The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-25
Owner of Chicago White Sox
viii Give $4,000 and Tame
hill and Dundon for the
Speedy Midget Second Base
man-Others May Be Called.
STANDING OF THE CLUES.

Weather permitting, the Saints VIII
play the first game of their fareWell
tour through the Eastern end OF the
Hickey circuit at Toledo this after
noon. Three-game series will be play
ed in Toledo, Columbus, Louisville and
Indianapolis, and then the team will
return to wind up the st. Paul season.
Games will be played here with Min
neapolis, Milwaukee and Kansas City,
and then the team will go to MilWau-
kee and Kansas City for the final six
games of the season.
How many players are to be saved
by Kelley from the raid that all pen
nant- winning teams are subjected to is
the question that is now bOther1ng the
fanatics True, the Saints have not
yet landed the pennant, but they have
been playing like pennant winners
since rounding into form and the raid
is sure to come.
Higgins will be lost to st. Paul. 1t
has been generally understood that the
little second sacker was slated for
Cincinnati uniform, but now comes the
report that Comiskey is after the mid
get. Comiskey has offered the local
management $4,000 in cold hard cash
and in addition will turn over Tame
hill and Dundon to st. Paul if he can
have Higgins.
The matter is up to Higgins. When
the little fellow came back to st. Paul
this time it is understood that he re-
turned with the understanding that he
was to be allowed to pick the team he
wanted to go up to. 1t is even said
that Higgins played through the sea-
son without signing a contract in or
der to remain free.
Two Strong Men.
Tannehill and Dundon would help
Kelley out in building up a new strong
team Tannehill has not attracted the
spot light while with Comfskeys team,
but the young infielder is a real ball
player and with another season in the
minors he could go back and win out.
Dundon is another fast man and Co
miskeys offer of this pair in addition
to the money offer shows that the old
Comanche is out with blood in his eye
to wipe out the 1903 record of the
White Sox.
Higgins home is in Cincinnati, and
it is possible that he has already
promised Hermann that he will join
the Reds 1t is known that he has
been doing some field work for the
Cincinnati management and this COM
pels the belief that he will pick Gin
cinnati.
In picking Chicago he would help
out the Saints, but in choosing Cincin-
natl he will help himself, and he can
first. When Higgins goes up to the
big league he will go up to stay. He is
a natural ball player and he has head
that discounts the majority of the
brain watts now moving about in fast
company. 1t will not take Higgins
long to become a seasoned star in the
big league, and this fact offers early
opportunities.
Kelley is manager of the Reds, but
the Reds have had many managers
ahead of Kelley, and if Kelley fails
next season to give the German folks
something better than a team down
in the also rams another manager may
follow Kelley. 1t sounds like a wild
dream, and may take several seasons.
but in the end Higgins, the star in
fielder with star head piece, may be-
come the star manager of the team in
his home town.
With Higgins out of the way we
have Shannon, Jackson, Stewart and
Ferguson to consider. It is almost a
certainty that Shannon will go up and
Jackson's work has attracted the at
tention of the big ones now out look
ing for new timber. Stewart
and Ferguson are more than
likely to receive offers, and Chech may
also be called. Ferguson had short
trial with the Chicago Nationals, but
he joined that team when it was play
ing like the Minneapolis team that he
left-just plain rotten ball-and he had
no chance to make good
Geier Deserves Mention,
These men have been mentioned by
the papers about the circuit, but al
most every writer in the Hickey league
has overlooked the man who has work
ed right up with any man on the st.
Paul team-Phil Geier.
Geier is denied mention mostly be-
cause he has served time in the big
league, but, despite this fact, he is
one of the strongest men in the Amer
lean association today. The little fell
the stick and can play the outfield
with the best ones in the Hickey
league. Kelleys injury has held him
at third base and under cover and ST.
Paul will be fortunate if he is over
looked.
One thing is certain-the Saints will
start off next season with Sone star.
Mike Kelley, until his bad knee put
him out of the game, showed as the
prize first baseman of the ASSOCIATION
on the beginning bag and Kelley has
been hitting. The big fellow, when il
the game, makes first base. work sc
easy that the fans generally overlook
the good bits pulled off at that corner
but now and then Kelley has worked
in snatches of baseball that belonged
in the sensational class. Kelley with
out doubt would be called up higher
but for the fact that he has signed a
three-year contract to captain anG
manage the Saints.