Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-10
FOLEY'S BOSTON LETTER.
He CritIcises BruuelI for Signing Pickett
A Few Words About the Players
League Umpires - The Old
League May Sill Have
Eight Climbs ONLY,

CORRESPONDENCE OF THE pIsPATcH.l
BOSTON. March S.-To be or not to be-ten
clubs in the League? If the League doesn't fix
II up SO as that it will be an eight-club circuit
then l shall be greatly mistaken. mo freezing
outr cries the League magnate; "f Indianap-
oils and Washington don't sell out we will have
to make it a ten-club League" Brush of In
disnapolis. will not bulge an inch, but guess
good stake would make him weaken, so that
some of his stars can be transferred to New
York, where it is necessary to have a club able
to cope with Brooklyn and the strong Brother
hood team. Brush says that John B. Day
should have hustled for players and win them
back, like himself; but Mr.. Brush should bear
in mind that his bob-taiI Hooser aggregation
were not the recipients of any princely salaries;
that he day was in big luck to even get
Murphy Welch and Tiernan back into the
fold. Welch and Tiernan held off for long
time, and both men could have been secured by
the Brotherhood if coin enough was given IN
No club in the country can boasE of SO many
well-to-do players as the team that represented
New York in the League last season; for that
reason the men are very independent and
ready to take chances with the Brotherhood.
George Gore is the only man on the whole team
who is not the possessor of q good fat bank &C.
count.
So Tony Mullane used to be a great favorite
with the fair sex of Pittsburg and Allegheny
Perhaps if some young lady should try to sign
Tony tor matrimonial contract, they might
find that he was fond of jumping contracts
Tony halls from Erie, and suppose that makes
him popular throughout the great State OF
PENNSYLVANIA
Baseball news in this burg is very scarce at
present although there was heap of excite
ment here when it was known that John r.
Day was going to offer "Buck" Ewing a small
fortune to desert the Brotherhood 'Loyal
Buck" they call him, but just the same al
johnson watched Buck" pretty close when he
found John b. Day was in Cincinnati Ewing
is all right; if he made up his mind to weaken
johnson or anybody else could not have stopped
him from playing with Day. The whole an,ount
of it is this: Ewing Just thinks that there is
big money in brotherhood club in New York
and as he is the pOssessor of Sls 900 or $4,000
he can afford TO try his luck as manager and
stockholder. wonderI If Buck will do as much
kicking as he did last year If he does some
OF the umplres Will have pretty tough time
of it.
THE KEW UMPIREs.
was surprised to see the name of Ross
Barnes on the list of umpires, for had an idea
that he was a prosperous business man
and member of the Chicago Board
of Trade. Could it be that
Ross was swamped in one of "Old Hutch's"
wheat deals? Cunning, one of the urrpires
appointed, is living in Fall River and studies
medicine during his leisure hours. Cunning is
a nice fellow and will makes first-class umpire
jim Manning is also living in Fall River, and
works in drug store. Manning doesn't want
hood man through and through. but in case he
deserts Kansas City, he must depend upon the
brotherhood for living; you can see that
with all his admiration for Ward and the rest
of the boys, be doesn't think it is any sure
thing that the Players League is gong to be
dead sure CO." / think Manning is right, for
the brotherhood only guarantees a job for one
season; then man can be fired overheard, and
where is he going to go? How about the poor
fellows who should happen to injure their
arms? The Brotherhood will carry no dead
timber, and it is not likely that the League will
forgive any of the men if the Brotherhood has
no use for them.
, The worst play of the season was made by
BruDell when he signed Pickett for the PLAY
ers' team of Philadelphia. Pickett had signed
Kansas City contract, and Brunell knew it.
but he gives as an excuse tnat Pickett signed
to play in the American Association. What
cheap talk! Why, it was last November
that Kansas City left the American Asso- |
citation, and why didn't Pickett protest |
against playing with Kansas City in a minor
league when he was well aware that Kansas |
City had entered the Western ASSOCIATIONS
President Speas. of Kansas City, bought this |
man Pickett from st. Paul last season for |
S. 800. and paid him at the rate of 81 500 a wear
which was a big increase on his St Paul salary
Not only that, but Pickett had a lame leg and |
arm, and was almost useless. but he drew his |
salary In full, when he scarcely earned his |
board. Pickett must be a dummy. Had he |
wished to 60 TO the Association or the League, 1