The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-19
st. Paul Baseball Enthusiasts
Are to Join the Order
Of Rooters
TO HAVE REAL OPENING
Mayor Smith Has Consented to Toss
First Bali Across the Plate
Parade Planned for
Team.

st. Paul baseball fanatics are preparing
for the opening of the American associa-
ton season, and when Manager MiQue
Kelley unIoads his band of ball tossers
at the Union station for the first game
at the home season he will discover the
local enthusiasts already realize that the
team gathered together by the big first
baseman is a real one.
President Lennon reports that the dia-
mond at Lexington will be in shape by
next Sunday and the carpenters will be
given the right of way bright and early
Monday morning. The diamond will be
rolled every day from now on until the
opening day, and Lennon assures the base
ball public that his new entrance will lie
ready for the anxious ones who are al
ready figuring on the front seats for the
beginning game. St. Paul will have a
real opening this season. There will be
the band, the parade, the speeches, and
last and best of all, Mayor Robert Smith
has consented to tear the cover off the
first packed ball and heave it up to the
plate.
RIOTERS to Organize.
All this is fine and dandy, but it is not
all, for this time the ST. Paul fanatics
are going even farther. They do no in
tend to stop with a tallyho parade this
time, for the hackers of the Saints re-
fuse to trail any rooter organization in
the country
In several cities on the American asso-
citation circuit the fanatics have organized
chapters Of the Ancient and Most Respect
able Order of Baseball Rooters These
rooters pledge themselves to boost, and
if they cannot boost, they promise not
to knock.
In the city of Columbus the Grim Chap
ter of Rooters has been organized, and
now the st. Paul fanatics are coming to
the front. They refuse to back up for
Columbus, and st. Paul is to have it's
rooter chapter or diamond.
A number of the thirty-third degree
fanatics have interested themselves in the
scheme and already the Columbus chap
ter has been asked to forward copies Of
the constitution and bylaws.
Fans Are Keeping Quiet.
The fanatics interested do not care to
have their names made public at this
time for they want to give all fanatics
in the city an equal chance when the or
ganization is perfected. Many of the
men who have talked up this scheme de-
serve election to office in the rooters
chapter that is 10 be organized here but
they refuse to come to the front until all
fans who join in the movement have a
chance to voice their opinions.
All Fans Are invited.
The first meeting to perfect organization
will be called the moment the papers for
warded from Columbus reach this city
The fanatics interested, however, do not
wish to have another Woment wasted for
they want to have their chapter ready
for work when the team reaches st.
Paul and every fan anxious to become a
member of the American association orSer
of rooters is requested to send his name
and address to the sporting editor Of
T h G o b at once.
These names will be placed on file and
when the list is secured application blanks
will be mailed. Every fan in the city
has chance to figure as a charter mem
Der of the order and the promoters Of
the scheme hope to see the list of men,
bers swelled to the hundreds.
In Columbus the John Grim chapter Of
the order has perfected organization and
has already rented q hall. The fans of
Columbus have taken up the plan with en-
thusiasm and are now fighting hard to
make their chapter or diamond the
premier of the association.
The constitution, bylaws and blank
forms should reach st. Paul Monday
afternoon and the promoters will at once
prepare to organize for the season All
order are requested to send in their names
at once to the sporting editor Of r h e
G o b e for the local promoters are
anxious to call meeting as soon as pos
sible.