Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-21
FAR FROM PEACE
Southern Three-Eye League
Sports Writers Not Disposed
to Concede Anything.
FEEL THEY'RE WHOLE WORKS
Show Disposition to Insist on Reten-
ton of Ed Holland as President
at Any Cost.

The position that the four northern
clubs will take at the meeting Of the
Three-Eye league at Chicago next
Tuesday when an attempt will be
made TO patch up an agreement is
deeply worrying the southern sports
writer's. AT Bloomington the dispO-
sition seems to be to prefer anything
else rather than see NJ. II. Sexton
president Expressed in other words,
Bloomington is ready to disband if
Holland is not elected president.
Bloomington is also trying TO create
the impression that nothing but an
abject apology from the northern
clubs and an agreement to concede
everything will be acceptable.
All this reads very well in the south
ern cities, but if there is really de-
sire 10 make terms the delegates from
that end will come into the meeting
with a different spirit than the news
lrapers pretend to reflect.
| 1t has not yet been decided who
will represent the Rock Island asso-
citation at Chicago Tuesday.
Around the bhseS.
Thomas Tenant says he has not
Geen married. He writes to Manager
Reed of Decatur that somebody has
been having fun with him.
Hugo Wilson, brother of Christy
Wilson who will play infield on the
Rock Island team this season, has
signed to catch for Galesburg His
work as an amateur here warrants the
belief that he will make good
Tyrus Cobb has at last, it is re-
ported, signed a Detroit contract for
one year. OF course everybody knew
all along that he would come to time,
but no doubt the Tigerville fans will
all breathe easier, just the same.
The amateur teams in the country
are showing signs of life. At Hills
dale the team that won honors for
| that burg on the diamond last year
has been Teorganized with Edward
McMurphy as captain and manager.
1t has been decided to cut out Sunday
games.
| The showing of LeJuene with the
| second team of the Chicago White
Sox is nightly pleasing the Dubuque
fans. LeJuene will be turned over to
| Dubuque when the SoX are ready to
weed out the extras. He has been
| hitting a 800 clip on the coast trip
and should be a star in the Three
Eye.
Springfield is the first town in the
| Three-Eye to order its players to re-
pert. Transportation has already been
sent to part of them and the others
will get car fare early next week. 1t
to meet the Washington Americans
who play the first of a series of six
exhibition games there next Saturday
Manager Rowland of the Dubuque
team was interviewed by the Dubuque
Times after the conference in this city
early in the week and said:
4 THE talk about the league being
disrupted and about two leagues TAX
ing its place with the four clubs in
the south and the four in the north
as a nucleus of the new league, is be
!, lieved to be little else than the wild
dreaming of some irresponsible dope
! artist, who would lead the magnates
of the north end to believe that they
are looking for such action. That is
really the farthest from their ideas
They are all ready to play baseball
They have their men signed for teams
OF the class of the Three-Eye league
men that would be practically worth
less to them in a league of a lowel
class, as must certainly result if new
towns are to be taken in at this sea
son of the year, for the new towns
would be compelled to sign all new
men and at a season when all gOot
men are engaged for the season"