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icr if mm FAMOUS CASE MAY I BE RECONSIDERED Drastic Action of a Month Ago Does Not Suit the Magnates. By O'Loughlln. The annual meeting of the American association is billed for Saturday, and possibly Sunday, at Chicago, and there Is every reason to believe that the now famous Kelley case will come up again and that the blacklisting of Kelley will be reconsidered and reversed. Joe Cantillon will be present at the meeting ana will work to have this brought about. Had he thought the matter not settled satisfactorily he would not have left Chicago for a hunting trip at the time of the other meeting.

There are other reasons why the case will probably come up. Mike Cantillon and Armour, as well as Bryce, are said to have been led to believe that the action taken against Kelley would merely bar him from the American association and would not interfere with his going to any other club in the country. Havenor himself did not want to put Kelley out of baseball save in the American association. Cantillon will be in Chicago Saturday and Sunday working for a reopening of the case and in light of the Ban Johson sentiment that Kelley is blacklisted it will not be strange if the case is reopened. Lennon, on account of his personal misunderstandings of Kelley, may object against reopening the case, and Watkins, with a $1,000 suit for back salarv looming up in front of him, will hardly want to reconsider.

The sensational interview attributed to Garry Hermann, in which he was quoted as roasting Kelley, has been repudiated by the chairman of the national commission in a personal letter to the Minneapolis man. Sentiment appears to be turning toward Kelley. The widely heralded story that Kelley was remaining in Minneapolis to break up the American association was wholly without foundation. Kelley is remaining here for the simple reason that this is his residence, and he owns a home on Lake street. His only action since his disbarment has been to enter suit for salary due him for a part of his services in 1906.

The placing of a tax upon professional baseball was the act of Alderman Sehoonmaker, and he and Kelley have never met, never so much as spoken to each other. -The story that Kelley was back of an attempt to stop Sunday baseball is equally groundless. He has nothing to do with the movement, altho the string fiend's who have been so busy misrepresenting Kelley for the year past are still at it. There is no use in denying that Minneapolis baseball fans are hostile to a marked degree against the American association, and would tomorrow throw their entire support to an outlaw or independent league should one enter the twin cities. There is no soreness at the Cantillons.

There are also a number of men in position to make baseball in Minneapolis an extremely unprofitable venture. Kelley has the friendship of these men, but is not working with them in any way. It will be remembered that the Minneapolis owners were virtually kicked out of the American association, and what looked to be a profitable investment taken out of their hands. This sort of treatment does not beget a wonderful warmth of friendship on the JOE CANTILLON TO I WORK FOR KELLEY King Leads ail others CHftS. DENNErff CO.

CHICAGO only the choicest used. All whiskeynothing else! Distilled by Bottled in Bond "Since 1857" A. Guckenhexmer Bros. Pittsburgh MPM" Thursday part of those kicked toward the kickers. A recapitulation of what has been done in the matter of professional baseball regulation is interesting.

A street has been opened thru the first base bleacher at Minnehaha park. The assessment upon the franchise and plant has been raised from a matter of a few thousand dollars to more than $20,000. Professional baseball has been taxed $600 a park, a year, or $1,200 in all. There has been talk of stopall Sunday baseball. There have een rumors of condemned grandstands and bleachers, tetters have been written by fans to newspapers urging boycotting of professional baseballonly to be thrown away.

Fandom is in a ferment of deep-seated anger against the whole league, and unless something is done to remove this feeling the Cantillon boys have an unpleasant reception awaiting them. The anger is not against Joe and MSke Cantillon, but against the men who have given the Minneapolis club, its president and stockholders so much the worst of it. Minneapolis is probably the most clannish city in the 'United States, barring none. This fact is evidently not understood by the magnates of the American association, whose teams come here to carry off large sums of money. Without Minneapolis, St.

Paul could not have professional baseball for ten daVs, yet Minneapolis is enough of a ball town to join in any league in the country without St. Paul, and show a profit. It is to be hoped that the club owners of the American association will see a light this week. Some of the moves proposed are ill advised and unsportsmanlike, but the fact remains that they are proposed, and so far everything proposed has been done. The magnates of the American association, if they are wise, will lend a careful ear to what Joe Cantillon will have to Bay at the next meeting of the association.

