The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-07
BY BILLY MAC.

AS G. Tebeau completed his round
UP of little league clubs with the cap
ture Of the Western league the fanatics
during the past week saw the spot light
switched to the big leagues pow-wow
with the outlaw league of the Pacific
coast and the little league players who
have been wearing O'Somebody's heels
saw the landing place pulled from un-
der the spring board.
The big leagues and the Pacific
Coast league have practically agreed
to respect all reservations and con-
tracts, and no more will the timber
legged spangle wearer feed out threats
to carry his tools way out into the
West where the season is longer and
the salary more obese. Middle Schae-
fer and the other disgruntled stars of
the Grillo league will accept the time
checks offered or spend their time at
the cigar stores waiting for the ninth
inning to come in.
The day Of the high saIarled ball
tosser has run its limit. There is yet
the signing of the agreement between
the coast league and the big leagues,
but the signing is a certainty and then
the magnate can rub it in to his
hearts content. The peace patched
with the outlaw league is the last link
and the ball player is already begin
ming to look about as important as the
four spot in a smear game.
Poor old Elmer Smith. after being
driven about the American association
from one team to another last season,
sadly remarked that it was impossible
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once in and now the entire ball-tosser
collection is finding itself in the same
predicament.
The magnate has at last secured alb
sOlute control of the ball player, but
whether or not this control will benefit
the fanatics remains to be seen. One
thing is certain, and that is that the
magnates have not secured control of
the players work. The man who has
in the past drawn big money and who
will next season find himself working
for bush league wage may become
enthusiastic enough to play fast
enough to merit the big money that he
will not get, but it is hard to picture
the average player forgetting his
wrongs. The magnates will find hard
task in swinging into line the players
who are forced to resume work with
their salaries sliced deep enough to
meet the leagues limit.
Cry of KNOCKERS" Raised.
Seeking out the old, age-worn cry
of Knockers" as a weapon to be used in
defending the American association
against the charges of Syndicate"
baseball, the sporting editor of the Mil
Waukee News, one Of the three writers
of the GriIlo circuit who was honored
with an advance copy of the "iron-
clad" agreement, attempts to defend
the association.
If President Grillo has at last been
taken into the confidence of the big
four he should act promptly, and either
furnish the News man with proper ar
guments or advise him to forget the
war. Fanatics who are familiar with
the conditions existing in Kansas City
can only laugh at the statement that
George Tebeau owns some stock in
the club and so does Dale Gear. one
wisconsin man and two Kansas City
men"
The News man should go on and tell
the anxious public that Nate Wilbur
Attorney Barker and perhaps three or
four Louisville men own stock in the
Louisville club with Tebeau, and in
making this statement he can again
neglect to tell how much stock all the
men associated with Tebeau hold. The
milwaukee, man looks far over his
head when he attempts to show the
western end of the circuit that Te-
beau does not control the Kansas CITY
team. He might announce that Te-
beau is with the minority in Denver
because Mr.. Burke or Mr.. Packard con-
trolls the peanut privilege.
The News man is panied because he
insists that the sporting writer's who