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Oct. 18. THE SPORTIKG LIFE. BASE BALL. THE ALLIED LEAGUES THE PRESENT SITUATION OF THE NATIONAL LEAGUE Pending the Next Special Meeting The Outlook For the Association Minor League Prospects. The National League met again, after our report closed last week, on Friday morning, »t the Fifth Avenue Hotel, to receive the report of the conference committee, and con- sidered it for two hours and a half, when the body adjourned to meet again at tne same place Oct. 22. Just how the report was re- ceived could not be learned, but there was doubtless a most interesting discussion. From those interviewed, however, after the meeting it was learned that the League was on a more solid basis than had been expected and that there was not a magnate but who, from a personal standpoint, had a burning desire to fight the battle out, but it was the opinion that the public demanded a compromise and that as the people supported base ball they should be considered more than the personal feelings of the magnates. They were perfectly will- ing to do "everything in the power of the League to bring about a compromise. INDEFINITE PLANS. What the League will do if the efforts of consolidation or compromise fail is not clear, and probably the delegates don't know themselves, as they have deferred all further action until after the 22d. It was stated, however, that there was no lack of ap- plications to nil the vacancy caused by Cin- cinnati's sale. In Cincinnati it is stated two entirely separate syndicates have offered to place clubs in the League in direct oppo- sition to the Cincinnati Players'League Club. One of the gentlemen interested in the new Cincinnati organization is said to be worth $0,000,000, and is anxious to put up quite an amount to down the new Brotherhood Club of that city. Indianapolis is also willing to fill the breach if necessary. TIIK ASSOCIATION. For the American Associationtheonly hope at present is the completion of the consolida tion scheme. That would lift it, or rather the best clubs in it, out of the depths of de- spair and make it once more the strong and popular organization it formerly was. If the pending scheme fails it will be a difficult matter for the Association to satisfactorily re shape its circuit, especially in the East, where it will be almost impossible to revive the Athletic Club. It is not likely that Roches- ter, Syracuse and Toledo can stand the major league pace another season, and other cities even as good as these cannot be readily se- cnwxi. Tbe next few weeks will be big with importance for the American Associa- tion. GENERAL MENTIOK. The annual meeting of the Western Asso- ciation is to be held next week, at which the circuit will be re-shaped. The Association will, however, find it advisable to defer de- finite action on membership for a time, as the developments in the major leagues may be such as to redound to the advaniage of tin Western Association. Who knows but wha St. Louis and even Louisville or Columbus may yet be thrown into the Western Associa- The A'lTaTrtTftjisspci.atipn affieials^taTk ot reorganizing for next season, hut the outlook is very hazy tov this organization. Its future depends entirely upon how the affairs of the big leagues' shape themselves. Appended will be found the news, gossip mid comment of a week anent National Agreement clubs, officials and players: Nevrs Notes ami Comment. The League is certainly standing by the Association more staunchly than the Associa tion stood by the League. In the proposed new American Association Sunday games can be played in all but two cities. Von der Ahe always falls on his feet and bobs up in every deal. He seems to hay fastened himself upon the game for good. Allan W. Thurman will suggest to the American Association that himself, Mr. Von der Ahe and Bnrnie, who attended the New York meeting, be made a regular committee representing that body. Manager Loftus is now not sure that he will take a team to San Francisco this win Icr. His wife does not care about making the trip; besides, in the present condition ol base ball affairs, he wants to be near the scene of action. Von der Abe out of base ball would be like a fish out of water. He likes the busi- ness for the excitement it aflords and the no- toriety it confers. This is meat and drink to him. In these degenerate days of base ball, if a player has a fine bat he had better put an iron anchor and a padlock to it. "Bat swip ing" is considered legitimate, and nearly everybody in the profession is ready to nai' a good bat every time there is a chance. ('resident Byrne has signed every member of the Brooklyn team except Caruthers, Fout? and Hums. Both Rhinesand Ilarrington are believen, in massage treatment for players' arms. Canavan, Wiliis and Works will be Omaha's cnth'cM next season. Dave Rowe, it is thought, will be either with St. Paul or Lincoln next season. Terry and his partners kept opponents batting averages down to 2.29; Boston's pitch ers were hit safely 239 times iu 1000, and the Piitsburgs' twenty-one pbenoinennls allowei opponents 302 hits to 1000 times at bat. Anson won his last eleven games from Jim Mutrie's team and lost six of the first eight. In the National League Boston had the bes batting average in the Cincinnati series, am Pittsburg the poorest against Philadelphia. It is said that Mike Roche is not a candi date for re-election as secretary of the West ern Association. J, Palmer O'Ncill made many injudicioii: remarks this season, but he certainly deserve credit for making tho gamest kindofafigh under adverse circumstances. "Captain Auson wants the war of extermi nation to go on to the bitter end,buthisfrieiK . and business partner, Mr. Spalding, is no such an avowed fire-eater nnd intimates tha he has no desire to die with his boots on." Chicago lleruld. Anton has lost a great dca personally through the war, and we do no thiiik he is more eager for further war thai niiv other magnate. Tlic chiimpionshipraeeof the Pacific North west League closed Oct. 15 withSpokancCrsf Tacoma second, Seattle third and Portlam fourth. Hick Carpenter, who wasn t good enougl for Cincinnati, has made 131 runs for Kansas City and leads allWcstcrnAssociation player ill run-setting. Pitcher R. J. Murphy, formerly of the Ne\ York League and Brooklyn Association club* was arrested at Tompkinsvillo the other nigh on the complaint of his wife Kllen, wh charges her husband with non-support. II was locked up at police headquarters, Staple ton, awaiting examination before Justic Daniel Cornell at Clifton. "It will be to the advantage of some of th> big clubs to keep an eye on Claussen, th promising young pitcher of the Milwaukee Club, who in his work against the Chicagi Club demonstrated his proficiency as i twirier." Philadelphia Jiiatirtr. Claussci s out of reach. He has re-signed with Mil- vaukee. Barnie is samewhat disappointed at the re- ult of his brief Association campaign, but nowise regrets having secured Welch, Mc- Mahon and Robinson. Every time a manager or magnate is seen veil nodding to a player of a rival league a umor is started that a deal is on or that the layer will jump. One of the two applications for member- hip in the League from Cincinnati was, it is aid, that of the Cincinnati Street Railway L'ompany, which owns the old l T niou Asso- iatiou grounds and controls all the street ailroad lines in that city. The company's iroperty is estimated at $2,000,000. By Thanksgiving the base ball war may l>e icttled to the satisfaction of all. If so, it will be truly a day of Thanksgiving for base ball men. Curt Welch lias a disabled arm, due to lidiug. Columbus wants to be in any deal that may >c made, and is willing to do almost, anything 0 get there. The total shortage of both Cleveland clubs s not less than ^-w.OOO, and probably more. Monager Leadley, of Cleveland, has re- urncd to Detroit with full power to engage any men through the winter whom he may are to. Two positions on the infield and two n the outfield will be strengthened. Columbus is the best located city in the country for any organization having an East- ern and Western division. It breaks the ump and enables them to use all the days. President Frazer, of Syracuse, says he will lever submit 10 the disbanding of the Amer- can Association. He wants to put his club n a twelve-club league. Unfortunately for Grazer he will have little or no sav in the final settlement of the base ball troubles. There is going to be row in the Western Association over the question of division of ;ate receipts. The weaker clubs want per- centage, while Kansas City, Milwaukee and Minneapolis are going to make a fight for guarantee and threaten to bolt if the per- entage plan is adopted. This is the old Na- ional League fight repeating itself in a linor league. "There is another curious fact that has de- veloped in this season's base ball business. The players that were enticed from the Ameri- can Association into the Brotherhood, ia nearly all cases, show np stronger than the old League 'stars.' Hard rap on the 'stars,' isn't it." Cleveland Leader. Three clubs, Boston, New York and Phila- delphia, had a batting average of over .300 off Palmer O'Neil's pitchers. Roddy" Hanrahan came within an ace of the blacklist during the Omahns' last trip to Minneapolis. He threatened to assault Mana- ger Leonard fornotsecingthat his last$50tine was remitted. Leonard invited him to pro- ceed with his pugilistic intentions, but he thought better of it and drew away. The Players' League 'S not the only organ- ization to iiave a "king" player. Crooks, of Columbus, has had the same ridiculous title conferred upon him. Outfieldcr Curtis, of Denver, will manu- facture b:isj ball bats in Denver this winter. Darby O'Brien is the only member of the champion Brooklyn team whose name ap- ? ears among the twelve leading batters of the .cagne. Berger, of the Pittsburg League team, is certainly a rising player. J. Palmer O'Neil is a unique figure in base ball. When asked his opinion on the question of a compromise, Manager Mutrie sam:~-"I think the managers r.ud players should ex- press no opinion in the matter, but I will say that I think a team could be selected from the two New York clubs that could beat the world." Col. John I. Rogers figures the losses of the past season in the two big Leagues at about £500,000 $300,000 for the Players' League, and $200,000 for the National League. Syracuse now longs for an International League. The games played in the ojd Inter- national League were as "tidy" as any seen in the Association this year, and gave as good satisfaction. The most surprising change was I.ovett's improved pitching this season. He was below pp.r last year in the Association. Valentine H. Keteham has lost all ths_ monsj(Jie Cfires to in base ball, and if Toledo fs ni any circiitl"at aff TicxT" year somebody else will have to pay the fiddler. Catcher Townseiid, under his agreement with the Baltimore Club to leave when the the college term begins, has returned to his medical studies in Philadelphia. Among the assets of the Detroit Clab was a tub, a grindstone and some glasses. Columbus didn't win the Association cham- pionship, but it won the series from every other club in the Association, which is better than the champion Lpuisvilles did. Kansas Cityans think that with the addi- tion of one more pitcher their team would he strong enough for the National League; at least, they did think so before the recent series with Brooklyn. Klnier Smith won twenty-one out of the thirty games he pitched for Kansas City this year. The ticket sellers, ticket takers and ushers at the Cincinnati Park have presented Presi- dent Stern with an oxidized silver cigar case, filled with the best Victorias. The meeting for the purpose of reorganiz- ing the Texas League will be held at Dallas, Tex., on Nov. 1, instead of Oct. 20. Young Eddie Von der Ahe has enough of base ball and is goin2 into the grocery busi- ness in St. Louis. Manager Manning recently picked up the left fielder of the Ottnmwa Club, one Hogriever, who, in Manning's opinion, is soon to develop into a great player. There is a big difference in the official nnd unofficial averages. Anson stands eighth according to Mr. Young's figures, and twelfth in the unofficial averages. It is said that Joe Gei-hardt next season, besides acting as captain and second bas?man of the St. Louis Club, will also look after the financial end of the team. But then Von der Ahe is very changeable. A. U. Spalding did not know until he ar- rived in New" York on the 9th, what a splendid finish Anson had made. When in- formed, lie at once telegraphed Secretary Brown: "Congratulate the members of the Chicago League Club for me, and say that second place for a new team is more than sat- isfactory. Next year the pennant." Zimmer's work of the past summer has done one thing for the good of managers. It has dcmonstaated that the time is past when it is necessary to carry a surplus of back slop talent. Clevelanders insist that in Jake Virtue they have the finest first baseman on earth. The conference at the Fifth Avenue Hotel of all the leagues was the first oasis found in the Sahara of quarrel. The old League grounds at Cleveland will be cut into residence lots. A wide avenue will be run directly through the outfield. The new grounds are in a locution that will never be destroyed by the layiug out of any street through them. Minneapolis has released Joseph Dowie. The annual meeting of the Western Asso- ciation will be held at the Millard Hotel, Omaha Oct. 22. The Louisville Club is accused by the press of jealous Western rival cities of having fat- tened attendance all season and of doctoi-ing official averages in order to bring in Wolf as batting leader. To be shut out twice in succession by Mil- waukee wits rather a tough dose for Anson's whirlwinds. All batting, fielding and base-runing aver- ages floating around at the present tiniu are not ofiicial. They aren't worth the paper they arc printed on as matters of record. THE SPOKTINO LIFE prints only Qj$cial averages p.son clo; after the season closes. Boston's League team did their heaviest batting against Pittsburg, and the champion Brooklyns did their best stick work in the Cleveland series, in which they won 17 of the 20 games.while Boston won but 13outof 20. At Hartford last Monday ex-pitcher John Henry, late of the New York Club, beat a local sprinter named James F. Kenna in a 100yds. dash for $300 a side. Henry gave Kenna a start of two yards and then won by 4ft. in 10s. There arc ten men in the National League with averages of over .300, and five of them were iu the American Association last year. Jt in said that the Association is to be rep- resented at next week's conference meeting by Phclps, Thurman and Von der Ahe. These represent the clubs which expect to be in- cluded in the deal. Where does Barnie come iu? The Pitts-burg Players' League Club was after Glenalvin but could not secure him. At least, that's what they say in Chicago. Doubtful, very. The PittsburirLengueClubhasso far signed nine men Miller, Anderson, Smith, Day, Berger, Wilson, Decker, LaKoque and W. Gunibert. There is a slight difference be- tween the salary offered and asked by Burke, but this wil 1 be settled as soon as the League conference is over. Says the Cleveland Plain Dealer:—"Some of our 'steamed' contemporaries have gone into the business of 'hows.' Now, why not make some practical suggestions? Instead of asking 'How would Buck Ewing draw in Cincinnati?' inquire what Jay