The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-11
SPORTING COMMENT
BY BILLY MAC.

Ihe baseball season of 1903 has been
practically turned off. The Pittsburg
and Boston teams will settle the cham
p1onShip of the world question this
week. and the American association
VIII select a new president in the near
future. With these two points out of
the way the game will be turned over
to the winter tanning bees and the
prize oak sticks of the spangle wearers
Will sleep on until spring in their beds
of clay.
Mr.. Hickey is to retire, and the pass
Ing of the association president has
started the sporting writer's guessing
rest Mr.. Sexton, Mr.. Farrell and sew
eral humble newspaper men have been
stabbed in the guessing, and even our
own humble name was suggested in
one dispatch, though, as the Columbus
dispatch young man suggested, this
is joke"
Were 1t not for the fact that we con-
f1dently believe that all but $4,000 of
the $4,000 salary drawn by the Ameri-
can leader is real money we would
have no objection to having our name
pushed as candidate, and the only
thing that compels a feeling of pain
Is the knowledge that number of the
young men in charge of the sporting
columns about the circuit cannot see
chance for several of the capable
sporting editors of the circuit.
A man of experience, they declare,
must be put at the head of the Ameri-
can association, and in this one dec
laration they put men who have left
cigar stores, railroad offices and other
clerical positions to take charge of
leagues ahead of the men of their pro-
fessiOn who have been associated with
the game for years
In gazing with awe and respect at a
position that requires the occupant to
arrange one schedule of games, ap-
point list of generally dub umpires
and paste fines onto players at the
suggestion of these same dubs, these
petty writer's who see a loud laugh in
the announcement of a newspaper
mans candidacy for the place continue
to make their cheap positions possible.
Mr.. Hickey has made good reputa-
ton as leader of the American as
ISOLATION He has been handicapped
in the fact that the magnates of his
league, and not the president, have
been running the league. But Mr..
Hickey has not done single thing that
the average baseball writer of the
circuit papers could not do.
The American association may find
in Farrell competent leader and in
selecting him may pull in closer to the
National Association of Minor Leagues,
but there are men in the circuit who
have worked for the American associa-
ton since the beginning and who de-
serve recognition at this time.
Tom S. Andrews, of the Milwaukee
Evening Wisconsin, is one of the news
papermen of the circuit who can and
would, if given the opportunity-and
enough money-run the American as
ISOLATION up on a par with the best
league leaders of the country. Mr..
Andrews has been associated with
baseball for years, he is in touch with
the leading baseball magnateS and
players of the country, is a personal
friend of the great Ted Sullivan, and,
more than all this, is fearless and hon.
est at all times.
AS we said farther up, our connec-
ton with this position is. so far as
we are concerned joke, but we also
must say that the sporting writers of
the circuit make a mistake and
cheaper themselves when they cry
down the newspapermen suggested for
''men of experience"
The football season at the Minnesota
state university has now reached the
interesting stage and from this time
on all games played at Greater
Northrop field should draw the crowds.
This year ST. Paul should send an
attendance up even with the at
tendance turned out by Minneapolis,
for this season the Minnesota manage
ment is in charge of new and capable
hands, and for the first time since the
beginning of football at the university
st. Paul is receiving fair shake with
the sister city.
Manager Barnard refuses to consider