Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-11-09
BASEBALL HOPES.
The Middle May Be Settled at
the Impending Meetings.
MANY RUNORS ARE AFLOAT.


talis,s May Force the Dissolution Of
the Players League.
lCopyright by American Press Association
The PLAYERS league will meet 1t Cincin.
natl next Tuesday, and the indications
now are that certain proposals for CONSOLE
dation will he presented 10 il provided that
schemes now in progress can be completed
by that time. In any event an attempt
will he made to form another conference
committee on which there will lie no direct
representatives Of the players. These are
two Of the rumors of the many that seem
credible in circulation. Indeed everything
points to a combination of the Players
league capitalists in New York, Cleveland,
Chicago and Brooklyn to force the dissolu-
ton OF the Players league.
While there is no positive evidence to
this effect there are many circumstance
that make it highly probable. These gen
tlemen are tired Of putting out money
without any hope of getting it hack again,
and having made, il is said and quite
generally credited, an informal treaty of
peace with the National league, which con
templates an advantageous amalgamation,
they will attempt TO make the informal
agreement a formal one. IL is not supposed
that the Pittsburg and Cincinnati clubs
will offer much opposition to the plan, as
they arr owned in part by the men who are
pushing the project Of amalgamation.
The great opposition will come from the
players who are members ~ the centra.
board Of directors and the capitalists Of
the Philadelphia and Boston clubs. The
Buffalo club, which has not yet been ex-
PEELED. will also have "a vote. which IL apt
to be cast against the scheme. II the OPP
ponents of the plan hold together they can
defeat IL, rs they will have ten VOTES in the
boarl against six. Ii is thought, howevc",
that some of them will be gained over be-
fore tie day of meeting.
IL the Players league should refuse to
fall into line with the plan it is asserted
that the capitalists who are trying to force
the consolidation will resign from the or
ganiza,ion and 20 ahead with the plans
said Ia have been agreed upon. As this
would mean practically the d~ismemhrr-
ment Of the Players league, it Is very
probable that if such an alternative is Of
fered that the Obiectors will give in, 80 ~
10 save themselves a. much Us possible.
All this 81 COURSE Is a resume IL the com.
mon talk among baseball people. and il j.
also what the numerous conferences be-
tween the capitalists aud remarks made
by several Of them point To rs being quite
as probable Us it is possible
The Brotherhood il naturally agains
the demise of the Players league, rs il
means "A diminution Of its power TO almost
nothing, and because it means u pecuniary
loss TO the players. They do not think
that the argument made by the capitalists
that the players have 50 far not lost a cent
is any argument why they should lose
any. The wiping out of the Players
league would cause them losses in hard
cash and in profits If the organization
continued and ever made a profit. The
first is harder 10 bear, as il is actual; the
second, icing only dimly prospective, can
he met with more equanimity. The cash
loss will fall on stockholders.
+ am told that there are . few players
who paid their proportionate share of club
losses. such men have no reason To fear a
loss in an event of consolidation. Those
who failed in that particular may have
JUST dllftItlLrlouS rs W the Ndlut vi titlT
holdings. They are dependent entirely
upon the generosity of the capitalists.
And II is this fact which no doubt makes
the capitalists believe that II they can
make n satisfactory arrangement with the
National league they can persuade certain
player directors that it is for their interests
to vote for consolidation.
How can the players lose their stocke
Why, the club corporations will be called
upon Ia pny the money borrowed 10 carry
them on, and not being able "a do 80 the
affairs will be wound up and the effects
sold. OF course IL there is more in the
way Of assets to pay all claiins the player
stockholders will receive their share, but
there Is not more than one club in the
Players league which. IL forced 10 the wall.
would have enough to pay the money
which has been borrowed % carry them
through the season Of 1850. A considera-
ton Of these facts will no doubt have a
large influence upon whatever action the
players may decide to take.
When the season closed the salaries Of
the New York and Brooklyn teams Of the
Players league were In arrears something
ike six weeks. The aggregate Of these ar
reasrs, so my informant tells me, WAS
thing like $4,000. This money WAS raised
by the New York people Interested in both
cluhs, and the men were paid OF by Mr..
Talcott. In delivering it to them Mr.. Tai
colt made some statements which must
have set the players thinking pretty deep
ly, aud which are not calculated 10 increase
their opposition to the peace measure now
being negotiated. He told them that the
clubs were under no legal obligations to
pay them anything more under their con
tracts. To this he added the information
that If the Players league should continue
In business during the year 1871 every
player would be held 10 the strict perform.
ance Of his contract, and that the clubs
would do ne moe for the players than
they were Obliged 10 do under the con-
tracts. This means In other words that
next season the players will yet thei7 sal
aries out VI the gate receipts,
There is little doub, that u the players
had not been promised thai their salaries
would he forthcoming last season without