Faatz would do if he held three kings and there was a stack of blue chips in the centre of the table. There woald be no dealing in futures in the case of Faatz, and there is a great deal of 'futurity'about Buck." A Baltimore correspondent writes: "The fining and suspension of 'Reddy'Mack by Manager Barnie was an act of discipline which shoulil have been carried out long ago. Mack's behavior has been something unbear- able of late, and even before the club went on the trip he was afaid to show up at head- quarters for fear they would 'get on' to him. There were several other members of the team in the same boat, but they escaped de- tection. "Cincinnati has been promised 'the pick" of Buffalo. Arc they fixing up that 'eight hole' for the Reds in I89ri"—Tiniei-Star. That is rather rough on Rhine*, Harrington, Reilly, McPhce, Latham, Holliday, Marr and Mul- lane. But perhaps it is too true. Barnie complains of the umpiring in the Association and says his team received the worst treatment within his recollection on the last Western trip. Barnie dislikes Doescher specially. "Chic" Hoffonl, who caught for the New Haven Club this season, says he is open for an engagement. According to agreement made at the time of signing last spring, Hof- tord avers that the New Haven Club cannot reserve him for next year. Burns and Cooney, of Chicago, have been presented with handsome lockets by Chicago admirers. Jerry Denny is, probably, the greatest dis- appointment of the season, with only a bat- ting average of .212, 2-1 sacrifice hits and 12 stolen bases and a tieldingaverage of .888. The benefit game arranged for Manager Mctiiumigle will bft played at Washington Park Tuesday, Oct. 28. By that time it may be possible to see the two Brooklyn teams pitted one against the other. The general work of Pinckney, of Brook- lyn, is the best of any third baseman in the country. He stands ninth in batting, with an average of .309 and second in fielding of the National League third basemcn, with an average of .932. He also stole 47 bases. Buffalo wants the League to take it intothe camp if the war does not end. Gus Creeley, who played short for St. Louis while Shorty Fuller was ill, is a Mound City boy. Jack O'Connor tells one of the prize stories on Larry O'Dea. The little son of Erin was giving Jack an awful deal on balls and strikes and Jack protested. "I might as well call 'em on you, Jack, you ain't hitting them," was the response. Manager Guy Hecker will winter in Oi C'H . Wolf, of the Louisville Club, denies that he is guing to play iu Pittsbiirg-next season. He says: "I have played ball in LouisvH4s_gll my life and I prefer to end my base ball ca- reer in that city." There had been so much mid-season talk that Cincinnati would change corners that when the promised Tnove was made it was re- ceived as a matter of course. Cincinnati holds the record as the champion emigrants of the base ball world. They have occupied berths in the Association and rival leagues in their two seasons. Pitcher Gootlall, of Louisville, owes Man- ager Chapman a barrel of apples, the result ot'a wager on the championship race. Magnates shoulii feasc eajjla4»_SJgr,Bj "f- Cincinnati, a "b.ise ball speculator." people who live in glass houses cannot afford to throw stones. The annual meeting of the Pennsylvania and New York League will be held in Brad- ford Oct. 28, when the matter of consolida- tion with the Interstate League will be passed upon. Manager Manning is much opposed to Kansas City leaving the Western Association. The Western Association Club has been a success, and he wishes to be true to the goose that laid the golden egg. There may be a consolidation of the Pacific Northwest and California base ball leagues next season. The corporate name of the Kansas City Ball Club is still the "American Association Base Ball Club of Kansas City, Mo." It will be changed (his fall to the "Kansas City Base Ball Club." A Cook County League is to be organized in Chicago to take in suburban towns. Each faction in this senseless war can now be compared with the bull after his argument with tha locomotive of an express train, not quite so belligerent, but having a heap more scr.se. Kansas City can hardly afford to enter either of the big leagues, even it invited, as Sunday games are absolutely necessary to ex- istence. All the money made this season was due lo Sunday gacies. Kansas City fans have presented Elmer Smith with a gold-headed umbrella. Herman Long is but ashadow of his former self and will need a winter's rest to put him in shape again. Ex-Manager Bnekenberger is now em- ployed in the rooms of the Waync county (Midi.) Republican Committee in Detroit. Al is a hustling Republican worker. Johnson, of Baltimore, broke his little finger in practice the oilier day. Manager Baruie's proposed California trip may have to be abandoned, as some of the players he expected to take along are too ex- alted in their demands. A Twin City League, with three clubs in St. Paul and three in Minneapolis, is to be organized. Charley Buckenberger, assistant treasurer of the Columbus Club, will run a skating en- terprise at Recreation Park iu Columbus this winter. Will Hoover, of Kansas City, is a Mason of many degrees. Manning is an Elk of high standing. Thayer Torreyson has gone to Texas to play in Dallas with Ramsey. Fuller and others. John B. Day characterizes Jim O'Rourke as a blatherskite, and adds: For my part Attor- ney O'Kourkc can stay in Bridgeport and practice law, if he finds clients, for the re- mainder of his life. We want ball players on the New York team, not orators. There will be plenty of good ball players in the market next season." It has been learned that J. Palmer O'NeiH tried to sell George Millerto Cincinnati when the Reds were in the National League. Jim Mutrie says if the two clubs are united next year he will invent a new war cry that will put "We arc the people" in the shade. The Cleveland and Boston clubs are nego- tiating with Joe Knight, lute of Cincinnati. The Brooklyn team was not permitted to play a Sunday game at Kansas City, though it wished to do so. Now that Anson has signed the crack sec- ond baseman of the Xcw York State League, Dahlen, what wil! he do with Glenalvin? Captain Power didn't show up as strong in generalship in the American Association as he did in the Atlantic. The batting department of the game has shown a slight improvement under changes iu the rules made at the expense of the pitch- er's effectiveness. There are fewer happier men just now than genial Jack Chapman, and tne Louisville manager has every reason to be proud of his season's work. While it may dispel a little of glamor from the game to consider it as a business rather than a sport, no sensible man can fail to admit that the sport has grown to proportions where it is a business, and to live and prosper it must be conducted as euch. The greatest essential required to obtain a settlement of tbo wur U Uie ai-itci*e ot ft give-and-take spirit. That spirit doesn't ap- pear to be overwhelmingly present. Barnie can afford to smile. No matter vbat deals are made, Baltimore must be counted in. Conflicting dates are a thing of the past. Thousands of dollars have been lost in the r that was fought this summer. The laughty stockholder and the bold player are now meek as lambs, and they both agree that 'n order to restore the national game to its )I<1 standard, they will have to compromise, brpet past wrongs, bury the hatchet, and smoke the pipe of peace. Possibly there are ball players in the pro- 'cssion who have sons old enough to play >ase ball, but as yet no progeny of a profes- sional tosser has donned the uniform to make a living. The American Association conferrees do not figure extensively in the pending settle- nent. They take part, but they are ready, and perforce willing, to agree to any deal that can Be engineered to the satisfaction of the :wo big leagues. Vniung the well-known players who will speml the winter at their homes in Baltimore ire Fontz, of the Brooklyn Club; Sommer, of Baltimore; the Chillis brothers, and Beatiu, of Cleveland; Horner and Dickerson, of New Haven; Roussey, of Newark, and Carl, of Wilmiugton. The I'ochcstcrs disbanded in Baltimore Wednesday. ~3arnie says Gilbert and Welch have quite replaced Shindle and Griffin. At Mobile, Ala., Oct. 12, over 600 people witnessed a game between the local Harper Club and the Pensacola, Fla., Club. The home tciim won by C to 3. Wells, late of the St. Louis Browns, played with the Florida team. After the-Milwaukee Club had defeated the Chicago League Club by a score of 12 to 0, the Milwaukee Journal remarked: "Anson's colts are calves." Mr. Thurman, who is cutting such a con- spicuous figure in the plans for reorganiza- tion, owns one share of stock in the Columbus Club and is a member of the Board of Arbi- tration. \Ve have letters for Chas. Collins, Win. Hallniaii, Chas. Jones, Mr. Routcliffe, J. Summers, Harry T. Smith. The Chicago League team was paid off Monday and disbanded. O'Neil], of Pittsburg, says there is neither truth nor consistency in the Players' League, or at least that portion of it that gave away the snap after the conference meeting after agreeing to keep it quiet. Dick Conway, the ex-pitcher, is to open a men's famishing goods store in Lowell. A host of friends will wish him success in his ue\v venture. Tom Hamsey is playing with the Dallas, TPX-, Club. In a game last week against Fort Worth he held that team down to three hits. Ralph Johnson is going to engineer some more walking matches this winter. Gus Williams, who pitched for the Brook- lyn Americans early this year, is dead. He had been sick all summer, owing to a severe cold contracted during one of the early exhi- bition games. Bob Pettitt is going to run a polo team in New Haven this winter. The Brooklyn League team stopped over in St. Louis on Wednesday and beat the Browns 9 to 7. The Renii-professional league composed of Canisteo, Wellsville, Bath and llornellsville has finished the season, with Canisteo in the lca<l- A handsome pennant, offered by Keefe & IJecanuon to the winning club, has been received by the champions. A dime sent to .T. C. Morse, Boston Herald, will secure fine photographic group pictures of the Bostons (champions), Brooklyns or CieVPJflnds, of the Players' League. * "All these plans carry with them bitterness to the player. This has been his year. Capi- tal has paid half oTmHiisn or more to the fiddler while he danccd.^^Gmiiyl has had enough of that sort of music to doic-fcl?ver." Cincinnati Times-Slnr. - At present the indications are that if the Players' League insist that the National League shall abandon its name there will be no consolidation or deal consummated. In estimating the difficulties of reorganiz- ing major league base ball it must be remetn- kerefl-that sowe'pcwjjte want «)! the pjjt, cake, or what it may metaphorically be named^anu they very serenely call this compromise. ROCHESTER RIPPLES. £ml of the Season—A Disappointed Con stituency—Causes of tho Team'8 Low Standing—General Comment and Gossip. ROCHESTKR, Oct. 16. Editor SPORTING LIFE: The Association campaign is over and Eoclicsttr ends fifth in the race the same po- sition in which last year's club finished. The club ought to have done better there is no denying that but neither Manager Powers nor the players can be held responsible for the poor showing. It is due entirely to the penny wise and pound foolish manner of con- ducting business pursued by the owners of the club. This policy has been followed throughout the season, and the wonder is not that the club ended as low as it did, but that it ended at all. XO BLAME FOR PLAYKKS. If the team had been strengthened before the first Western trip, when the boys were lame and injured, the Rochesters would have finished v.ell towards the top. Their poor showing and the fact that the management, has lost, money cannot be deemed the fault of the players. They boys have done their best under discouraging circumstaces, butthe business management has been very short- sighted. But there's no use in going into details. Everyone knows what's been the matter. NOTES. The Rochesters wound np the season at Baltimore Sunday in defeat not a common, everyday defeat, but a shut-out, and that, too, with only one hit to their credit. Will Rochester be iu the Association next season? IN the great question in local base ball circles now The Hochestcrs ended this season as they began it with defeat. In th* first Philadelphia game Bob Barr had the misfortune to break a finger in at- tempting to catch a foul fiy, in consequence be had to retire from the game, and Fields finished it out. Big Jiin Fields, our first baseman, pitched the second Athletic game, and won it easily. Miller hnd poorer success against his old enemies, tlie Baltimores, than against any other club in the Association. He partici- pated in three games, losing them all. The many friends of Joe Visner arc pleased to see thiit he has made such a good record in the PiltKlnirg Players' Club. He led the League in three-base hits, and stands well up in hatting and fielding. Paul Cook has also done himself proud with John Ward's Wonders. Titcoinb did not accompany the team when they left for Philadelphia, but joined the team nt Baltimore, and in a game against the Orioles allowed them but one hit. The .sophomore and freshman classes of the University are having some spirited games of ball on the campus. Of the different American Association clubs that have visited Rochester this season we have Picked out a team which we con- sider \\ould bo about the strongest of any that could l>e selected, batting and fielding being considered: Gastright,Healy and Barr, pitch- ers; O'Connor, Robinson and McGuire,catch- ers; \Verden, first base; Cliilds, second base; Alvord, third base; Kay, short stop; Wolf, Johnson ami Welch, fielders, with McCarthy and Grim as substitutes. Tlic outlook for an American Association club in this city next season looks rather bail, but \vc will undoubtedly be represented in some '('ague, and it now looks very much as though the old International would be revived. A very strong circuit could be formed for this League with Syracuse, Ro- chester. Buffalo aiuf Toronto in the Fast and a number of good cities in the West to select from. Here is an opportunity for Secretary White. Tiie men who have represented Rochester in the Association the past season will not be seen in tins city again this year, and they have many friends who wish them success wherever they may go or what they may do. THE S TOUTING I IKE correspondent wishes to thank every member of the team for cour- tekius shown him. M. T, S. BALTIMORE ^BULLETIN. The Situation of the Monumental City In the Pending Deals— Needs of the Team — A Warning to the Capitalists-The Play ers' Rights Must lie Guarded. BALTIMORE, Oct. 15. Editor SPORTING LIFE: In the scheme for compromise there is nothing in particular for Baltimore to do. "Barkis is willin'. " The Orioles have no rival team to consolidate with, and therefore there are no negotiations in that direction. The city has merely to await the result in other places, and, if they are successful, ac- cept the representation in the organization to which it is assigned. In the meantime it has to produce n team of sufficient merit to com- pete with a good major league, and that is being looked to as far as can be done under present circumstances. Mr. Walz has gone to Chicago, with the object, it is asserted, to sign pitcher Silver King, but it would seem to be the