The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-12-05

atone would not justify the maintenance
ola frst class baseball cut. For FIVE years
/ Detroit has been trying u get together
4 good club. one that home people
would take pride IN and would heipsup-
+ port. and one that would De an at.Tac
UsG in other cities. NOW we have as
gJUe s club a. there IS anywhere, and
7 8 ciGo .Lat Is. think. the greatest at
4 traction aTsy from home OF any club il
tho country. This summer We proved
al immense attraction On our trio. aud
Z Il the figures could bs obtained, / be
1 Lave that they. Tol,i sbgT that the
other seven clubs made more money
from our visits than from those Of any
Ct1e- - tie league. Now what co they
/ DO, Taea they have discovered how
much VI al a-traclon we are, but tell
us ws must support ourselves at home,
wlile they sal reap all the benefits from
/ C1r being an attraction away from
hons. BIT they counted without their
Eus--. We viii be q card anywhere. end
Sc can 90 into the American AssOcis-
/ IiJa, ant they vii be glad 20 get Us and
agree - q division of receipts II we will
I pl.y sunday games at Cincinnzti. Louis
/ vile and s.. Louis 1.-THE National League
! clubs play no Sunday games anc il Is
quite likely Kansas CITY will 20 into the
American Association an1 play Sunday
games, 100. Il Is more than likely that
/ you viii hear OF Us In the American As
sociatiOn before sprung, aud see US play
ing there next year"
WHAT influence was brought TO bear
! on the St. Louis club 70 secure its sun
/ port for the amendment2'
They we're threatened with some
! thing that I can't tell YOU about. and
were scared into changing their vote. |
know just what was done. but / can't
tell You"
President Spaiding OF the Chicago club
was seen by your correspondent, anu
asked for his statement as 10 the cause
of the trouble.
Detroit Is carrying too heavy a load
in the way OF a salary list Tor the num-
Der OF people there who contribute 10 the
support of baseball. IL ina. yer drawn
nearly so well at home as /, has abroad.
and this tells the cause OF its rage over
tue adopEon OF the guarantee system.
Where II has been taking away T. ON $500
70 81 500 as 4 visiting club under the per-
c-ntage system, il will now take away
only Sl25 for each game it plays abroad.
Detroit will enjoy the same privilege
upon Its own grounds which other cluos
enjoy, and If they have run their ex-
pense account up to figure which their
home patronage will not render profit
able, that Is their business aud not the
Lookout Of the remaining league clubs.
The balance Of the league cities, in other
words, have by their action in adopting
the guarantee system intimaied I. De-
troit that IL must supper; its own club.
and not call on other clubs TO contribute
thereto. The trouble with Detroit is
that IL is entirely too ambitious for its
own good. 1t has plunged into baseball
49, -. a
has 8 salary list Of many thousands OF
dollars in excess OF what good business
judgment and common sense would en-
durse. Ii has at AL times exercised n
selfish policy; has looked out for De
troit only, aud in all its transactions has
acted independently Of aud with utter
disregard, for, the good Of the league.
They broke up the Buffalo club in tue
middle Of the season by acts which they
we'll knew were in direct violation or the
special agreement under which they
were bound, aud this year they crippled
and almost disbaudsd the ST. Louis club
by taking from II is maias.ay and best
player. Dunlap. Other and older club,
could have purchased the player, not
able New York. bat New York reirained.
saying: We can get other players who
will serve Our purpose, and TO take Dua-
lap at present would certainly injure ST
Louis But Detroit was dead TO any
such generous sentiments. IL went on !
the damn the league policy which has |
its wsrk even since its adj /
mission - the league, and took Dunlap |
regardless OF what the consequences |
nigh: be. Because of these selfish |
characteristics the remaining league |
clubs did not feel called upon to sacri-
fee their own Interests for the benefit OF |
the Detroit club. Stearns Claims that |
none Of the smaller cities or weaker
clubs can stand up under the agreement.
Why. Washington was hot for it right
through the meeting, and, although
voted against the measure, / |
10 know that she Is willing TO
stand upon her own bottom with the
lest of US, and prefers il. Our object
was to make each club self-sustaining
n its own city, believing that by so do
ing We could prevent just such extrav-
agances as Detroit has been guilty Of.
and which, if continued, will work ir-
injury TO the game.
The statement has been made that
81. Louis was coercsd into voting for
he guarantee plan. Why, st. Louis
,lme to me voluntarily and told me
hat they had paid out 81 so more last
rear than they had received from other
NUS anu HAuhcA AL6 6AaA luAtc ALucuu-
nent adopted above all else. l think
he change will prove beneficial in many
ways. and that another year will see the
anne 5, stem adopted b. the associa-
ion"
President Stearns and Manager Wat /
,ias of the Wolverine Club. lett the city :
friday evening ostensible for the City !
4 Struts. but those who claim to know
ay that the ubiquitous manager of the
Big -Four Organization went to Cincin-
lsu to be present at this meeting of the
there to-day.
WINTER PAsTIMES. ,
The Chicago ball park is being rapidly
into one immense tobog-
an slide and open air ice-sksting rink.
nd by next week will only want visi-
alton Of snowstorms and cold weather.
he framework for the slides is nearly d,
ompleted, II being intended to ave !
be tobogganist start from 8 point nigh .
bove the grand stand at the corner OF