Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-10-21
PATRONS HERE
ARE NOT HAPPY
Unsettled State in Which the
Three Eye League Affairs
Rest Displeases.
NOTHING TO BE GAINED
1T Same Time Southern Cities Will
BE Losers by Any Change -Leav-
ing This City Out.

So far as The Argus is able TO learn.
the unsettled state in when Ihr9e
Eye league affairs were LETT by the
Chicago meeting does not appear TO
please the great majority Oh baseball
patrons in Rock Island, nor does the
suggestion of Belden Hill of Cedar
Rapids to disorganize the circuit and
place Rock Island and Davenport on
the tail of the Central association kite
meet with general approval.
| AS matters now stand the cities IN
the southern end of the circuit. posi-
| bly, through lack of foresight on thu
part of hose in the north, nave been
given the handle of the whip. and i!
there is a split of the present Three
Eye league Rock Island and Daven-
port, instead of remaining with their
old associates, will be forced to follow
| Cedar Rapids into new fields. leaving
| the southern towns to uphold the
name and prestige of the Three-Eye
circuit. Lovers of baseball. who have
! been heard to express themselves Oh
this subject, say that the talk of re-
adjustment of classification. based on
the returns of the next census IS pre-
mature, being unnecessary for at leaSt
another year. While there is no occa-
sion for raising the subject at this
time. it is a fact. that, Whatever the
outcome might be, Rock Island
and Davenport would be left on
Stronger basis by remaining with the
larger cities in the south end. instead
.r,T
Rave Had Il sample. q.
The people of the three cities have |
had a chance to see the inferior class |
of baseball put up by the Central as !
sociation in the exhibition games
played mere and in Davenport during !
the past year and they feel that they !,
have been educated to a higher stand |
ard than that of the Glass c circuit. |
During the discussion of the subject |
at the Chicago meeting. Mr.. HILL who |
started the talk of the dismemberment T
of the Three-Eye, maintained that but |
for the efforts of President Sexton the /
Three-Eye would have been dropped |
in its classification long ere this. The |
burden of Hills argument. however,
was along the purely imaginary lines /
of factional differences of the present !
circuit, precipitating, as he said. con-
tinUal strife. In reply 10 this Wilson
Bering of Decatur made the logical
declaration that the north and south
rivalry of the Three-Eye is not differ
ent or more keen that than between
tie east and west in the two big
leagues, the Western league. or in
many other circuits. Mr.. Boring very !.
aptly maintained that one of the ele-
ments that made for the success CT
baseball was this very rivalry of geo
sections and added, that.
while a more compact circuit might
be formed, with a smaller outlay for
railroad fare. such a change would DC
injurious to the spirit that makes base
ball what it is, and which in the end
counts in the gate receipts
Would Not Lose Us.
Following Mr.. Behring'S argument,
both Presidents KinseIla of Spring
field and Johnson of Peoria stated that
for their parts they would not sur
render their associations with such
good baseball cities as Rock Island
md Davenport for all the towns in
he Central association. 1t was the {
position of the representatives of the {
.wo largest cities in the circuit, that, ,
whatever was done in altering the ci,- /
suit. Rock Island and Davenport ought
o be kept together with the southern |
owns. !
During the discussion of the subject '
:. NJ Holland of Bloomington, former | {
PRESIDENT of the league. said that while {
committee was being named to con 5
er with a like committee from the
Central association, the Central league |
ought to be also invited to name q | :
committee with view of revising the
'ntire baseball map covered by the '
hree circuits. Mr.. Holland stated he
Understood that Terre Haute and
are now reay to come back
o the old Three-Eye family and there
Y restore its original status and name =
Fans in Rock Island, if given an Or- :
ortunity to express themselves, would
robably vote to give Cedar Rapids its
ranchise again. if it really wants it
+ to turn it over to Waterloo, for
icy do not look with favor upon the ::
iscussion of any project that imperils ;,
ne class of baseball that they have
eretofore had the benefit of.