GANS' MONEY IS BECOMING SGARCE Journal Special Service. Tonopah, Dec. 27.There is real money that cannot be placed on Kid Herman. This state of affairs has upset all training-camp calculations on the New-Year fight, and the one-time foregone conclusion that Joe Gans would win without doubt has been blown way over the Nevada hills. Herman's remarkable showing in his daily work and his great confidence inspired the display of money that changed matters about.

Gans is still a decided favorite, but the miners and sporting men here in general are reticent about risking their dollars at the colored fighter's hands. It was the merriest sort of a Christmas gathering in the Herman camp. The stocky little Chicago boy went out for a long road jaunt in the morning with the thermometer at 30 degrees above zero, and followed that up with an hour's sparring. An eighteen-pound turkey was served to Gans and his supporters. He munched to his heart's and then went to a negro festival given in his honor at Devil Davis' place.

Every day has brought an influx of sports to town from near and far. The huge arena will be completed today, when the last section of the roof will be set in place, and then all will be in readiness for the battle. Both fighters are in perfect condition, but Gans is a trifle overweight. He will keep up his hard roadwork the rest of this week, and that is expected to reduce' him sufficiently. i TOMMY RYAN IS AFTER HDGO KELLY Middleweight Champion Would Get In on Big Purses in Nevada.

Journal Special Service. Chicago, Doc. 27.Tommy Ryan arrived in this city yesterday to sign articles with Hugo Kelly or any other middleweight who will act as a strong drawing card. Ryan, who says he weighs 165 pounds at present, looks the picture of health and strength. He would' like to meet Kelly before the Rhyolite Athletic club in Nevada.

Ryan, who trained Jeffries for vears, says there is not another man in the country who has a chance with Jeff outside of Johnson, and while he will not make a positive statement, he intimated Johnson would beat Jeffries. Tommy, however, stated that nothing under a $10,000 purse would drag him back into the ring. Ryan will remain here a few days. He has wired Skinner, of the Nevada club, asking him to bid on the Kelly-Ryan fight. JEFFRIES ACCEPTS SKINNER'S OFFER Journal Special Service.

Los Angeles, Dec. 27.J. C. Skinner, matchmaker of the Rhyolite Athletic association, announced last night that Jim Jeffries had consented to accept the $30,000 offer for a finish fight between himself and Bill Squires, Australian heavyweight champion, to be held at Rhyolite some time next April. Jeffries, when questioned regarding the situation, said: I have accepted the offer and agreed with Mr.

Skinner in regard to a few minor details. I have asked for three months in which to train. At the present I weigh over 250 pounds, and should Squires agree to meet me, will enter the ring at 210 pounds. I believe that I can beat any man in the world, but they all look alike to me before the time of battle, and I shall take no chances." SPIRITED RAGING BY ICE SAILORG Journal Special Service. The Lake Shore Yacht club held the first iceboat races at Lake Calhoun yesterday and four fast boats were' entered.

A triangular course was used, the boats starting from the Thirty-first street dock, sailing to the clubhouse and back to the dock. In the morning races Albert Nelson, with his boat Frost, won from Chamberlain's Red Dragon by a few feet. Nelson's superior sailing won the race, which was the prettiest seen for years on the lake. Murphy's Cold Wave, and McNaughton's Unknown were also in the race, and Murphy finished third, leaving McNaughton far in the rear. In the afternoon's races Chamberlain and Nelson again took the lead, and this time the Red Dragon won out.

Murphy finished third again and the Unknown made a grand finish, barely losing to the Cold Wave. FOOTBALL REFEREE VICTIM OF "STRINGERS" Special to The Journal. Chicago, Dec. 27.There was a wildeyed, angry lad on the Chicago board of trade today. He was none other than Ralph T.

Hoagland, the former Princeton athlete and well-known football referee, who according to a report sent out from Minneapolis last night had become a benedict, the happy bride being Miss Madeline B. Hunter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Hunter, the ceremony taking place at the bride's home in Bayless avenue and the ceremony being performed by Rev.

