Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-20
SHOULD NOTPLAYAT HOME
ia. Higgins Will Challenge Walters
to a Rife Match.
ABOUT THE COUNTY BALL LEAGUE.
Jacob Schaefer Offers to Play DAILY or Any.
body Else.
GENERAL SPORTING NEWSOF THE DAY

Just as regular as each winter season
comes there are strong complainlngs among
local baseball admirers about the local club
not giving young home players chance.
Time and time again it has been argued, and is
being argued BY the complainers that Pitts
burg has lost many good men because Of
neglecting promising home talent. Now
that local players, that is young players
coming into prominence, are more numerous
than ever, the complaints above re-
ferred to are proportionately stronger.
Those who have a strong desire to see home
talent tested at home have some good reasons
and arguments on their side.s But the officials
of the local club have also good case During
conversation on the question yesterday Man.
ager Phillips said some very interesting things,
and rendered advice to young players that is
worth making note of. He said:
ut is a great mistake for anybody to think
that we are not prepared to give every young
local player all the encouragement possible,
There are many reasons, however why 1t seems
better for
THESE YOUNG PLAYERS,
and to great extent better for the club, that
they should make their professional debut out
side their own city. The benefits to be derived
are greater in favor of the players than for the
club. Were l a young player, and knowing
what do now, certainly would not want to
make my reputation in my own city. I'll tell
you why. A young player in his own town ap-
pears before hundreds that he knows person
ally. He is anxious beyond what is required to
do great things. and this over-anxieTy begets
nervousness that has tendency to ruin his
prospects completely. The familiar crowd jeers
him for the mistakes that nervousness causes
him to make, and he gets from bad to worse.
This is true because we all have found, both
young and old, that there is ever particularly
strong desire to do great things at home.
4 will suppose a case from another stand
point Suppose a young player begins his good
work in his own city and does first class. Say
he knocks out two or three good hits in game
and fields brilliantly There are two evil ten
denotes which may follow. He may, by the
hurrahs and hero-worship of his friends, get
the swelled-head fever, and that will injure
him. He will also be lionized in way that
will tempt him to live too fast for while.
There is still another probable outcome; he
may, after doing splendid work, make series
of pardonable mistakes and then
DOWN GOES HIS STOCK
in the estimation of the majority of his
townsmen, and he becomes disheartened. 1t is
there is a prevailing opinion among a large
number of people to the effect that he should
continue TO do great things Altogether firm
ly hold the opinion that as a rule a young play
er who wants TO rise in the baseball profession
should ioin a club outside his own city"
There was plenty of talk about among the
amateur baseball PLAYERS yesterday. The action
of the County League at its meeting on Monday
evening has, to say the least, caused consider
able dissatisfaction. Of course the league had
good reason for its action, and the fact also re-
mains that all the clubs applying for admission
could not be admitted. However, a represent
ative of the W. j. Kuehnes, one of the rejected
clubs, makes the following statement:
I'VE were, indeed, surprised to learn
that McKeesport was admitted in view of the
fact that not long ago Mckeesport deemed
almost every club in the league insolvent, and
said very ungenerous things about the organ
ization. Besides, look at the great distance be-
tween Ellsworth and McKeesport, and from
all accounts the latter's grounds are most
miserably located. However, we feel hopeful
that we will Still be in the league, because it
seems certain that Braddock will not material
ize. The DuquesneS will also disappear at
any rate the Marshalls will play in
the name of the Duquesnes But
the great objection l have is that
the entire proceedings were illegal The unan-
to select four clubs, and Braddocks represen-
tatives were absent. No club was, therefore,
admitted by unanimous consent"
An official of the league, in reply to the
above, said: 1--WE could not possibly satisfy
everybody, and no matter what clubs had been
selected there would have been dlscontent
We heard every case stated, and certainly
agreed on clubs that appeared most likely to
continue through the season"