Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-09-26
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GROUNDERS.
Three straight
We play the Infants today.

Three straight!
We play the Infants today.
The pennant chase is very exciting.
viii not somebody please put pinch of salt
into the soup to preserve Us?
II Is said that Boston will protest the post
poned game played by New York at Phila-
delphia on Friday. That claim would hardly 60
Arthur Irwin rather gave the cooperative
idea a black eve yesterday.
Clarkson is working under an offer Of $1,000
from Conant If he will get the championship.
He will get $500 anyway for pitching all the
games he can. Money is what turns the wheel
Here, you Indians, If you don't go in and
beat those Giants today you won't get any
more favors from Boston. It's time some one
took the conceit out of the blooming York
ers.' "-Bost0n Globe.
There is nothing Ike being obiiging, and
the Hoosiers probably the most obliging
folks, when 1t suits them, on the diamond field
today. The Globe forgot the blonde Young
man named Arson, who halls from Chicago.
Here Is another phase OF the cooperative
business plan that is really one Of the most i'm
portant elements in the business:
Zach Phelps, ex-president of the Louisville
club, does not believe that the League brother
hood Of base ball players will make a success
of the cooperative scheme. ut will be impos-
sible." said he, ito make the people believe
that the clubs will not be hippodroming when
they are all under one management. To keep
up the public interest ii is absolutely necessary
that each club should be run independently OF
the others Then there is a guarantee that
they are trying to do their best. But when the
players go to dividing themselves out to suit a
common interest and working together all the
time it will kill the game. "-Phila. Inquirer.
That is the key note Of the situation Half
the interest in base ball is that felt in the race
Take the excitement of a genuine struggle for
honors away from the sport and it would at
tract people merely as the circus does as an
amusement. In order to make the game paw il
must have something more than a mere finan-
cial basis and it can be safely asserted that the
great success Of the league today is due to the
interest that has been created in the public
mind IN whether or not the localclub was going
to get there" This is demonstrated by the
woeful falling of in attendance after club
loses few games. OF course the subsequent
playing is probably as good and as entertain
ing as before. but the interest is gone Grand
father Phelps is on the right tack now
A ST. Louis special to the Philadelphia Press
says: While discussing the disastrous play of
his ball team in the east two weeks ago Won
der Abe said:
them remember the Dutchman"
He was a prophet The board Of directors of
the team, after an all-day session, submitted TO
the players a verdict that will make them re-
member the Dut;hman" for several DAYS. The
men were Investigated on the charges Of not
playing ball to win.
Chamberlain, who is of a sulky disposition.
viii not pitch winning ball if crossed or disci,
pinned Latham and King have been laid off
for months. After hearing all the evidence the
directors took heroic measures. Latham was
fined 600 and laid of for the rest of the sea-
son. King was fined s100 and laid off for the
rest OF the season. Chamberlain was fined
SlOO and Robinson was reprimanded for trying
70 swallow q brewery.
The ining caused great excitement among
the players. An odor Of sulphur permeated
6portsmen's park and the adjacent territory.
Won der Abe Is all smiles tonight and says he is
on top Of the heap. He has succeeded in
knocking out Byrne and the recalcitrant ball
tossers.
Here Is some rather interesting base ball
talk autographed yesterday from Minneapolis to
the Philadelphia Tunes: .'Conant, the senior
member OF the great Boston triumvirate Of
Conant, Billings and Soden, is expected in st.
Paul tomorrow morning to confer with his
trusted satellite, Frank Selee, who represents
Bostons interest in the northwest. Conant and
spalding are the powers that be in the National
league and the advent Of the former in the
northwest IL indicative Of the policy which the
league management will pursue with reference
70 the brotherhood. Speculation as to the
object OF the visit of the distinguished base
ball manager has assumed tangible form 1t
10 nothing more nor less than a bodily transfer
OF every team in the western association
70 the National league for next season
Through Frank Selee the scheme has been
quietly Matching since the rumored strike of
the brotherhood became q reality The ORIG
transfer picked team from all the minor
Leagues to the parent association, but Selee and
another trusted agent for the league, after a
careful canvass OF the situation, saw that the
management OF the minor leagues would not
listen TO such proposition and the only way to
meet the dilemma was to transfer each club
bodily. Omaha Is the ringleader in the scheme
but majority Of the other teams represented
In the western league do not take kindly to the
transfer unless they are offered more substan-
tial Inducements than are advanced at pres
emit"
Omaha has already transferred its pennans-
winning team TO Boston, despite Selee's denials.
Selee Is the leader of the proposition to transfer
and sam Morton Of Minneapolis occupies the
position on the extreme right 1t is hinted
that compromise may be effected and that
while few Of the clubs will remain in the
Western association the majority will be trans
ferred to the league.
Todays games are Washington at Cleveland,
New York at Chicago, Philadelphia ct Pitts.
burg and Boston at Indianapolis
Never Sweat and Douglass ball teams plav A
Capitol park this and tomorrow afternoons.