The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-22
MINNESOTA SURE
TOBEAT WISCONSIN
Badgers, Showing in Northwestern Game Spells Their
Chance-Syndicate Baseball and the Farm System
More interest Wanted in Local Athletics Fia ITS
Are Stopped Other Sporting Gossip.

the way Cincincinnati or any other big
lengue club is not dropping.
The best argument that the baseball
magnates can advance is in the short
question, What are you going to do
about it? They know that year after
year the fans turn out, see the new
players and, if half way decent ball Is
presented, forget the old ones and sat
isfy themselves with the best offered,
but the farm system and syndicate
baseball will get the great national
game If the magnates are not careful,
and when the game is dead they will
have no one to blame but themselves.
The relay race run from NIinneap-
oils to st. Paul yesterday afternoon by
the teams of the st. Paul and Mime
apolis Young Mems Christian associa-
lions has disclosed the fact that this
town of st. Paul is not demanding it's
proper position in the athletic world.
Prof. Carl F. Rothfuss, physical di-
rector of the winning team, is authority
for the statement that one of the hard
est tasks that may be mapped out for
a human being, or set of beings, is the
| task of arousing in st. Paul interest in
anything athletic.
The town has the Amateur Athletic
| association and the Y M. G.. A. with
their well equipped gymnasiums, but,
! outside of the membership of the two
| organizations, there can be found prac-
tically no interest in wrestling, running
| or any other of the athletic sports.
| Prof. ROthfuss has been fighting
| hard since his arrival in st. Paul to
| arouse the public, and, though some
| what discouraged, has not given UP
| his effort to bring the city back to a
proper place in the athletic world. The
relay race is but the first of a seriSs
of events that the director and the
| leaders of the athletic world will ar
range for this winter and they hope
that before the cold months pass away
| st. Paul will turn out proper crowds
| to the entertainments offered.
| With another season the Amateur
/ Athletic association promises to make
the indoor baseball game one of the
| leading winter sports of st. Paul. This
season the A. A. A. has in the field
| one of the fastest indoor baseball
| teams of the West. During theIWinter
a number of games will be played at
| the A. A. A. Gymnasium and about the
| state. Negotiations for a game with
the team at Duluth are now under way.
The blood smeared fight stopped by
| the police at Minneapolis last week as
| sistS considerable in explaining why
/ priZe-fighting is under the ban in Min
nesota and other decent states. Other
| cities have demonstrated that clean-cut
sparring exhibitions can be permitted
and even enjoyed BIZ the general public.
| but in almost every case some short
minded grafters. Will appear on the
scene and wind the sport up by abusing
! the confidence placed in them by the
authorities. When the followers of
the fight game can be more honest in
| their dealings they will without doubt,
after a wait that they have earned, &c
| cure proper consideration. The clean
| sports can secure all this the more rap
| idly by casting out the men who
queer the game.