The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-05
FAST BALL FOR FANS
ST. PAUL WILL AGAIN MOVE OCT
OF BUSH LEAGUE
CLASS
NO CHANCE FOR WESTERN
Whitfield Collection Is Travelling "a
Hard Road ROurl<e Appears
Read to Surren-
der.

Though the critics opposed to the new
American association can still see MOTH
ing but a large COB of gloom shaping up
in front of the Hickey collection or
clubs. the ST. Paul fanatics now know
that their town is to move I'D out OF
the bush league class once more.
The W estern, though its friends hate
to maze the admission, is all in as far
as st. Paul, Minneapolis and Milwaukee
are concerned, and st. Paul is to start
off the 1902 season in decent sized
league. If the signs do not fail it Will
&c through a successful season in TINS
same league, and a successful season
means that the fanatics will secure the
worth of their money.
The Western league, though still claim
ing to be engaged in war with the new
association, starts off this wee IN
rather weak condition. The leaders ad-
nit that it will be impossible for their
league to build new parks in st. Paul
and Minneapolis, and without these two
towns there is no chance for Milwaukee.
That is all bad enough, but there is
still more in the bundle of hard luck d.
rected to the Whitfield league. Now
comes the report that the determined
fighter, Bill Rourke, Is beginning to fly
signals of distress. Rourke, according to
the Associated Press reports. is anxious
to pull out from under before the general
SmaSh-up arrives.
Rourke worked in his fatal mistake
when he missed the meeting of the Amer
lean magnates at Kansas City. If Rourke
had attended this meeting he might to-
day be able to claim with some right
that he was still a member of the new
association, but he remained away. and
probably by this time realizes that he is
now on the outside of the American
and started on a slide that NAV push
him out of the town that claims Pat
Grove in its directory list.
A B. Beall, the Minneapolis magnate
of 1901, is picked by the baseball critic
OF an evening paper as the man HOLDING
the key to the situation. Beall might
at one stage of the war have cIutched
tae key controlling matters, but he re-
leased his hold when he traded marks
with Tebeau. Beall now owns the Den:
Yer holdings. He has nothing at all IN
do with the Minneapolis parks. If the
Western allows him to retain the Den
YER franchise he is it in Denver. If
they throw him out of his Denver pos
sessions he looks through with baseball.
BeaII to He Punished
BeaH, according to the late reports is
to be punished. The Western is to drop
both Denver and Colorado Springs from
ITS circuit. This may be true. Ii it is
1t simply means that Whitfield. Manning
ONA'SA q 4iu1 ing up the nnlSH OF.
the Western collection. Burns, of Color
ado Springs, helped in starting this fight
against the American. Burns will prob
ably Tile an emphatic objection if after
puylhg what looks to be a gold brick
from Hulen he sees the brick taken awav
IT VIII simply be another case of losing
money to administer punishment and
/" hitheld and his assistants will probable
lluulge IN another think before ordering
the change
AS the days roll by the fanatics keeping
IN touch with this baseball fight can onl
peheVe that the evening paper critic is
attempting to hold ST. Paul completely
out the the baseball world.
when the Western first started IT'S war
! TINS critic seized upon the Whitfield
league as weapon to fight the American
fioldIhg the western before the fans the
claInor for competition was started Now
there is no chance of seeing the Western
III st. Paul. but the critic still continues
passing out the bouquets of CONCEALED
moisture and working hard atternnts to
show the rocky path on ahead Of tho
Hickey league
The star fool talk is made when this
critic and the Eastern critics paint a
Woro picture showing the American act
!Hs as punching bag for the National
league the American league and the ma
uonai association of minor leagues
11Ichey al all his associates, to hear it
loId by those critics, are marked for the
slaughter. The big leagues and the NJ
/ tional association are to drop all other
business to devote their entire time to
the task of crushing out this outlay
The American association will starr
When the opening day is reached and the
big leagues will continue right along their
i UMm Iiies. Johnson knows better than to
| Spalding without doubt would have 70
be told of this comic orera war.