The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-12-31
FANS DON'T WANT
A BASEBALL WAR
ROW OF THE MAGNATES NOT APP
PROVED BY PATRONS OF
THE GAME.
CLEAN SPORT, THEIR DEMAND
Ban johnson Looms Up as About the
Biggest Man Connected with Ma
tional Paatime-That New York
Signal-Tipping Case.

Baseball fans all over the country
want to see the magnates settle their
differences and get down to business
of strengthening their teams for 1910.
The average fan doesn't care wheth-
er John Heydler or John Ward is pres
ident of the National league. What
the enthusiast wants is for his favor
lite team to have the best players it
can get and when the good old sum-
mer time comes, for those players to
put up the fastest article of baseball
they can.
However, the recent middle which
was threshed out in New York was
interesting to the fans in way, for 1t
threatened the greatest baseball war
in the history of the national game.
That such a thing may yet result is
not impossible.
The magnates of the big leagues
know the patrons of the game don't
want to see a fight. The enthusiasts
who support the great pastime with
their money want clean sport and
they will not stand for any throat
cutting tricks. From the magnate's
standpoint the game of baseball Is a
business proposition. 1t is impossible
for any person to point out one man
who is at the head of club that is
there simply for his love of baseball.
There is lots of money in baseball,
even tail-end teams making fortunes
for their owners, and the magnates
know it is not policy for them to kill
the goose that lays the golden egg.
The recent battle in New York de-
veloped one thing and that is that
Ban Johnson, president of the Amer
lean league, is about the biggest man
in baseball. Johnson was not only
the power behind the throne in his
own organization, but he was busy
with the affairs of the National league.
He and Charles w. Murphy, president
of the Chicago Cubs, have been enc
mics for some time. When Murphy
started out to get the scalp of Heyd-
Ter because the National league pres.
ident backed up Umpire KLEIN who
fired Evers, Chance and Steinfeldt
from the Labor day game in Pitts
burg, Johnson at once went to the
rescue of Heydler. This added fuel
to the fire between the Cub boss and
the American league mogul, and the
battle waxed warm. Murphy dared
Johnson to make known the name of
the man higher up" who was con-
nected with the umpire-bribing scan
dial in New York and Johnson laughed
at him.
When it was announced that the
Philadelphia National league team
had been sold and the report was cir
culated that Murphy was in the deal.
Johnson likewise took a chance to
hurl shot at his Zoe.
The American league adopted a
schedule of 154 games, the same as
played last season. Murphy of the
Chicago Cubs wanted both leagues to
agree to a 1853 game schedule. and in
this was blocked by Johnson. The
American also adopted a provision
which will prevent a club carrying
more than 35 men at any time, and
from May 1 to August l the number
must not exceed rs. The question OF
eliminating spikes has been left to
President Johnson and Charlie Com
iskey of the Chicago club.
The national commission applied a
nice coat of whitewash to the New
YORK Yankees signal-tipping case. 1t
exonerated the club but adopted reso-
lutions tina. left the matter unex'
planned. The resolutions follow:
Whereas, Charges have been print.
ed In the public press to the effect
that during the last season sign.