wildest of goose chases, in view of the joint resolution passed at the New York meeting, pledging each of the three main or- ganizations not to sign the players of the otlier for a certain period of time. The vio- lation of this ARMISTICE would be a serious matter and likely to throw the offender entirely out of the pale of future proceedings. This would be enough to block that movement, to say nothing of prior legal contracts. It is believed this part of the pro- gramme is but an idle and silly boast. The Orioles must have a fortification of their pitching strength, but it will be very un- likely to come from that direction unless there should be a consolidation of the two Chicago clubs, and King should be found superfluous, all of which is exceedingly improbable. The consolidation of three organizations into two will very likely furnish Baltimore with op- portunities to secure some desirable players from THE SURPLUS but it is not anticipated that any pitchers will be of the calibre of Silver King, for the simple reason that Baltimore is so situated in the controversy that it hns nothing to com- promise nothing to give and take. There is no concession to be made to the Orioles, and very likely they will have to be satisfied lo ather in the crumbs that fall from the rich banqueting table. This should be pretly good, In the deal, compromise, consolidation, amalgamation, or whatever it is choosed to be called, perhaps there should be PATIENT WAITING Tor results, and nothing be said having it tendancy to ignite the inflammable material now gathered together, but fair warning is given thnt any unreasonable invasion of tho rights of the players will receive an encr{.'0tio kick from this direction. Both capitalists and players assumed to join the great revolu- tion in the interests of reform in methods and in the condition of the personnel as well ;m for good business reasons, and neither side should throw over the other at this critical period. The capitalists should, while protecting themselves, protect those players who have faithfully stood by them, and anything less than that would not only he a misfortune, but disgraceful, as well, The capitalists and players went into this thing with mutual in- terests, and perhaps the players risked the most in casting their all upon this die. The season of 189(1 did much to ameliorate their condition, and nowall should not be lost, and, it is hoped, will not be. There is confidence still that all will be right in this direction, but if it is not, and there is a large-sized, vig. orcus kick from Orioleburg, please forgive T. T. T. when but it will not be the cream. Skimmed milk from a ricli lacteal fluid is pretty fair cow juice, but better than that depends upon the milk of human kindness from the breast of a base ball magnate, and that has never hereto- fore furnished a promising regimen of diet. If Brooklyn's two clubs consolidate, or New York's and others, it is plain to be seen that there will be superfluous bnsemeu and fielders and batteries, but they will unquestionably retain the best and offer the others to clubs wanting them. In the event of the promised compromise Baltimore would be in A KASTEI! CLASS and would be obliged to travel the pace set by the others or suffer in patronage. Under those circumstances the team would require a first baseman. Powers is an excellent man for the company he has been in durin greater part of the season, but he has some few deficiencies that would have to be made good. His throwing is decidedly weak, and not by any means up to the mark of major ball in accuracy. He is alert and quick in his movements, but much throwing time is lust in preliminary motions. He is neither the best of base-runners or batters, but he is an observant and thinking player quick to see points and avail himself and his team of their advantages. It is not that he is not a good player, but that he would have to com- pete in his position with far better ones in all- round work. It is believed all this has re- luets-.ntly forced itself upon many critical pa- trons here in the latter part of the season dur- ing the scries in the American Association. Reluctantly, is said, because Powers is an earnest, pains-taking player who has fairly WON II IS WAY to-Mie hearts of all, and people are slow to coiifcsS-cvKlUp themselves, any weakness in a favoriteVA"uf^ M' c ' OIK' baseman will also i)c necessary. Mnck'TSSUft to bo depended upon in his habits, and nuNM 1" 1 j'.istata critical period in the pennants* every man of theU>am should be .sharpest edge. Ifis iafe relapse which has consumed many playing days and involved a tine of $75, would have meant several thous- ands of dollars to the club, had the circum- stances of Baltimore's being in the American Association been different. As it was, the loss of a few games more or less made no material difference, as the team really was hot in the contest for the pennant, and the fluctuation in the playing had no decided in- terest to the public. Besides, Mack is er- ratic to handle at his best, and with only one strong poiiit; and that is fielding. Itis unfor- tunate for him that lie should FALL FROM GRACE near the close of the season, when new con- tracts are contemplated and when there is a promise of a glutted market. It goes without saying that a short stop is required, and wanted bad, too. This position has been a weakness in the Orioles nearly the whole time of their existence, and should be given particular attention at this time and settled. This place is so important and develops such pretty tactics in an expert that it is one that should commend itself as involving nothing but the best talent. It is the central point for all eyes of spectators, ami when well filled is susceptible of furnishing more real concentrated joy to the average crank than any other place on the infield. Perhaps a Ward or a Long or a Shindle is not available, but from the available material it would but be common business prudence to secure the very best at any reasonable investment. A left fielder will be found necessary if the team is to be well balanced. Good, old Joe Sommer is A PROBLEM to many patrons. Here is a man whom the gods have endowed with all the attributes of a perfect ball player. With model habits; with none of the small vices or larger ones; domestic in his tastes, and faithful in all that pertains to the development of a fine physique, he is daily outplayed by bacchana- lians who take no care of themselves what- ever. Joe always fields beautifully and oc- casionally bomb:trds the ball fiercely, but with it all is notoriously not a game winner. Whether his nervous eompositioa is such that he cannot rise to the occasion at a crisis, or whether a critical situation rattles him, is unknown to only himself, if even to him, but the fact is such, and is demonstrated sea- son after season. Electrifying plays arc com- mon with this hero of the grassy left and the stands alternately bow down in homage or noisily cheer him to more daring feats. But it is no go he is not a game winner for at some unfortunate crisis he will either fail to contribute the factor of victory or will con- tribute to snme insignificant contretemps that just barely turns the scales THE WRONfl WAT. Now, if ever there was a player that de- served the highest pinnacle of success it is our favorite Joe, and if there ever was a player who worked the whole moral code for success it is again our Joe. But it is no use the thing can scarcely be analyzed. It is merit not receiving its just and natural re- ward, and it will require a greater phil- osopher than the writer to get the combina- tion of the racket. Aright fielder may be required and again may not. It is proposed to play Hay in that position, and steady prac- tice in that place may develop him into one of the best. He has nil the attributes to make one and it would be unfortunate in- deed if he should fail. He is a fine halter, and for that one feature is one of the most popular members of the team. Patrons are UNUSUALLY AMIAISLK in forgiving or overlooking any lapses in fielding in his case, for he electrifies them when he steps lo the plate in that quiet con- fidence which is ;>. part of his very nature. Ray has played right field, but not at any time lo;ig enough to become well acquainted with the position. He will in all probability be a fixture there, and with the assistance of Johnson and Gilbert form a batting trio not to be despised in the season of '1M. Johnson disabled the little finger of his left hand last Monday, and, if it had to come, it was fortunate in waiting for the lastof the season. McMahon, Robinson, Gilbert, Johnson and Welch have signed contracts to wear Oriole plumage next year, and any of the others wonted cau be had at luost any time. CHICAGO_GLEANINGS. Spaldiiij; Confident That the Wnr Will TI« Settled—Hit* Non-committal and Discreet Attitude—Stern, of Cincinnati, Scored— Premature Capitalistic Yell, Kte. CHICAGO,Oct. 15. Editor SPORTING LIFE: With arrangements pending for the settle- ment of all'difficulties in the ba.vc hall world there is very little to be said by your correspondent at this time. Not hut that there is much to say. On the contrary, I might fill a column or two with most inter- esting reading matter this week, but it would be premature, and possibly disastrous to plans which now seem certain to be realized. One thing, however, may be pretty confi- dently anticipated, and that is that after Oct. 2'2 the base ball war ot'13S9-!)0 will be forever a thing of the past. Until the return of President Spalding and the conference in New York 1 for one had little hope of an ad- justment. Indeed, as the end of the season approached chances for compromise or ad- justment seemed to me to be growing beau- tifully less. Events of the past ten days, however, have completely changed the as- pect of things, and now, unless there is some wholly unexpected slip-upj the season of 1H91 will not be characterized by the de- plorable features that have marked that of !S9-Jas the most unfortunate in the history of the game. THE ENCOURAGING FEATURE. The one fact that givesthetinge ot'a proba- bility to the current reports of intended ad- justment is that for the first time since the in- auguration of tbe strife, the business men ot both sections the capitalists, those who have their money invested in the rival organi/a- ..... tions have come together, without any of the the silly seiitimentalisin that characterized the fight at the outset, and have gotten down to business. That such a meeting, and that some such action as probably will be taken, would ultimately be the outcome of all the trouble has been the belief of most of the successful business men I have talked with. It hns been all well enough, from the Players' standpoint, for the player to make his little blufl'and de- clare that the Players' League intended to run the National League out of the business, no matter how long it took to do so. The player, in no organization that I know of, is the man lo pay salaries or traveling and op- crating expenses. And now the people who, by virtue of their capital invested, have the sole right to say "Stop," or "Fight it out," have asserted themselves, and the player, plainly speaking, ''isn't in it." CAPITAL'S TKIUMPH. Some time ago I had occasion fo remnrtt that capital was a hard thing for talent or la- bor to buck against. I expressed the belief that in this base ball war, as in all other re- volts of talpnt or labor against capital, *h:it' capital would in some way work its way to the top and win. Now.I think the record of belief. KPALD1NG DISCREETLY NON-COMMITTAL. I Imve seen President Spalding but a fu* moments since his return to Chicago, but dur- ing my brief chat with him learned a world of things which the world will doubtless know as well before nianydays. The present condition of things, however, demands that even news must be suppressed, if its publica- tion were calculated to endanger, to ths ex- tent of one iota, the now rosy prospects for an amicable settlement of our base ball war, and the public, as well as many of our players, will, I am sure, be glad to curb their impa- tience, if by doing so ailevoutly-to-be-wished- for compromise can be brought about. "I knew positively nothing of the situa- tion," said President Spalding, "when I stepped off the steamer in New York the other day, and it was me, instead of my fel- low club presi'lcntSjWho asked the question. "'What has happened during the past week?' I asked. '"Stern has sold out to the Brotherhood!' was the tirst answer. "'Good!' said I, after a moment's reflection. 'Anything else? 1 "'Yes; Chicago finished second.' "'Better still,' I replied, and from those two answers I drew my conclusion's as to what the end of the base ball war would be." This was a queer pointer, but although queer it positively pervaded the air with sig- nificance. "I don't understand," I remarked to the Chicago Club president. "No, I know you don't, and I don't mean that you shall understand just now. It might worry you to keep it to yourself if you did- understand," and Mr. Spalding declared that interview at an end. STERN SCORED. There is just one other matter that I want to touch upon in concluding this letter. Last week I intentionally treated the matter of the Cincinnati deal conservatively. I bad not satisfied myself fully as to Stern's motives, and being unwilling to do the man an injus- tice, I wrote with my gloves on concerning the transfer. This afternoon, however, I want to take off my gloves and characterize Stern's sale of the Cincinnati Club to the Brotherhood as a dirty trick. Such fellows as he will do well to stay in "de cloding pis- ness." Base ball, as a business enterprise, has no use for them. Why, even the people with whom he made the trade despise him. Said one of them to a League official the other day: "I'd sooner have lost both legs than be guilty of such a hound act as that man played upon your people. Bah, the business made me sick while we were trans- acting it." HARRY PALMEK. ^ i THE NEW YORKS DONE. Matrie's Kxperlences in West Virginia-* Disappointed Kut Hopeful. The New York League team rcturncl to Ne\r York Saturday last from its Western flip and will probnbly be disbindel this week or next. Manager Mutrie «iys that the boys hail u most enj'jyublo week after the close of the champion- ship SCJISOP. They pi;iyed t;vu gauies at Wheel- ing, an'J then went up into the mountains to play several country clubs. "At Grt'.fton, W, Ya.," says Jim. "we had quite a novel exper- ience. Tlio ba:e ball groumU there are OM aa island, the usual approach to which U :i squall bridge. lint tbo bridge was swept away re- cently, and a plank win used aa a. uiaki'sMlt. The manager of the Graftons stood at the ui.iin- . land end selling tickets, and I stood at the island end taking them, and I tell you it wa< an, amusing sight to waich the patrons buUuoa across the ulanlc. "Soino of our men have already gone to their homes, but I intend to hold tho bulk of the team together yet awhiia and arrange a flow ex- hibition games hereabout*. I nm naturally somewhat disappointed tbat we did not finish bet- ter in tbe race, but all things considered, I have no right to kick. The men did very well under the circumstances, and the season bas de- veloped Olio fuct to my entire satisfacUm, and that is, tbat Glasseoc'i is the best player ever I clapped eyes on. lie will make his errors the same as any one cl?e, but they are more than atoned for by tho general excellence of hi* work."

