New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-12-08
IN BASEBALL CIRCLES.
PROSPECTS FOR AN INTERESTING LOCAL
SEASON NEXT YEAR
THE BROTHERHOOD MORE DETERMINED THAN
EvER-THE LEGALITY OF THE LEAGUE CON.
TRACT TO BE TESTED THIS WEEK
INCORPORATION OF THE BROTHER

TRACT TO BE TESTED THIS WEEK
Incorporation OF THE BROTHER
HOOD CLUB IN BROOKLYN.
II all goes we'll in the brotherhood camp, next year
Si furnish the livelies baseball in the annals
of the game. Even should the Players Leagne evapo
rate the local season. at least, promises TO be an
unusually interesting one With the New.York and
Brooklyn teams competing for the same pennant an
Interest VIII be attached to the games which has not
been felt in previous Local rivalry does much
TO add real life TO ba ebal game and the green
diamond battles between the representative teams OF
the two cities will do much II pay the seasons eX
penses of the teams Many of the followers of the
Brooklyn club deeply deplored the retirement OF that
team from the American Association, the action
virtually wrecking that organization. Association
baseball had many champions In the City of Churches
Tho methods of the ST. Louis and Columbus teams were
not popular with the masses. but the cheaper ad-
mission and the Sunday games counterbalanced these
evils in tho eyes of many spectators Ihose
Sunday games at RldgewoOd Park although frowned
upon by the better class of people IN
terested in baseball. had tremendous following
nevertheless. 1t was not unusual sight TO see
$4,000 people at one of these Sunday contests
The clubs income from these games was of course
large and he stockholders little anxious as 10
whether tho clubs gate receipts next season VIII
comr are favoraby with those Of the past two years
The expens 3 for next season will be heavier IMAM
they have ever been before. About all the players
have signed contracts, but it cost pretty penn!
to secure the signatures contracts with some OF
them One player. a pitcher. will receive $1,000
for mex seasons work. Wide the salary of DAY. the
catcher a 800. Nearly every player on the team
will receive an advance IN salary over last year
OF course much is expected from the Increased rate
of adn iss Ion next season.
There is little change in the baseball situation. un-
nj put
stronger VIII are The players uDd ube ly more
deter1ninee han they have been before ana VIII
carry their )rOjt thrOug unless the League oluo
owners ca make substantial move ana ofc"A
up the m Nement. That the Players League Is
l,vcier fna nj than the clubowners believed cer
ube latter auched at the early threats OF the players
and told III eln that they did not have the business
ability to nginccr such revolution. "heh "'
plavers show cd that they determined their man
ayers, smiles did relax, for ley said: You can
GET any busin Vs. men 10 put money into such via
cat scbeme5 Sill tn club-owners looked on Win
emitting b,t sc ,rful faces and said: "Why we Will
stop this thing by signing the players ourselves
They secured so of the players. OF course but ho'
nearly as many as they expected TO- lheh 'he oluo
owners at last eoOgnzing thai their adversary was
more formidable han they supposed, went TO "orh
energetjcally 10 alinilate It, The League has been
hard at work for some time past arranging what IL
trusts will be a final and crushing argument 1t
has prepared bomb" and II all goes well 'he eA'
ploson will occur this week. just what enec' tne
EXPLOSION OF that bomb will have few Impartial critics
carr 10 conjecture. The club-ownes say that IL VIII
blow the socialisuc players into oblivion. Inc pay
ers and their friends say that 1t will prove boone
rang: that the reco viii knock the last prop rom
under the lettering old League and that theh 10
further obs taces be put N the path OF the Sc
ceding pla! eIS
Everything at pIeSe Mt depends upon whether ule
ysacue can in a court OF law, subs anilae It's clAm
that it holds Op ton upon the players services !o
next season. Upon that word reserve hahss 'no iu
ture of the National And Players Leagues ana pooaoS
the future welfare of asebal Such baseball asta'
,,ons never helm the & me anyway and the present
pnbeayal greater than ny that has preceded u can
not be of ANY benefit TO he lu'uo
welfare Of the pasJin The club owners may h"Vo
,en bareb IN certain oct asions their treatment OF
The players but at hc s. Inc time they are the men
who have brought the g into its present popularity
Probably the greater port Of the public viii SYM
,a,bze with the PLAYER bu there will still be goOdly
number which Will there to the old management
whose business prime pies have done SO much 1or
bssebau OF course tie wings, o'Rourkes. Wards.
Ansons Comiskeys, c. hers, and Bushongs have
ably helped the manag II in protecting the interests
NJ the national sport rnore other players, how
ever and II is not sary TO mention their Names
for they are we'll known al over the country who
have been real drawba, h 10 the game Under the
str,,test discipline then Shortcomings have been
men would simply be manageable. just how the
rulers of the Players Leag viii manage these strong
ulled knights of the bat will furnish an interesting
tonic for further eXamiDa ION
The legality or Illegal of the League contract
will IN ALI probability be esed In local court this
week This is the League g bomb which mas caused
So much discussion In base0au olrcleS all oNcf '"c
country of late. The case would have been brought
up last week but for the severe Illness OF John T.
Rogers, the secretary Of the Philadelphia CUP ana
one of the committee Of three, appointed by the
Ieae,e 10 WI ok and ruin the Players League. John
a. Day Of the New. York Cub, and c. H. Byrne, OF
the Brooklyn Club, are the other members Ol tho
committee. They VIII hold special meeting early
I'm the week and fully determine their plan 81 action
Evarts Choate, Bea nan Duysters VIII DC the
Leagues attorneys, wi lie Hawloy Racon will Appear
,oy the players Leaue. The League Will proceed
directly against Ward, tie leader OF the brotherhood
movement The club owners say that II thcy can
restrain Ward from playing elsewhere tnan N te New
York Club then 1t VIII not be necessary 10 bring
seton against any OF The other players. II theS
set the verdict ne ayers he 1eas consn,cuo1s
sor a Year at least The League club-owners are con
fden that they will co1o Out HctoIi3us whne Hnt
brotherhood men just as positive that the verdict
~rises and Sufficient evi ence will be pa,cd before
The courts thoroughly 10 aystify almost any Judge IN
the city.
c. H. Byrne the president Of the Brooklyn club.
does not appear TO he losing any sleep O"F ,ne
P,ayer,' League mo tcmc At. He feels that If the
worst comes he has niger team than the Players
League could put Brooklyn, and he does not ieai
the result. Il do Il believe" he said yesterday
that this the players VIII nyuIc base
hall as so many peOp. seem TO IN nix. Baseball i
like man. anythn else to which you might IKE
10 compare it, II gets ont OF order once IN a %he
and needs thorough Gaming. The disease Is there
and il has got TO be clcd The operation may be
little painful, but tho patient will be the better foi
n after # is all over. These players have been
spoIled by Indulgence and fat ry. In their own
etjmatlon they arc high above the ordinary mortal
mat thew can hardly sec him. II the player comes
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