The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-09-02
MAGNATES WILL
TALK BUSINESS
Important Meeting of See
Eye Officials Wednesday
Flag Awarded.
MORE 1913 dope"
Still Talk Of Trying to Inter-
est Twin Cities in
the League.

Duluth. Sept. 2.-There will be q
meeting here Wednesday Of the ON.
GERS and club owners Of the Central
International league. The regular
business Of the league will be trans.
acted and the pennant for the mrs,
year Of the league o6icially awarded
to the White sox.
At this meeting 1t IL likely that a
delegation will be chosen to go to the
twin cities and hold a conference
with Messrs. Cantillion and Lennon
The old desire to get into St. Pau
and Minneapolis still tugs at the heart
strings Of the magnates hereabouts
and a determined, not to say. diplo.
matte attempt will be made to cleal
the barriers away.
The time has clearly come when thu
larger league must cooperate with
the smaller leagues II the kindergar-
tens. where the young player Is nur.
tured. are to continue.
This has been one of the worst sea.
son in the history of the game OF
baseball. Along the great highway OF
the great national game there lie the
corpses Of leagues, strewn out IN gro.
tesque and bleaching form, a warning
and menacie to the very future OF or
ganized baseball.
Serious minded men in the game
must get down to cases and think Of
the greater future. the nj that lies
ahead Of the immediate dollar. II tn:
little leagues Of the country are tc
go. the very foundation Of the game
will be knocked from under the pal.
atial residence Of baseball.
The cellar Of the house Is not al
ways imposing, but you see very few
swell residences. George, that haven
cellars.
Twin Cities Frown.
Minneapolis and St. Paul ant
Grandma Richie. the mouthpiece Of
the Cantillions. haze always frownet
on the attempts Of Duluth and Super
Tor to break into the twin cities. How
coming when the larger leagues viii
be forced to lend the helping hand tt
the smaller leagues In their vicinity.
At the present time there Is hardly
. minor league in the country that 1.
meeting expenses. In many cities, and
Duluth is the shining example, the
fans hang around the places where
they have returns Of the big league
games. failing to go out to the parl
to see the local team play.
ss&:FGreat ball players are very scarce
1t the present time. The real STAR
VI the big league can be counted u-o.
the fingers Of the two hands. Bal
players come up from the corner lo'
and pass through the minor league
the diamond in the rough being pol
ished as it progresses. Let the little
league die and the majors and tn.
class AA teams are going to find the
sourc of their supply cut of.
CDntilliOn and Lennon.
Duluth is a city of $4,000 people
and finds that it cannot get the kind
Of baseball that its size would. undo,
ordinary circumstances entitle 1t to
The addition of st. Paul and Mime,
apolis should. one would suppose
make a league with cities like Du.
luth, Winnipeg and Superior in It, q
cry solid league. The teams Of the
twin cities would be owned by Can.
tillion and Lennon and would be q
farm for their players.
Such an arrangement would give
us the hest baseball that we have hat
since the days Of the old Northwest.