Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-05

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATCH.l
PHILADELPHIA, August 4.-The af1ic-
ton which has come to the door of poor
Horace Phillips, Manager of the Allegheny
Baseball Club. although a complete sur
prise to the general public, by no means
shocked your correspondent, who accom-
panied him from PIttsburg to Philadelphia
on last Sunday night When he entered
the Baltimore and Ohio depot at Pittsburg
he went to the ticket Office and demanded q
lower berth in the sleeper. He could not
get it and refused an upper. but entered the
Pullman car without a ticket. He was
emaciated and ghastly pale, and his con-
dition, as well as his position, soon secured for
him the berth he desired. There was not q
passenger aboard in fact who would have re-
fused to surrender him his lower berth in ex-
change for an upper.
He was mp before 6 o'clock the next morn
ing, looking as pale as ever. From the time he
got up until he reached Washington he gave
his undivided attention to a pretty canary bird
which he said he was taking to his wife in Con-
necticut, whom he intended to join by Monday
night, making no stop of en- route. When he
reached Washington he purchased one of the
leading sporting papers of the East, which
contained one Of
SERIES OF CRITICISMS
and condemnations of the Allegheny Baseball
Club and its management. The moment he
saw it he called your correspondent to his seat
in the palace car which contained a number
of ladies' and read the article aloud, becoming
more and more excited and Inceused as he
neared the end. He spared no pains in con-
signing the attacking editor to hotter place
than Pittsburg, and Immediately proceeded to
write lengthy and bitter denunciation of the
editor history of the clubs misfortunes. the
cause of its defeats and an inside history of its
management, the course of certain stockhold-
ers. making very spicy reading.
President Nimick was his standby. he wrote,
and the salvation of the club was due to the
conservatism of Nimick and the untiring ef-
forts of the abused manager, both of whom
have had a constant battle with some OF the
shareholders and directors to keep the club
running as it should be. Minute details of
several deals, heretofore unknown to the pub
lie, were given without stint, and statements
which would startle baseball circles through
out the country made and dilated upon in the
Is pages of closely-written manuscript which
he had finished when the train reached Phila-
delphia.
Here he left the train with neither baggage
or bird, promising faithfully to send the article
TO IHE DISPATCH. 1Or %nOm ne was writing
IL, by Tuesday night, saying he could not mail
OF telegraph it before then, as he was going
right through on that train to New Yerk, and
thence to Connecticut. While he stood in the
depot the train pulled out. Horace was not on
board. His baggage was. The article which
he had been writing and which he carried about
the depot, seemed 60 weigh heavily upon his
mind, and he would talk of nothing else.
SOME UNREASONABLE ABUSE.
Though as pale as ghost the look Of de-
termination written in his deeply sunken eyes
told the observer that it would not be well for
the Sportsmdn'S editorial writer to run across
the path of the "Hustler" at that moment He
claimed to be, undeserved, the worst abused
incensed and downhearted, swore he would
still continue to be the clubs manager, and
would ultimately give the lie to his culumnia
tors, not only by the work of his pen, but in his
management of the club, which he was bound
to place at the head of the list before he de-
serted it by option or by request.
Horace had been suffering for some weeks.
He endeavored to conceal his real condition
from everybody and succeeded well. His brain
was troubled, and the mental excitement
caused by the editorial IN question completed
the wreck, for but a few moments before il
came to his notice he said positively he was
going through to Nantucket, Conn.,. and ac
cordngly had his baggage checked for New
York at Washington. When he reached Phila
delphia he left the train without his baggage
and never got any further. He forgot every
thing but the article. even his destination, anG
roamed around Philadelphia from Sunday
morning until Thursday night, when the CLIMAX
was reached and his reason had deserted him
entirely. Outside of the writer these facts are
unknown, even to his physicians, and the
last article Horace wrote, which was for THF
PITTsBURG DISPATCH, has probably been lost
and will never appear in print.