Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-01-20
CAT IS OUT OF BAG
Bloomington Scribe Angered Be.
cause His Schedule is
Ignored.
FILLING PAPERS WITH ROT
He is Exposed by w. L. Morrissey.
Sporting News Correspond
ent.


this weeks issue OF that publication.
exposes the scribe who has been send
! ing from the home city of President
I Edward Holland columns of stories
about the Three-Eye league He has
sought TO give official stamp 10 his
stories. but it is proven that they are
the yeriest rot. and Presiden. Holland
denies responsibility for them. This
same scribe it is who is leading the
agitation for a special meeting to- re-
consider the schedule adopted at Peo-
ria But let the Bloomington CORE
| spOndent tell the tale:
Outside the daily bulletins of tho
newspaper alarmist and disgruntled
schedule maker. matters are in what
may be- termed a quiescent state in
the ThreeEye league. The schedule
meeting at Peoria was slightly turbu-
| lent al times as Beldon Hill. of Cedar
Rapids. j. afraid that the prosperous
little organization will be wrecked on
the shoals Of excessive salary limit
tie openly accused Frank Donnelly. of
Springfield. or running far above the
salary limit last year and pointed out
the danger OF such a course.
"Hill has reasons to be sore. His
contention is not only correct from a
general standpoint. but he is an indy
idual loser through the money offers
Of Springfeld's manager regardless of
league rules and resolutions and the
dangers of breakers ahead.
Two Players Coaxed Away.
'Donnelly has taken two of his best
players from him for this year-NJ:I-
eek is to- cover center for Springfield
and big Ludwig. behind the bat. the
latter being tempted with salary of
s75 per month while he was still ne
got:ating with Hill. II was an open
secret last year that Springfield was
way above the limit which was $500.
II has been raised To $1,000 for this
year and the clubs are supposed 10 re
tain only Is players.
The adoption of the Sexton schei-
ule has caused lot OF senseless Eos-
sip all over the circuit and the infer
ence has been that a good deal of il
emanated from the president and sec
rotary. who are both located in this
city Both say that they are not re-
sponsible for the silly stun that has
been printed and that the information
is not only unreliable but is doing the
league lots of harm.
Writer Has Schedule.
a good deal of unnecessary hard
feeling has been stirred up through
local agitation which was chiefly in
spired through the fact that the cor
respondent for the metropolitan papers
and the baseball editor of the Panta-
graph had a schedule of his own which
he wanted adopted very badly. as he
figured that the $50 prize would help
some even though he had 10 divide
with second party. Only two cities |
are complaining of the schedule. Du-
buque and Bloomington. Decatur has
made some protest. but is showing
much more common sense and judg- |
ment than Dubuque. And as matter
II fact. two OF the Dubuque papers are
satisfied with the schedule while q
third is against IL. The local paper.
with its schedule maker on the staf.
prints oceans of this stun from the
Dubuque paper and is seeking to have
another meeting called in order that
the newspaper man and his assistant
might have another chance at the $50
prize. After all. the holiday games
must have the receipts pooled and
each club gets its share of the divvy
no matter where played.
Unjust Accusations
Sexton has been accused of curry
ng favor with majority of the towns
with the hope OF again being elected
PRESIDENT OF the league. but those on
tie inside believe that this was far
hest from his miud when he make up
he schedule. He is clever and knows
the game and AL Of its fine points and
the real conservative fans here are
willing to have things changed for /
ear lust f~r the experiment. II moth /
ing else. They say that We have had
ne opening and closing OF the season
since the league was organized and
a change might be beneficial else
where. The argument that weather
conditions in Iowa are worse than In
Illinois does not hold good. as there
: no telling what sort of climatic con
tstions are liable TO prevail here. D
Springfield Peoria and Davenport !
have undoubtedly got the best OF IL
and Decatur and Bloomington are the
worst of on the schedule with Du-
buque not far behind But for the
sake of harmony the other cities
should no, pay any attention 10 the /
local alarmist as he is inspired by
purely financial motives and both the
president and secretary of the leagre
diszpproye OF the matter that is be-