Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-01-18


have ssked mo 70 give 4 resume Of the Broth.
erhood side Of the question.
The players are sanguine OF success, and 10
are the gentlemen who are aiding them with
money. They believe that ball players draw
the public like star actors-by their individu
ality more than by the merits OF tho game
which they present
They argue that the baseball patrons de
not care q picayune for A, G.. Spalding, A.
H. Eoden, John b. Day and other baseball
club owners. They believe that the players
Of the National league and certain stars Of
the American association, as being the most
skilled men in the profession, will draw tho
public to the exclusion OF any teams that eau
be organized by tho said A. @. Spalding, A.
II. Soden. J, b. Day and others. They boz
lieye that It will take the old League 10 long
70 educate men to take their places and they
will have lost so much money In the opera
tion that the old League will retire from the
business In disgust, leaving the field clear for
the Players' league, Il Is this abiding faith
OF the PLAYERS that they are the attraction
individually which forms the basis Of their
The PLAYERS at the start counted very large
" upon the sympathy Of the public in the
treatment they have heretofore received
from the magnntea During the past two
months this position has been directly va
Gated. although indirectly they expect that
sympathy for them will prove a big factor
in their success, and their supporters and
agents have been engaged In getting labor
organizations to express this sympathy now
by resolutions, and they expect that tho Ia
boring men everywhere will express their
sympatby in the summer by hard cash in
the form Of fifty cent admission fees.
The brotherhood men justify their seces-
don ON the ground that the National league
has taken advantage Of them for years and
abused them by oppressive rules, and In a
majority Of cases by forcing them to play
for salaries inadequate to the measure their
ability and the profits derived from the
game. And as q final clincher they bring
forth the maxim that every man has . right
to 60 into business for himself whenever he
desires to do 50.
The players think that the arrangements
for distribution Of profits and the chance it
holds out for them to share in the product Of
their labor will cause them to play such fine
ball that no opposition can, by any possibil-
ity, touch them, and hence they will attract
all Of the patronage that always goes where
the best ball IL played, and this class, together
with personal admirers and sympathizers,
will make the game mint.
The prospect for the player is nm alluring
one II all these rosy calculations come out
right The first e. 500 Of profit over and
above all expenses will go to prize fund OF
$2O, 1000, from which the players OF the lead
ing teams will draw down share. Indeed,
1t is understood that each team will get some
thing out Of this purse.
Then the surplus Of profits over $l2, 800 in
each club will 60 into general pool, to be
divided equally among the 40 or SO players
Of the league. It will be seen that should
this fund amount to $4,000, each player
would get about 500, and that II It should
amount to 100000 each player would
get $500. Then tho players who are
stockholders will get splendid thing out Of
It in case OF moderate success, even II the
other players should get nothing at all. For
instance, Ed Hanlon has $4,000 in stock in.
vested in tho Pittsburg Brotherhood club.
Should that organization mako Sl2,5OO In
profits, $500 would go to the prize fund,
and the balance being divided among the
stockholders, Hanlon would get $1,000 as his
share, which added to his part OF whatever
prize money this team might get, his sala.y
Of $500 and his share OF the players pool In
event OF success would give him a pretty
good thing.
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would have snap even with moderate sue
cess, while In the event OF great success all
the players would get something besides then
salary.
These are the Inducements that have In
duenced the player to "go into business Tor
himself".the well TO do players because
tney could he stocxhoiders and double pron1
sharers, the improvident players because
they might contingently be profit sharers'
and even II they were not, they would rather
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