St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-17
PLAYERS NATIONAL LEAGUE.
II Is Now in Form to Fight Spal-
ding and His Cohorts.


5 NEW YORK, Dec. 16.-The meeting of
/ the delegates of the Players National
league did not begin at IL o'clock as ex-
pected, as the members of the Brook
lyn club were cooped up in meeting of
that club. The delegates are: New
York, Edward B. Talcott and William
Ewing; Brooklyn. E. F. Linton and John
Montgomery Ward Boston, Julien Hart
and Daniel Brouthers; Philadelphia,
Judge Vanderslice and George Ward;
Buffalo, M. Shire and John G.
Rowe;- Cleveland, A. L. johnson
and John Stricken; Pittsburg. A.
John Addison and Fred Pfeffer
The meeting of the Brooklyn club was
over at noon and the club was at last
organized. The officers elected were:
President, Mendeli Goodwin; vice pres
ident, E. f. Linton; secretary, j. j.
Wallace: treasurer, G. M. Chauncey;
directors, Mendell Goodwin, Linton,
Wallace, Chauncey and John M. Ward.
AS soon as the result of the Brooklyn
meeting was known the delegates ad-
journed to Parlor F. Fifth Avenue hotel.
and after the door was securely locked,
President Johnson called the meeting
TO order, and business began immedi-
ately. 1t was $50 before q recess was
taken, al d then Secretary John Mont
gOmery Ward told about
WHAT HAD BEEN DONE.
After the credentials were presented
and the minutes read and adopted the
adoption of the constitution was taken
up. Col. McAlpine, chairman of the
committee on constitution and bylaws,
made the report. 1t was discussed and
adopted section by section, with only a
few minor corrections. The name
agreed upon was 1.-THE Players Ma
tional League of Base Ball Clubs" The
object in organizing was to encourage,
foster and elevate base ball, and to pro-
tect the mutual interests of professional
base ball players and clubs, as well as
to establish the base ball championship
of the world. There are quite num-
Der of changes compared with the con-
stitution of the National league. The
Ors are to be held on the first Tuesdays
after the first Mondays in Deeem-
Ger and March. the December meeting to
take place in New York, and the March
meeting elsewhere. The secretary's
salary is to be $500 with bond of S25.-
600. He must be an outsider. New
members must receive three-quarters
vote, and applications for membership
must be filed sixty days before meet
ing. Clubs may be expelled for failure
to sign the constitution or to pay yearly
dues. Sl.500; to pay salaries or visiting
clubs shares of the receipts; for de-
liberately failing to play champion
ship game; for selling beer or liquor;
pool selling; open betting; playing
with disqualified clubs; throwing
no MI Sc,
banding the organization, and failure to
comply with obligations and contracts
as member of the league. There is no
pecuniary
PUNISHMENT OR FORFEIT
for not complying with the rules. Any
member can be dismissed between one
playing season and another, but no
player can be transferred from one club
to another without written consent
from him. The league is to be managed
by a central board of directors, which
shall consist of stockholders who are
not players and players who are not
stockholders. Two members of each
club will form the committee. The
agreement between clubs lasts for ten
years and was amended By the follow
Resolved, That each member of the league
shall guarantee and positively agree to pay
to each player employed by it the salary
fixed by his contract upon his request, and
that there be raised fund of $4,000. to be
contributed by the members of this league
equally share and share alike. TO be deposited
with the treasurer of the league as guaran-
tee for the performance by each member of
this league of its contract to pay salaries.
The dues of each club aggregating $4,000
yearly, will be used 10 pay the sala-
Iies and other expenses of the league.
The following officers were elected:
President, Col. 4. A. McAlpiD, of New
York; vice president. John Addison, of