Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-24
Remarks About Sundays Transfer
to the Philadelphia Club.
CONSOLIDATION DISCUSSED.
A Plan that Promises to be Safe Way to
Success.
GOSSIP ABOUT LEADING PUGILIsTs


exchanged for Messrs. Burke and Day. 1
don't intend to say much about the affair,
but common sense would tell us that Phila-
delphia is as anxious for good pitcher as
any club in the country. and Colonel
Rogers and Manager Wright are not part
ing with good men if they know 1t. In
some respects the transferring of Sunday is
mistake. No player was ever more popu-
lar here than Billy, and no player certainly
deserved to be more popular. We all will
regret his leaving us, and it may be that he
will be missed. The change will be of ad-
vantage to Sunday; indeed, he will be glad
to leave such a promiscuous lot. Were 1
ball player nothing on earth could force
me to identify myself with team that has
been manipulated into such disrepute as
the Pittsburg National League team.
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Baseball Rumors.
There are no indications of the falling off
or waning of baseball rumors. The present
baseball season has been remarkable for
many things, but its chief characteristic has
been the extraordinary number of rumors
that have been dealt out to the public. The
week just ending has just about been as
prolific in the rumor vending business as
any of its predecessors, and still we seem to
be as far from getting true statement re-
garding matters in the baseball world as
ever we were. There is such determina-
ton among what are known as baseball mag
mates to misrepresent things that to a very
great extent the public has good right to
wash its hands Of the entire business. We
have had some good examples of misrepre-
sentation in Pittsburg, and it is not too
much to say that in one case at least a Ma
tional League official with an unusual de-
termination persists in telling the world
what he publicly asserts to be truth, but
what he cannot possibly believe himself,
because with an accustomed regularity he
denies each Of his statements "a hours after
he has managed to get them into print. It
is unfaithful and stupid proceedings of this
kind that have done much to ruin public
confidence and destroy public sympathy.
But almost every city Is alike in this re-
spect, and may say that personally can
not have any regret for the downfall of those
who sustain system of lying and false pre-
lenses.
I should think that 90 per cent of the
foolish rumors that have found their way to
the public have been the result of false as
sertions by magnates and those who sur
round them. Certainly it would have been
infinitely better had the magnates and
everybody else from the commencement
limited their statements, talk or stories to
what they believed was absolutely true. It
is not too late yet to act a truthful part and
this fact is Of importance to more than those
directly interested in ths game. A great
many have no desire to curtail the number
of their own foolish and injurious rumors,
but are very active In trying to hold up to
ridicule other people who are in the same
business. Altogether, it is fact the rumor
business" of magnates and writers has
been very great source of injury to base
ball.
About Consolidation. 49,
Amid the many rumors, however, that
have recently come before the world there is
one in which think there is great amount
of truth. I refer to the rumor that efforts
are being made to effect consolidation be-
tween the American Association and the
Players League. To me nothing would
seem more likely than consummation of
this kind, and firmly believe that influ-
entail parties in each organization are try
ing to bring about combination OF forces
A few days ago a very trustworthy official
in the Players League gave me to under
stand if things were carried out as intended
there would certainly be q consolidation
sucb as referred to above fail IN soc VIZ
anvbodv at all aconainted with hos.
bail affairs should he snrnr;sed at
consolidation of the Association and
Players League forces. And should an
event occur don't see, judging from pres
ent circumstances how the American As
sociation can iDjure its future prospects.
Readers of these reviews will know that I
League was nat bv anv means tbe hast
friend the American Association had IN
several occasions the older body has almost
knocked the life ont of the vonnoer one
and the commandment ;ns,1n;f;c nj stat, ono,
weak condition of the Association to'dav is
due more tn the mocbinot;ons of A. ~ -
tional League than to anything else. These
Iae's are wen known 70 tnose loentlhed with
.ue Aueriea. Association' ana certainly
tney prompt bitterness OF feellng enough to
20 In Ior anytning mat Will cast the old
League asioe' But tnere Is another feature.
Ine american Assoclatlon is almost verit-
aoIe wreck, ana tne fIayers League is ap-
parentiy just as strong ana as powerful as
any otner organizatlon IN the country, This
Deins 81, BUSINESS propects Will nave an In
nuence on tne association magnates toward
combining; 1 notlce that MIR. Stern and
otners tnink that IL would be very foolish
ep ON !ne part OF the American magnates
20 comolne WIN tne fiayers League, but
M Mr. otern anu otners lali 70 tell us why the
steP "ouio 1e ioohsn one. l think that
sucn eonslioation, taxing into consldera-
lion Tue eurn matters nave taken, would not
py any means pe an un~lse one, providing
otner conultlons, %nicn VIII mention pres
ently, are arIaneea. 10 me one tning seems
certain, anu Inas Is 1nere VIII not be ma
tlonal agreemen! IN octoDer next worth the
paper ~ Tritten on, inere are many