Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-12-10
THE BASE BALL WAR
Mr.. Wiman's IniunctiOn-It Doesn't
Worry the American Association or
the Nationals.

The meeting OF the American association of
base ball clubs was brought TO a sudden close in
Philadelphia yesterday by a restraining order
from the court of common pleas, granted upon
application of Erastus Wiman, the recent pur-
chaser of the Metropolitan club franchise. The
business of the meeting was completed, with
the exception of appointing a schedule commit
tee and the arrangement of some minor details,
when a court officer entered and served the in.
junction, whereupon the meeting adjourned.
The Offices of president and secretary were
yesterday consolidated, and Mr.. ID. Mcknight
was chosen to fill the dual office. Mr. Won Der
Abe, OF st. Louis, was elected vice president,
and Messrs. Phillips, Won Der Abe, Barnie and
Simmons were chosen as a board of directors.
Each clue In the association will next wear
play twenty games with each other club, max
ing lao championship games to be played by
! each: The championship season will begin on
were made in the playing rules. The schedule
committee will meet in Louisville on the first
appOin ted to revise the constitution and make
1t conform with the new national agreement
Every delegate was present, and Mr.. Seaman.
OF the Nationals, was invited to participate i'm
the deliberations of the meeting as duly quail
fed member.
THE INJUNCTION DON'T WORRY THEM.
The Philadelphia Press to-day says: The asso-
citation representatives only laugh at the in
junction. Said Mr.. Byrne, of Brooklyn:
1.-THE injunction amounts to nothing, but, as
we desire to treat the court with ali due re-
spect, We simply obeyed the order, and to
quickly dispose Of the affair NV 70 idea Ssuf IS ta1
the court will simply throw the matter out.
Mr.. Wiman has no case at all. In the first place,
and is simply myth. In the second place,
our constitution plainly says that any club S
membership can at any time be declared for
ieited by three-fourths vote, and our vote was
unanimous. In the third place, the clubs
not being Incorporated and representing
no property there is nothing to be
Wiman bought the Metropolitan club, and
without our knowledge transferred it to staten
ton in New York city. His object was to get
the club to Staten Island to increase the valla-
ton OF his extensive property and derive reve-
ferry line and transit railroad line. We saw a
chance to get Washington, which is a first-ciass
paying city. and we simply decided 10 make
ourselves secure"
President Day, of New York, thought that
the association had made blunder in ousting
Wiman had been so badly treated, he acknowl-
edged that the latter had no case, and the aso-
citation had a perfect right TO Dust any of its
the Philadelphia club, agreed with Mr.. Byrne,
as dld nearly all the prominent base ball men
P. F. Rothermel. counsel for the association,
laughed when spoken to on the subject and said:
THE court will not recognize Mr. Wimans
abashed or chagrined at Mr.. Wimans action,
ana all ridicuie him for the step he has taken"
MIR. wIMAN's GRIEVANCE.
Mr.. Wfman's side of the case was given by
Mr.. George F. Williams, the Staten Island
millionaire having been called back to New
York by business. Mr.. Williams said: At the
meeting OF the American association held last
October permission wac granted the Metropol-
tan club TO play at Staten Island. Acting on
that consent MI. Wiman purchased the fran
chise of the club from Mr.. Day, paying him the
par value of the $25 900 stock of the Company.
The transfer was closed up on Friday last, and
days meeting. 1t is, perhaps. a Little out of
place now to say what Mr.. Wiman might have
done as the president of the Metropolitan club
but am certain he could have afforded, by The
various qualifications through which he would
he benefited by the club at Staten Island, to
have been most liberal supporter OF the game.
Severng him from the association in this man
ner will do more harm to the association than
to him.
Mr.. Wiman's losses will be heavier than is
generally known: Besides paying $4,000
for the clubs franchise he had bought ground
for $4,000. and had partly made arrange
ments to spend from $40, 900 to $4,000 in
putting fence around the ground and grand
stand, field seats. club houses ETC. =
The argument on the injunction will be heard
this morning before Judge Arnold in common
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