Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-06-17
TELLS THE FACTS
Springfield State Register Elk
plains Nature of Trouble
With Kinsella.
AND DIGS UP SOME HISTORY
Seems That Dick Has Failing of His
Kind in Wanting to Run BUSH
ness of Others.

The Springfield State Register
digs up a little of Dick Kinsella's
unsavory baseball history in the fol-
lowing account of the trouble that
has resulted in the barring of Jimmy
Dix, the sporting writer of the pa
per, from the Springfield ball park:
$50 many inquiries are coming to
the State Register from local base
ball fans and from newspapers
around the Three-Eye league cir
cult relative to the action of Dick
Kinsella in threatening the staff of
the State Register and issuing an or
der that Sporting Editor Jimmie"
Dix could not enter the local ball
grounds, the State Register is pleas
ed to draw aside the curtain and
present the situation in its true
light-Mr. Kinsella, attempting to
dictate how a newspaper must report
baseball.
First of all, the State Register en-
tertains no animosity toward Dick
Kinsella. If there is any luminosity
it is on his side. He has done all
the attacking. He has done all the
threatening. He alone is ''sore." In
this little matter his is a complete
monopoly of animosity. The only
thing the State Register has done is
to retain the right to run this news
paper to suit it's management, rath-
er than as Dick Kinsella may die
tate.
The Casus Bell.
"The article to which Kinsella
took exception was originally pub
lished in the St. Louis Globe. 1t
was clipped and used in the Decatur
Review that evening and published
in the Register the next morning. 1t
came just few days after the Kin
la-Hickman-White affair at the
ball park and the Bresnahan-Cin-
cinnati-McGinnis controversy in the
National league. The article, head
lines and all, said: 'Bresnahan and
Kinsella-President Kinsella of the
Springfield Three-Eye league club
was a visitor in the stand. Some
one should have properly introduced
KinseIla, who licked an umpire in
the Three-Eye league last week, to
Bresnahan, who would like to lick
a couple in the National league even
with his damaged hand. but 'dasn't'
while Kinsella's fight mentioned
in the above was more in the nature
of helping out the umpire against
diminutive Hickman of Davenport
than a battle with the umpire,
events of former years would give
license for presumption that he was
in battle with the umpire over some
real or fancied wrong. He, struck
Umpire Wheelock a couple of years
ago. and only last year got into a
fight with an umpire in the lobby
of the st. Nicholas hotel here, and
but for the interference of friends
would have found one man, at least,
able and glad to administer a beat
ing.
KinseIIa Threatens Dix.
''Kinsella confronted the Regis
ter's baseball writer the day follow
ing the reprinting of the Globes
item, and resorted to oaths and
threats and finally Jimmie Dix
laughed and walked away. The next
day Dix dropped the games today
schedule.
while the publishing of the
games today is matter OF news to
many. it is source of revenue to
Kinsella.
THE Sunday following Jack Nc
Carthy and his team were here and
the games today were missing from
the State Register. That it pays to
advertise is shown by the fact that
Kinsella has stated, according to a !
80 t., 81,
absence of the games today in the J