E. S. Pressy. Here 'is what Hoagland says: I was not in Minneapolis. I am not matrimanially inclined.

I do not know the bride of last night's wedding and I am at a loss to understand how the unfounded report could be printed in Chicago without investigation." The mistake was that of a local string bureau. The happy bridegroom is Ralph Hoagland, a graduate of the state school of agriculture and at present employed as an expert chemist in the department of agriculture at Chicago. The mistake came thru the probable desire of the string fiends to trade on the football reputation of tho Princeton Ralph Hoagland. HIGHS AT BASKETBALL.Manager R. W.

Putnam ot the Central high basketball team will line his players up against fcioutn nigh at the Lyndale gymnasium tomorrow night, and a hard game is expected. South has already played two games on the Twin City Basketball league schedule, but this will be Central's first appearance. South has lost two games since the beginning of the season, but Captain Flynn has strengthened big teani and expects to show the Central five UD. The game will begin at 8 o'clock sharp. SHOT HIMSELF THRU HAND Fergus Falls Man Badly Injured by Defective Revolver.

FERGUS FALLS, MINN.H. Waters of this city was severely injured while handling a revolver yesterday. He slipped a cartridge into the weapon and pulled the trigger, intending to bring the cylinder around so that the next turn would discharge it. The mechanism was defective, the cylinder passed two notches instead of one, and the discharge followed. The bullet passed downward, directly thru the nana, cutting a large blood vessel.

George McTaggart, a saloonkeeper of Bemidji, filed a petition in bankruptcy in the federal court here today, placing his assets at $5,040, of which $4,125 is exempt, $4,000 being in exempt real estate, and his liabilities at $5,147.41. His creditors are largely twin city firms, the list including the Jung Brewing company, L. Eppsteine Son, Kuhler Stock and W. L. Perkins of St.

Paul, and the Minneapolis Brewing company, the Progressive Cigar company and Winecke Doerr of Minneapolis. GUN'S RECOIL KILLS Veteran Survived War Perils to Die of a Firearm Injury. IOWA.Samuel Wisner, a farmer and veteran of the civil war, died last night from the effects of injuries received last Thursday while examining a shotgun. He attempted to raise the hammer of the gun, when it was discharged, and the force of the explosion was so great as to jar the man's the gun being held against, his abdomen as it was dis TUB MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL. MUD HENS HAVE MYSTERY AND INVITE EXPOSURE It looks as tho the Columbus baseball writers were treading on dangerous grpund when they discuss, the sale of the Toledo club.

If they dig below the surface they, may find out something they do not want to know.Louisville Herald. Wonder what that man means. Nobody here seems to know.Ohio Sup. The Herald man said something, but we wonder just how much he really knows and how much is guesswork.Toledo Times. The Toledo scribe himself apparently knows nothing of the matter, but, like all modest young followers of the mudhens, is quite willing and ready to bear a reasonable amount of News.

i Try taking a punch at Bill Armour and hear Mother Bryce scream. WOMAN TO DRITE IN ORHOND RAGES Ormond, Dec. 27.England may send a woman to Ormond next' month for the automobile tournament to drive a huge racer and set. up a new collection of records for women drivers. Her name is Miss Dorothy Leavitt, and she drives a Napier and it is the same horsepower as the car that captured the 100-mile race at Florida last winter with Clifford Eary at the wheel.

If Miss Leavitt comes to this country, there is little chance for her entering the regular events, altho she is the woman champion of England. There is a clause in the entry blank for the meeting that calls for male drivers of 21 years of WOLVERINES WILL DINE ON MDSKRAT Detroit, Dec. 27. Local yachtsmen are planning to attend the Monroe Yacht club's muskrat feast Friday night in Th supperMonroe. committee -will serve genuine Monroe muskrats, but for those who have not yet committed their first offense and who refuse to be convinced, whitefish will be provided.

