Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-12-22

Inc bld League WIN lie on manu-
To achieve permanent success the National
Players league has got totravel along a steep
and tiresome rond, blocked with many diii-
culties. Tho player or capitalist engaged in
the movement who expects to see the business
run along us smoothly MS they have seen it
do under tue direction of the National league
for several years past will meet with a severe
! disappointment. They might ms well expect
10 see the East River bridge duplicated in a
year. IL won't move smoothly, it cannot
move smoothly, because the new league is
not built on smooth tracks.
There is a possibility that in those cities
where large profits are made, If there should
prove to be any, the friction in the wheels OF
management would not be so noticeable or
so apt TO cause trouble, but even In those
cities there will be jealousies and chickering's
that the wiseSt heads in the new movement
will find themselves unable 10 allay.
The method Of management outlined is ex'
perimental. If it does not work it will have
TO be changed. IL will be changed, but it
will be a difficult task and a long task to in
augurRte reforms when once the new League
gets a start. And during this gradual
change, which is bound 10 take years Of ex-
p~arience to bring about, both capitalist and
player will haveto hold together us one man.
Will they do III
The rock on which the new League may
have its first wreck will bethe method Of dual
management by players and capitalists, And
in this | do not mean 10 infer that the players
do not possess among them men Of sufficient
alslff- - ,.n, N l,u.fu.sla aptarpri.a There
are a number of men SO qualified. / do
say, however, that the great majority, | may
say a vast majority, cannot do 1t. When you
come 10 the particular busines enterprise Of
running a ball club successfully, the number
of players who could ill the bill is minutes
NAL II the players would be content TO
trust their end Of the business entirely TO tue
four men they are to select 10 represent them
in each club, and devote their energy 10
playing ball, the scheme might work, pro-
vidcd th0r2 four men could work in har-
mony. But they won't, aud the reasons are
obvious. Ball players are, rs a rule, uuedu-
Gated men, and often dull men in everything
but the ability TO play ball, but ! never met
ono Yet whn lid not have his iiel Of how a
baseball club ought u be run. and | venture
10 predict taat those four player directors
Will he - hadgered 10y their fellows that life
will he "A burden to them.
There will I've strife among the four, aud
there will be strife between them and the dt-
rectors, who will represent the capitalists. II
the pubic dock to the games Of the Players
league, aud the National league is deserted,
and money flows in as most uf the players
fondly imagine 1t will, this strife | speak Of
will not do great harm. But where losses are
met, where the incest kind Of management
is needed to float the clubs at all, there will
lie found the friction, and when it comes
down 10 u question as % whether the CAPT.
talists or the players are to run the clubs,
there viii be "a circus, and there will he some
pretty queer ball playing
The chances Of maintaining discipline in a
bail team four members II which ARE lircr-
tors in the clIb, and ali If whom have IA say
IN the salsc5ipnu f these directors, scams b me
u he az inIpp-sibility fJrUny length vi liLle.
The uyw League will discover Til, very early
IN IL raFys.r. gl' tbs men whose money Is at
stake viii il-., upon an amendment, and
they vii carry their point. but they wlil DO
50 uuly no iae llck OF succcss and consequent
monetary lus-.
Without serious opposition the Players
League clubs IN New York, Boston, Chicago,
l"LIadcyhIn and Brugtlyu could make
money. With a divided patronage they
might make a little II they hal any adyan-
tage ia the division Of The receipts With IA
divided patronage aud an equal division they
will hnl it dllicu,t 10 meet expenses aud
s~alaries, especially in Brooklyn, Chicago aud
Philadelphia. They may have the best Of
the patronage at first, but each season will be
a harder one thnn the one which preceded il.
Each one Of these cities will have u salary
list II $4,000.
The list in Buffalo. Cleveland aud Pitts
burg may noe be 80 large, but it will not be
less than $4,000. Can these cities support
" ball clubs. No. Can they support one
properlyi Well, it's doubtful. Cleveland
mnde a little money last season. IL never
did before. Pittsburg cleared something
a few years Z 1t hasn't made a dollar
during the past three years; indeed,
the owners have hRa 10 put up some
thing out Of their Own pockets. BufralOnever
made n dollar us a League club, and has
never made anything worth talking about
with a cheap team. OF course none VI these
cities ever got half the receipts away from
home. That may make a difference. How
muchi Nobody knows. Heretofore, when
the big attractions drew good crowds at home,
Cleveland aud Pittsburg got IS per cent
Now they will get only fifty. Should they
prove poor attractions away from home, will
tue extra - per cent, VI a poor gate AWAY
from home make up for the same amount lost
from a good gate at homoi
Another factor Is the capitalists. Win
thcy stick in poor paying citiesl II they do
| not, where Is the brotherhood 70 obtain cities
TO take their plnces that can support $4,000
ball teamsl Wi the players who are not
capitalists be satisfied 10 zoe those WHO are
reap the lions share Of the profits, II there
are any, viii they be ~discontcntcd when
they find that they cannot purchase stock
viii those who have signed for thruo years
nj $1,000 and $500 be satisfied with these
sums when they see men who have lost their
grip ms players getting twice as much, and
perhaps not playing at alli II these discon-
tentments should arise, would they affect the
playing Of those feeling aggrievedl and II the
cares and management aud discomfort that
might arise affected the playing Of the men,
would II affect the gate receiptsi Aud II 80,
30 what extentI Would the public be made
TO believe that there was no hippodromingi
These aud a hundred other questions might
be asked, and then not exhaust the subject.
The players will not have a bed Of roses %
lie on. They will have a fierce opposition "a
fight both In brains and money. II they are
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