Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-07-26
Time To START
WITH 1912 PLANS
Good Opportunity for Magnates
of Three Eye to Be Rid
of Kinsella.
PRESENT CIRCUIT ALBRIGHT
Prospects Getting Brighter Every
Day Regardless of Dicks
Threats of Disruption.

In view of kinSella : recent threats
il is time for the Three-Eye league
directors 10 get together and lay a few
plans for the 1912 season. There Is
no reason on earth why the circuit next
season should not be practically TIL
same as il is today. for all of the cities
of the league are good baseball cities
and it is a certainty that the attend
ance next year with the same circuit
will far exceed that of this season.
Right now the attendance all over the
league is picking up. and possibly be
fore the end of the season-Sept. IL
there will have been a large boost i'll
the figures.
"ENPoSES" FAKE PLAN.
Richard Kiusella of Springfield
president of the Decatur club.
has recently given out for
publication some of the develop
ments of the partly secret meeting OF
the Three-Eye bosses which was hello
in Chicago a few weeks ago One IL
tie shell that he exploded said that the
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disband after the Labor day game. T.
now develops that some of the lead
ers never heard of that agreement til!
Dick gave it out for publication In De-
catur. In fact, Secretary Farrell has
told PreXy Tearney that the players
must be paid for the regular term of
the Three-Eye season whether the
league breaks up now or any other time
before Sept. II. 1t would scarcely be
good policy to disband and continue to
pay the salaries, amounting TO more
than $4,000 on the average for each
team. while not a cent was being re
allied at the box office. And so Kin
sellas scheme to terminate the league
season two weeks earlier than the
schedule provides will possibly have
as much consideration as his scheme
to disrupt the league and quit Aug. g.
DICK NEED NOT HESITATE
But if Kinsella wants to kick loose
from the letters of the ThreeEye
league. let him do so. There is scarce
ly a city in the league that would not
be heartily in favor of such action by
him, for his tactics have tended ever
toward disruption rather than towards
upbuilding. Decatur is a good baseball
city and has always supported its
teams well Let the Decatur business
men who want baseball-and there are
plenty of them-get together and take
up the Decatur franchise from Kin
sella and be ready to send representa-
tives to the league meeting when IL is
called, so that they may have a hand
in the organization for 1912.
MAKE NEW AGREEMENT.
At this meeting it is up to the direc-
tors of the clubs to select a new presi-
dent TO fill the league executive boots
Let there be a new agreement among
the oWneTs-one that shall be lived
up to-to cut down the salary limit
and then abide by it. The league can
have practically the same circuit next
year and give class b ball to it's pa
irons. and thrive.
If Dick Kinsellas scheme TO abau-
don the old Three-Eye league is fol
lowed, the players of the league will
become free agents All of the clubs
now own several valuable men. and 10
lose them through following the poll
cies of Dick Kinsella would be far
from wise.