Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-01-13
O'NEIL is AT HEAD
Californian EIecte1 by Western
League to Succeed
N. n. Sexton
CONTINUES WITH SIX CLUBS
Decided to Drop Entirely Two Mon
Playing Towns, Pueblo and
Lincoln.

IF the magnates OF the Western league
yesterday proved TO be a ratification
meeting. at which was approved &
aad been agreed upon previously in
conference.
Norris C-Tip"D O'Eeill was agreed
% for president. no other name was
presented 10 the regular meeting. ani
nc was elected. The finances of the
association were shown to- be in good
condition. The league was made more
substantial by dropping the nrnplayins
cubs and transferring three fran
chi-es 10 substantial business men n
the cities represented The schedule
TiIl not be adopted until the spring
meeting in March.
VI. II. Sexton. the retiring president
reported that the finances of the
league were in n satisfactory condi-
zion. The first business TRANSACTED
was that Of fixing the circuit of the
league II was decided to- drop entire
IS the two nonplaying clubs-Linco;n
and PueblO-making the organization
a six club league. composed of Oma IN
ST. Joseph. Des Moines. Sioux Cay.
Denver and Colorado Springs.
Mr.. Sexton having declined another
term. the selection OF president
proved 20 be- only a ratification of the
action Of q previous conference. II
which Norris O'Neiil OF San Francis
co. had been decided upon. He was
unanimously elected. G. II. MyricS
of Dcs Ioines was elected vice prCsi
dent. with George Tebeau OF DcnsCr
W y Rourl.e OF Omaha and Joseph
CgntiIlon Of Des Moiues. directors.
,aniiiion'- Control nt D-- MoinrS.
The franchise OF the Sioux City ciIA
was transferred To the Sioux CT.
baseball association. with W. F. Dun
can ~ its head and F. l.. Hutchins
as secrC;ary-treasureT The Colorado
Springs franchise was transferred 10
the Colorado Springs Athletic assOc.I
ton. with Thomas +. Burns As prcsi
dent and Howard Masterson. secre
tary.
\ sale Of the majority of the stocI
Of the Des IOines club TO the Cantil
Ion brothers was approved. IL was
stated that the ST. Joseph clubs or
eanizatiOn had been strengthened by
several business men taking hold of
it. The club will continue under 4
reorganization Of management
President O'Neiu was authorized 20
fix date in March for the sprin.;
ing schedule will be considered. He
was also authorized 10 arrange the
railroad transportation for the coming
season.
The cubs in the league were repre-
scented as follows:
Omaha. William Rourke: s.. Joseph.
Percy Chamberlain; Dcs Moines. JOS
eph CantilIon: Sioux City. II. II. Dun
can: Denver. George Tebeau: Colora-
do Springs. Thomas Burns. VI. II.
Sexton presided.
Crook-dncs. In Baseball
Cincinnati. o. Jan. 13-President
Garry HeTTmann's statement that he
did not believe Pitcher Jack Taylor
had done his best work for the Chi
cago club in the post season games of
1908 between the two Chicago teams
is causing a good deal of discussion
among baseball maEnates. there being
4 feeling that the less said about such
matters the better for the game.
In speaking OF the matter yesterday
Hermann said:
'Crookedness in baseball is some
thing that cannot be tolerated. AMI
whenever there is a shadow OF a sus-
picion that something wrong has been
done 4 complete investigation should
take pace. That is the reason | am
50 anxious to get N the bottom of the
Taylor case.
The public is entitled To know ev-
grythinS that occurs in the trying OF
This case. and I believe il viii be To-
the best interests OF the game that the
facts in the case be given out when
they have been aScertained.
For Best Interests of Game.
We must act for the best interests
OF the game az all times. AMI TIE only
way to preserve its integrity and To
retain the confidence OF the public IN
the honesty OF baseball is % inyesti-
gate all alleged wrongdo.ngs and 10
punish the offenders in such a way
that a repetition Of the ofense on the
part OF other players will never be
though; 90.
1t is because my private business
= taking up 50 much Of ny time and
and more % IL right along that I ;nti-
mated 20 Presiden; Ban Johnson Of
the American league az the Laughery
club that ] was contcmP- at-ng giving
up my position as chairman ~ the IA
tional commission. and the fact thai
| have declared that I did not intend
to resign az this time does not mean
that have changed my mind TO give