The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-14
GEAR AND NICHOLS OFFERED TO
BUY KANSAS CITY BALL TEAM
Tebeau Can Turn Over His
Cowboy Holdings for Real
Money and Avoid Syndicate
Baseball Fire Ruins Game
at BaItin1ore-List of Jump
ers to Outlaw League.

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, Feb 13.-It de-
veloped during the bowling tournament
at Cleveland, Ohio, that Charlie Mich
OILS, who managed the Kansas City
Western league team last season, and
Dale Gear, who managed the Kansas
City Association club, made an inef-
fectual effort recently to secure control
of Il association club at that place
from George Tebeau.
Charlie Nichols, who will manage st.
Louis in the National league next sea-
son, said regarding the affair: Gear
and could make a success of the team
In Kansas City and the people there
would welcome the change, but it will
never be money maker while Tebeau
has the club and at the same time owns
the Louisville club in the same associa-
ton. We were willing to purchase the
club at a reasonable figure, but from
what we could learn there was no
chance of getting it. I am still ready
to go into the deal and buy the club any
time Tebeau wants to sell out but it
will have to be deferred a year now, as
| must keep my agreement with the St.
Louis people for next season. How
ever, If l can get hold of the Kansas
City club with Gear I will be ready to
leave st. Louis year hence and handle
the Blues. This can be done with the
consent of Mr.. Robinson, owner of the
St Louis club.
The effort Of one man to control so
many franchises will not help the game
1 think Tebeau knows there will be a
merger of the major leagues before a
great while and for that reason he is
hanging on SO as to get into the vari-
Gus leagues when the real shift comes"
Fire Kills Game for Baltimore.
BALTIMORE, Nd, Feb. 13.-A-
though the Baltimore ball park is not
reported as destroyed by the great fire,
there can be but little chance for the
national game this season, and one Of
the best cities on the Eastern league
circuit, as well as one Of the most ia
nous centers of the diamond sport, is
off the map for at least one year. Base
balls best patrons are office men,
clerks and the myriads who make their
HvingS in the business section of any
city, and with the business section
erased from existence these people will
be too busy struggling for a livelihood
to care about diversion.
Baltimore, although fallen to the level
Of a minor league town last season, is
a city of historic interest and deep
fascination to the student OF baseball
history. Good ball clubs have been nu-
merouS at Baltimore, and the diet Of
oysters and terrapin, to say nothing Of
Baltimore rye, seems to have made the
players fast, gingery and scrappy.
Greatest of all the Baltimore teams
was the one which won the National
league pennant in 1894, 1895 and 1895.
This club was not only the greatest
ever seen in Baltimore uniform, but one
of the grandest in the records of the
game.
Ned Hanlon picked and drilled the
men and had the fortune to assemble
good batsmen and fast base runners,
who were also of the scrappiest and
most WaSpiSh temper on the field.
These men were nodded into a playing
machine which fairly sparkled as it
worked. They were incredibly fast on
the bases, past masters of the art of
working pitchers and beWildering the
opposition, brilliant fielders, and the
worst pests with whom any umpire
ever had to contend. The personnel Of
the team was changed year after year,
whenever Hanlon saw a chance to
strengthen, but among those who last
ed longest and gained fame that shall
never die while baseball history sur
wives were Keeler, Kelley, Jennings,
McGraW and Doyle. This club, after
winning three flags, and holding the af-
fections of the Baltimore rooters as
few teams have ever done with any
constituency, found itself at last a
dead issue. Baltimore had become PEN
nant-wearied, tired of glory. The at
tendance fell away to almost nothing,
the team sank in power, and its stars
were merged with Brooklyn. The city
passed to the American league and
then to the Eastern. It's baseball gran
deur had departed.
Outlaws List of Jumpers.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Feb. 10
The coast men have been casting ac-
counts the last week and the following
men are found to be under the necessity
of having their prOper leagl and club