The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-06
BASEBALL WAR IS
NOW PREDICTED
Havcn0r Purchases Site in Chi
cage for Ideal Ball
Park.
GEORGE TEBEAU GETS
CREDIT FOR DISTURBER
Chicago. i'ittsburg, st. Louis
and Cincinnati Slated fer
New League.

OMAHA. June j.--Char!cs s. Have
nor has boue!; tract Of eight acres
on the north side in Chicago, says the
Omaha Bee.
This might nc overlooked in the rush
Of business rs II mere real estate deal
But ii has more Importance than tina;
Ii is really the opening gun in what
bids fair 10 be the merrirst war cvoI
sprung in the baseball world Mr.
Havcuor happens 10 be the owner OF
the Milwaukee franchise and team in
the American Association of Profes
SIGNAL Baseball C!nbs, and the. tract OF
ground he has just secured title 10 is
so he used rs the park for the american
association team in Chicago, Just when
il will be put into commission is not
definitely determined. but the well
posted men who have been watching
proceedings CLOSELY do not expect ii
win he postponed longer than mex, sea
son. lr may go over for another year,
because the American is in an agree
two wears yet to run. and might not
like TO break ii. But this is improb-
able.
Tebcau Leads Way.
For many months signs have pointed
20 rho coming conflict. and the decks
gro now pretty well cleared, George
Tchcau, who is generally credited with
being The moving spirit i'll the deaf, has
gotten himself into pretty good trim
for the fight and he has both the
hncssc and the courage 10 tackle the
great ''lnajor'' league leaders in
finish fight In fact, it may be seri-
ousIy questioned ii brainicr baseball
fighter than Tebeau lives today. lie
started ten years ago with shoe
string. and has run 1t up 20 the propor
tions of several tanyards since then
For the greater part of this time he
was tho target for the hottest fire that
ever conferred on one man in the base
ball world, but he went along as
steadily AS Drcadnought sailing
through a feet of fishing smacks. till
he is now in position TO return the flre,
and 1t is without the range Of human
probabilities that he will be magnani'
nous enough TO let things drift along
as thew are. He is ambitious, and the
only way in which his ambition can be
fed s To make his present league a
bigger one, and 10 take his associa-
tion along with him. These include
some of the present American associa'
ton owners and some Of the Eastern
league magnates.
Outline Of Invasion.
When the American association and
The Eastern league notified the national
commission of the rejection Of the con-
cessions granted those leagues as class
AA members and voluntarily resumed
the status of class A it was the I'M
preston that the time for open hos
tilities had nearly come. The move
OF Hayenor is the opening shot. Chi
cago will be invaded with a team on
the north side. Pittsburg, ST. Louis and
Cincinnati Will also be taken In, and
the circuit of the American association
will be completed with Louisville, In
diannpolis Toledo aud Columbus. With
Sunday ball permitted IN each Of these
towns the circuit seems almost ideal IL
is short, compact and made up OF live
ones, and all big enough to support
major league ball. Chicago can easily
maintain a third team, and st. Loun
will not be q serious proposition IL tns
right kind of ball IS given,
In the Eastern league new circulf
is to be made up, taking in Baltimore.
Washington, Newark, New YORK, buf-
faEo, Toronto. Boston and Phlladeiphna.
This circuit docs not look so good, on I
paper as does the Americans, but the
promoters have confidence in their pow
cr to invade.
With this arrangement the big
leagues will be all but powerless to re-
tsliate by placing clubs in the Territory
of the invaders. for it would be dlfii-
cult to do so without organizing entire
now circuits. Anything is possible ~
baseball, though, since the AmeT!ecn
league, under the leadership OF 6an
johnson, Charles Comiskey and Cor
nelius McGiIGcuddy, invaded the Ns'
iional league S territory and made gooo. ,
So it is time to watch for retallatory
moves on the part of the majors.
Omaha Comes In.
Omaha s interest in this move is d.
rect and important. Ii the new Ameri'