, 1890-09-30

which May BE True. aud Some OF
Which Are Positively ~Absurd-some OF
. the Things That Are Said.
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New Yorker who is undoubtedly in
the confidence of the Brotherhood recently
asserted that the Players league would
throw a bomb on the 5th day Of October
that will send a cold chill down the back
bUne Of the old League and I'll its follow
ers with dismay. Since the statement was
made men all over the country
have been making a still hunt after the in
side trail OF thai deadly bomb None OF
US has found 1t yet-that il, not a trail
that one can swear by. / met a Brother
hood man recently who gave me-, as he
claimed, the secret Of the bomb, His story
Is that IL is m agreement between the pro
prietors of the Louisville club and the
Players League, by the terms of which the
Louisville club, II it wins the American as
ISOLATION championship. will desert that
organization and play the champions OF
the Players league for the championship
OF the world, and after the games have
been played the Louisvilles are to be Hd
mitted to the Players league circuit IL
place OF the Buffalo club.
Another story that comes 10 me is that
the deal between Won Der Abe and Phelps,
that was a part OF the business OF that
Philadelphia conference, has really been
completed. and that the denials OF 1t have
only been made to keep certain people. as
well as the public, deluded until the scheme
is ripe.
The next yarn is that the players OF the
Brooklyn League club viii, IL they win the
pepnant, get together as individuals aud
play the Brotherhood champions.
But the widest of all the rumors is the
story te~legraphed east by a Chicago man
that Aaron Stern has decided to sell ont
the Cincinnati club, and has placed a price
on II said to be $4,000, and that Secretary
Brunell, OF the brotherhood. has been given
an option on the club. and that he is at
present engaged. in company with Al
johnson, in raising the money. When
Johnson and Brunell nave bought the club
they propose to make it = brotherhood
organization, and Cincinnati is to receive
a franchise in the Players league.
OF all these stories, and many more
which | might retail, the first one seems TO
be the only tale Of the lot which is at all
likely to be true. The methods OF Presi
dent Parsons, of the Louisville club. in
1889, and tho frequent conferences OF Zach
Phelps, president of the American associa-
ton, with the men who are openly known
as the emergency committee Of the Broth
erhood, lay both those gentlemen under
suspicion, and there would be very little
surprise IL the announcement was made
hat Phelps and Parsons had made n bar
gain with the enemies OF the National
league and of the national agreement. IL
would be difficult TO estimate what the ef
feet Of such n scheme would be upon the
fortunes OF the National league. 1t seems
70 me IL the men who are alleged to have
made Il are able to carry IL out-a matter
OF considerable doubt-that the effect
would not be very injurious TO the M
tional league. It would saddle another
twenty-five cent town and another advo
cate Of Sunday baseball on to the Players
league, and believe that this would coun
terbalance whatever might DO gained by
the playing OF a series for the worlds
championship, which this year is not likely
TO be over profitable.
The events of the last week have given
US some elew as TO the probable National
league circuit for 1891. The failure OF the
once great Athletic club, a splendid organ
ization holding a valuable franchise, which,
by the way, has been ruined by the most
feeble and incompetent management with
which a club was ever afflicted. and the ac
QUESTION of Robinson. Mcmahon and
Welch by the Baltimore club, are indica
lions that Manager Barpie's city will be in
the National league next year. Oneis led
to this conclusion from the nature OF the
salaries which are said to be inserted in
the contracts of these three men, an ag
Rregate OF something like sli 900 for tho lot.
Surely on the present outlook for next sea
son no American association club could af-
ford to shoulder such responsibilities. It
has been limited that Barnie has been
strengthening his team so as to be in cad
ness TO join the Players league, but such
ar act would be so inconsistent with his
a-1 A. -.
every newspaper man in the country, that
TO believe it one must believe Barnie TO be
both a hypocrite and a liar.
We are told every few days that Pitts
burg will surely have a National league
team next season. But who believes it,
The old league magnates are not foolish,
and IL strikes me that those who do not
think that Pittsburg. is to be dropped must
consider them SO. There is only one chance
for Pittsburg. and that is the abandonment
of her territory by the Players club, which
is n very unlikely thing at this stage OF the
game.
am told that II Baltimore is taken into
the National league the twenty-five cent
tariff will be continued there.
Joe Pritchard. of St. Louis, recently
made the broad statement that John b.
Day believed that Sunday baseball would
make the New York club n winner, and
hat he was f~avorably considering such a
scheme. There isn't n word Of fact In
that statement. Mr.. Day is irrevocably
opposed to Sunday baseball. and would, !
believe, retire from the sport altogether
rather than run a club in a league in which
Sunday games were played
THINGS THAT ARE SAID.
That the premature publication OF the
Comiskey deal has spoiled it.
That all Boston is up in arms at the RI.
NOR that King Kelly is TO be stolen
away from them by the festive johnson.
That Eddie Talcott planes the loss Of
the Players pennant by the New York
club TO Eddie Crane, and intimates that
Eddie c. will not be "A member OF the team
next year.
That II Eddie isn't signed somebody will
have TO put up for the $1,000 which Eddie
contributed to the capital OF the New
lorks Qimited).
That Ed Crane was no more responsible
for the i'll luck of the Giants than several
other men who might be mentioned.
h an anxious public is watching the
Pittsburg insists as they near the Louis
vile standard. You can almost count
them Ill; will they beat it-Iiif
That Palmer O'Neill now comedies that
they will.
That Billy Barnie was in big luck TO be
"renresentative of the Association dnr
safe Iuyestm,pt