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Page 1: Oct. 18. BASE BALL. BALTIMORE ^BULLETIN. THE …library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1890/VOL_16_NO_03/SL... · Manager Loftus is now not sure that he ... ia nearly all cases,

Oct. 18. THE SPORTIKG LIFE.

BASE BALL.THE ALLIED LEAGUESTHE PRESENT SITUATION OF THE

NATIONAL LEAGUE

Pending the Next Special Meeting The Outlook For the Association

Minor League Prospects.The National League met again, after our

report closed last week, on Friday morning, »t the Fifth Avenue Hotel, to receive the report of the conference committee, and con­ sidered it for two hours and a half, when the body adjourned to meet again at tne same place Oct. 22. Just how the report was re­ ceived could not be learned, but there was doubtless a most interesting discussion. From those interviewed, however, after the meeting it was learned that the League was on a more solid basis than had been expected and that there was not a magnate but who, from a personal standpoint, had a burning desire to fight the battle out, but it was the opinion that the public demanded a compromise and that as the people supported base ball they should be considered more than the personal feelings of the magnates. They were perfectly will­ ing to do "everything in the power of the League to bring about a compromise.

INDEFINITE PLANS.What the League will do if the efforts of

consolidation or compromise fail is not clear, and probably the delegates don't know themselves, as they have deferred all further action until after the 22d. It was stated, however, that there was no lack of ap­ plications to nil the vacancy caused by Cin­ cinnati's sale. In Cincinnati it is stated two entirely separate syndicates have offered to place clubs in the League in direct oppo­ sition to the Cincinnati Players'League Club. One of the gentlemen interested in the new Cincinnati organization is said to be worth $0,000,000, and is anxious to put up quite an amount to down the new Brotherhood Club of that city. Indianapolis is also willing to fill the breach if necessary.

TIIK ASSOCIATION.For the American Associationtheonly hope

at present is the completion of the consolida tion scheme. That would lift it, or rather the best clubs in it, out of the depths of de­ spair and make it once more the strong and popular organization it formerly was. If the pending scheme fails it will be a difficult matter for the Association to satisfactorily re shape its circuit, especially in the East, where it will be almost impossible to revive the Athletic Club. It is not likely that Roches­ ter, Syracuse and Toledo can stand the major league pace another season, and other cities even as good as these cannot be readily se- cnwxi. Tbe next few weeks will be big with importance for the American Associa­ tion.

GENERAL MENTIOK.The annual meeting of the Western Asso­

ciation is to be held next week, at which the circuit will be re-shaped. The Association will, however, find it advisable to defer de­ finite action on membership for a time, as the developments in the major leagues may be

such as to redound to the advaniage of tin Western Association. Who knows but wha St. Louis and even Louisville or Columbus may yet be thrown into the Western Associa-

The A'lTaTrtTftjisspci.atipn affieials^taTk ot reorganizing for next season, hut the outlook is very hazy tov this organization. Its future depends entirely upon how the affairs of the big leagues' shape themselves.

Appended will be found the news, gossip mid comment of a week anent National Agreement clubs, officials and players:

Nevrs Notes ami Comment.The League is certainly standing by the

Association more staunchly than the Associa tion stood by the League.

In the proposed new American Association Sunday games can be played in all but two cities.

