Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-06-17

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sporting pages of the Sunday Regis
ter cost him 800.
THAT night Kinsella ran into
Jimmie Dix in a cigar store. Bitter
words ensued, and Kinsella, asking
why the games today schedule was
not run, was emphatically informed
by Dix that they were left out be-
cause of the actions of the magnate
at the park, the Wednesday pre-
vious. In this regard Jimmie Dix
said There has been no notice of
your games in the Register for sew
raj days unless you have been car
rying that little 'ad' you used to run
"Kinsella has interpreted that as an
attempt to coerce him into advertis-
ing. He declares the reason for
leaving out the schedule was because
the little 'ad was not run. Mr.. Kin
sella is mistaken if he thinks that
advertising figured in any way, di-
rectly or indirectly, in whatever
course Dix and the State Register
may have pursued in this matter.
"The team went to DanEille and
when it returned with Peoria here,
Jimmie Dix was at the game. but
not in the press box. KfnselIa knew
he was there The trouble had ap-
parently blown over, and though re-
lations were strained to an extent
the State Registers sporting depart
ment was ready to boost the game as
usual. Dix is strong for the 1910
Senators, as they are a bunch of
I'LL 20
the bat boy they are gentlemen. no
member of the team has ever COM
planned of Dix.
Would Make Dix the Goat.
THE climax to the trouble came
last Monday. The team came home
from the north. The schedule of
games today was in the paper, but
Kinsella was mad because there was
not special story on the return of
the team and the fact that Rock
Island would play here. Notwith
standing his animosity toward Dix,
the story of the teams return might
have been written anyway, but an
over-suppIy of baseball news, due to
the many independent games, pre-
vented the running of such free To-
Gals as Kinsella expected. That led
to his barring order against Jimmie
nix, personally. on Monday. and the
retraction of his barring orders
against other State Register report
ers, as contained in a letter which
is on file in this Office. Kinsella is
obviously endeavoring to make jim
mic Dix goat, an animal which the
State Register refuses to permit Dix
to impersonate to crafty the local
magnate.
"If Dick Kinsella wants to run a
baseball nine, that's all right. He
is a baseball genius in the picking
of players and organizing pennant-
winning teams. The State Register
prints the news about it. Didk Kin
sella's business in this matter is
running a ball nine. The State Reg
ister's business is printing the news.
We owe that to our 1900 subscrib-
ers, not one of whom has ever made
a request that we let Dick Kinsella
tell us who we shall send to report
the news or how we shall report it. /
The State Register sends whom il
pleases and with the implicit instruc- /
tons to get the news and print it
without fear or favor That's what /.
the public wants.
Dick Very Sensitive.
''If Dick Kinsella wants to lick an /
umpire. that's his business. 1t is /
the business of the State Register to /
tell it's readers about it. If the St /
Louis Globe-Democrat prints a 4
squib about Dick Kinsella's reported |
'run-in' with an umpire, there is (
nothing in the ethics of journalism /
to prevent our stating what the st. |
Louis Globe said or to comment UPON |
it. That's what made Dick Kinsella I
mad at the start. We reprinted a I
little squib from the St. Louis paper
about him, and he gave our reporter
a vehement and eloquent cursing.
There were a few days following that
the State Register didn't print the
schedule of games today This
made Dick Kinsella madden. The
State Register wasn't being run to
suit him. He said our reporters
would have to watch his ball games
from the top of a c.. Pc st. L. box
car if we watched at, ALL He was
his luminosity.
ITO show Mr.. Kinsella that the
State Register entertained no ami
mostly toward him. the State Regis
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