The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-03
HE LANDS MoCREERjY
Wilmot Signs Brooklyn Player for
Local Baseball Team-Will
Play First Base.
Cantillon Says Brewers Have Phyle
Cinched- Hickey Will Re-
vive Claim List.

Cinched-Hickey Will Re-
vive Claim List.
Tom McCreery, who during the last two
seasons has been with the Brooklyn
baseball club, has signed a contract to
play with Minneapolis in 1903. McCreery
probably will play first base.
McCreery prefers to perform in the out
field, and objected when Wimot told him
that he would be expected to cover the in
itial cushion II cannot play first base,''
was the telegram he sent to Wilmot.
Yes you can. You only think You
can't answered the Miller manager, and
McCreely signed a contract.
According to dispatch from Pittsburg,
the salary paid McCreely Is in excess of
that received by any National League
| first baseman. President Johnston to-day
confirmed the report Of the signing Of
| McCreery.
! McCreery was second among the Ma
| tlOnal League first basemen last season.
His average was 1885, only three points
behind Wagner, who led the league. Nc
Creepy made only 16 errors out of 1909
| chances. 4&S
Although McCreery was signed to play
first. it is possible that he may be used
| in the outfield after all. Mcintyre of the
Pacific Northwest league was signed as
first baseman some weeks ago, and
Wilmot intended to use him for that po-
sition in case the McCreery deal fell
through. If McCreery makes good, he
will be Kept at first, and McCreery, Wilmot
and Lippert will probably compose the
| Miller outheld. Z;
! President T. J. Hickey Of the Ameri-
| can association has practically decided to
re-establish the claim flist, which was
1 abolished during last season.. There were
| complaints last summer that President
Hickey showed preference to certain clubs
in the claiming Of players and for that
reason he decided to abolish the claim list
entirely. Since then, however, it has
been found that it was bad thing to do,
as has been demonstrated in more ways
| than one. The players have been able
! to play the managers against one an
other and work them for higher salaries,
and in addition there; have been many
! complaints from different managers.
President Hickey says he will re-estab-
lish the claim list, but upon little diff
ferent basis. Heretofore the rule was
that the first manager getting a claim in
for a player, whether by letter or tele-
graph, was the winner. Now President
! Hickey will recognize no claim unless it
comes by telegraph. Then he will have
the kilograms to fall back on in the
event of a dispute as to which manager
had first claim. s}-'''s
l. ~
signed to pitch for. the Peoria club Of the
:. Western League, may be induced to don
! the umpire colors the coming season for
the American association. President
J Hickey would like to have Billy, as he
feels certain that he would make good
: with the Indicator. Nick Young, ex-
president of the National League told
Hart that any time he was ready to UNI
pire there was place for him on the
National League staff. g, ~ - 3..'
Manager Joe Cantilion of the Milwau
;. kee American baseball team was in Mil
= waukee yesterday for several hours, con
. ferrings with c. S. Havener in regard t.
= the plans for the coming season.
Manager Cantilion confirmed the re
port of the signing of Pitcher John Re
. yoye of the Ashland club, and he think
he has secured "a good man An the young
= ster. In speaking of the signing Of Will
liam Phyle, the, former National Leagu
pitcher, Cantiion said that Milwaukee
. would surely have7Phyle this season. Th
:, : question, is to be officially disposed of a
- - Saturdays meeting Of the American as
IS ISOLATION.
- President Harry Pulliam Of the Nat
n ional League yesterday notified Presider
Johnson of the American League Of tn
n appointment of Barney Dreyfuss Of Pitts
If burg, Charles H. Ebbetts of Brooklyn an
h James A. Hart of Chicago as the schedu
- committee and James A. Hart, F2dwar
- Hanlan of Brooklyn and Max Fleiscf
9 mann of Cincinnati as the rules commit
= | tee Of the NatiOnal League
The presidents Of western clubs of II
i National League We're. again in confer
4 ence yesterday at Cincinnati and di.
n cussed the proposition to have the ives
y ern teams of the National and America
Leagues play a series of games before tt
championship season opens. The plan d
n not meet with the approval of the cit
owners present, and they thought it be-
to allow the clubs in the west to ABRAMS
their own exhibition games.
Garry Hermann, president Of the Gil
cinnati baseball club, who is just now tt
Ill leader Of the National League, has take
It. it upon himself to notify President Johl
o. son of the American. League that tt
wv move undertaken by several Nation
CO League magnates to confine the ne
American club in New York to Manllatt<
island by changing a clause in the pea
D. contract, will not work, and that Johns,
on & Co., are at liberty to place the new eli
he anywhere in Greater New York witho
.fe fear of violating the agreement.
Hermann, who is, one of the broa
le, minded men in the National League, e1
les IDENTIFY realized that to allow the scher
80; ers to carry their point would be t
le, means of precipitating another breach
tn, the baseball peace, so he has tried to a
SIS, just matters with the leaders Of t
IN, American League.
zee -
1e, Joe DOOM, the Hotre Dame pitclat
whose work here in, games against t
Minnesota varsity team last spri
aroused the admiration Of local fans, h
signed with the ST.. Louis Browns.
,ey A-,.,,,o
ow 1oi 81, iea6ue men cldlm tnaC
a Keller, Fultz and Lefty Davis the NJ
di- York club will have the fastest and be