Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-29
A REVIEW OF SPORTS.
Remarkable Features of the
Baseball Season.
THE PENNANT, STRUGGLE.
Chances of the New Yorks and the
BOStOnS Compared.
THE BR0THERHOOD'S SCHEME.
Some Reasons Why the Alleged Plan Can
not be Successful.
THE BROTHERHOOD'S SCHEME.
FOGARTrSOFFER LABLANCHE

Before next Sunday arrives, ii all goe'
well, the League pennant of 1889 will have
been won, and one OF the most remarkabl,
contests for that very honorable prize will
have ended. The season of 1889 will hav,
closed, and, undoU btedlv, its history viii
form ore of the most interesting chapters il
baseball annals. Although the contestant:
ars all near the wire in the great struggle
1t is almost as difficult to place them at The
finish as it was last May. 1t is. indeed, re-
markable that although the contest is
within a few days of being over some of the
greatest changes in the positions of the
clubs may take place. This certainly
shows that the present pennant contest is
one OF the most remarkable on record. ]
have never known a more exciting contest
in all nv experience of sporting events.
For months some of the most exciting
neck and neck struggles have been going on
and as climax the struggle is now more
desperate and bitter than it ever was. The
cranks certainly ought to be satisfied for
: once, because if ever they had cause to be on
pins and needles they have that cause now.
The next week will certainly be the most
exciting in the season. There are tour posi-
tions in dispute, and so intense is the dis
pute that we expect some lively times before
the week is ended. Boston and New York
are having something like a life and death
struggle for first honors Chicago and Phila-
delphis are fighting just as hard ior third
place, and Cleveland and Pittsburg each
making desperate efforts for fifth. Now,
who could want anything more entertaining
in the way of baseball contests than this
state of things? Nobody, 1 trow. in any
branch of sport would ever dream of demand
ing g more exciting condition of things.
And let me say that amid all this there
stands out glorious feature, viz: that all
the contests we expect to see this week will
be honest. Money nor price cannot influ
ence game, and 1 say this with all conf
dence. 1t is the purity of the national game
that roots it deep in the affections of the
American people; it is this feature that has
made the game what it is, and it is this
feature that will preserve its popularity as
long as an outdoor game is admired by the
citizens of this great land. here is some
thing to be proud OF. When almost every
outdoor sport is tainted and impure with
fraud and dishonesty, one of the keenest
struggles that has been seen in connection
with the national game is being conducted
on principles as honest as Jeremy
Taylor or the old-time Puritans would
wish to see. Even at this, the
final stage of the contest nothing is more de-
1ightfql 70 either Indianapolis and Wash
lngton, the tailenders, to knock out either
boston or New York. There is no give and
take in the contest and those who cannot
possibly rise q peg higher in the last will
still fight to the death to knock out any
thing that comes their way.
Looking Toward Pftrsbure.
During this week the eyes of the entire
baseball world will be toward Pittsburg
The local club is putting up such good
quality of ball just now that it is safe to say
that the New Yorks and Bostons alike are
wishing they were comfortably through
their visits here. Almost everybody is saw
ing: "Pittsburg will settle the pennant
contest" 1 am of this opinion and
the fact places Pittsburg in a
very proud and significant position.
1T seems to me that the club that fares best
in Pittsburg this week will win the pennant.
New Horks, OF course, on some occasions
have been easv victims here, but l don't
think it was at times when they were play
ing as they are playing now. At any rate
I will abide BY the Giants until the end. 1
have stuck to them since the opening of the
season and they shall be my champio until
the race is over. still think that New
Yorks' good supply of pitchers will have
great effect before the week is over, that is if
the weather keeps fine. Fridays game at
indianapolis was proof that Clarkson is not
superhuman, although he has proven him.
self to be a wonderful man. But if rain
should interfere and give the Bostons ana
New Yorks a rest the chances are all
in favor of Boston. If Clarkson could pitch
every day with vigor / should by all means
plump for Boston, but if six games are
played this week | expect to see the Giants
land in the position in which the close of
last season found them. A more worthy
club couldn't win the pennant, barring
Pittsburg OF course:
The Alleged Brotherhood Scheme.
We certainly have had sufficient reading
about what the Brotherhood of Ball PLAYERS
is going to do next year. Probably nothing
has caused so much talk in baseball circles
for long time as the published details of
the alleged organization that the PLAYERS in
tend to establish next season. Readers of
The DISPATCH well know that so far /
have taken very little stock in the
stories of the alleged scheme. 1 am
tree to confess, however, that when
| read the recent details of the
pAau aS seut Oub W Tue puOilc Oy q YerV
imaginative Chicagoan 1 was at loss to
know whether or not the matter was true.
There was an appearance of truth about it
on first sight, but when the principles and
details were closely examined many utopian
features presented themselves. / am not
opposed at all to any scheme that will ben
INT the workers for wages or salaries; in
Jther words 1 am willing at all times to
assist auy movement having for its object
she betterment of labor But we all know
hat many schemes have been proposed in
behalf OF labor that have had results almost
Numerically opposite to what were ex-
0ected. The principles on which these
movements or plans were founded were
Erong, or else too much was intended. To
ne the alleged scheme is in many respects
N industrial-partnership affair. What 1
mean is, its leading principles are those on
which industrial partnership con-
ierns are built. Many of us have
ecently read very much about
hese industrial partnerships where
Ferybody connected with them are fnan-
tally interested in them and snare in the
'roft and loss. In France and other parts
4 the Eastern continent they are numerous,
'ut it is significant that they have only been |
success in certain trades or businesses. |
adustrial partnerships have SO Tar been |
2ilures in England in businesses much |
lore favorable Tor their development and |
uccess than the baseball business. In a
ord, venture TO say that it would be a
cry remarkable achievement, indeed were
be principles refer to be successfully ap-
lied to baseball. At the very Offset we are
onironted with the fact that the proposed