The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-17
SPORTING GOSSIP

AS the TWO owners or the Milwaukee
American association baseball club
continue to air their troubles in court
and through the columns Of the Mil
waukee press, the conviction that the
time to drop both Quin and Havenor
becomes more and more settled.
1t is a toss-up as to which one Of
the pair is the real sad affair.
Quin, given a chance to tell it,
pointed out that Havenor did not know
the first thing about running a ball
team. The president of the club de-
clares that the treasurer, who from
this distance looks the man who fur
nished the money, declared himself
against even the first symptoms Of
free paper. According to Quin, Have
nor, if he had his way, would cut out
the passes of the aldermen, the police,
the other city officials and even the
newspaper men. Havenor, in the last
reports had not decided whether it
would be advisable to tax the baseball
reporters. Is ST
After Quin had fixed Havenor, it
was the treasurers s. turn, and Mr..
Quin's bookbindery boycott was trot-
ted down the line for a few remarks.
Hayenor claims that Quin was a cost
ly proposition from start to finish, and
all on account of his bookbindery.
The fanatics of the different league
do not care what Havenor's final ac-
ton relative to the distribution of free
paper will be, but they do know that
Havenor is right din claiming that
Quin's difficulty with the labor unions
cost money. issti
Quin was a dead weight to every
other club owner in the association.
His real reasons for going through the
summer at outs with the Milwaukee
labor unions are not known here, but
all know the fact that the Milwaukee
club was a boycotted club hurt the
Lexington park gate, and without
doubt hurt the other gates Of the
Hickey league.
Havenor's reported plan Of doing
away with the pass system might be
tried in all cities Of the league. Though
a few selected ones would suffer, the
real support of the game would bene-
fit by the change.
Ball players are unusually sensitive
to unfavorable criticism. The average
player believes that he is doing more
than his share by coming out to
ball park and DOMINIC suit He for
gets that the men who pay to see
baseball assist in keeping him from a
seven-dollar a week position, and re-
sents any criticism. So
A number of the most enthusiastic
fanatics, who hold season passes, are
the most exacting critics, and the
knowledge Of this fact gives the player
a chance to complain that the man in
on pass should be satisfied with the
exhibition offered him.
If the pass system could be done
away with, the players would soon
learn that it is UP to them to play real
baseball. With the change, every man
filing a protest would be a man who
had paid for the right, and the ball
player would soon learn that it was
up to him to deliver the goods.
The attempt Of the st. Paul Central
high school football team to arrange
games with the Minneapolis high
school teams has brought out the fact
that the directors Of interscholastic
football i'm the Twin Cities are either
ignorant or careless.
According to the reports from Min
neapolis rules governing games be-
tween the high school Teams Of the
two cities have never been suggested.
agenents of the different teams wait
until the season is well on and then, If
a winning chance is in sight, send a
challenge to one Of the other teams.
1t is too late to rearrange the games
of the present season, but right now
is the time to appoint delegates for a
conference that will bring order out
of the present general nixup before
the 1909 season is on.
A complete schedule of games
should have been arranged by the
high school teams of the two cities be-
fore the season opened This fact was
overlooked, but another year should
not be wasted.
From Kokomo, Ind, comes the tale
of Tod Sloan's hard luck. The famous
jockey started out with a little more
than 100000 in bills spread around In
his different pockets. He also hauled
twenty trunks about with him. He
lost several dollars on the races and
played the red and black, but the
twenty trunks got him at last. His
losses on the track were mere trif1eS
compared with that baggage bill.
Seriously Sloan now knows that
even a popular Jockey cannot throw
the public and get away with the play
for any length of time.
A st. Louis crockery firm advertis-
ing an opening declares that "imita-
ton pitchers will be given away dur
ing the week" The American asso-
citation was in a position to make the
same offer in several towns last sea-
son.
Il the football fans are wise they
will have real look before betting
their money against the Wisconsin
team. Coach King declares, in a
mournful tone, that Michigan looks
mighty strong to him, and Assistant
Coach Charlie Mccarthy insists that
the Badgers are ION the bum" this
season. Whenever that hard-luck tale
comes out of Madison, It is, time to lock