Von der Ahe always falls on his feet and bobs up in every deal. He seems to hay fastened himself upon the game for good.

Allan W. Thurman will suggest to the American Association that himself, Mr. Von der Ahe and Bnrnie, who attended the New York meeting, be made a regular committee representing that body.

Manager Loftus is now not sure that he will take a team to San Francisco this win Icr. His wife does not care about making the trip; besides, in the present condition ol base ball affairs, he wants to be near the scene of action.

Von der Abe out of base ball would be like a fish out of water. He likes the busi­ ness for the excitement it aflords and the no­ toriety it confers. This is meat and drink to him.

In these degenerate days of base ball, if a player has a fine bat he had better put an iron anchor and a padlock to it. "Bat swip ing" is considered legitimate, and nearly everybody in the profession is ready to nai' a good bat every time there is a chance.

('resident Byrne has signed every member of the Brooklyn team except Caruthers, Fout? and Hums.

Both Rhinesand Ilarrington are believen, in massage treatment for players' arms.

Canavan, Wiliis and Works will be Omaha's cnth'cM next season.

Dave Rowe, it is thought, will be either with St. Paul or Lincoln next season.

Terry and his partners kept opponents batting averages down to 2.29; Boston's pitch ers were hit safely 239 times iu 1000, and the Piitsburgs' twenty-one pbenoinennls allowei opponents 302 hits to 1000 times at bat.

Anson won his last eleven games from Jim Mutrie's team and lost six of the first eight.

In the National League Boston had the bes batting average in the Cincinnati series, am Pittsburg the poorest against Philadelphia.

It is said that Mike Roche is not a candi date for re-election as secretary of the West ern Association.

J, Palmer O'Ncill made many injudicioii: remarks this season, but he certainly deserve credit for making tho gamest kindofafigh under adverse circumstances.

"Captain Auson wants the war of extermi nation to go on to the bitter end,buthisfrieiK

. and business partner, Mr. Spalding, is no such an avowed fire-eater nnd intimates tha he has no desire to die with his boots on." Chicago lleruld. Anton has lost a great dca personally through the war, and we do no thiiik he is more eager for further war thai niiv other magnate.

Tlic chiimpionshipraeeof the Pacific North west League closed Oct. 15 withSpokancCrsf Tacoma second, Seattle third and Portlam fourth.

Hick Carpenter, who wasn t good enougl for Cincinnati, has made 131 runs for Kansas City and leads allWcstcrnAssociation player ill run-setting.

Pitcher R. J. Murphy, formerly of the Ne\ York League and Brooklyn Association club* was arrested at Tompkinsvillo the other nigh on the complaint of his wife Kllen, wh charges her husband with non-support. II was locked up at police headquarters, Staple ton, awaiting examination before Justic Daniel Cornell at Clifton.

"It will be to the advantage of some of th> big clubs to keep an eye on Claussen, th promising young pitcher of the Milwaukee Club, who in his work against the Chicagi Club demonstrated his proficiency as i twirier." Philadelphia Jiiatirtr. Claussci

s out of reach. He has re-signed with Mil- vaukee.

Barnie is samewhat disappointed at the re-ult of his brief Association campaign, but

nowise regrets having secured Welch, Mc-Mahon and Robinson.

Every time a manager or magnate is seenveil nodding to a player of a rival league aumor is started that a deal is on or that the layer will jump.One of the two applications for member-

hip in the League from Cincinnati was, it is aid, that of the Cincinnati Street Railway L'ompany, which owns the old lT niou Asso- iatiou grounds and controls all the street ailroad lines in that city. The company's iroperty is estimated at $2,000,000.

By Thanksgiving the base ball war may l>e icttled to the satisfaction of all. If so, it will be truly a day of Thanksgiving for base ball men.

Curt Welch lias a disabled arm, due to lidiug.

Columbus wants to be in any deal that may >c made, and is willing to do almost, anything 0 get there.

The total shortage of both Cleveland clubs s not less than ^-w.OOO, and probably more.

Monager Leadley, of Cleveland, has re-urncd to Detroit with full power to engage

any men through the winter whom he may are to. Two positions on the infield and two n the outfield will be strengthened.

Columbus is the best located city in thecountry for any organization having an East­ ern and Western division. It breaks the ump and enables them to use all the days.

President Frazer, of Syracuse, says he will lever submit 10 the disbanding of the Amer- can Association. He wants to put his club n a twelve-club league. Unfortunately for Grazer he will have little or no sav in thefinal settlement of the base ball troubles.

There is going to be row in the WesternAssociation over the question of division of ;ate receipts. The weaker clubs want per­ centage, while Kansas City, Milwaukee andMinneapolis are going to make a fight forguarantee and threaten to bolt if the per- entage plan is adopted. This is the old Na- ional League fight repeating itself in a linor league."There is another curious fact that has de­

veloped in this season's base ball business. The players that were enticed from the Ameri­ can Association into the Brotherhood, ia nearly all cases, show np stronger than the old League 'stars.' Hard rap on the 'stars,' isn't it." Cleveland Leader.

Three clubs, Boston, New York and Phila­ delphia, had a batting average of over .300 off Palmer O'Neil's pitchers.

Roddy" Hanrahan came within an ace of the blacklist during the Omahns' last trip to Minneapolis. He threatened to assault Mana­ ger Leonard fornotsecingthat his last$50tine was remitted. Leonard invited him to pro­ ceed with his pugilistic intentions, but he thought better of it and drew away.

The Players' League 'S not the only organ­ ization to iiave a "king" player. Crooks, of Columbus, has had the same ridiculous title conferred upon him.

Outfieldcr Curtis, of Denver, will manu­ facture b:isj ball bats in Denver this winter.

Darby O'Brien is the only member of the champion Brooklyn team whose name ap-

?ears among the twelve leading batters of the .cagne.Berger, of the Pittsburg League team, is

certainly a rising player.J. Palmer O'Neil is a unique figure in base

ball.When asked his opinion on the question of

a compromise, Manager Mutrie sam:~-"I think the managers r.ud players should ex­ press no opinion in the matter, but I will say that I think a team could be selected from the two New York clubs that could beat the world."

Col. John I. Rogers figures the losses of the past season in the two big Leagues at about £500,000 $300,000 for the Players' League, and $200,000 for the National League.

Syracuse now longs for an International League. The games played in the ojd Inter­ national League were as "tidy" as any seen in the Association this year, and gave as good satisfaction.

The most surprising change was I.ovett's improved pitching this season. He was below pp.r last year in the Association.

Valentine H. Keteham has lost all ths_ monsj(Jie Cfires to in base ball, and if Toledo

fs ni any circiitl"at aff TicxT" year somebody else will have to pay the fiddler.

Catcher Townseiid, under his agreement with the Baltimore Club to leave when the the college term begins, has returned to his medical studies in Philadelphia.

Among the assets of the Detroit Clab was a tub, a grindstone and some glasses.

Columbus didn't win the Association cham­ pionship, but it won the series from every other club in the Association, which is better than the champion Lpuisvilles did.

Kansas Cityans think that with the addi­ tion of one more pitcher their team would he strong enough for the National League; at least, they did think so before the recent series with Brooklyn.

Klnier Smith won twenty-one out of the thirty games he pitched for Kansas City this year.

The ticket sellers, ticket takers and ushers at the Cincinnati Park have presented Presi­ dent Stern with an oxidized silver cigar case, filled with the best Victorias.

The meeting for the purpose of reorganiz­ ing the Texas League will be held at Dallas, Tex., on Nov. 1, instead of Oct. 20.

Young Eddie Von der Ahe has enough of base ball and is goin2 into the grocery busi­ ness in St. Louis.

Manager Manning recently picked up the left fielder of the Ottnmwa Club, one Hogriever, who, in Manning's opinion, is soon to develop into a great player.

There is a big difference in the official nnd unofficial averages. Anson stands eighth according to Mr. Young's figures, and twelfth in the unofficial averages.

It is said that Joe Gei-hardt next season, besides acting as captain and second bas?man of the St. Louis Club, will also look after the financial end of the team. But then Von der Ahe is very changeable.

A. U. Spalding did not know until he ar­ rived in New" York on the 9th, what a splendid finish Anson had made. When in­ formed, lie at once telegraphed Secretary Brown: "Congratulate the members of the Chicago League Club for me, and say that second place for a new team is more than sat­ isfactory. Next year the pennant."

Zimmer's work of the past summer has done one thing for the good of managers. It has dcmonstaated that the time is past when it is necessary to carry a surplus of back slop talent.

Clevelanders insist that in Jake Virtue they have the finest first baseman on earth.

The conference at the Fifth Avenue Hotel of all the leagues was the first oasis found in the Sahara of quarrel.

The old League grounds at Cleveland will be cut into residence lots. A wide avenue will be run directly through the outfield. The new grounds are in a locution that will never be destroyed by the layiug out of any street through them.

Minneapolis has released Joseph Dowie.The annual meeting of the Western Asso­

ciation will be held at the Millard Hotel, Omaha Oct. 22.

The Louisville Club is accused by the press of jealous Western rival cities of having fat­ tened attendance all season and of doctoi-ing official averages in order to bring in Wolf as batting leader.

To be shut out twice in succession by Mil­ waukee wits rather a tough dose for Anson's whirlwinds.

All batting, fielding and base-runing aver­ ages floating around at the present tiniu are not ofiicial. They aren't worth the paper they arc printed on as matters of record. THE SPOKTINO LIFE prints only Qj$cial averages

p.son clo;after the season closes. Boston's League team did their heaviest

batting against Pittsburg, and the champion Brooklyns did their best stick work in the Cleveland series, in which they won 17 of the 20 games.while Boston won but 13outof 20.

At Hartford last Monday ex-pitcher John Henry, late of the New York Club, beat a local sprinter named James F. Kenna in a 100yds. dash for $300 a side. Henry gave Kenna a start of two yards and then won by 4ft. in 10s.

There arc ten men in the National League with averages of over .300, and five of them were iu the American Association last year.

Jt in said that the Association is to be rep­

resented at next week's conference meeting by Phclps, Thurman and Von der Ahe. These represent the clubs which expect to be in­ cluded in the deal. Where does Barnie come iu?

The Pitts-burg Players' League Club was after Glenalvin but could not secure him. At least, that's what they say in Chicago. Doubtful, very.

The PittsburirLengueClubhasso far signed nine men Miller, Anderson, Smith, Day, Berger, Wilson, Decker, LaKoque and W. Gunibert. There is a slight difference be­ tween the salary offered and asked by Burke, but this wil 1 be settled as soon as the League conference is over.

