The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-22
SPORTING GOSSIP

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AT the next meeting Of the library
board a delegation from ethe Amateur
Athletic association will petition the
board to permit the lldsei of the large
room of the George q. Lennon clothing
store in the Library building for in
door ball games. IL d
If the library board grants the petit
ton an indoor baseball league made up
of teams representing the Commercial
houses of st. Paul will be- organized.
The room now wanted by the pro-
motors of the proposed league is I'M
occupied. The board apparently has
no real use for the room. Why not
grant the petition Of the Amateur
Athletic association?
Indoor baseball is healthful sport.
1t is played after dark and the chance
to join an indoor baseball league holds
q number Of young men from the
streets. BY granting the petition the
board will give the healthy minded
young man chance and will rescue a
number of the weak ones who now
turn to other places Of questionable
amusement and support their actions
by pointing out that they had no other
place to go to.
A few have made the claim that the
library board may object to the noise
going with the ball games. The lib
rary reading rooms close at 9 p. m.
and the indoor ball games would not
begin before that time. Indoor base
ball is not noisy sport and the games
should not interfere in any way with
the tenants of the building or the
public.
Just to rub it in, the Evening Wis
consin, of Milwaukee, comes right out
and declares that the defeat of Min
nesota by Nebraska was not such a
great surprise after ALL According to
the Evening Wisconsin, man .'the
Gophers seem to be very slow ag-
gregation this fall and any fast team
will be able to take them into camp"
The Milwaukee man goes on to say
that the Minnesota men should prove
easy money for the Badgers when the
teams meet Nov Is. The same bunch
is working in several Minnesota dis
tricts at the present time, but as this
column has promised to give Williams
the chance that his supporters insist
he should have the saying of mean
things about the level headed coach
will be left to the Wisconsin writer's.
Coach King may have ca number of
winning plays stored away in the
thinking departments of sthe Badger
players, but the Wisconsin men now
resemble the MinneSOta9Eend of the
Gopher Cornhusker conflict.
According to a Milwaukee report,
Emil Skow, of the Badger team, was
offended when a bold football fanatic
suggested to him that the Wisconsin
against the Wolverines and that the
results would be different from the
figures representing the result Of the
cO-Badger contest. ms
This habit Of becoming convinced
that all other teams are limitations so
frequently acquired by, football play
ers has been jolted several times of
late. The chances of Wisconsin in the
game with Michigan would appear
more bright if the Badgers just admit
ted that the wolverines had the least
ghost of a chance.
| If the story-told in Chicago by the
New Yorker, who knows all about the
invasion of New York by the American
league, is true one Ban Johnson,
Mr.. KilIilea and the other holders of
the American league stock will soon be
supplying Eastern politicians with
spending money.
The American men plan to make a
hit in New York by presenting. Sun
day baseball within reaching distance
of the city. They are to build park
over in Jersey and pay the sheriff to
keep away from the game with his
warrants for violation of the Sunday
baseball law.
The Jersey sheriff may be engaged
at a small salary, but one large Sunday
crowd will start him and it will be
either pay up or shut up for the Ameri-
can men and they will not be able to
appeal the case. If this latest story
is correct it can only be said that the
American league club owners are to
the bad when it comes to thinking up
clever schemes.
Just when Larry Temple thought he
was about to break into the cham
pion class, William Stiff came along
and sWatted the colored ambitious one
straight jolts on the nose. When Tenn
pies feet refused to remain in under
his legs the referee announced the fin
ish of another championship, ambition.
With football distinctly college
game the following telegram from
Marquette, Mich, may prove of inter-
est to the fond fathers and mothers
who are anxious to see the heir make
the varsity. The line regarding the
number of expert players" may fur
nish food for reflection. The telegram
is as follows: ia
"MARQUETTE, Mich, Oct. 20.-In
football game played Saturday after
noon between two teams of convicts,
one Of the players sustained broken
arm. The game was fiercely contested.
During the summer the convicts were
permitted to indulge in baseball in the
prison yard, but the spot bn the grid
iron has now taken it's place. A num-
Der of expert players are Included in
the two elevenS." Billy Mac.