The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-11
HICKEY is SERENE
PRESIDENT OF AMERICAN AssO-
CITATION is IN ST.
PAUL
TALKS FREELY OF HIS PLANS
Says American Will Win Out Wher-
ever II Battles With Western
Bill Rourke Likely to Have
Warm Time.

{ The new American Association Of Pro-
fessional Baseball clubs will fight to the
bitter end for every detail of the plan
for the 1902 season, mapped out when the
association was organized in Chicago two
weeks ago. The circuit selected at that
meeting will remain the circuit Of the
American association. Teams will be put
dn Columbus and Toledo. Though Man
ming is back in Kansas City, Tebeau viii
play an American team in that town and
Bill Rourke will be presented with an OPP
portuni to discover whether or not he
can hold the support of the Omaha IA
natics with another and better team play
ing in the town that Pat Grove made
famous.
Thomas Jefferson Hickey, the president
of the American association, was IN st.
Paul yesterday, and, though Mr.. Powers
has notified the entire collection of minor
league bosses that Mr.. Hickey has been
expelled from the national association Of
minor league clubs, Mr.. Hickey is still
full of fight, and backed by the sola sup
port of the men who placed him at the
head of the American he promises to keep
fighting.
Mr.. Hickey insists that he is now in the
american association, and out or the
Western league, and that for this reason
he must refuse to talk about the West
ems plans, although ready and willing
The president of the new association
cleverly switched the conversation when
the Western leagues plans were touched
npon but during his talk he dropped
enough to convince careful listener that
a real sensational time is being framed
up for Bill Rourke, who, from the stand
point of the American association mag
mates, deliberately refused to follow MS
lines.
81 am now in the American assocla-
tion." said Mr.. Hickey. 81 am through
with the Western league and l will not
talk about the plans of that league.
am determined that there will be no mud
singing on my part. have been ac-
cused Of a number of things by the men
OF, the other side, but 1 will fight clean
dight and I believe that our association
will be the winner.
Fight for ROurke.
s.There will be no change in the plans
decided upon bv us at our Chicago meet
ing. There was some talk about taking
another town into the association to take
the place of Omaha, but in Omaha we
have a man who is more popular than
Bill Rourl<e, and that man is willing to
match strength with Rourke.
''And our association to man wants
the Omaha franchise given to this Omaha
man Rourke has been looking for fight
and he is to get all the fight that he
wants The American association is will
ing to satisfy Rourke, and you can say
that the American will have club in
Omaha.
"Tebeau will have club in Kansas
City Manning may be there, but the
American is not convinced that Man
ning's popularity will make Kansas City
a losing town in our association. AS Tor
Nichols, 1 hardly believe that Manning
will have him in Kansas CITY. Nichols
can make $1,000 season by working in
the big league, and it is hardly probable
that he. will go with Manning in a town
with rival teams, and where the chances
are anything but good for him to make
money.
Teams in Twin Cities.
1--WE will have teams in st. Paul and
Minneapolis and 1 tell you right now
that the Western will not put teams in
these two towns. Already there is talk
of transferring the st. Paul franchise to
Milwaukee, and if they attempt to play
in Minneapolis they will not play in the
Nicollet and Minnehaha ball parks. The
American association will play on the
grounds controlled by Beall last year.
eve are not bothered about Milwau-
kee. The Western started that talk in
All attempt to brighten us. out of Kansas
City. We are not frightened. We will
play in Kansas City and in Milwaukee
and I do not believe that the Western
will attempt to move into the 1ast-named
town"
Mr.. Hickey had just received a letter
from Quin, one Of the holders of the Mil
waukee franchise in the American asso-
citation, and with the letter Quin sent a
copy of the Milwaukee Evening Wiscon-
sin which contained the following mark
ed article relating to the report that the
Western was to put team in the Beer
City:
Gross Says ono, Thanks"
"should the Western league place a