Says the Cleveland Plain Dealer:—"Some of our 'steamed' contemporaries have gone into the business of 'hows.' Now, why not make some practical suggestions? Instead of asking 'How would Buck Ewing draw in Cincinnati?' inquire what Jay Faatz would do if he held three kings and there was a stack of blue chips in the centre of the table. There woald be no dealing in futures in the case of Faatz, and there is a great deal of 'futurity'about Buck."

A Baltimore correspondent writes: "The fining and suspension of 'Reddy'Mack by Manager Barnie was an act of discipline which shoulil have been carried out long ago. Mack's behavior has been something unbear­ able of late, and even before the club went on the trip he was afaid to show up at head­ quarters for fear they would 'get on' to him. There were several other members of the team in the same boat, but they escaped de­ tection.

"Cincinnati has been promised 'the pick" of Buffalo. Arc they fixing up that 'eight hole' for the Reds in I89ri"—Tiniei-Star. That is rather rough on Rhine*, Harrington, Reilly, McPhce, Latham, Holliday, Marr and Mul- lane. But perhaps it is too true.

Barnie complains of the umpiring in the Association and says his team received the worst treatment within his recollection on the last Western trip. Barnie dislikes Doescher specially.

"Chic" Hoffonl, who caught for the New Haven Club this season, says he is open for an engagement. According to agreement made at the time of signing last spring, Hof- tord avers that the New Haven Club cannot reserve him for next year.

Burns and Cooney, of Chicago, have been presented with handsome lockets by Chicago admirers.

Jerry Denny is, probably, the greatest dis­ appointment of the season, with only a bat­ ting average of .212, 2-1 sacrifice hits and 12 stolen bases and a tieldingaverage of .888.

The benefit game arranged for Manager Mctiiumigle will bft played at Washington Park Tuesday, Oct. 28. By that time it may be possible to see the two Brooklyn teams pitted one against the other.

The general work of Pinckney, of Brook­ lyn, is the best of any third baseman in the country. He stands ninth in batting, with an average of .309 and second in fielding of the National League third basemcn, with an average of .932. He also stole 47 bases.

Buffalo wants the League to take it intothe camp if the war does not end.

Gus Creeley, who played short for St. Louis while Shorty Fuller was ill, is a Mound City boy.

Jack O'Connor tells one of the prize stories on Larry O'Dea. The little son of Erin was giving Jack an awful deal on balls and strikes and Jack protested. "I might as well call 'em on you, Jack, you ain't hitting them," was the response.

Manager Guy Hecker will winter in Oi C'H .

Wolf, of the Louisville Club, denies that he is guing to play iu Pittsbiirg-next season. He says: "I have played ball in LouisvH4s_gll my life and I prefer to end my base ball ca­ reer in that city."

There had been so much mid-season talk that Cincinnati would change corners that when the promised Tnove was made it was re­ ceived as a matter of course. Cincinnati holds the record as the champion emigrants of the base ball world. They have occupied berths in the Association and rival leagues in their two seasons.

Pitcher Gootlall, of Louisville, owes Man­ ager Chapman a barrel of apples, the result ot'a wager on the championship race.

Magnates shoulii feasc eajjla4»_SJgr,Bj "f- Cincinnati, a "b.ise ball speculator." people who live in glass houses cannot afford to throw stones.

The annual meeting of the Pennsylvania and New York League will be held in Brad­ ford Oct. 28, when the matter of consolida­ tion with the Interstate League will be passed upon.

Manager Manning is much opposed to Kansas City leaving the Western Association. The Western Association Club has been a success, and he wishes to be true to the goose that laid the golden egg.

There may be a consolidation of the Pacific Northwest and California base ball leagues next season.

The corporate name of the Kansas City Ball Club is still the "American Association Base Ball Club of Kansas City, Mo." It will be changed (his fall to the "Kansas City Base Ball Club."

A Cook County League is to be organized in Chicago to take in suburban towns.

Each faction in this senseless war can now be compared with the bull after his argument with tha locomotive of an express train, not quite so belligerent, but having a heap more scr.se.

Kansas City can hardly afford to enter either of the big leagues, even it invited, as Sunday games are absolutely necessary to ex­ istence. All the money made this season was due lo Sunday gacies.

Kansas City fans have presented Elmer Smith with a gold-headed umbrella.

Herman Long is but ashadow of his former self and will need a winter's rest to put him in shape again.

Ex-Manager Bnekenberger is now em­ ployed in the rooms of the Waync county (Midi.) Republican Committee in Detroit. Al is a hustling Republican worker.

Johnson, of Baltimore, broke his little finger in practice the oilier day.

Manager Baruie's proposed California trip may have to be abandoned, as some of the players he expected to take along are too ex­ alted in their demands.

A Twin City League, with three clubs in St. Paul and three in Minneapolis, is to be organized.

Charley Buckenberger, assistant treasurer of the Columbus Club, will run a skating en­ terprise at Recreation Park iu Columbus this winter.

Will Hoover, of Kansas City, is a Mason of many degrees. Manning is an Elk of high standing.

Thayer Torreyson has gone to Texas to play in Dallas with Ramsey. Fuller and others.

John B. Day characterizes Jim O'Rourke as a blatherskite, and adds: For my part Attor­ ney O'Kourkc can stay in Bridgeport and practice law, if he finds clients, for the re­ mainder of his life. We want ball players on the New York team, not orators. There will be plenty of good ball players in the market next season."

It has been learned that J. Palmer O'NeiH tried to sell George Millerto Cincinnati when the Reds were in the National League.

Jim Mutrie says if the two clubs are united next year he will invent a new war cry that will put "We arc the people" in the shade.

The Cleveland and Boston clubs are nego­ tiating with Joe Knight, lute of Cincinnati.

The Brooklyn team was not permitted to play a Sunday game at Kansas City, though it wished to do so.

Now that Anson has signed the crack sec­ ond baseman of the Xcw York State League, Dahlen, what wil! he do with Glenalvin?

Captain Power didn't show up as strong in generalship in the American Association as he did in the Atlantic.

The batting department of the game has shown a slight improvement under changes iu the rules made at the expense of the pitch­ er's effectiveness.

There are fewer happier men just now than genial Jack Chapman, and tne Louisville manager has every reason to be proud of his season's work.

While it may dispel a little of glamor from the game to consider it as a business rather than a sport, no sensible man can fail to admit that the sport has grown to proportions where it is a business, and to live and prosper it must be conducted as euch.

The greatest essential required to obtain a settlement of tbo wur U Uie ai-itci*e ot ft

give-and-take spirit. That spirit doesn't ap­ pear to be overwhelmingly present.

Barnie can afford to smile. No matter vbat deals are made, Baltimore must be counted in.

Conflicting dates are a thing of the past. Thousands of dollars have been lost in the

r that was fought this summer. The laughty stockholder and the bold player are

now meek as lambs, and they both agree that 'n order to restore the national game to its )I<1 standard, they will have to compromise, brpet past wrongs, bury the hatchet, and smoke the pipe of peace.

Possibly there are ball players in the pro- 'cssion who have sons old enough to play >ase ball, but as yet no progeny of a profes­ sional tosser has donned the uniform to make a living.

The American Association conferrees do not figure extensively in the pending settle- nent. They take part, but they are ready, and perforce willing, to agree to any deal that can Be engineered to the satisfaction of the :wo big leagues.

Vniung the well-known players who will speml the winter at their homes in Baltimore ire Fontz, of the Brooklyn Club; Sommer, of Baltimore; the Chillis brothers, and Beatiu, of Cleveland; Horner and Dickerson, of New Haven; Roussey, of Newark, and Carl, of Wilmiugton.

The I'ochcstcrs disbanded in Baltimore Wednesday.

~3arnie says Gilbert and Welch have quite replaced Shindle and Griffin.

At Mobile, Ala., Oct. 12, over 600 people witnessed a game between the local Harper Club and the Pensacola, Fla., Club. The home tciim won by C to 3. Wells, late of the St. Louis Browns, played with the Florida team.

After the-Milwaukee Club had defeated the Chicago League Club by a score of 12 to 0, the Milwaukee Journal remarked: "Anson's colts are calves."

Mr. Thurman, who is cutting such a con­ spicuous figure in the plans for reorganiza­ tion, owns one share of stock in the Columbus Club and is a member of the Board of Arbi­ tration.

\Ve have letters for Chas. Collins, Win. Hallniaii, Chas. Jones, Mr. Routcliffe, J. Summers, Harry T. Smith.

The Chicago League team was paid off Monday and disbanded.

O'Neil], of Pittsburg, says there is neither truth nor consistency in the Players' League, or at least that portion of it that gave away the snap after the conference meeting after agreeing to keep it quiet.

Dick Conway, the ex-pitcher, is to open a men's famishing goods store in Lowell. A host of friends will wish him success in his ue\v venture.

Tom Hamsey is playing with the Dallas,TPX-, Club. In a game last week against FortWorth he held that team down to three hits.

Ralph Johnson is going to engineer somemore walking matches this winter.

Gus Williams, who pitched for the Brook­ lyn Americans early this year, is dead. He had been sick all summer, owing to a severe cold contracted during one of the early exhi­ bition games.

Bob Pettitt is going to run a polo team in New Haven this winter.

The Brooklyn League team stopped over in St. Louis on Wednesday and beat the Browns 9 to 7.

The Renii-professional league composed of Canisteo, Wellsville, Bath and llornellsville has finished the season, with Canisteo in the lca<l- A handsome pennant, offered by Keefe & IJecanuon to the winning club, has been received by the champions.

A dime sent to .T. C. Morse, Boston Herald, will secure fine photographic group pictures of the Bostons (champions), Brooklyns or CieVPJflnds, of the Players' League. *

"All these plans carry with them bitterness to the player. This has been his year. Capi­ tal has paid half oTmHiisn or more to the fiddler while he danccd.^^Gmiiyl has had enough of that sort of music to doic-fcl?ver." Cincinnati Times-Slnr. -

At present the indications are that if the Players' League insist that the National League shall abandon its name there will be no consolidation or deal consummated.

In estimating the difficulties of reorganiz­ ing major league base ball it must be remetn- kerefl-that sowe'pcwjjte want «)! the pjjt, cake, or what it may metaphorically be named^anu they very serenely call this compromise.

ROCHESTER RIPPLES.£ml of the Season—A Disappointed Con­

stituency—Causes of tho Team'8 Low Standing—General Comment and Gossip.ROCHESTKR, Oct. 16. Editor SPORTING

LIFE: The Association campaign is over and Eoclicsttr ends fifth in the race the same po­ sition in which last year's club finished. The club ought to have done better there is no denying that but neither Manager Powers nor the players can be held responsible for the poor showing. It is due entirely to the penny wise and pound foolish manner of con­ ducting business pursued by the owners of the club. This policy has been followed throughout the season, and the wonder is not that the club ended as low as it did, but that it ended at all.