The music committee announces that the' County Club quartet from Detroit and a real old-time German band reinforced by several made-on-the-spot male choruses, will look after the stuff that ordinarily hatch charms to soothe the savage breast." This is the fourth annual event of its kind held by the local club and the main idea of the promoters is to get all of the yachtsmen possible together in midwinter to discuss plans for the coming season's yachting, and while the affairs has always been noted as a yachtsman's gathering, all are invited in the hope that as many converts as possible to yatchting will be made. No formal invitations are to be issued, but the committee in charge announces that one and all are welcome. J'ully people are looked for. i FRISCO FIGHT TRUST HEAD IN THE CITY Morris Levy, theatrical manager, politician and promoter, of San Francisco, was in Minneapolis yesterday on his way to Tonopah, to witness the Gans-Herman battle on New Year's Day. Levy left for the west today.

I think Gans will win from Herman in an easy fashion after the battle has gone for a few rounds," said Levy, for while Herman is a good little man, he is not strong enough to hold out against the colored champion and will lose." When asked for his opinion on Nevada as a fight state, Mr. Levy said: "This fight craze among the miners is bound to die out after a few of the promoters have lost money. Then the game will shift back to the' coast." AUTO TRIP IN SNOW Two Yale Students Start on Long Tour in Motorcar. New Haven, Dec. 27.Bob English of Hartford and George Townsend of this city, Yale juniors, left here yesterday morning in Mr.

Townaend's auto for a 550-mile trip to Buffalo5. The were equipped with snow shovels and snoeshoes for emergencies, fearing the big drifts in upper New York state. They calculated on faking a week for the trip because of the snow and ice. They are taking their usual trip as a holiday vacation diversion. FELL BEFORE A TRAIN Great Northern Section Man Killed at PIPESTONE, MINN.Frank Mross, foreman of the Great Northern section crew at Ruthton, was killed by a train about a mile east of Holland.

Mr. Mross and another man were riding a railway speeder between Ruthton and Holland, when the south-bound passenger overtook them. lifted the vehicle from the rails and Mross, having dropped a package, went back to pick it up, and in some manner fell and the locomotive struck and killed him. He leaves a wife and five children. The remains of Howard Parker, the young railroad brakeman who was killed a freight wreck on the Omaha at Butterfield, were brought to his home in this city, and the funeral services were held at the Presbyterian church.

J. P. Ashbaugh and Harry Francis, druggist at Edgerton, were' fined for selling intoxicating liquors. Pleas of guilty were entered and each was fined and costs. Mr.

and Mrs. A. J. Rutter of this city, on Christmas Day celebrated the nttieth anniversary of their marriage, and a large number of their children and grandchildren were at their home to help them enjoy the occasion. TOOK CHLOROFORM TO END LIFE Marshalltown Barber Told Wife to Look Out for Strange Christmas Present.

MARSHALLTOWN, IOWA.Frank Sanders, a barber, attempted to end his life by drinking chloroform. The wife sent for police officers, and when arrived Sanders was unconscious. A he wife explained that her husband had said he would give her. a. Christmas present she wouldn't Altho Sanders was unconscious, the doctors succeeded in bringing him to, and he will probably recover.

He had been gambling and had lost all his wages for several weeks and his family was in want. NEGRO PUGILIST KILLED AT FABGO At Inquest Physicians Decide that Death Was Due to Pneumonia. Journal Special Service. Fargo, N. Dec.

27.Fighting before Lieutenant Governor-elect Lewis, Sheriff Hunt, State's Attorney Barnct and many other prominent Elks, Calvin Good, a negro pugilist, whose home was in Columbus, Ohio, fell unconscious in the eighth round and never recovered, death occurring several hours afterwards. Good went on for a ten-round sparring match with Jim Gaines, another negro. Both negroes have given exhibitions in this state this winter. The affair was at a social session following a meeting of the Elks, and the negro's death caused considerable commotion. At the coroner's inquest five physicians testified that Good's lungs were congested arid that he would have died of pneumonia, the violent exercise merely hastening the end.

A verdict along that line was rendered and the Elks absolved from all blame. MOORE AND CATHERWOOD SPARRED TO A DRAW Roy Moore and Herb Catherwood boxed ten to a draw at the entertainment given by the North Minneapolis Athletic club last night. Both boys went into the bout in good condition and the contest was fast from the beginning. Catherwood had a slight advantage in weight, but there was not enough difference to give him the best of the boxing. The first five rounds brought out clever footwork by both contestants, and honors were even.

