Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-01-18
HAS DISAPPEARED
Farley. Manager of the Decatur
Baseball Team, Takes to
Tall Timber.
EFFORTS TO LOCATE HIM FAIL
Association Has Twelve Men Under
COntract-Gossip OF the
Diamond.

| The baseball men are at loss TO
Understand what has become of
Thomas Farley, who was secured as
field manager of the Decatur base
bail team several months ago. Presi-
dent Dineen has been unable for
more than Il month to communicate
with Farley.
Wednesday he sent n telegram to
FarIey's address in Milwaukee, Wis,
and the telegraph company returned
| il '.undelivered," with the further
statement. whereabouts unknown"
President Dineen said: II know
nothing more than this" holding
forth the telegram he had received
from the Milwaukee Office of the
Il have written to Farley several
times during the last month but re-
ceived no answer. There are some
matters in relation to the team
which must be attended to. Today
| telegraphed him to find out what
was the matter and why he paid no
lattention to the letters | have writ
ten him in the interest of the local
lassociation You see the result. The
telegraph company could not find
him IL Sc, ms strange that Farley
would 90 away and not make ar
rangements to have his mail forward
ed to him. or without letting us know
what his address would be. L can't
understand the situation at all. Far
lev did not get enough advance mon
ey from this association to make ii
any object to try to- bean MS. ! don't
believe for moment that he would,
or has done anything of that kind.
He has too much mt stake. His rep
utation as Il baseball man was worth
far too much To do anything of that
kind. The question naturally arises.
what has become of him? | don't
know what to do. because ! don't
want to let go of Farley, and there's
work to be done"
There are now in the hands of
President Dineen the contracts OF
twelve of the players. The under
standing was that Farley was nego-
tiating with others and that their
contracts would be received soon. If
nothing is heard from Farley at an
early date the board of directors will
no doubt be compelled to take some
action. although no steps in that di-
rection have yet been considered.
But there must be some one to look
after the work. for in another two
months there will begin TO be talk of
PLAYERS arriving and that sort of
thing. 1t may be that Farley has
gone away on vacation and on the
theory that he has his preliminary
work i'm hand. did not consider 1t
worth while TO make any further
communications at this time. If he
is as good ball player and manager
as his past successes seem to indi-
cate. the baseball world of Decatur
does not want 10 lose him.
Notes of the Diamond.
James II. Manning. head of the
Kansas City club in the Western
league. Thomas Burns. of Colorado
Springs. and w. r. Van Brunt. of St.
Joseph, Mo, were in Milwaukee for
a few hours yesterday to talk over
the baseball situation with Fred C..
Gross. secretary of the old Milwau-
kee club. The party arrived at IL a.
IN. and left at 1:45 o'clock. When
asked what the circuit of the West
ern league would be Mr.. Manning
said: AS yet the circuit committee
has not been able to report. but you
can say that Milwaukee will be in
cluded in the list of cities. We have
secured the park here and will go
ahead with our plans at once. l can
not say that indianapolis will he in,
neither can 1 say that it will not be
included. We expect to have our cir
cult fixed up within ten days"
Following the story that Barney
Dreyfuss is ready to jump the Pitts
burg club into the American league
if the baseball troubles are not set
tied in a reasonable time. comes an
other report that President Freed
man. of the New York club, is con-