The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-10
FATE OF THE SAINTS
TO Be SETTLED
TODAY
Dope Now Is That Lemons
Team VIII Go to Chicago
and the Milwaukee West
ern League Team Be Sent
to This City.

Special to The Globe.
CHICAGO, Feb. 9.-Tomorrow MORN
ing the St. Paul baseball team may be
counted out of the American associa-
ton. At 10 o'clock a meeting of the
associations circuit committee will be
held in President Hickey's office and
at this meeting President Lennon, of
the St. Paul team, viii give his final
answer to the magnates who want st.
Paul out of the league.
At the conclusion of the meeting last
night Lennon looked the winner of the
fight, but the situation was entirely
changed today. Up to this time the
magnates only talked of the backing
for the Chicago team; this morning
they introduced the men with the
money to Lennon.
Two men are willing to chance play
ing a third team in Chicago-the two
are Conrad Miller, of Milwaukee, and
Robe. Z. Burke, Of Chicago. Miller is at
the head of the company that con-
trolls th@ Star theater, of st. Paul, the
Dewey, of Minneapolis, and several
other vaudeville houses.
This Is the Situation.
The proposal that Lennon will either
take up or turn down is that he can
have the controlling interest in the
team going to Chicago and that st.
Paul will be given a Western league
ball team. The plan is to transfer the
Milwaukee Western league ball team to
st. Paul, consolidate the Kansas City
American Western teams for the Amer
lean association, and put the extra
Western team in Sioux City or some
other town. This will give the associa.
ton Chicago team and each league a
separate circuit.
To swing Lennon the association men
produced kilograms from him instruct
ing them to so ahead with the arrange
ments for a transfer of the Saints.
These kilograms were sent at the time
the city council turned down the new
park ordinance and before Lennon de-
cided to hold the Saints at any cost.
The association worked hard on Len
non and threatened if he remained
stubborn to take the franchise and
withhold all the above mentioned ad-
ditional reward.
This time Lennon stood practically
alone for the Saints. Havenor, of Mil
waukee, one of the most rabid on to
Chicago men, sided with him and re-
fused to vote to take the team without
the st. Paul mans consent. Havenor
may change and Lennon is confronted
with the proposition to remove his team
end secure control of a Western league
team or have his team removed and
no baseball in st. Paul.
Maenates in Serious Mood.
The magnates are evidently in a
most serious mood, for they worked up
to O'Clock without a recess and i'm
mediately resumed their deliberations
after dinner. Lennon has agreed to
meet Miller and Burke at Efckey's of
flee in the morning to learn their pro-
posals. By conserving to this meeting
he has convinced the others that he
is weakening and they believe he will
consent to the transfer at this meeting.
The transfer of the Milwaukee team
to St Paul is up to Burns, of Colorado
Springs. He is the Westerns angel and
he has been asked to consent to the
proposed switch. The association adj
Journed at late hour to wait for a
telegram from Burns.
Lennon had little to say at the con-
clusion of the sweating he enjoyed
in the meeting room. He said the
Saints We're still in st. Paul, but would
not discuss the chances of a surrender
at the meeting in the morning.