The seventh was Moore's by a small margin, and Catherwood showed up best in the ninth. The tenth was Moore's by a shade, and the referee called the match a draw. The decision was popular with the spectators. Bobby Becker and "Kid" Wade met in a three-round preliminary match, which was also a draw. ED KENNA TIRED OF PITCHER'S BOX Edward Kenna, the Louisville popular poet twirler, has probably pitched his last game of ball.

Kenna announces that from now on he will be an outfielder, and he hopes Tebeau will play him in right field on the team next season. Kenna is simply tired of pitching and believes that he can 3hine with greater brilliancy as an outfielder and batsman. Last season Kenna made a wonderful record with the stick. He finished third among the association batters, a remarkable performance for a 'pitcher. He took part in fifty-five games was at bat 166 times, scored twenty runs, made fifty-four safe hits, three of- which were twobaggers, and eight triples.

His average was .325. Ned pitched for Milwaukee in the Western league in 1902-3. CAMERON SKI JUMPING. Cameron. Dec.

27.Extensive preparations are under way for the second annual tournament of the Fram Ski club at this Jan. 20. The clubs of Minneapolis, st! i'aul, Ashland. Marquette, Ishpeming, Marinette and other northwestern points will be represented in the tourney. Cash prizes will be offered and reduced rates on all the railroads.

When Hawaii was discovered by Cantaln Cook in 177S it bad a population of 200 3 here are now only 31,000 natives on the islands. CM fh mi Defective Paae i December 27, 1906. JEFF WILL N01 FIGHT JOHNSON Champion Positively Refuses to Consider Negro in Place of Squires. Journal Special Service. Los Angeles, Dec.

27.Tho the Rhyolite fight promoters now in Los Angeles have sent numbers of cablerams to Bill the Australian eavyweight, asking his answer to the offer of the Ehyolite Athletic club for a finish fight with Jeffries for a $50,000 purse, the antipodean has not yet answered. Promoter Skinner is beginning to fear that on second thought Squires has decided that he does not want any part of Jeffries' game at any price. Every effort has been made to locate Squires by cable, and while there is little doubt that he received at least one of the dispatches, so far he has given no signs of life. Jeffries persists his emphatic refusal to consider Johnson. Skinner said yesterday: "If Squires finally fails me I am going to have one more whirl at the Jeffries-Johnson game and see if I cannot make him some offer that will make him forget the color STABNAGLE MUST FISH OR CUT BAIT Special to The Journal.

Lincoln, Dec. more cattle feeding for yours truly," says "Ducky" Holmes, manager of the Lincoln baseball team, who arrived in Lincoln last night from his stockfarm near Des Moines. The unlucky fire which destroyed his great barn and much of his livestock last summer, when he was in the midst of the baseball season, convinced Holmes that he had too many things on hand and he'is determined'to dispose of some of them. He has already sold almost everything off his farm and means to move to Lincoln early in January. This evening he will go to Chicago, where he will attend the meeting of the Western league next Friday.

Promises of ante-season games have already been secured by Holmes from the Chicago whitesox, world's champions, and from Minneapolis, St. Paul, Milwaukee and Kansas City of the American association. While in Chicago he hopes to secure additional games and perhaps pick up a few good players. He would like to have a good man for third base, but says he will play it himself if he can't get just the right fellow. Holmes reiterates his determination not to release Starnagle until he gtfs back the $500 he invested in him.

Herrmann thinks he can get him for less than that, he is mistaken," declared Holmes last night. "Starnagle has been making all sorts of threats. He had the temerity the other day to send in( his measurement to Garry Herrmann of Cincinnati for a new suit. But it's back to the bushes or the outlaws for him unless he is willing to come to my terms. In reality, the only objection he had to coming to Lincoln last yenr was because he was not consulted before being transferred from Sioux City.

But I feel pretty certain that Billy Fox of Minneapolis will be willing to play here and will not prove another Starnagle. OsideFOUL.Athos, A his bet to Fel the French wrestler, at the Dewey last night. Referee Carl Mattsson srlvlnjr the match to Athos after cautioning Felkev to refrain from the strangle hold. Athos won the first fall in eight minutes and Felkey secured the second on a scissors in four minutes. After wrestling six minutes for a final fall Mattson disqualified Felkey for foul wrestling.

