The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-15
HICKEY is NOW HAPPY
BASEBALL SITUATION is JUST
FINED TO SUIT
HIM
EXPECTS SUCCESSFUL YEAR
Western League Only BIufIinG About
Observation-Disclosures SituG-
tfon Is SatiSfac-
tory.

Thomas J. Hickey, the president of +he
new American Association of Profess
Sional Baseball Clubs, is in St. Paul. the
guest of George f. Lennon, president OF
the St. Paul team-American association
team, of course for the Western has now
admitted that st. Paul and Minneapolis
have been scratched from the Whitfield
list. The president of the American spent
yesterday afternoon in Minneapolis with
Walter Wilmot, the club owner in that
city
There is very little new in the situa-
ton said Mr.. Hickey last night. The
American has all its plans completed,
and the club owners are now preparing
for the coming season. Everything Is
moving along in a smooth way, and the
trouble, if there ever was any, is all
over.
About Milwaukee? Well, yes, the
Western has the lease to the ball park
there but that does not bother Quln and
Havenor one bit. The American club
owners in Milwaukee have park of
their own, and when the season opens
they will have far the best park.
.'HaVenor and Quin did not want the
Gross park. The Western league does not
want it, either. The Western simply went
after this park because they thought VI
wanted it. They paid Gross something
down for the lease, and now they are
promised the loss of that amount.
Inc western SIMPLY Inquired LIltl the
American association would have to take
the Gross park. Whitfield and his follow
ers started after the lease of this park
figuring that they could frighten the
American. In the end they figured they
could turn over the lease to Quin and
Havenor. Now they have the lease, and
they will. as far as l can see, have to
keep it. HavenOr has a park there. He
can make this park a modern park by
eXpending the money that would have
to be spent to get the Gross park. He
park and the Western can hold on or let
So to the lease to the Gross park. for
all the American club owners care.
Il do not believe that the Western will
ever try to start in Milwaukee and Mr..
Havenor and Mr.. Quin are not at all
worried. Mr.. HaVenor announces that
he is ready for all the fight that the
Western WISHES to start and claims thai
when he is Though the Western will be
mOce than giad to back out of the trou-
bic
In Omaha we have one of the best
bali sites 1 the country, but am afraid
We will have to look up another site.
We would have to have a street closed
10 make 20 present selected site avail
able, and l candidiy admit that do not
believe ihst we can secure permission to
close this street.
Yes, we knew all about Rourze when
we offered him $1,000 for his holdings in
Omaha. but we made the offer at the
request CT certain Omaha business men.
These men claimed that Omaha wants
American association ball and asked US
to meet W'gh Rourke. We did and you
know what happened.
h. Regarding the expulsion of Mr.. Beall,
Olly know what is reported in the press
dispatches. Beall, l think, expected this
aCtiun and he is preparing to make a
fight. [ do not believe that the Western
had the right to eXpel him, and when
he carries the matter into the courts
think it will be decided in his favor.
4 might touch upon that old claim
that Toledo ard Columbus are dead ball
towns. can only point out again that
the earnings in the two towns in the
Western association last year were
greater than the earnings of any two
towns in the Western league circuit
THE officers of the National associa-
ton Of minor leagues are still harping
on the black list. That threat is not
bothering the American club owners. AL
ready several of the American magnates
have signed their full teams and one
team in the association has a list of
twenty-five men. all of them signed t1
contracts. The ball player is no longer
money.
Powers. at the meeting in Kansas
City, tOda'- assured the Western men OF
his support, and as usual the American
was styled an outlaw league. Powers
is hoping for the National league fight
to end with Spalding a winner. for he be-
lieves that from Spalding he will receive
support. do not think that the National
and I feel confident that the American
league will not attempt to trouble us
Mr.. Hickey will remain in ST. Pau
until tonight. He expects to remove
from St Joseph to Chicago about the
middle of February and will open his
headquarters in the last-named city i'm
mediately after his arrival. The meet
ing of the American will probably be
called during the last week of February