Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-09-23
BASE BALLOON RENT.
PLAYERS WILL LLBTTHBNAGNATBS HUSTLE
FOR THEMSELVES.
BruthsrhoOd's Scheme 10 C11trol the Gams-Cluhs
10 Be Pat in All the League Cities
The Plan Pully Worked 0ai
and kalrsd.

CHICAGO, September 22.-Buying and
selling OF base ball players for revenue
only, happily, it appears, will end with
this season, and the men dealing in that
kind Of merchandise may have TO seek new
employment, when the individual mem
bers of each of tho eight ball clubs become
stockholders and commerce 10 "plsy ball'
in earnest, instead OF for an alleged pennant.
A morning paper says: ''The trsnsfer
work is to be done by the Brotherhood OF
Professional Ball Players, of which John
NJ. Ward, short-stOp Of New York club, is
President; Dennis Brouthers, frst-bsseman
of the Boston team, is ice-Pfesident, and
Timothy j. Keefe, the New York clubs
great pitcher, is Secretary.
Most of the details have been arranged
and remain bat to be carried out after the
end of the present playing season and be-
fore the beginning OF that OF 1890. Every
man in the League clubs of 1889, with the
exception Of half q dozen, among which
Anson, Williamson and Barns sre notable
examples, is a member OF the brotherhood,
and sworn to stand by the new scheme.
THE PLAN OF ORGANIZATION.
It's Outlines are as follows: The new or
Rsnization is 10 be known as the Uni,ed
Business Association. II is to be made up
of eight clubs, as follows: Boston, New
York, Brooklyn. Philadelphia, Pittsburg,
Cleveland, Buffalo, Chicago. The pres
ent Ind annapolis team is TO take Brooklyn'a
place, the present Washington team is to
be transferred TO Buffalo and strengthened.
Ia each city local capitalists are to
operate the teams forms and placed there
by the Brotherhood, giving bond OF S2j,-
900 for the performance of their par. OF the
work. Albert L. johnson is the Cleve-
land capitalist, and his active participa-
ton in the deal, as missionary, caused
him TO be mistaken for Its natioeal head.
It haI no rational bead at this time ont
side of the officers OF the Brotherhood.
rhs Association officials are to be elected
this fall.
THE Players SALARIES.
The players are guaranteed their sal
aries at the 1889 rate for 1890 and q share
of the profits All expenses and receipts
are to be p1oed for bere6ts and gate re-
ceipts divided equally among the clubs.
The first $40 600 profit is to 90 into
prizes to be distTibutd among the club as
play ing prizes, 5000 to first, 81 500 TO
second, 81. 500 to third and $1,000 to
fourth. Of the first $4,000 after this,
SIC. 600 goes 10 the capitalists, $4,000 to
those of each OF the club. The
next s., coo goes to the player, aud OIL
other profits are pooled half and half.
Each OF the players share equally with the
others.
Esch club is to be governed by board
made up of eight msn, four capitalists and
four players, and the main body by q sen
ate OF sixteen, each club having two rep
resentatives, one player and the other
capitalist.
TUE CLUB FRANCHISE.
Each club is stocked for $50, coo, half OF
which can be held by the players. The
$50 COO is in 200 shares Of 500 each. No
known gamblers are allowed to handle
stock. OF course the classification and
reserve rules 20 with the present man
sgement, 1889, or classification figures
are taken as the basis for 1890.
Score cards and general privileges are TO
be considered as profits and pooled as such
The association is to make and sell its own
ball. Nearly ell Of the work of rearing
the fabric as il stands to-day has been done
ut Cleveland this summer. The papers
were sent to each League club and signed
by the players. AnsOn, Bur5s and Will
hanson have not sigued the Chicago sgree-
ment. In each city capitalists are at work
over grounds and plans for next season.
THE UMPIRE STATE.
Among the plans of the association is the
adoption of the double umpire system and
the formation OF a staff Of umpires. includ-
ing Gaffney, Ferguson, McQuaids, John
Kelley, knight, Lynch and two others.