XO BLAME FOR PLAYKKS. If the team had been strengthened before

the first Western trip, when the boys were lame and injured, the Rochesters would have finished v.ell towards the top. Their poor showing and the fact that the management, has lost, money cannot be deemed the fault of the players. They boys have done their best under discouraging circumstaces, butthe business management has been very short­ sighted. But there's no use in going into details. Everyone knows what's been the matter.

NOTES.The Rochesters wound np the season at

Baltimore Sunday in defeat not a common, everyday defeat, but a shut-out, and that, too, with only one hit to their credit.

Will Rochester be iu the Association next season? IN the great question in local base ball circles now

The Hochestcrs ended this season as they began it with defeat.

In th* first Philadelphia game Bob Barr had the misfortune to break a finger in at­ tempting to catch a foul fiy, in consequence be had to retire from the game, and Fields finished it out.

Big Jiin Fields, our first baseman, pitched the second Athletic game, and won it easily.

Miller hnd poorer success against his old enemies, tlie Baltimores, than against any other club in the Association. He partici­ pated in three games, losing them all.

The many friends of Joe Visner arc pleased to see thiit he has made such a good record in the PiltKlnirg Players' Club. He led the League in three-base hits, and stands well up in hatting and fielding. Paul Cook has also done himself proud with John Ward's Wonders.

Titcoinb did not accompany the team when they left for Philadelphia, but joined the team nt Baltimore, and in a game against the Orioles allowed them but one hit.

The .sophomore and freshman classes of the University are having some spirited games of ball on the campus.

Of the different American Association clubs that have visited Rochester this season we have Picked out a team which we con­ sider \\ould bo about the strongest of any that could l>e selected, batting and fielding being considered: Gastright,Healy and Barr, pitch­ ers; O'Connor, Robinson and McGuire,catch­ ers; \Verden, first base; Cliilds, second base; Alvord, third base; Kay, short stop; Wolf, Johnson ami Welch, fielders, with McCarthy and Grim as substitutes.

Tlic outlook for an American Association club in this city next season looks rather bail, but \vc will undoubtedly be represented in some '('ague, and it now looks very much as though the old International would be revived. A very strong circuit could be formed for this League with Syracuse, Ro­ chester. Buffalo aiuf Toronto in the Fast and a number of good cities in the West to select from. Here is an opportunity for Secretary White.

Tiie men who have represented Rochester in the Association the past season will not be seen in tins city again this year, and they have many friends who wish them success wherever they may go or what they may do. THE S TOUTING I IKE correspondent wishes to thank every member of the team for cour- tekius shown him. M. T, S.

BALTIMORE ̂ BULLETIN.The Situation of the Monumental City In

the Pending Deals— Needs of the Team — A Warning to the Capitalists-The Play­ ers' Rights Must lie Guarded.BALTIMORE, Oct. 15. Editor SPORTING

LIFE: In the scheme for compromise there is nothing in particular for Baltimore to do. "Barkis is willin'. " The Orioles have no rival team to consolidate with, and therefore there are no negotiations in that direction. The city has merely to await the result in other places, and, if they are successful, ac­ cept the representation in the organization to which it is assigned. In the meantime it has to produce n team of sufficient merit to com­ pete with a good major league, and that is being looked to as far as can be done under present circumstances. Mr. Walz has gone to Chicago, with the object, it is asserted, to sign pitcher Silver King, but it would seem to be the wildest of goose chases, in view of the joint resolution passed at the New York meeting, pledging each of the three main or­ ganizations not to sign the players of the otlier for a certain period of time. The vio­ lation of this

ARMISTICEwould be a serious matter and likely to throw the offender entirely out of the pale of future proceedings. This would be enough to block that movement, to say nothing of prior legal contracts. It is believed this part of the pro­ gramme is but an idle and silly boast. The Orioles must have a fortification of their pitching strength, but it will be very un­ likely to come from that direction unless there should be a consolidation of the two Chicago clubs, and King should be found superfluous, all of which is exceedingly improbable. The consolidation of three organizations into two will very likely furnish Baltimore with op­ portunities to secure some desirable players from

THE SURPLUSbut it is not anticipated that any pitchers will be of the calibre of Silver King, for the simple reason that Baltimore is so situated in the controversy that it hns nothing to com­ promise nothing to give and take. There is no concession to be made to the Orioles, and very likely they will have to be satisfied lo ather in the crumbs that fall from the rich

banqueting table. This should be pretly good,

In the deal, compromise, consolidation, amalgamation, or whatever it is choosed to be called, perhaps there should be

PATIENT WAITING Tor results, and nothing be said having it tendancy to ignite the inflammable material now gathered together, but fair warning is given thnt any unreasonable invasion of tho rights of the players will receive an encr{.'0tio kick from this direction. Both capitalists and players assumed to join the great revolu­ tion in the interests of reform in methods and in the condition of the personnel as well ;m for good business reasons, and neither side should throw over the other at this critical period.

The capitalists should, while protecting themselves, protect those players who have faithfully stood by them, and anything less than that would not only he a misfortune, but disgraceful, as well, The capitalists and players went into this thing with mutual in­ terests, and perhaps the players risked the most in casting their all upon this die. The season of 189(1 did much to ameliorate their condition, and nowall should not be lost, and, it is hoped, will not be. There is confidence still that all will be right in this direction, but if it is not, and there is a large-sized, vig. orcus kick from Orioleburg, please forgive

T. T. T.

when

but it will not be the cream. Skimmed milk from a ricli lacteal fluid is pretty fair cow juice, but better than that depends upon the milk of human kindness from the breast of a base ball magnate, and that has never hereto­ fore furnished a promising regimen of diet. If Brooklyn's two clubs consolidate, or New York's and others, it is plain to be seen that there will be superfluous bnsemeu and fielders and batteries, but they will unquestionably retain the best and offer the others to clubs wanting them. In the event of the promised compromise Baltimore would be in

A KASTEI! CLASSand would be obliged to travel the pace set by the others or suffer in patronage. Under those circumstances the team would require a first baseman. Powers is an excellent man for the company he has been in durin greater part of the season, but he has some few deficiencies that would have to be made good. His throwing is decidedly weak, and not by any means up to the mark of major ball in accuracy. He is alert and quick in his movements, but much throwing time is lust in preliminary motions. He is neither the best of base-runners or batters, but he is an observant and thinking player quick to see points and avail himself and his team of their advantages. It is not that he is not a good player, but that he would have to com­ pete in his position with far better ones in all- round work. It is believed all this has re- luets-.ntly forced itself upon many critical pa­ trons here in the latter part of the season dur­ ing the scries in the American Association. Reluctantly, is said, because Powers is an earnest, pains-taking player who has fairly

WON II IS WAYto-Mie hearts of all, and people are slow to coiifcsS-cvKlUp themselves, any weakness in a favoriteVA"uf^ M 'c' OIK' baseman will also i)c necessary. Mnck'TSSUft to bo depended upon in his habits, and nuNM 1" 1 j'.istata critical period in the pennants* every man of theU>am should be .sharpest edge. Ifis iafe relapse which has consumed many playing days and involved a tine of $75, would have meant several thous­ ands of dollars to the club, had the circum­ stances of Baltimore's being in the American Association been different. As it was, the loss of a few games more or less made no material difference, as the team really was hot in the contest for the pennant, and the fluctuation in the playing had no decided in­ terest to the public. Besides, Mack is er­ ratic to handle at his best, and with only one strong poiiit; and that is fielding. Itis unfor­ tunate for him that lie should

FALL FROM GRACEnear the close of the season, when new con­ tracts are contemplated and when there is a promise of a glutted market. It goes without saying that a short stop is required, and wanted bad, too. This position has been a weakness in the Orioles nearly the whole time of their existence, and should be given particular attention at this time and settled. This place is so important and develops such pretty tactics in an expert that it is one that should commend itself as involving nothing but the best talent. It is the central point for all eyes of spectators, ami when well filled is susceptible of furnishing more real concentrated joy to the average crank than any other place on the infield. Perhaps a Ward or a Long or a Shindle is not available, but from the available material it would but be common business prudence to secure the very best at any reasonable investment. A left fielder will be found necessary if the team is to be well balanced. Good, old Joe Sommer is

A PROBLEMto many patrons. Here is a man whom the gods have endowed with all the attributes of a perfect ball player. With model habits; with none of the small vices or larger ones; domestic in his tastes, and faithful in all that pertains to the development of a fine physique, he is daily outplayed by bacchana­ lians who take no care of themselves what­ ever. Joe always fields beautifully and oc­ casionally bomb:trds the ball fiercely, but with it all is notoriously not a game winner. Whether his nervous eompositioa is such that he cannot rise to the occasion at a crisis, or whether a critical situation rattles him, is unknown to only himself, if even to him, but the fact is such, and is demonstrated sea­ son after season. Electrifying plays arc com­ mon with this hero of the grassy left and the stands alternately bow down in homage or noisily cheer him to more daring feats. But it is no go he is not a game winner for at some unfortunate crisis he will either fail to contribute the factor of victory or will con­ tribute to snme insignificant contretemps that just barely turns the scales

THE WRONfl WAT.Now, if ever there was a player that de­ served the highest pinnacle of success it is our favorite Joe, and if there ever was a player who worked the whole moral code for success it is again our Joe. But it is no use the thing can scarcely be analyzed. It is merit not receiving its just and natural re­ ward, and it will require a greater phil­ osopher than the writer to get the combina­ tion of the racket. Aright fielder may be required and again may not. It is proposed to play Hay in that position, and steady prac­ tice in that place may develop him into one of the best. He has nil the attributes to make one and it would be unfortunate in­ deed if he should fail. He is a fine halter, and for that one feature is one of the most popular members of the team. Patrons are

UNUSUALLY AMIAISLKin forgiving or overlooking any lapses in fielding in his case, for he electrifies them when he steps lo the plate in that quiet con­ fidence which is ;>. part of his very nature. Ray has played right field, but not at any time lo;ig enough to become well acquainted with the position. He will in all probability be a fixture there, and with the assistance of Johnson and Gilbert form a batting trio not to be despised in the season of '1M. Johnson disabled the little finger of his left hand last Monday, and, if it had to come, it was fortunate in waiting for the lastof the season. McMahon, Robinson, Gilbert, Johnson and Welch have signed contracts to wear Oriole plumage next year, and any of the others wonted cau be had at luost any time.

CHICAGO_GLEANINGS.Spaldiiij; Confident That the Wnr Will TI«

Settled—Hit* Non-committal and Discreet Attitude—Stern, of Cincinnati, Scored— Premature Capitalistic Yell, Kte.CHICAGO,Oct. 15. Editor SPORTING LIFE:

With arrangements pending for the settle­ ment of all'difficulties in the ba.vc hall world there is very little to be said by your correspondent at this time. Not hut that there is much to say. On the contrary, I might fill a column or two with most inter­ esting reading matter this week, but it would be premature, and possibly disastrous to plans which now seem certain to be realized.

