The Saint Paul globe., 1902-11-24

Though the rumor of the transfer Of
the St. Paul ball team still circulateS
Manager Mike Kelley continues to con-
fine his entire attention to the search
for pennant winning timber, and this
work brings out the story OF mlx-up
with the Minnea polls management
Germany Schaefer is the bone OF
contention. Schaefer played with st.
Paul before going to Chicago and When
he signed with Hart forgot all ABOUT
securing a release from the st. Paul
club. Hart it is said, offered to pay
for the infielder, but President Lennon
refused to accept money and contented
himself with holding his claim to the
popular player.
Hart does not intend to use Schaefer
next season and it looked like a trip
back to st. Paul for the German, when
Walter Wilmot appeared on the scene.
Wilmot and Kelley met in Chicago
before the meeting of the national
board of arbitration. Wilmot had Rohe
on his claim list and Kelley wanted
Rohe Wilmot evidently experienced
a hunch regarding the terms of settle
ment being prepared for the American
association and Western league and
offered to trade his claim on Rohe with
Kelley for st. PauPs claim on Schaefer
The Minneapolis management claims
that Kelley. accepted the offer and Will
mot went ahead and signed Schaefer.
Kelley, it is said, signed Robe.
Everyone was reported satisfied until
the board announced the terms of the
settlement. According to the peace
pact all Western league players signed
by the American association We're to
be returned to the Western. Rohe be-
longed to St. Joseph and Kelley was
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fielder go back to Van Brunt'S town.
Now Kelley is shy one infelder and
Wilrnot has Schaefer. The st. Paul
management is not satisfied with this
situation and President Lennon wants
Schaefer returned to st. Paul. Wilmot
claims it was fair and square bargain
and insists that he will hold the Ger
man player. He has also signed Slim
mel, who was suspended by st. Paul at
the close of the 1902 season, but the st.
Paul management, it is said, will sim
ply make a fight to secure the return
of Schaefer.
May Lose cIinsman.
Columbus is another town reported
players. Columbus has reported Billy
Clingman, the shortstop and playing
manager of the 1902 Milwaukee team,
as signed to a contract, and it is gem
orally admitted that Clingman has
signed to play with the Senators, but
now the Milwaukee management comes
forward with a demand to be shown.
Havenor is a fighter and he is au-
thority for the statement that Cling
man has never been released by the
Milwaukee management. Milwaukee
naturally has the first claim on Cling
mans services and if Columbus cannot
show that the shortstop was scratched
from the Brewers claim list it will be
up to Bryce and his fellow stockhold-
ers to either return the player to Mil
waukee or pay Havenor for his re-
lease.
1t is generally understood that Cling
man stood with Harry Quin in the Mil
waukee club owners row and that the
playing manager stood to rise or fall
with Quin. If Quin had landed first
in the fight Clingman would have re-
turned to manage the Brewers of next
season. When Quin was bested Cling
man man thought that Havenor would not
care to have him around the premises
and accordingly signed with Columbus.
An All Star Team.
Columbus by the way is to have a.
team that should, if regulations count
for anything, make the best in the
league hurry. Frank Leonard, the new
Senator manager, has been out after
the best and it is said that he has Sc
cured an all-star team. Men in the
game estimate that the Columbus pay
roll vii run to $4,000 month
Terry Turner, Jimmie Hart and
Catcher Fox, and pitchers Bailey and
and Wagner are reported the only ones
saved from the wreck. Turner will
hold down third, C1ingman, unless re-
called to Milwaukee, will cover short.
Raymer, of the big league, will work at
second and jimmie Hart may cover
the first bag. In the outfield are three
wonders" who can wave the stick up
with the leaders and also run away
from catchers while on the paths.
Transfer of the Saints.
In the past stories of the intended
transfer of the st. Paul ball team to
another town have been sprung and
the opening of each ball season has
found st. Paul still in the fight.
All this has convinced the local fans
that the closed season talk is started
merely to compel greater interest in
the game, but this time it can be pos
1tiVely, stated that the conditions are
different.
st. Paul may continue in the Amer
lean association during the 1903 sea-
son. but if the st. Paul team gees
through another losing season it will
be all off with st. Paul as far as the
American association is concerned.
The American club owners are not
satisfied with the st. Paul balance
sheets. Last season the tail end To-
ledo team outdrew the st. Paul team
and the Saints were we'll up in the
fight all the time.
The situation was thoroughly dis
cUssed at the meeting of the American
men in Chicago and just one thing
saved the ST Paul team for another
year-if it is to be saved.
The club owners were willing to lei
Lennon take his team out of st. Paul
and the only reason they did not in
Yite him to moye out or sell out was
the inability to discover new town
for the team.
Chicago has been mentioned, and
when the st. Paul team is transferred
1t will without doubt go into Chicago
but the magnates in thinking of St
Paul were compelled to consider Min
neapolis as well.
minneapolis will go when st. Paul
goes, and the magnates could not place
Minneapolis. Detroit is the town
wanted but the American league is
still in Detroit and while Johnson's
organization continues to touch the
Michigan town there will be nothing
doing from an American association
standpoint
The fact that Minneapolis is a good
ball town. when it can boast of a
winning team also helped hold the
masnates from the proposed transfer.
Wilmot will start from the scratch
with the other teams next season and
the magnates want to give Minneapolis
chance to make a showing.
If the Millers fall dawn and ST. Paul
goes through another losing season