnates OF the
new organization have been formally no
titled to report in Kansas City on that
date.
1t is more than probable that at this
meeting of the new association several
unpleasant jars will be framed up for
Whitfield, Rourke ct al. and when the
meeting adjourns, these jars will begin
to circulate It is time for William
Rourke to Chamber on the uneasy seat,
and one or two other Western magnates
may have cause to regret their hasty &C
lions and observations.
Walter Wilnot will be present at the
American meeting, and Wilmot will be
permitted to answer to the roll call when
Minneapolis is reached on the list. A. B.
Beall, the 1901 Minneapolis magnate, may
still insist with blue sulphur trimmings
that he is the owner of the Mime
apolis holdings and that he will be In
Minneapolis next season, but this claim
will not bother Wilmot's chances. The
American association will start off the
1902 season with Wilmot in Minneapolis
with or without the permission of A. Il.
Beall.
At the present time BeaH's Minneapo-
lis holdings look fairly well tied up. The
American claims that it has an option on
Bealls holdings, good until March l, and
Beall has already signed an agreement
to trade his Minneapolis parks to George
Tebeau for the Denver parks.
If Beall lives up to the agreement made
in Chicago with Tebeau Wilmot will play
his team on the Nicollet and Minnehaha
park grounds. If Bean refuses to make
the trade and succeeds in holding his
parks away from the American, Wilmot
will start off with nice new parks, and
if the Western attempts to push into
Minneapolis he will attempt to demon
strate to the Minneapolis magnate for the
Western league just how popular The
playing manager Is with the Mill CITY
fanatics.
If necessary Wilmot will erect new
parks, but the American does not believe
for an instant that this step will be nee
/ essary. The American leaders claim that
they have Beall where he cannot escape,
and when the overheated interviews from
Sioux City are presented they simply
smile at "Beall' s joke"
After being told, the evening paper
critic who demands that the baseball
public depend upon his paper alone Tor
the real news, admits that the western
is now having trouble of Its own. Like
the leaders of the Western, this critic
oIJ1ox ,n1,i1nc To ha
of Beall.
Critic Is at Sea.
This critic could not see where hickey
and the American agents had the right
to go ahead with the transfer of the
Minneapolis franchise. The readers OF
his evening paper were warned to smile
at the "hot air blasts printing in the
morning papers," but now overlooking
his warning, he accepts the G b Q
story telling of the inside Of the Tebeau-
Beall deal, and seizes upon Beall as the
scapegoat. He Is now willing to admit
that there is a suspicion that Beall is
dealing from the bottom Of the deck.
To the st. Paul fanatics who have
yearned for faster ball for many weary
moons this Christmas morning appears TO
bring a positive promise of real base
ball season for 1902. Just before the
SCuSuulSO AICSllliS VI ZIG AiO" Va oSNA-N-N>
ton there appears little chance for the
unfortunate and misguided Western
league.
Manning, of the Western, looks frozen
out of Kansas City by the shrewd Mr..
Tebeau st. Paul and Minneapolis are
still waiting to hear Whitfield announce
their Western magnates: Herr Havenor
is I'D on his alderman's desk just daring
the Western to attempt to break into
Milwaukee, and little Des Moines is try
ing to drop out of the Western circuit
without losing all it's money.
In the East, Bryce in Columbus and
Strobel in Toledo are preparing for the
American association season. They do
not, and the fanatics in their territory
do not. believe that the Western associa-
ton will attempt to help out the West
ern league by bothering with Toledo and
Columbus. They do not even believe that
the Western association will be revived.
This is the real situation. Hot air. is
not needed The American will be in st.
Paul next season, the Western will not
be here. Having pushed fight at the
American ever since the organization OF
the new association, the Western is in
line for a mild rough time in its own
camp, and Rourke and his friends may
consider themselves lucky if they get
through the 1902 season without report
ing wreck.
Union IS STTNJRERING