The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-12
TIP RUNS AMUCK
Former Western League Presi-
dent Threatens Club Owners.
He Wants to Do Inhuman
Things to the ''Beggars."

Western league club owners are
hereby warned to beware the wrath of
Tip O'Neill, former president of the
league. Tip is on his way back from
the coast and his avowed purpose in
coming is to start a rumpus with said
w. L. magnates and tell the "beggars'
thing or two.
Furthermore. Tip declares that he
is going to make the aforementioned
''beggars'' listen, even if he has to
knock 'em all down and whisper into
the ear of each separately. AS to what
he is going to tell them, nobody but
Tip himself knows. Maybe he's going
to tell them why he hasn't turned over
the records of the league as he was
supposed to do. Maybe he's going to
explain the Goldsmith ball deals. And
maybe he is just going to tell them
about the wonderful scenery of Cali
fornia and the delicious strawberries
he's been eating for breakfast three
| times a day ever since he's been on
the coast.
Start a Real Rumpus.
But, at any rate he's going. to tell
them something. He's going to start
n rumpus. Maybe he's going to knock
sonelof them down and do terribly
lnhuman things to them. Maybe he's
going to knock their bloomin blocks
I off. And so it behooves each and
every magnate to become a prepared
ness advocate at once and take such
steps as may become necessary to
withstand the most ferocious of Tip
perary attacks.
gave an interview to Francis Mannix,
of the San Francisco Bulletin, telling
of the terrible things he expected to
say to and do to the Western league
magnates when he got back east of
the Rockies, and, deeming it a duty
to warn said magnates of their i'm
pending danger. the State Journal
takes the liberty of reproducing the
interview in full The interview:
BY FRANCIS j. MANNIX.
Tip" O'Neill, mustache, dia-
monds and all, was one of the
! while last night. Tip" crossed
! over from the Oakland side of the
! bay to utter a flock of farewells,
preparatory to leaving today for
| Chicago, where he will meet his
| former constituents and clear up
the final matters attendant upon
! his abdication of the Western
league throne.
yes, I'm going" he said, land
don't be surprised if you hear a
rumpus when 1 get back there.
I've got a thing or two to tell
those beggars before they see the
last of me, and you can take the
word of an O'Neill that they're
going to hear them, too-if I've
got to knock EN- all down and
whisper into the ear of each. sep
arately. That's me, me boy"
Among some of his friends the
impression existed that Tip" was
going East not SO much to stick
his finger into the Western league
pie again as to go to work for
Comiskey. But this Tip" denied.
Not Comics Leach.
1.-THE idea that I'm on Comics
payroll is all wrong" declared
! O'Neill with characteristic en-
phasis. I've got nothing at all
70 do with the White Sox, and,
furthermore, / don't expect that
1 will. The only reason for my
trip is my anxiety to get matters
Strengthened out with my dear
friends in the Western league.
The dear little things-Td like to
knock their blcomin' blocks off,
The thing which strengthens
the belief of O'Neills friends that
he is to blossom out this year as
a regular member of Com iskey's
staff, vice Jimmy Callahan, re-
signed, is the fact that his plans
are not to return to the coast
until next fall. Tip" won't ex-
plain what he expects to do in the
meantime.
Il haven't the least idea what
will engage my attention after I
get through with the matter l
have on hand now" he declared,
and if you want my exact senti-
ments, 1 don't care much. That's
me-Tip' O'Neill.''