Tommy Russell will meet Athos tonight in a finish match, and Ollle Ccurtamanche will probably be taken on Friday night. MEECHANTS OF FINE CLOTHES Any Suit or Overcoat in our Entire Stock BILL SQUIRES TO REMAIN AT HOME Jack Cox, Australian weight, Says the Big Man Would Not Fight Here. Journal Special Serrioe. Los Angeles, Dec. 27.Jack Cox, the Australian middleweight who arrived in Los Angeles Tuesday afternoon, has shed some light on the proposed fight between Jim Jeffries and Bill Squires, heavyweight champion of Australia.

Cox doesn't think it at all likely that Squires can be persuaded to come to America, notwithstanding the rumors of big purses of real money. If Cox talks right there is not much of a chance for Jeffries to meet the antipodean wonder. It is a case of Jim going toward the antarctic if fight he must. Cox said: "Squires is a wealthyman who likes the fighting game for the sport there is in it, not for the coin. Down our way certain American fight promoters stand in bad odorso mueh so that men like Squires could not be induced to fro to the states merely for a purse.

If Jeffries will go to Australian he will get a square deal and a good fight, but I doubt whether Squires can be persuaded to- leave there even for the biggest purse." EDDIE COCHEMS IS TALKING ONCE MORE Madison, Deo. 27.Coach Eddie B. Cochems of St. Louis university announces here that a middle-west intercollegiate indoor athletic meet would be held under the auspices of his institution at the Missouri metropolis the latter part of February, and that Chicago, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska and Kansas universities would probably all be represented. He has already received assurances from some of these institutions that they will send teams to the meet.

Coach Cochems conferred with some of the Wisconsin university faculty members regarding a football game between Wisconsin and St. Louis at St. Louis next fall. The Missouri coach offered to pay all expenses of Wisconsin and give it one-half the receipts if the game is played in St. Louis.

He said Wisconsin's share would be at least three times its total football receipts of the season just closed. Owing to the absence of Dr. Hutchins, general director of athletics, in the east, Mr. Cochems was unable to get any assurance as to what Wisconsin would do regarding his proposition. Mr.

Cochems also called on Secretary True of the Wisconsin state fair board and suggested that a football game between St. Louis and Bipon college be made a feature of the fair next September. CARD FOR THE ICE RACINS Entries for Saturday's ice-racing matinee at the Lake of the Isles closed last night and three events are scheduled for the afternoon's entertainment. The first event will be a 2:18 pace, followed by a 2:18 trot and 3:00 pace. For the following Saturday a 1:12 pace, 1:14 trot and a special trot have been arranged.

Following are this week's entries: 2:18 PaceFay Wilks, A. D. Thosipaon: Jordan Sphynx, Fred S. Quids Grpp. J.

V. Klntrlck Charley Crene, P. Monlhaa: Ball K. J. V.

Kinney. 2:18 TrotJoe Jap, Dr. J. W. Little: Stan Jay.

Dr. McOollough Jennie B. J. Kellar Gem, Mat-Tin Porter Susste B. G.

W. Brown. 3:00 PaceLou Medium. E. D.

Beat Peraererance. E. B. Wiherd: Minneapolis -Girl. J.

B. McConville Hex, M. A. Hansen Comet Kinney Grover, David Roberts. $20 Regular prices $25, $30, $35, $40 and $50.

Including Rogers Peet Clothing, $25 to $50. Frock CoaU and Ulstsrs txecpted. The increasing importance of this sale is significant of the demand for high grade clothing. Our stock contains a much larger per cent of $30 and $35 suits and overcoats than on any previous sale, so that the saving is decisive. All staples, blacks and blues, all high grade kerseys aad vicunas are included, and in both suits and overcoats there is an abundance of extra size stouts and As this sale terminates Saturday we advise your immediate attention, owing to desirability of first choice.

Suits, 'A Regular prices $15, $18, $10 and (25. About 200 Suits we offered at this price. In-L trinsically the best suits that we have ever in our young men's department. 3 4 i Great Plymouth Clothing House, Nicollet and Sixths if i 5.