Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-04-20
ARBITRATE THE
THREE-EYECASE?
Chicago Tribune Makes Sug
gestion With Customary
Joker in It.
BUT NORTH WILL NOT FALL
After Three Fair Hearings 1t Is Now
Time to Play Ball-Up to the
South.

ward to save the Three-Eye league Al
sporting editor. Harvey Woodruff,
a signed article today says:
Arbitrate, gentlemen OF the
Eye league, arbitrate!
President Al Tearney has stat
ed openly that the league is the
laughing stock of the baseball
world" None has appeared to dis
pute his statement, yet the fac
ton ridden organization apparent
Nv is as far from a solution OF its
troubles as ever, while an intunc-
ton secured by the Quincy club
10 prevent being ignored still is
in force.
The merits of the controversy,
If II ever had any, are forgotten
by the public. The only fact re-
membered is that the time for the
adoption of a schedule and the
playing of games has arrived. The
followers of baseball on the
Three Eye circuit have no assur
every American citizen to see the
best grade of baseball which the
local club is able to produce.
FANS WANT BASEBALL GAMES.
It is all right for the magnates
to quarrel among themselves all
winter if they wish. The real fan
does not care particularly about
baseball politics anyway. But he
does want TO see ball games.
That cities of the size Of Spring
field, Bloomington, Peoria. Dan
vile, Rock Island. Waterloo. Dav-
export, Dubuque. and Quincy
should be deprived of league base
ball through the stubbornness Of
the opposing factions is not fair
10 those fans who have support
ed the clubs in the past.
The time for action has arrived
II the Three-Eye league is to re-
main more than a name. There
fore. as a disinterested party in
the quarrel, but interested in the
welfare of all baseball fans, the
Tribune suggests TO the eight club
owners of the ThTee-Eye league
and the owner Of the Quincy club
that they submit their contentious
for final adjudication to an arbi-
tration committee of three per
sons whose decree shall be bind
ing on all parties.
HOW TO CHOOSE ARBITERs.
1rrh
lect one member and the northern
clubs one member, and the two
thus chosen should pick the third
member of the committee, who
should be acceptable TO the Quin-
cy club. This committee should
review the facts briefly and give a
decision at once.
President Johnson of the Amer
lean league yesterday expressed
approval of the Tribune plan and
stated that If the members chosen
by the two factions could not
agree on the third member of the
committee the national commits
sion would interest itself to the
extent of appointing the third
member if requested TO do so.
Gentlemen of the Three-Eye
league, the question of providing
baseball for the fans of your re
spective cities is up 10 you,
NOT on YOUR PHOTOGRAPH.
Now what do you know about that
Arbitrate through a commission G
which two OF the three members ar
favorable TO Quincy? Give away III
fruits of a well-earned victory? No
yet even though the president of tn
United States suggest it
Who was II first suggested arbitrs
ton? Waterloo
Who was IL first proposed a 10-clu
league at a time when the north wa
in position TO supply one of the tw
clubs? Vice Presiden
James T. Hayes OF Davenport.
Who was II offered TO pay half O
the money Quincy advanced TO III
Central association and were fiatI
turned down? The four northern
clubs.
IN POOR POSITION.
And what has this Chicago Trt
bune done TO earn the confidence O
the northern clubs and cause them 4
view with favor any proposition tina
emanates from it? AS1 any one O
the thousands OF fans in Rock Island
Waterloo and DubuQu
who have long since come 20 recogniz
IL as one of the mouthpieces o
President Tearney, himself a part
san and betrayer OF the trust tn
northern clubs reposed in him.
Four Zines has the three-Eye cas-
been decided on its merits. Fou
times have the northern clubs won
moral as well as q material victory
Now the leagues activities are tie,
up by an injunction issued by a judg
who has heard but one side OF III,
question and who has on this showing
reversed the judgment O
another court of concurrent jurisdic
ton. in which the case was heard a
length
RESORT To TRICKERY.
Further than that the southern
clubs have TesoTted to trickery by in