The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-08
LENNON SELLS out
Owner Of St. Paul Club Gets His
Price-Team Will Go to-
Chicago.
National and American Peace En-
voys Meet in Cincinnati
Tomorrow. ns.

It Is reported at Chicago that the iran
cl,ise OF the st. Paul club Of the American
association. has been transferred to that
city. The deal for the third professional
baseball club in Chicago. it Is said, was
completed at Chicago yesterday at q, con-
ference between President T. j. Hickey OF
the American association and Owner Len
non Of the st. Paul club. According to rer
port Lennon received the amount he asked
TOR his team and franchise. President
Hickey was not at his office yesterday aft
ernoon nor could he or Mr.. Lennon be
found and the report could not be veri-
fed: gs,. Ss.$..s.| ss.ss.. - ="
Manager Walter :Wilnot Of the Mime
apolis baseball club, accompanied by Mrs.
Wiimot and their young son. returned last
night from Kansas City, where the party
has been visiting Mrs. Wilnot's parents.
Wilmot said that he had been too busy
hunting to keep track Of recent develop
ments in the baseball world. He said that
Dale Gear and the other American assoc
citation men In Kansas City were antici-
pating a prosperous season. ~ :,
. Ban johnson, president Of the American
league yesterday announced that the
peace session Of the baseball magnates
would be held in Cincinanti Friday. john
son made the announcement after thef re-
ceipt of letter from President Garry
HERMANN Of the Cincinnati club Of the
National league and chairman of the COM
mittee Of that organization. The contents
Of the letter Johnson. would not disclose,
but stated after reading it that the peace
conference is now assured and that the
meeting would be called Friday. ~ -
1t is understood that the National
League committee will not have full pow
er to act, but that President Hermann In
his letter: stated the members Of the COM
mittee would be iii constant touch with
the rest of the National League magma fes;
50 there would be no delay in any action
that might be taken This latest phase5is
figured as a: concession by. the American
League committee; as President Jof1nson'a
originally asserted that his committee
latter had full power to act - -: =
According to New York: baseball mar,
connected with the National league, lone
| plan OF the American league to get a
playing field. on Manhattan island came
| TO- smash Yesterday when the directors
OF the :lnterbouorugh Rapid Transit com
pany rejected a propositions from the
forces headed by Ban johnson to- buy
| grounds at One Hundred and Forty-fiS1
street and the Harlem river. and tnen
lease them to the American lea gde:: IS ~
This the National league PEOPLE con.
tend, is a severe blow: to the. Am4siricaajI
|
which they had banked all along on get.
ting. The National sleaguers also: affirm
| that there is. no available site on Man:
haitian island for the American league.
AS for the American leaguers there i.
not one Of them in New York just at pres
ent, but as they always have conducted
their affairs with shrewdness and fore
sight, it remains to be seen whether the,
have been baked in entering New Yorl
this season. According to another report
the American league made a proposition
to the Rapid Transit subway constri1c
ton folks to the effect that the latter pur
chase the property In question for $500,
900 and then lease 1t to the -America1
league. !. 10. +: :.2: s. -::..! 3
The proposition was laid before TIL
Rapid Transit directors at their meetirj
yesterday and was turned down abse
1utely. :" =" - y: sz...% g.. n: