The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-24
SPORTING GOSSIP


In announcing the lineup of the st.
Paul baseball team for the season of 1903,
local paper says possibly Joe Bean at
third
Joe Bean was signed to play with the
st. Paul baseball team last spring. He
was signed by Manager Kelley for the
season of 1902 Bean assured the local
management almost up to the opening day
of the season that he would wear a st.
Paul uniform through the season recently
ended.
The St. Paul team played several ex-
hibition games before the season opened,
but Bean was not included in the lineup
He was detained by his duties as direc-
tor Of an athletic club. He notified the
management that he would be through in
time to join the team at Detroit.
Manager Kelley waited at Detroit, but
Bean did not put in an appearance. He
telegraphed from Rochester that he had
been detained. He was detained there.
He received a better offer, and, forgetting
the st. Paul contract, accepted the better
offer. Bean should have been with the
Saints last season, but he played through
the season with the Eastern league. He
was contract jumper.
President T. J. Hickey was in st. Paul
when the local management was notified
to place on the contract jumper list, and
the league president declared at that
time that Bean was forever through with
the American association. President
Hickey did not believe in grading fines
for the contract jumpers, but did believe
in a straight blacklist. 9
Bean is admitted by all critics to be
a fast infielder. He Is fast enough to
strengthen the st. Paul infield. He could
help st. Paul win pennant, but he
jumped his contract with the st. Paul
team last season and 1t is not believed
that the fans want him here.
He is In the same class with Danny
Shay Shay was even better than Bean,
with the Saints. Would the ST. Paul fans
hail with delight the announcement that
Shay is to return?
There is even more than this at stake.
is concerned President Hickey cannot
permit the return of Bean without per-
uniting the return of every contract jump
er. The fact that Bean is fast infielder
will not furnish an excuse.
To return Bean Is to say to all Amer
lean association players that they can
the money, and then return whenever the
American club owners have been convinc-
ed that they are worth the raise.
Why threaten the blacklist if the black
list is to be dead letter.
Joe Bean is fast infielder and could
strengthen the Saints, but the st. Paul
fans are willing to sacrifice Bean in help
ing Mr.. Hickey live up to his declared
principles.
Does Mr.. Hickey care for the assist
ance?
sPure sport has been touted for many
years as the hobby OF all college athletic
associations.
Let one poor athlete enter in a fat
summer months, with a ball team, let him
take money for anything that looks like
an athletic exhibition and he is branded
a professional and cast out into the cold
cruel world, but
Each university represented in the ath-
letic world appears willing to play a SuS-
pected man until some other university
proves the charge, each university APP
pears willing to permit the director of the
football team to coach the players from
the side lines and even on the field so long
as the opposing coach remembers the
rules and remains silent in the side lines
and each university is ready to resent
criticism the moment it is directed toward
that particular university.
In a nutshell it means that the college
sports are not one whit above the pro
fessionaP' sports engineered and directed
by men who are out with the announced
purpose of making the largest amount Of
money possible. Everything being con-
sidered the PROFESSIONAL has the best
Of the argument, for he does not conceal
and will charge the fight followers 81
each for a reserved seat. He will bring
on his fighters and then it is up to the
ones who paid for the seats. If the
fighters are. real they are applauded; if
they loaf they are howled down by the
Spectators who paid their way. The
sent the criticism for it Is honest criti-
ciSm.
Football enthusiasts pay their way into
the football park and pay their way be-
cause they want to see a real football
game. They have been told that the
team representing their state has a chance
for the Championship, and they know that
in the football squad are many men who
have the football material in them.
Ready to cheer their team on they come
out only to see a second-rate visiting
team break its way through what was
supposed to be stonewall and to vic
tory. sE
Something is wrong. The football
players are there on the team, but they
fail to make good. There is just one
explanation. The instructor relied upon
had failed in his work
That Is the only explanation.
The students of the University of Min
nesota may meet and brand everyone who
dares raise his voice against their coach