Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-03-18
IF The SOUTH
WERE The NORTH
Let KinseIla's Allies in Three
Eye Put Selves in Water
loo's Place.
MAY SEE MORE CLEARLY
Springfield Boss Trouble Maker
Fought the League While Still
an Outsider.

Let any one of the. four southern
clubs o the Three-Eye league ans
wer this question: If the four nor
thern clubs, backed by the president,
should attempt to take your franchise
in order TO give Il 10 some city in this
end of the circuit and thus secure per-
manent control, what would you do?
Put your city in the place of Water
loo. Would you have submitted tame
ly while your franchise was taken
away and you were left without re-
course till probably long after the
playing season has opened?
Put your city in place OF any of the
three towns that are supporting Wat
erloo: Would you have consented to
the taking away of your voice in
league affairs. or would you have join
ed III the fight to preserve the
leagues balance?
Remember that considerations such
as are involved in these questions are
the ones that the higher baseball
authorities will make use of in de
termining the Three-Eye case when it
is finally appealed. Judge Gridley has
already weighed them and the re-
clubs are very likely to get the same
verdict from the baseball authorities
that has been given by the civil
courts, and then what will they have
accomplished?
DANVILLE SHOULD SEE.
Danville may well weigh the situa-
ton, because that city is as remote from
the other southern clubs as Waterloo
Is from the other northern clubs, and
II the latter were to go ont after the
absolute control of the circuit Joe
Cannon's town would probably be the
one picked out for removal Danville
and Waterloo bear exactly the same
relation TO the league and there ought
at least be a bond of sympathy be-
tween them.
Should the right be established TO
drop Waterloo under the existing con-
ditions Dubuque would very shortly
be sent the same way. Then. if il
suited the purpose of Kinsella, Rock
Island and Davenport would also be
picked off SO it is plain the nor
thern clubs are justified in fighting to
keep the circuit just as 1t is.
WOULD NOT CUT MHLAGE-
There is really very little in the
argument that the league would be
better of financially with Quincy in
and Waterloo out. So long as Dubu-
que remains the circuit would be &C
tually worse off than now II would
be impossible To put Quincy and Du-
buque in the same division, because
a team cannot jump from one of the
these cities to the other in time 10
Dlav on consecutive days as it is prac-
ucaIIy necessary for towns in the
same division to do. Peoria would
have to be placed in the northern di-
vision. which would then be spread
from Peoria TO Dubuque. longer jump
than from Rock Island to Water
loo. In the south there would be
an equally difficult jump from Dan
Vile. on the east boundary of Illinois,
to Quincy, on the west. Both halves
Of the circuit would be scattered
more widely than now and the travel
ing miIage would be greater.
If Dubuque were dropped Rock
Island. Davenport. Peoria and Bloom
ington would make up one half, while
Danville. Decatur, Springfield and
Quincy would compose the other. and
the situation would be very little i'm
proved
The whole question reverts to the
relative merits as baseball towns of
Waterloo and Quincy and Dubuque
and Decatur While the two last
named are about on a par Waterloo
will unquestionably be a better draw
ing city than Quincy because It is
growing rapidly and is alive and hust-