New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-12-15
THE BROTHERHOOD UNEASY.
DESERTIONS FROM 1T REASSURE TIE
LEAGUE.


BASEBALL CHAT on VARIOUS sUBJEcrs-A
BROOKLYN REGIMENT TO PLAY
GAMES INDOORS.
The delegates to the Brotherhood or Payers'
League convention, which will DO held at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel tomorrow. have been arriving in the
city for the last three days The early corners are
mostly players and why they should show so much
unnecessary haste is something which they themselves
do not TO dvulge. The club owners agree that
ther old players are growing restless and uneasy and
that 1t will be only month so before the Players
League will give up the ghost and most of the men
VIII go back 10 their old clubs. The steady deserton
Of the players from the Brotherhood at this early
stage has or will have its effect both
upon the other players and upon the moneyed
men who are furnishing the sinews Of war OF course
the leaders, Pfefer, Ward, O'Rourle, Keefe Hanlon
Brouthers and others, working earnestly in their
cause aud doing all they can 10 make their fellows
keep the original agreement Stll the crisis Is almost
here and There will either he stampede to gN
back into the League. or the Brotherhood will be
placed on sounder footing than it is present To-
morrow's Players League convention will have
more than the one held several weeks ago did. If
at this meeting a permanent organization is not ef
fected, officers elected and the committees appointed,
it will be impossible longer to conceal the organiza
TONS weakness from the general public. Director
Haynes, OF the Boston club seems TO be the
most popular candidate for the presidency Chicago
will also send applicant for the place. There Is
some uncertainty about who will get the place of
secretary. The local Brotherhood officials say that
Manager Harry Wright, Of Philadelphia, is candidate
for the place In spite of the fact that he Indignantly
denies the report
The club owners arc, OF course, jubant secur-
ing some of their old players. but they happier
still in tho belief that the courts will sustain them
In the niunctions which they intend to get against
the other players who deserted them There has been
a decided change in the feelings Of the managers
during the past week. There is doubt now that
the club firmly believe that they will be able
to compel their TO live up to the agreements In
their last years contract They acknowledge. how
ever, that they cannot compel the players to sign
similar contracts next season binding them for 1901.
No contracts considered of secondary i'm
porance the general opinion is that II the Players
League is broken up, 1t will never be resIrrected.
John Z. Day looks cheerful and healthy. and seems
positively TO have gained flesh in the last ten days.
Mr.. Day is whose face trouble always shows
itself. He looked Respondent and pale few weeks
ago, but since the League Committees conference
with Evarts Choate & Bcaman. the lawyers the
ruler Of the Giants has taken on his usual hale and
hearty look. feel much encouraged said he last
night, and 1 don't think the Brotherhood has one
chance in thousand to carry out its scheme. l
think that every of our old men will play with US
next season. don't say that the League VIII
discipline the leaders in this movement, but would
not be surprised some of them taking tickets
at the tustles next season. instead Of playing ball
We can't release those players for their contracts Will
not permit We Will have pay them their salaries.
The 18th Regiment. of Brooklyn, promises an limo
walton in the limo of baseball. Arran gemcnts are being
made for the organization Of league among the men
of that regiment to play baseball in the armoy in
the evenings. The games will be played by Gasight
The National League rules Will be used with few ex-
captions The bats are TO be made of light wood, the
lighter the better but will DO of the regulation size
The players will canvas shoes with rubber Solos,
TO prevent slipping the floor The regulation nine
innings Will be done away with, and game VIII
consist Of one hour and thirty minutes play the team
which is In the lead at the expiration OF that time TO
lie the winner A ball hit into the left gallery will
count for full two bases, while ball hit into the
gallery at the end Of the hall Will count for a home
run. Every foul ball caught the fly, including
foul tip, viii be out II the ball strikes the ceiling
side wall, and IS afterward caught by player the
play will be called fair catch
The new regimental league will make a firm stand
in regard protecting its umpires. There will be
so many guns and bayOnets lying around loose that
10 decided that stringent rules ought 10 be made
The umplre decisions VIII be final in all cases. The
team which disputes decision will lose one OF its
crime the player will be fined ordered from the
field. or rather the armory. No man can play I'M
less he is a regular member of the company 10 whose
team he belongs The ball used will be Of novel
kind. Tho foundation will be lawn-tennis ball,
around which Will be wound yarn until the regulation
size is rea he'd. The ball will be covered with leather,
and Will weigh two less than the regulation
ball The Board OF Directors of the new league VIII
lie Sergeant Nash. Of Company F. chairman II orporal
Allen Of Company X a; +. X. Barnard of Company i;
Kmball of Company 6 Chewer, of the Cadet Corps;
Z,ovcy of Company b; Lieutenant Cr0ins, Of Com
pany f. and brother hood, of Company II. Games
viii be played on Mondays einesddys and Fridays,
while an exhibition game Will be pla Ell every hd
Saturday in each mon h. when an admission Zee W ii
be charged. Tue pitchers box viii be rubber mat
The famous old Polo Grounds at Onehundred- and
tenthst and Fifth-avc. have at last been wiped out
and the Aldermens revenge" is complete. The old
diamond has disappeared and even the fences and
gland.stand have been carted away. Just $1,000
was spent on those stands and when they were sold
for old lumber, the other day. they brought $l35.
The fences cost 5000, and al the sale the lumber
brought $50. The big buldin. at One bundled and
cnths,. and Fiith-ave whers SO many paiched hOats
havo been dampened, brought $500. Inc little frame
house next door, which was used Tor Inc same puf-
pose, was sold for So.
The reglet over the destruction of the old Polo
Grounds " L.. however, be forgotten in few years.
when handsome homes will dot the old field.
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