Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-21
JOINS THE WESTERN LEAGUE
Kansas City Withdraws From the
American Association.
Shortly Afterward Allies Itself With
the Western.
The Deadlock Broken and Zach
Phelps Elected President.

New YORK, Nov. 15.-It was II o'clock
before the American base ball association
got down to business, and then Kansas
City rendered its withdrawal from the as
ISOLATION After accepting the letter of
withdrawal, they proceeded to elect pres
ident, and Zach Phelps, of Louisville,
was elected by vote of to /, Baltimore
voting In the negative. Applications for
membership were received from Syracuse
and Detroit. Kansas City was made
member of the Western association shortly
after its withdrawal from the American
association
Shortly after l o'clock the American as
ISOLATION took recess for an hour, and
the proceedings of the morning were made
public. After the election of Phelps, G.
Born, Jr., of the Columbus club, was made
vice president, and the following commit
tees were elected: Board of directors:
Athletics, Baltimore, Columbus and st.
Louis; finance: Columbus, Athletics and
st. Louis; committee on playing rules:
Baltimore, Athletics and Louisville; COM
mittee on arbitration: Zach Phelps, of
Louisville; w. H. Whitaker, of Athletics;
and J. J. O'Neil, of st. Louis
The league convention adjourned at 8
p. M, to reconvene January 26th. The
entire session was taken up with the dis
cussion of the brotherhood question. John
Rogers referring to the intention of the
players to violate the reserve rule, offered a
resolution that the league will aid each
other of the club members in the enforce
ment of contract rights to the services of
reserved players for the season of 1890 The
resolution was unanimously adopted and
a committee appointed consisting of
Rogers, of Philadelphia: Byrne, of Brook
Ign and Day, of New York to formulate
and carry out the best method of en-
forcement of contract rights. Spalding,
of Chicago, presented a resolution that
no league club shall from this date, enter
into, negotiate, or contract with players
not under league reservation, or enter into
negotiations with other clubs for the tans-
fer of any of its players until February
LIST, 1890 That committee of three be
appointed to be known as the negotia-
tions committee to which shall be re-
ferred all applications from players desir-
ing positions on league teams as well as
applications from club members of the
national agreement wishing to dispose of or
release their players. This was adopted and
n. c. Young, and G. H. Byrene and Al
Reach were named as the committee. At
ter the adjournment of the convention
Spalding, of Chicago, said that he was
perfectly satisfied with the legislation and
the work effected. He added that the
league by the adjustment of the sales sys-
tenn and the classification rule and by the
payment of $3.50 to Sutcliffe, has given the
players more than they asked for, carrying
out his promise to them that the matters
referred to in the June conference could
safely be entrusted to the league for fair
settlement.
Manager Quinn said this afternoon that
Kansas City's joining the Western league
will materially strengthen that association.
Now drop out one or two of the smaller
cities still remaining in, and get others of
equal importance to Milwaukee, st. Paul,
Minneapolis and Kansas City, and we will
have one of the best and strongest organi-
cations in the union.
TT LOUIS, Nov 15.-The st. Louis
baseball public were up In arms to-day
when they heard of the desertion of Brook-
Ign and Cincinnati Tonight the son of
President Won Der Abe, at the suggestion
of several friends, sent his father a tele-
gram to New York urging him to form a
coalation between the clubs that are left
out of the American association and the
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