The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-20
END OF SEASON AT HAND
INDIANAPOLIS WILL LAY LAST
GAME AT TOLEDO TO-DAY.
st. Paul Wins First Place HOnors-
Efforts VIII BE Made to Strengthen
the HOLSTERS.

The American Association 1903 champion
ship season will come to a close to-mor-
row. The Eastern clubs will finish the
season to-day, Indianapolis playing at To-
ledo. The Western clubs will not close
until Tomorrow. st. Paul is the cham
pion team this year. The Saints deserve
to win the pennant. as they have played
a good fast game. They have played and
batted consistently throughout the season
and have worked hard for every game.
Mike. Kelly. the ex-Hoosier, manager of
the st. Paul team, deserves great credit
for plotting the team to first place honors.
He selected a good team and then got
the best work out of the players.
Louisville takes second place honors, the
same as last season when Indianapolis won
the pennant. Early in the season it did
the first division, but Tebeau strengthened
his team and the Colonies were lucky in
going through the season with few acct
denss: Indianapolis stu retains a tight
from first place. Manager Watkins tried
to give Indianapolis another championship
team, but hard luck pursued the Hoosiers
manager is determined to get a champion
ship team together for next year. He is
now securing the minor leagues for first
CidSS ldicul duQ VII nave Ill lines ser all
winter to land good players.
XXX
Third Baseman Tamsett was released
while the Indianapolis club was at Column
bus last week. 1t will be
that just before the team left on it's last
trip the Journal announced that Tamsett
would be one of the indianapolis PLAYERS
to be released. Denials were published
the afternoon following the Journals story,
but the release came along just the same
and Tamsett is no longer a member Of
nearly true were the other little stories
published at the same time concerning the
Indianapolis team.
The Central League completed its season
last week and for two or three days no one
seemed to know whether Fort Wayne or
South Bend won the pennant. 1t developed
later that South Bend would be awarded
first place by deciding two protested games
against Fort Wayne. There was hardly
any need Of waiting until after the close of
the season to decide the protested games.
1t only served to make the supporters of
the Fort Wayne team very angry. Fort
Wayne was led to believe that 1t won the
championship and was in first place when
the season closed. The general public does
not sympathize with the Fort Wayne team
very much because of, the report that was
sent OUT ITOn leTT0 I1dulS That the tOr1
Wayne management tried to brihe Terre
HaVte players to let Fort Wayne win in
the last series.
In case the Western League decides to
vacate Milwaukee and Kansas City next
season the American Association will have
no opposition in either place. Both cities
could be made to support one team, but
two clubs could not possibly make money
in either place. The Western League found
tina. a fight is too costly and arrangements
are now being made to transfer the Mil
1t is probable that another city will be
found to accept the Kansas City franchise.
The Sporting Life has the following to
say concerning the new national agree
ment:
1.-The National Association having, in re-
turn for a few unimportant concessions,
been irrevocably committed by its repre-
sentatives 10 the new national agreement,
promulgated at the Buffalo conference and
slightly amended at Cincinnati. that docu-
ment now embodies the supreme law of
baseball to which all must bow. willy nilly.
and despite the manifold defects in the
law pointed out in a previous issue. The
fact that it is a powerful aid to the ag-
grandizement of the major leaguers and a
co~rrespondingly severe debaser of the minor
leagues cuts no ice, now that the minor
leagues have accepted anew a serf's bur-
den. The new agreement will, at least.
serve the useful purpose OF restoring some
degree of order to the entire baseball world,
re-establishing needed discipline in the
ranks, and enabling all leagues and clubs
for some years TO recover from the demon
alizatiou and recoup the losses Of the past
three years of war and anarchy.
How long the new agreement will stand
supreme depends entirely on circumstances
1t may last a decade. or only two years.
The growth OF abuses. the exigencies and
ambitions OF leagues and the possible con-
solidation of the major leagues are all i'm
portant factors in the consideration of
longevity. This Is the fourth national