One thing, however, may be pretty confi­ dently anticipated, and that is that after Oct. 2'2 the base ball war ot'13S9-!)0 will be forever a thing of the past. Until the return of President Spalding and the conference in New York 1 for one had little hope of an ad­ justment. Indeed, as the end of the seasonapproached chances for compromise or ad­ justment seemed to me to be growing beau­ tifully less. Events of the past ten days, however, have completely changed the as­ pect of things, and now, unless there is some wholly unexpected slip-upj the season of 1H91 will not be characterized by the de­ plorable features that have marked that of !S9-Jas the most unfortunate in the history of the game.

THE ENCOURAGING FEATURE. The one fact that givesthetinge ot'a proba­

bility to the current reports of intended ad­ justment is that for the first time since the in­ auguration of tbe strife, the business men ot both sections the capitalists, those who have their money invested in the rival organi/a-

..... tions have come together, without any of the the silly seiitimentalisin that characterized the

fight at the outset, and have gotten down to business. That such a meeting, and that some such action as probably will be taken, would ultimately be the outcome of all the trouble has been the belief of most of the successful business men I have talked with. It hns been all well enough, from the Players' standpoint, for the player to make his little blufl'and de­ clare that the Players' League intended to run the National League out of the business, no matter how long it took to do so. The player, in no organization that I know of, is the man lo pay salaries or traveling and op- crating expenses. And now the people who, by virtue of their capital invested, have the sole right to say "Stop," or "Fight it out," have asserted themselves, and the player, plainly speaking, ''isn't in it."

CAPITAL'S TKIUMPH.Some time ago I had occasion fo remnrtt

that capital was a hard thing for talent or la­ bor to buck against. I expressed the belief that in this base ball war, as in all other re­ volts of talpnt or labor against capital, *h:it' capital would in some way work its way to the top and win. Now.I think the record of

belief.KPALD1NG DISCREETLY NON-COMMITTAL.I Imve seen President Spalding but a fu*

moments since his return to Chicago, but dur­ ing my brief chat with him learned a world of things which the world will doubtless know as well before nianydays. The present condition of things, however, demands that even news must be suppressed, if its publica­ tion were calculated to endanger, to ths ex­ tent of one iota, the now rosy prospects for an amicable settlement of our base ball war, and the public, as well as many of our players, will, I am sure, be glad to curb their impa­ tience, if by doing so ailevoutly-to-be-wished- for compromise can be brought about.

"I knew positively nothing of the situa­ tion," said President Spalding, "when I stepped off the steamer in New York the other day, and it was me, instead of my fel­ low club presi'lcntSjWho asked the question.

"'What has happened during the past week?' I asked.

'"Stern has sold out to the Brotherhood!' was the tirst answer.

"'Good!' said I, after a moment's reflection. 'Anything else? 1

"'Yes; Chicago finished second.'"'Better still,' I replied, and from those

two answers I drew my conclusion's as to what the end of the base ball war would be."

This was a queer pointer, but although queer it positively pervaded the air with sig­ nificance.

"I don't understand," I remarked to the Chicago Club president.

"No, I know you don't, and I don't mean that you shall understand just now. It might worry you to keep it to yourself if you did- understand," and Mr. Spalding declared that interview at an end.

STERN SCORED.There is just one other matter that I want

to touch upon in concluding this letter. Last week I intentionally treated the matter of the Cincinnati deal conservatively. I bad not satisfied myself fully as to Stern's motives, and being unwilling to do the man an injus­ tice, I wrote with my gloves on concerning the transfer. This afternoon, however, I want to take off my gloves and characterize Stern's sale of the Cincinnati Club to the Brotherhood as a dirty trick. Such fellows as he will do well to stay in "de cloding pis- ness." Base ball, as a business enterprise, has no use for them. Why, even the people with whom he made the trade despise him. Said one of them to a League official the other day: "I'd sooner have lost both legs than be guilty of such a hound act as that man played upon your people. Bah, the business made me sick while we were trans­ acting it." HARRY PALMEK.

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THE NEW YORKS DONE.

Matrie's Kxperlences in West Virginia-* Disappointed Kut Hopeful.

The New York League team rcturncl to Ne\r York Saturday last from its Western flip and will probnbly be disbindel this week or next. Manager Mutrie «iys that the boys hail u most enj'jyublo week after the close of the champion­ ship SCJISOP. They pi;iyed t;vu gauies at Wheel­ ing, an'J then went up into the mountains to play several country clubs. "At Grt'.fton, W, Ya.," says Jim. "we had quite a novel exper­ ience. Tlio ba:e ball groumU there are OM aa island, the usual approach to which U :i squall bridge. lint tbo bridge was swept away re­ cently, and a plank win used aa a. uiaki'sMlt. The manager of the Graftons stood at the ui.iin- . land end selling tickets, and I stood at the island end taking them, and I tell you it wa< an, amusing sight to waich the patrons buUuoa across the ulanlc.

"Soino of our men have already gone to their homes, but I intend to hold tho bulk of the team together yet awhiia and arrange a flow ex­ hibition games hereabout*. I nm naturally somewhat disappointed tbat we did not finish bet­ ter in tbe race, but all things considered, I have no right to kick. The men did very well under the circumstances, and the season bas de­ veloped Olio fuct to my entire satisfacUm, and that is, tbat Glasseoc'i is the best player ever I clapped eyes on. lie will make his errors the same as any one cl?e, but they are more than atoned for by tho general excellence of hi* work."

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THE SPORTING LIFE. THE SPORTING LIFE. NOTES AND …library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1890/VOL_15... ·  · 2011-01-11THE SPORTING LIFE PUBLISHING CO. POST OFFICE BOX, 948

THE SPORTIHSTQ iLIFE. April BILLIARDS. …library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1893/VOL_21_NO_05/SL... · During the past few years there seems to have ... the expense of the

July 1 5. THE SPORTING LIFE. BASEBALL, - LA84 …library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1893/VOL_21_NO_16/SL... · July 1 5. THE SPORTING LIFE. 9 BASEBALL, Games to be Played

Feb. I 1. CYCLING. THE STEARNS - library.la84.orglibrary.la84.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1893/VOL_20_NO_20/SL... · 1O THE SPORTIJSTQ LIFE. Feb. I 1. CYCLING. THE TRADE. ... tire

March 18. THE LIFE. BASE BALL. PHILADELPHIA …library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1893/VOL_20_NO_25/SL... · It is only fair to stale that a nnjority of the youngsters were

JBASE^BALL. OlfttX A.I 1 n AQUATIC. BILLIARDS ...library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1892/VOL_20_NO_06/SL...10 THE BPOHTING JBASE^BALL. CALIFORNIrUEAGDE. Games to be Played

THE SPORTHSTQ LIFE. BASE BALL. TEMPESTJN A TEAPOT. …library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1889/VOL_12_NO_24/SL... · THE SPORTHSTQ LIFE. March 2O. BASE BALL. THE Gmf TRIR

BASE BALL. I.OCI8VILLI NATIONAL LEAGUE. - LA84 …library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1893/VOL_21_NO_20/SL... · NATIONAL LEAGUE. Games to be Played. Anjr. 12, ... 8 2 3 3

THE SPORTINO LIFE. Fob 23. THE STAGE. BASE BALL. …library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1887/VOL_08_NO_20/SL... · THE SPORTINO LIFE. Fob 23. THE STAGE. MIMIC LIFE Tho Programme

THE STAGE. BILLIARDS. A. J. REACH CO., - …library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1889/VOL_14_NO_05/SL...cludes such popular artistes as Marie Stone, Jessie Bartlett Davia, Juliette

25. THE SPORTINQ LIFE. BASE BALL. - LA84 …library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1887/VOL_09_NO_07/SL...25. THE SPORTINQ LIFE. BASE BALL. THE EASTERN LEAGUE. Maj Games to be

Oct. 3. THE SPORTIlSra LIFE. BASE BALL. …library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1888/VOL_11_NO_26/SL... · Question President Byrne's Views The ... was t ry club iu tbe mind

Feb. 3. THE LIFE. FROM CHICAGO. - library.la84.orglibrary.la84.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1886/VOL_06_NO_17/SL... · ine would be a'most as remarkable and interesting ... here

THE STAGE. EEACI'S SPORTIM GOODS,library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1889/VOL_12..."what is announced to ba a strong company, The story of''The Tigress" opens at Monte Carlo,

BASE BALL. CALIFORNIA CULLINGS. KEIENGLA'D …library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1892/VOL_19_NO_12/SL... · First on errors I'oriland 2. S;ileni 3. Struck out By Ttljln2,

Tlie Consolidated Club's New Jersey THE ILLINOIS …library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1890/VOL_16_NO_12/SL... · THE SPORTING LIFE. Dec. 2O. BASE BALL. THE ILLINOIS-IOWA

July 27. THE SPORTING LIFE. BASE BALL. - LA84 …library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1887/VOL_09_NO_16/SL... · Club openly violates the League rule and sells liquor ... tfu

THE SPORTinSTQ LIFE. BASE BALL. BROOKLYN …library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1893/VOL_21_NO_16/SL... · July 15. THE SPORTinSTQ LIFE. 3 BASE BALL. NEW ENGLA'D LEAGUE The

THE SPORTHSTQ LIFE. BASE BALL. BALTIMORE …library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1890/VOL_14_NO_13/SL... · Jan. T. THE SPORTHSTQ LIFE. BASE BALL. PLAYERS'LEAGUE ... " d t-fy

BASE BALL. PHILADELPHIA POINTERS. KANSAS CITY BRIEFS. …library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1891/VOL_16_NO_18/SL... · THE SPORTING LIFE. iTan. 31. BASE BALL. FROM NEW ENGLAND

THE SPORTINGr LIFE. THE SPORTING LIFE. …library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1893/VOL_21...THE SPORTINGr LIFE. July 8. THE SPORTING LIFE. PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT No. 34 South

THE SPORTIlsra LIFE. TRIGGER. ATHLETIC. A. J. …library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1889/VOL_12_NO_14/SL... · THE SPORTIlsra LIFE. TRIGGER. ... H. G

THE SPOKTIMO LIFE. BASE BALL. THE BASE …library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1891/VOL_18_NO_13/SL...In this consti tution is embodied ... and that super ficial criticism due

Jnne 28. BASE BALL. INTERSTATE, WEST. - LA84 …library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1890/VOL_15_NO_13/SL... · Jnne 28. BASE BALL. ... continues in various parts of the country,

May BASEBALL. THE INTERNATIONAL. CALIFORNIA …library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1890/VOL_15_NO_08/SL... · bcfuro the peason openeil. He surely could do u worse ... t.ted