The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-11
TWELVE PLAYERS SIGNED
BUT WATKINS WITH HOLDS
NAMES OF THE MEN FROM
THE PUBLIC FOR THE PRES
ENT.

President Watkins of the Minneapo-
lis baseball club, announces that he
has signed twelve players for 1904,
but he withholds the names for the
present. President Watkins. and his
wife will arrive in Minneapolis Feb.
10 to make their home.
The following schedule Of ante-sea-
son games has been arranged:
April 2-3. Decatur, Ill.
April 9-1O. Springfield, Ill.
April 16. II, Is, 10, Fort Wayne,
Ind.
The team will report for practice at
Champaign, ILL.,, March 80, aud remain
until April Is, playing exhibition
games with the university team on
every day not otherwise provided for.
Captain Fox has already gone to Pur-
due college to coach the baseball squad
and will remain there until he joins
the Minneapolis team March 80.
The first result Of the recent Cali
fornia conference is now resounding
in the shape of notices Of reduced SAL
aries for something like forty play
ers in the National and American
leagues. It is tipped fairly straight
that every man who threatened to
jump to the coast and who did not
make the bluff good, will be soaked
numerically. a
Up to the time the coast magnates
came into the fold the salk of salary
cuttig was limited to a few fancy
Tommy Corcoran Of Cincinnati.
whose 1908 figure was sliced nearly in
two, and of Red Donahue, the Cleve-
land pitcher, who was trimmed as
mercilessly. But the outlaws only
wanted a few second-rate men, and
had no thought of stealing stars.
Peace being made, the magnates found
they had the players where they
wanted them, and now the slaughter
will begin.
.say, for me that if Dillon is to be
the price Of peace, as is reported in
San Francisco, there will be no peace
in BASEBALL declared J.. w. Morley,
manager of the Los Angeles team yes
| terday. -t.El =
The peace agreement reached by
Johnson, Hart, Hanlon and 1nyslf is
| not a measure to be acted upon piece
meal, and a list of players submitted
at that meeting goes or 1t does not &c
at all. Coast league representatives
made this decision. and it was perfect,
ly agreeable to eastern men. So II
they cry now, Dillon or no peace
guess we will renew the old fight.
! 'Altho am willing to do everything
| in my power, and the coast league
stands ready to further the interests Of
| ORGANIZED DaSeDaIl IN every Way, j.
means that in this matter it has the
best of the argument
! The controversy over players Jones
and Davis which nearly caused a dis
ruption Of the peace agreement be-
tween the National and American
Baseball league last summer has beer
amicably settled by the Nationa
League withdrawing all claims to eithe1
ne nj
/ Davis and Jones were claimed b!
both the New York National leagu
| club and the Chicago. American leagu
club, and at the recent meeting of tn
National league in New York a specia
committee, consisting Of Messrs
Hermann, Dreyfuss and Hart, was ap
pointed to investigate the claims Of tn
; New York club.
Tom LOTUS stated yesterday that II
expected to dispose of his one-fourt
, interest in the washington America
> league team before the end Of tn
!; month. He also stated that he ha
5 been made business proposition b
i the other magnates of the America
; league and hopes to be able to accep
Lotus and CoEliskey are negotlatin
8 for the purchase of the Grace hote
8 Chicago, and the deal will be closed