Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-09-01
BASE BALL.
Some Interesting Information About the
Tri-Sate League.
ALETTER FROM PRES. McDERMITH
Mansfield viii Claim This Years Pen
nant
THE GAMES PLAYED YESTERDAY.

Judgipe from the following telegram
from Mansfield the Tri-Stste Lesgue may
vet fail 20 finish out the season intact.
One telegram says the Mansfield directors
will make formal claim to the champion
shin of the Tn-State Lssgue for the rea-
son that Mansfield and Dayton are the
only clubs in the league that have not 10y
feited their franchise by failure to comply
with the rules Of the league. The Mans
fsld directors have surmised for some
time mast that affairs were not straight.
and after numerous inquiries directed to
President McDermith the following letter
was received yesterday by Director JeIe d.
Rnrns. in response to a peremptory tele-
gram sent last night from which 1t appears,
according To the statement Of the presi-
Jsrt thss All the other clubs have fOr-
fsited their franchises
COLUMBUS, o., August 30, 1899.
Dr. II II. Burns, Mansfield, o.
Dear Sir: Your favors at hand and con-
tents fully and carefully noted. Every
club in the league deposited its guarantee
with me according TO the constitution to
the full amount with the exception OF
Hamilton, whose directors put up 5000.
They asked little more time for the re-
maining 500, which they have never paid,
Notwithstanding it has been promised me
time and time again. l have received
fully a dozen letters lamentiDg their
poor financial condition and asking lenl-
eucy so they could go through this sea-
son in order to be in good shape for
next year. Have felt compelled to favor
that club in every way possible to keep
the league intact. The 5000 paid by this
club has since been applied in payment
of their dues and that entire
amount will be nearly exhausted
bv September l. Everything has
been done by me to get money out
of them. but without avail, and felt COM
PEELED to accommodate them as long IS no
injury was done to the other clubs. As
rege-ds Wheeling the same statement will
cover their case save that these people
paid $500 instead of 5000. Springfield
and Canton have also drawn on their
guarantees 70 pay their dues. Both clubs
asked the favor and promised strongly to
make good the amount, which has not
been doae, although repeatedly urged to
do so. Mansfield and Dayton have
squarely and promptly met every require
ment, and those guarantees are Of course
untouched. By using the guarantees OF
the other clubs to pay their dues, every
dollar of our expenses can be met. By a
strict Interpretation of the constitution
every club has forfeited its franchise ex-
cept Mansfield and Dayton, bat felt 1t my
duty to the lesgue TO do everything pos.
sible to keep the organization together and
granted the clubs the favOrs they asked,
expecting them to make good their guar
antees az promised. II have been wrong
in this matter 1 have erred with the con-
seriousness of doing the best that could be
done under the circumstances. In regard
to the Wheeling club being conducted on
the cooperative plan your letter was the
first intimatiOn I had Of that. l have tel
egraphed for information which has not
vet arrived. Hengle, the manager OF the
Hamilton club, wrote me that his club wac
being conducted on that plan, and wired
him that no games played by the club
could count in the championship race. Ii
your directors think best to call meeting
and wind up the affairs of the organization
wire me and I will do so at once. Yours
truly, W. h. McDERMIrH,
Secretary Tri-State League.