Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-12-08
NEWS OF THE SPORTS.
THATTBRRIBLR BOMB WHICH rHBLBAGUB
WILL THROW.
The Famous Reserve Rule an Outrage on the Play
ers-Win the Courts Sustain Ii? McAulifss
Easy ViciOry-furi Topics Gen
eral Sports.

The Leagues fight against the Brother
hood seems to have degenersted into blus-
tering threats about bombs and various
other dangerous explosives, which are to
be cast into the Brotherhood camp. The
particular bomb which is expected to do
the most execution, is legal action to be
begun to restrain the players from playing
in the new clubs, on the theory that they
are bound to the League under their last
yesr's contracts. 1t is expected that this
bomb will scatter death and destruction in
the players ranks.
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II will be a remarkable and unfortunate
event if the courts should decide that the
players are bound by last years contracts.
It would put them, bOund hand and foot,
at the mercy of the league msgnates. The
contract signed last year, binding them
for this, would bind them next year when
signed this year, and so on if need be until
the end of time. Only by year Of en-
forced idleness could any player ever es-
cape from such bondage. 1t is inconceiva-
bic that the courts will hold contract,
with such features, valid.
The battle which the League magnates
have made against the players has been
unmanly and cOwardly from the start. 1t
is mere case OF employer VS.. employee.
The employe has signifed q desire to set
up in business for himself. The employer
resorts to every despicable trick, to the
basest ISLANDERS and falsehoods, to prevent
the success Of the emplOye and drive him
back to his original task. Such methods,
if used in any other business, would meet
with merited condemnation and contempt.
The public, understanding the merits of
the question, will not be slow to signify
their disapproval Of the course pursued by
the League.
There is some fear expressed by the
friends of the Brotherhood that the clubs
of the Players League will suffer and the
game be injured by lack of discipline.
This may be cause for alarm, but 1t is
scarcely possible that such will be the
case. There is not member of the Broth
erhood but has sense enough to know that
in discipline and the best quality of ball
playing depends their success. They are
now interested to a certain extent in the
profits, and will consequently strive to
make the game more interesting and pop
ulsr.
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Jack McAuhffs has clearly proven the
Justice of his claims to the lightweight
championship. He did not knock out
Mike DAILY IN their fitteen-round contest,
but he did do all the fighting, and showed
his superiority over the Bangor man easily.
McAuliffe, it is said, will now 90 to the
Pacific Coast, and get on contest with
some of the light weights there.
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Lucky Baldwin has had cause this year
to be disgruntled regarding his stable
success, or non-success. Although be has
won a wager of 5000, which he made
last year in California, that he would not
witness an Eastern race this year, that
does not seem to have placed the stable
expenses on the right side, when it is con-
sidered that the same amounts to be-
tween $50, 600 and 100000 per annum.
Baldwin was in San Francisco a couple of
weeks since, although he did not 90 to
the track, and, unlike Hearst, he COM
planned quite emphatically of his poor
season. Next year, however, with Barnes
as his Jockey, he will do better. He Gays
he has no thought Of giving up racing co
long as he has hOof left at Santa Anita.