Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-18
LETTERS TO PLAYERS
More Evidence That the Association
and Brotherhood are to Com
bine Next Season.
A TRICK TO ALLAY SUSPICION.
The Communications With Pete Browning
and Jack Boyle We're Intended
for Publication.
A TRICK TO ALLAY SUSPICION.
PITTsBURG WILL NOT BE DROPPED
The Team in as Good Condition Here as in Any Of
the Players League Cities

The Sporting Times accuses the American
Association with treachery to the League,
and says that organization and the Brother
hood are abeut to combine. Such was the
statement published in yesterdays DIS
PATCH. To that which has already been
published the Times adds:
Confirmation of the scheme comes in the
most undoubted manner. The New York
World and other Brotherhood organs con-
tanned exclusively on Thursday morning two
letters written respectively by Won der Abe to
Jack Boyle and by Captain Taylor, Of the
Louisvllles, to Pete Browning. purporting to be
plea to them to jump the Brotherhood and
return to the Association. II any more proof
of the contemplated treachery was needed here
it is: The two letters came simultaneously
and with similarity in tone that is refreshing.
But what blunder this piece Of intended tact
is ANY reasoning person knows that il either
club had been sincere in trying to win those
two players back no letter would have been
used as a medium. Both the st. Louis and
Louisville clubs are too shrewd to commit
themselves in writing to ball players of the
Boyle and Browning stripe in true business of
that kind Why, the letters were not even
made confidential There rs none so stupid
who will not see that both letters were written
for publication. Their appearance in print to-
E6bncI pIONe COHuSlOu
TO ALLAY SUSPICION.
THE purpose Of these letters was clearly to
allay any suspicion which might possibly leak
out as to the plans which have already been
laid. Both the scheming clubs of the Associa-
ton and the Brotherhood know that disclos-
ure Of their plans so early in the year would
render extremely probable the miscarriage of
the plan. The other Association clubs, as well
as the players in the Louisville, ST. Louis, Ath-
letic and Buffalo, PiJtsburg and Philadelphia
brotherhood clubs must be kept ignorant of
the planned treachery against them. That was
the purport of those two letters"
At preseuti it looks foolish to believe that
Pittsburg is to be dropped from the Players
League. The team here has been drawing
good crowds and is in about as good condition
as any in the new league. Therefore why
should it be dropped? Of course, everybody
connected with the club say they know nothing
OF q combine with the Association on these
grounds or any other. They would be glad of a
truce between the two organizations but do
not look for direct combine.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
The probabilities are that this story is merely
q scare gotten up to frighten the National
League However the chances for some kind
of a compromise at the end of the season are
certainly good. Neither side is willing to keep
up this warfare, and in fact neither party can
afford it. 1t is not only an injury to the great
national sport but is also an injury to the
pocket-books of the hackers and that hurts a
gteat deal worse than to iniure the game in
which they take pride only Tor the money it
makes them.
Since it is their idea to get money out of base
ball il is only natural to suppose that they are
going to seek way out of the present difficulty
Both sides of the fight in Pittsburg are sick of
it and have so expressed themselves in conf
dental talks. The only thing that bothers them
at present is how to get out without losing all
the money they have already invested in the
arraioo and
see how quick both organizations will jump at
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