Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-28
TEARNEY OUT
WITH DEFENSE
Says He Never Claimed Any
Power to Fix Up Three
Eye Circuit.
DIRECTORS MUST DO 1T
At Same Time He Makes II Plain He
Will Not Champion Cause of
Waterloo.

ney's defense of his course thus far in
connection with the movement for
reorganization of the Three-Eye cir
cult. The article follows:
president Al Tearney of the Three
Eye league is a very busy young gen.
tleman at the present moment. The
fans in a half dozen cities in the organ
ization are after him because they are
under the impression that he is re-
sponsible for the movement on foot to
remodel the circuit, and he is simply
overwhelmed with letters Of protest
and commentator from various burgs
| in the lineup.
There is every indication that when
the directors of the Three-Eye league
meet here next week some big changes
will be made In all probability Wa
terloo will be dropped from the cir
cult and Quincy given the franchise.
This movement has been going on for
many weeks and has been heralded
far and near as a certain development,
despite the protests Of those identified
with the Three-Eye league and the
Central association.
AGREEMENT QUOTED.
Waterloo was never a fixture in
the Three-Eyc league. The directors
of that organization were merely year
~ tenants. occupying a Three-Eye
franchise. as the following letter to
the officers and members of the Three
Eye league written in November a
year ago. will attest:
"'Watcrloo. Iowa. Nov. %. 1909.-To
the Officers and Members OF the Three
Eye League:
1.-The undersigned. the Waterloo
Baseball Association of Waterloo, Iowa
hereby submit to your honorable body
the following proposition, towit:
THAT in case said Waterloo Base
ball association Ia corporation) is ad-
mitted or selected as a member of said
Three-Eye league. that it viii guaran-
tee an attendance of $4,000 paid admis-
sions for the PLAYING season of the year
1910. Said Waterloo Baseball associa-
ton further agrees that in case its mem
hership is no longer desired by a ma
jority vote of the Three-Ey league
members that the said Waterloo Base
ball association. after the season of
1910. shall relinquish all of it's rights
to membership in the said Threc-Eye
league, as hereinafter provided.
THAT the membership and players
of the Waterloo Baseball association
shall be purchased by the city selected
to succeed Waterloo in the following
THE Waterloo Baseball associa-
ton shall select one member of the
arbitration committee. the Three-Eye
league shall select one member Of the
arbitration committee, and these two,
in case they fail TO agree. shall select
the third member of the committee.
and the findings of a majority of this
committee shall be accepted as final by
the parties interested, as above men
toned.
ITO guarantee the performance of
the conditions and obligations of the
foregoing proposition. the Waterloo
Baseball association will furnish secur-
ity in such an amount as your league /
may designate
Your very truly.
:" WATERLOO BASEBALL ASSOCIA-
TON.
TEARNEY HAS NO VOICE.
president Tearney will not have any
voice in the throwing out of Waterloo,
and neither will he have anything TO
do with the awarding of the franchise
to Quincy Both these deals will be
attended to by the board of directors, .
for under the rules of the constitution
they will have to do with everything.
All the cases of franchise readjustment
come under the classification of trials
in the Three-Eye constitution. and the
second rule governing trials reads as
follows
9 No director shall sit i'm a trial of
a cause in which his club is interested
or be present during a vote in such
case
There is another rule in the consti-
tuition which will govern the case of
Waterloo in case il is dropped from
the organization, and it reads as fol
lows:
1.-The membership of any league
club may be terminated by an adverse
vote of a majority of the remaining
league CLUBS IN meeting duly COnVen-
ed. when. for business reasons. such
membership shall be no longer desir-
able
LEAGUE NOW SPLIT.
THE situation in the Three-Eye
league at present is a division between
the northern and southern clubs on the
circuit. Waterloo is so far north that
it makes the railroad expenses there
considerable, while the patronage in
that city hasn't been up to the stand
ard or even what the Waterloo direc-
tors guaranteed when handed he fran
chise. So it is that the directors rep
resenting the southern portion of the
circuit are in favor of dropping Wa
terloo and handing the franchise over
to Quincy. This move will cut down
the cost of transportation and make