Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-23
PEACE COMES
TO THREE-EYE
Deadlock of the Annual Session
Broken-President Elected
and Waterloo Admitted.
is VICTORY FOR THE NORTH
Schemes of Kinsella and johnson
Fall Flat After Hours of WraIg-
ling and Lobbying.

All is peace and quiet in the Three
Eye league today, but yesterday was
one of the most stormy days in its
history. The delegates to the ad
iourned session of the annual meet
ing, which was held at the Grand Pa
cific hotel in Chicago, locked horns on
several questions and it appeared for
q time that the matter would end in
disruption of the league by the with
drawal of the southern clubs. The
two important matters on which the
delegates could not set together were
the election Of a president to succeed
NJ. II. Sexton OF this city and the Sc
lection o. 4 city to take the Cedar
Rapids franchise
A compromise between the north
and the south ends finally settled mat
tiers to the satisfaction Of everyone
and the deadlock was broken and the
talk of secession was hushed up. The
compromise included the election 10
the presidency of the league of y. r.
Tearney of Chicago and the admit
lance of Waterloo, Iowa, to fill the
vacancy in the circuit. The compro-
mise was virtually a victory for the
northern clubs, as it was they who
breed it.
IIinseiiG Had Plans.
Dick Nirsella was the source of all
TIE trouble which confronted the dele
gates when they arrived in Chicago.
Dicks scheme was to throw the Ceda-'
RAPIDS franchise back to Decatur and
10 elect Edward Holland of Bloom
inSton as president OF the league.
The northern delegates absolutely re-
fused to listen to this proposition for
various reasons. IN the first place,
they felt that the north end was en-
tilted to fourth city Is a matter of
self preservation aud also that the
countenancing of such a deal as giving
Decatur a franchise for nothing after
that city had sold cut to Danville for
$1,000 was not only bad baseball, but
BAD business. Neither Rock island
nor Davenport had any personal rea-
zOns for fighting Holland Tor the presi-
dency, but they chose TO stick with
Dubuque. which was unequivocally op-
posed to him as the league executive.
Rock Island T'rustrntes kinsciIa.
From noon until 2:3J IN the after
noon the delegates IOb5ied in attempts
10 secure enough votes to further their
own plans. When the meeting was
GnaIlv called to order it looked as
though Kinsella would have his way.
he and R H. Johnson, president of the
Peoria club, were apparently masters
of the situation. They controlled the
vote of Danville and seemed sure Of
Bloomington support, although E. E.
Donnelly, who claimed to be the au-
thorized delegate of the club, was
somewhat on the fence. This left
three clubs opposed to four and the
larger number was controlled by Kin
sella. f. o. Van Calder of Rock IL
and, however came to the res cue OF
the northern clubs with a suggestion
which saved the day. AS soon as rEe
meeting was called to order, Mr. Van
Calder arose and moved the recon !
OF the application of Dan
vile for a franchise. This motion was
possible because the meeting was an
session of the one at which |
Danville was admitted. Kinsella was |
at this action, but he
revived enough to move that the reso- |
luton be laid on the table. The ma |
ture of the motion made it impossible /
for Danville to vote on the proposed |
and the result was a |
tie vote on the motion to table which |
President Sexton decided by voting /
against the tabling.
Convention Goes Into Deadlock.
This precipitated the fight at the |
very beginning of the convention and |
there was no beating about lie bush /
With the motion to table vored down. |
Mr.. Van Calder called for a vote On
the original motion and again it was
4 tie. This time, however. Mr.. Sex
on refused to settle it with his vote
IN the grounds that he did not wish
% work an injustice upon Dauyille as
hat city had gone ahead and spent
money ON the assumption
hat it was a member of the Three
Eye league. This left the convention
1t a deadlock.
1t was on this vote that the internal
strife in the Bloomington association
was barred. Both e. D. Donnelly and
claimed the right to cast the
vote and the matter WAS
aired before the delegates. 1t ended
in Donnelly's agreeing to let Holland
10 the voting.
Tho convention remained at a dead |