The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-16
Confident That Kelley Will
Bring Team of Winners
to st. Paul
OUTFIELD WILL BE REAL
Local Management Hints of the Ar
rival of New PIayers-Gear
Case May Change
Conditions.

President George e. Lennon, of the st.
Paul ball team, returned from Chicago
| yesterday, loaded down with baseball
gossip and more than confident that all
| the other magnates of the American as
| ISOLATION are to wear sad, tired looks
about three weeks after the bell rings
/ for the start of the coming season.
Lennon went to Chicago to meet Man
! ager Kelley, who came on from Richmond
for the conference with his chief, and
Kelley told the club owner enough to
make him feel happy all the way back
to ST Paul.
"Why, we have a real team this year
and all this without trying to boost
things, too said Lennon yesterday after
noon. Kelley declares that he has a
team that can beat the best of them and
when Kelley tells anyone anything like
that you can wager that the men have
been showing him that they can go some.
viii Have Real OutfieId.
Glow about the outfeId? Well, now
don't you start to worrying about the
outer gardens They will be covered and
| covered by real outfielders too. We will
not be playing pitchers and catchers
around the diamond when the season
opens. We have lines on several fast men
and perhaps too, all the men reported as
jumping their st. Paul contracts have not
jumped.
what do I mean? Never mind today,
but you just watch for the news from
Richmond and you may read that we have
an outfielder reporting there who signed
long, long ago,
81 tell you we will have a real team.
Just listen to the list. Starting off with
the catchers we have Hurley, Jessup and
Pierce. Then the pitching staff includes
Chech, Cogan, Cook, Ferguson and Evans.
At first Kelley will work, and around the
infield we have Higgins at second, Shay
at short, and Bean at third. Yes, Bean
will be with the team. He has told Kelley
that he intends to report and my manager
believes he will make good his word. Dill
lard and Geier are in the outfeld and
then we have the other man who is fast
and strong I may be able to give you
his name tomorrow
While in Chicago President Lennon Wis
tied T. ]. Hickey, the president of the
association, and the st. Paul man made
good his promise and told just where he
stood on the subject of contract jumpers.
Lennon assured President Hickey that he
was not in a joking mood when he in
formed the readers of T G l b e that
he would not permit contract breakers to
play in Lexington park and he emphatic
ally declared thta the gates Of the local
ball park will be nailed shut any time the
association voted to do business with men
who have jumped.
Story Hard to Believe.
President Lennon when informed last
night by h e G / 0 be that Robinson,
Messitt land Ketchem had jumped from
Gear to the Kansas City Western league
team refused to believe the Associated
Press report.
"Why, I cannot believe that those men
have jumped their contracts" he said
81 knew that the Western was after the
Gear players and l knew that the Van
Brunt agents attempted to buy up the
entire Kansas City American association
team, but I do not believe that these play
ers are foolish enough to jump into the
Western The report reads true enough
and it all may be so, but it's hard to be-
Iieve
Gear will be after these players and
don't you worry about that point. He
will furnish them will trouble enough TO
| last for some time and you watch and see
| if he does not stop their playing.
This latest development will start a
number of our club owners demanding a
war on the minor leagues and Hickey will
be urged to order a raid but even now
1 cannot see where we can gain anything
! by repudiating our agreement to have
nothing to do with contract jumpers.
eff this jumping story is true and I
hear the reasons for the jumping I may
change my mind and join in with the
men urging a war against the leagues
warning against us. but cannot change
over to the other side until [ hear good
reasons for such a change"