The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19
THE SCHEDULES.
League and Brotherhood VIII
Conflict in Sixty Games.
THEY ARE ALL READY TO FIGHT.

BE Bitter, That Both Leagues VIII Last
the Season Through, bat "After That the
Deluge."
The lines Of battle between the National
and the Players leagues have at last been
definitely settled. The ten club circuit of
the League has been smashed and new
schedule adopted, as l held it would be. The
deal which the magnates labored SO hard to
make at Cleveland was finally consummated
at New York, and it was made on the exact
lines that | had predicted That is, Wash
ington retired altogether and Indianapolis
gave its players to the League and retained
its franchise, continuing as ninth, but in
active, member. In other words, Mr.. Brush
is ready to take any vacancy that may oc-
cur in the west in either this or next season,
and if in few years the League is in proper
shape for ten clubs indianapolis returns to
business.
Meanwhile, there will be no baseball at the
Indiana capital The only reason for the en-
tire withdrawal of the Washington club was
the decision OF President Hewett to play bali
in the Atlantic association. 1t is said, but
there is no certainty of its truth, that the
League gave Mr.. Hewett assurances that
fCA ~ " as QtoII dDlo W AlhA1 a bGh NlAO
circuit he should have the first call in the
east Both Brush and Hewett were well paid
for their sacrifice for the good of the League
The former got something like $50, 600, most
of which was paid by the New York club,
and Mr.. Hewett took home with him check
for about $4,000, which came from the
League treasury.
That Mr.. Brush was positively sincere in
maintaining that he desired to please his peo-
pie and himself in remaining in the League
was shown by his action at the League meet
ing. After having been discussing the terms
of surrender all of Thursday night, all day
Friday, down into the small hours of Satur-
day morning, Ii looked as If no satisfactory
basis could be reached Then Mr.. Brush
arose and said, with earnestness: Gentle
men, we have been a long time at this.
viii pay $4,000 into the League treasury If
you viii agree to drop the discussion right
here and go ahead with ten clubs"
The offer was, of course, refused, but it was
made in good faith.
And the schedule Well, that schedule pre-
pared by Messrs. Spalding, Soden and MIN
ick is a clever document. They have brought
their strong clubs in conflict with the Players
league weak clubs wherever practicable. AS
to conflicting dates, the ten club schedule
wasn't in it with the new one In the
city of New York, for example, the two
organizations copdicted in the whole sched-
ule in thirty-seven games. Under the
new document they conflict In slxty-twe
games out of seventy. Evidently the mag
mates intend that it shall be war to the knife.
The Brotherhood leaders began by announc-
ing on every possible occasion that they
would wipe the old League out Of existence.
The old League has accepted the challenge
then given, and the fight is on. That it will
be survival of the fittest few doubt.
If the Players league had adopted at the
start the policy Of ''live and let live" which
apparently seemed to animate them when
they gave their schedule to the League, tks
result would not have been different, fer the
reason that they really forced the fight by
adopting schedule that pre-eInpted the best
playing dates and in the best cities that could
possibly be arranged, and unless the League
wanted tothrow ths business altogether they
ware bound to follow the lead shown. Ne
cue can blame the Brotherhood, and the
Brotherhood viii not gain any sympathy by
ting the responsibility of clashing on to
r:so League Conflict was inevitable.
The reduction Of the circuit puts a new
aspect on affairs. 1t was great move for the
League, and when al the teams are filed the
League will not be far behind the Brotherhood
in playing strength. The two weak teams
were New York and Pittsburg. Surely John
B. Day should be able to get a rafting team
out Of his present list. Here it Isl:
Catchers-P. Murphy, Buckley, Somers,
Clarke and O'Rourke.
Pitchers-W elch, J. Sharratt, Rusie, Bur-
kett, Boyle.
Infelders-Dooley, scanlan. Bassett, Far
rell, Crane, Siefke, Denny, Glasscock.
MISUNDERSTANDING, Hornung, Zines,
John II. Murphy.
OF course Mr.. Day will not retain all these
men. Glasscock will be made captain, and
he and Manager Mutrie will select a team
with proper substitutes, and those not needed
viii go to Pirtsburg and Cleveland.
John T. Brush, after the deal for his play
ers had been completed, wagered a suit Of
clothes that New York would win the pen
nant, and Director Schmidt, of indianapolis,
made two bets Of like character. Al Spald-
ing took Brushs bet.
The Brotherhood leaders, while, OF course,
not hilarious over the success of the League
in strengthening its line Of battle by moblliz-
ing its troops, 50 to speak, are not dismayed
at the outlook. They say that they are salts
fed with the justice Of their cause. They
feel that they are entitled to their share of
public patronage, and have the utmost con-
fderce that they will get il. They still in
sist that they have all the players and are
bouLi to win. Looking az the situation as it
now stands and weighing all the circun-
stances, it Is fair 20 say that the Brotherhood
viii ct the start have the best Of it, because
their teams, as made up, contain the larger
number OF noted players tkRn the League
teams, and because they Will at the start Be
aided by the sympathy Of many persons who
ere not ball cranks in the strict sense Of the
word. and who ordinarily do not spend much
money in baseball
After the first month, however, the two
leagues Will stand on their merits as caterers
to the amusement Of the public. Those who
expect to see the League wiped out this sea-
son viii be disappointed, and those who eI-
pect the same fate fer TIE Brothsrbood will
find themselves mistaken This season both
viii 20 through witA their
schedules Somsb0dy, in fact nearly every
body, VIII lose meney. Next ssassn Is too
far ahead 70 speculate On Conservative
baseball men fear that the fight EIll U tgre
baseball Everybody VIII be surfeiJed with
the game: certainly IN ths EeighboTnoed Of
New York no one need zSh for more Last
yesr there were 10 games IA that vicinity.
This season there Will bs CSC. Vow figure
out the profits ". I HAsR-z
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