Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-09
AREVEW OF SPORTS,
Some Reasons Why the Baseball
Maguates Should Adopt a Plan
Of ConsOlida lion.
NEW YORK CAPITALISTS POLICY.
hr. Talcott's Good Reasons for Trying 10
Save the Prestige Of the Na-
tional Game.
NEW YORK CAPITALISTS POLICY.
TIE LOCAL FOOTBALL PROSPECTS.
Gossip About the Leading Pusilists-Ths Godfrey snd
Smith Bstils

There are several reasons why baseball
should form the subject of a lengthy discus
sion in this weeks review. One chief rea-
son is the fact that the annual meeting of
the Players League will be held in this city
Tuesday next. Another reason is that sew
eral leading players and one or two capital
lists are trying in every way possible to pre-
vent any settlement OF the trouble that has
brought the national game into disrepute
and to q great extent disgrace. For the life
OF me cannot see why any man or body of
men interested in baseball should try and
prevent the settlement of a trouble that has
cost MANY thousand OF dollars. Or
course, 1 am aware that no man
will admit that he Is preventing or trying
10 prevent a settlement, but We each have a
right to form our own opinion as to what are
the intentions of people who are evidently
doing their best TO keep rival patrons apart
and sustain the warfare. Depend upon it
that those who are so acting are no friends
of the national game nor of those who pat
ronize it. l don't hesitate TO say that one OF
the most foolish things that magnates of the
p. 1. ever did, and like the n. L. great
people they have done many very stupid
things was to hold meeting in Phila-
delphia Thursday. The most important
ieature-I may say fact-of that meeting
was to prove that the P. L. is sadly rent
and that the wisest members of the
p. i. were not at the meeting at all. sup
pose we will not be wide of the marx if we
say that those vino met at Phiiadel phia
Thursday are the fght-to-a-finish" faction;
in other words, the brave and valiant con-
tingeut when ether people produce the
money. l am not exaggeratng anything,
because We all know that the money pro-
ducers of the p. L. were these very gentle
men who were not At the meeting and who
have been censUred by those who have used
their money. But really, there is something
very amusing about those people who met
at Philadelphia Thursday. In the first
place they were party of men who had
1ailed to arrive at any amicabie settlement
Of the baseball trouble in their respective
cities. But chose gentlemen vino were not
al the meeting had settled their troubles;
like good common sense business men
they soon devised plan OF settlement and
agreed to adopt it. Well, but the fighting
contingent who have been al over the
country collecting money Tor something
they call stock, cannot come to terms, at
least they don't come to terms, aud they ac-
Jusllv meet to use influence 10 prevent the
good work Of other people. This certainly
Is exceedingly rich and rare.
An Important Fact.
But in discussing this part of tie subject
one important fact forces itself upon us; a
fact that we viii all do well to note. When
the P. L. was organized its leaders told US
time and time again that it WAS not intended
TO down the National League. Why, sub
seGueut events have shown that grosser
falsehood was never told. The fact is Just
as clear as the sun at MONDAY that the bulk
Of the z. L. magnates desire to have the n.
l. put out of existence. 1 don't say whether
O: not an ambition of this kind is right, but
! want the TACT Of the existence of that am
bitiou plainly understood. The past season
mas proven to all of US that as TWO opposing
forces the P. L. and n. L. cannot exist, and
those who are stubborn enough to turn
deaf ear to all enueaties are bringing upon
themselves a very grave responsibility. So
far / have failed 10 perceive anything
against consolidation except sentimenTallty,
and ] 10 hold that ia such matters
sentimentality is very ephemerai But let
US suppose that the war is to be continued
another year, and what viii be the result?
Why, losses considerably greater than DUR
ing this year. That is just as sure out
come the fact thas the 1000 profit
GiGn't come TO the p. L. this year. Well,
thea, the question is: Have We men in our
midst foolish enough to throw money away
and disgust the public merely TO crafty a
petty whim? live had neither q Players
League nor a National League the heavens
would not fall We certainly can rest as
sured on that score. Ii we Danish that
ridiculous sentimental feeling that has mis-
led so many We will soon see that it will
make no difference to any of us whether the
bail club IL Pittsburg is a Players League
club or q National League club. The name
goes Tor very little. Then, L again ask, why
won't these people who are interested in
these clubs meet together and make one club
OF them? II anybody will give me a reason
able answer showing why it should net be
done I'Il say no more on the matter.
The Wise Men of the East.
Amid all the noise and bluster there is one
thing which stands prominently out. show.
ing conclusively that consolidation Can b,
general. / refer to the New York clubs
The directors of these clubs like sensible
men have met and settled their quarrel
Because they have done so they have been
the object of much abuse. Messrs. Talcott
McAlpin and Robinson have particularly
been targets, but these gentlemen have rea
son ana common sense on their side, and JUS
as sure as we live, If they sever themselve
from the P. I. it will be a sorry day for tnt
latter. They have proven themselves friend!
of the ball players, and surely their advict
CT opinions ought 10 be listened to now
Speaking on this matter the other day, Pres
ident NcAlpin, of the P. L., said: "a
President of the League, have done every
thing possible in the interest OF the organi
cation. have given advice that has never
been needed, but has been laughed at and
pooh-poohed. As a business man,
thought saw how things would eventual,
drift And they have gone Just tha
way. If TINS war is kept up it will meal
the death of baseball as the greatest of ma
tionsl games: it will mean the supplantin2
of it By some other game. A continuance
of the fight viii not iniure US, but 1t viii
iujure the players. Yet some OF them ar
blind enough not TO see it. If a settlemen
is not made, the players in another yea
viii have no occupation. We are workin;
Gs much for their Interests in perpetuatiol
OF the game as for our own. No matte
what is done the players will come out OF
top, that is the good players. Dollars ant
cents cut no figure with us. If the game
killed, as 4 have already said we shall no
suffer by it. A wear ago / stated in one O