Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-12-07
RE cRUITs FOR THE BROTHERHOOD.
OF the Players League Say They
Are Getting There With Both Feet"

Members OF the Players League Say They
Are Getting There With Both Feet"
CHICAGO. Nov. 30.-There is an air OF
mystery about the headquarters Of the
brotherhood in this city, and it Is so
dense hat II could not have been cut
with cheese knife. kilograms galore
are received from all parts of the coun-
try. and from the satisfied smiles worn
by the insiders 1t is plain that the play
ers' league is getting there with what
in street parlance might be termed
''both feet"
All the prime movers in the brother.
hood are at work seeking for new play
ers and trying their persuasive powers
on the old one who have not yet joined
with them. So far their efforts have
been wonderfully successful and upward
of seventy first class players have been
signed by Ward, PfefIer, Hanlon, Ewing,
Keefe, 0'Rourke, Irwin and Weiden-
Teller. OF this number fully two
thirds are ball players OF reputation
anS many of them stars OF the first
magnitude. In fact Arson, Glasscock,
Denny, Boyle, Hutchison, Gubmert,
Burns, Gleason, Schriver, Clements and
n or w more are about the only old
leaguers OF note who nave not affixed
their signature to the brotherhood con-
tracts. In addition to the recruits from
the American asSociationcomprise such
men as C~omiskey, King, Baldwin,
Latham, Stovey, Daley and others, and
MIR. Weidenfeller claims hat the play
ers' league can get as many more men
from the association as are needed.
Those who have joined with the brother
hood up to date are keefe. O'Rourke,
Kelly, Ward, Hanlon, Calvin, Carroll,
Miller, Staley, Irwin, Mack, Beck
ley, Dunlap, Rowe. White, Kuehne
~Sowders, Sunday, Maui, Pfeffer. Ew-
ing, Ryan, Baldwin, Jack Boyle. King,
Latham, Comiskey, Daley, Slattery,
Faatz. Twitchell, Bakely, Sutclife,
Crane, WEIGH, Williamson. Darling,
Bastian. Duffy, Tener, Dryer. Stricken,
Morris, Fields, Carney, Beecher, Fore
a Cross, Mailman, Farrar, Buffinton,
Fogarty, Thompson, Wood, Myers,
Mulvey, Brouthcrs, Kilroy, Murphy,
O'Day, Whitney, Connor. Gore, Tucker,
Bierbatier, Andrews, Seery and sew
eral others of lesser note. But even
with this formidable array Of talent the
brotherhood is not satisfied and is still
on the lookout for new players. 1t
leaked out Yesterday that before he left
Chicago an arrangement was made with
Mark Baldwin TO look after the
association players and win over as
many Of them as possible. Pfeffer,
Ward, Hanlon and Irwin have also in
structions to keep up the work of colo
nization, II such it may be called, and
Ward has just started out q number Of
secret agents on q still hunt for the stars
of the minor leagues. 1t was quietly
limited that an important conference of
brotherhood officials would be held at
the fremont yesterday, but it failed 70
come of. However, it will likely be
held within a week and it will be at
tended by President Johnson, of Cleve-
land, John NJ. Ward, Captain Hanlon,
of P%ittsburg, and Captain Ewing, of
New York. At that time delegates will
most likely be chosen for the conven-
ton TO be held l n New York, Decem-
Der 10.