Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-03-16
Refusal of Four Southern
Clubs to Attend Chicago
Meeting Prevents Action
in Schedule Making.
TRYING TO ARRANGE
MEETING TOMORROW
Effort Will be Made to Get
One of Southern Clubs
Represented as Five Are
Necessary for Schedule.


southern clubs of the Three-Eye league
| to join the northern members at the
proposed 'love feast today prevented
| the attendance of quorum and made
1t impossible to adopt playing sched-
ule or to transact any other business
Resentment Of the appeal of Waterloo
to the courts to protect its rights In the
league was the motive behind the re-
fusal
President r. F. Kinsella OF the
Springfield club. in sharp message to
President Tearney, denounced the
meeting, refused to attend, and said
he believed none of the other clubs
would be present. The telegram read:
"Will not agree to attend meeting of
the Three-Eye league while injunc-
| tions are in effect.
'"Court proceedings are a menace to
! the fundamental principles Of organ
ized baseball.
"All clubs receiving protection
should come with clean hands Believe
am expressing the sentiment Of every
honest club that receives protection
from our national association.
'R. F. Kinsella.''
Representatives Of the four northern
clubs Waterloo. Dubuque. Davenport
and Rock Island--were on hand, al
was President, Tearney, who thus
found himself alone with the clubs he
had been opposing in the courts. To
these, after calling the meeting to or
der, and while waiting hopelessly for
quorum, he explained his attitude. He
said:
Tearney Now Wants Peace.
| II have had letter from one of the
clubs since the last meeting Six clubs
the southern members and Daven-
port and Rock Island, authorized me to
90 ahead and try to have the injunc-
ticn dissolved, and I went ahead and
did my best. We did not succeed and
am ready to do whatever the majority
of the league wants.
II would like to see this dissension
over with and to see every one get to-
| gether and get schedule OF games
ready. No one will gain by the delay,
since some adjustment must come,
sooner or later and would like to see
peace again."
President Tearney said he had re-
ceived no word from the other south
ern clubs as to their presence today mt
the meeting but when the day wore
along and no one appeared from Spring
field, Bloomington, Peoria or Danville,
he lost hope of getting quorum.
Claims Of contendIns Forces.
! Members OF the southern clubs, who
until today, have stood by President
Tearney in all meetings, had inti-
mated they would refuse to. attend the
meeting, on the grounds that they con-
sidered that baseball ought to be run
by baseball people, not by lawyers and
! judges" They limited they would re-
fuse all offers or suggestions OF the
northerners to make up the differences
and start playing so long as the injunc-
tion hung over the league. On the
other hand, the four who have stood
behind Waterloo in It's fight to remain
In the league wanted that considered
past--this story and forgotten. Before
coming to Chicago today different
northern members had said:
IF we are as interested in baseball
as we profess to be, we will forget this
row and get out schedule and play
ball and keep still, we aren't going to
try to rub It in on the southern clubs
because they lost In court"
Today, however. when 1t became ap-
parent one of the southerners would
/ be present one Of the club owners
said:
| Surely they aren't staying away be.
cause we appeared in court. II they
wanted to keep out OF courts, why did
they hire an attorney and fight the in.
! junction, why didn't they let 1t go by
4 default? They thought they could get
it removed, and they didn't and natur.
ally feel disappointed. But we don't
want to keep the wound raw all sum.
mer. We want to play ball"
Fear League viii Be DIsbanded.
| Members Of the club who attended
| today were fearful that President M.
| Sexton Of the National Association Of
| Profession Baseball leagues would
carry out his threat to close the league
and transfer its players. It was believd
an effort would be made to have Presi-
| dent Tearney use his personal infu-
ence to persuade the southern clubil
! to forget the trouble and draft a
| schedule. Mr.. TeaFney had schedule