Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-03-05
It Looks as if Washington Would
Slip Out Of the League.
BLUNDER ABOUT THE ANGELUS
Hammond, of Cleveland Street,
Threatens to Go Home.
FRIcHTFUL MISSISSIPPI RIVER FLOODS.
WASHINGTON TO GO OUT.
The Drift Of Expectation at the Base
Ball Meeting in Cleveland.

CLEVELAND, ONO, March 5.-One Of the first
magnates to put in an appearance at the We'd
dell house this morning was John 7. Brush OF
Indianapolis. The morning session Of the
league meeting had been called for 10 O'Clock
and Brush was evidently determined not
to be caught mapping. At few minutes
before 10 he came down into the corridor
from the dining room. He took hssty survey
Of the people who were sitting or lettering
about the lobby, and discovering none of his
colleagues except Magnate Scandrett of Pitts
burg, probably thought it would be safe to take
q little stroll Accordingly he sailed forth,
but three minutes later he hurried back to the
hotel and took another glance around. Two or
three magnates had arrived by this time and
Brush concluded to put up his overcoat Half
a dozen hurried turns through the corridors
failed to allay his nervousness and then the
Hoosier magnate betook himself to the meeting
room, where he remained until the third ses-
sion was called to order,
Manager Leadley of the Detroit club unwit-
tingly betrayed the secret of Brush's anxiety
when asked If there was any probability of a
transfer of the Washington franchise to the
city of the straits by saying: Il am afraid not
1t looks to me as If there would be only eig ht
clubs in the league this wear. Washington wants
TO sell and we are anxious to buy. but I've made
good many inquiries during the last twelve
hours and am constrained to believe that We
have not much hope of getting in. The gen.
eral desire is for an eight-club league and in
spite of all that has been said to the contrary j
am about convinced that indianapolis and
Washington will go out"
Secretary Scandrett of the Pittsburg club
seems to think that the schedule committee an
ticipated the sale OF Washington's franchise to
Detroit when it drew up the Recommendation
providing for an equal division of the mileage
expenses OF these two clubs. You see" he
said, 'if Detroit was to take Washingtons place
Pittsburg would be thrown into the eastern
group, and the consequence would be greatly
increased milage expense. Under the present
division of the clubs Pittsburg has much
the best OF it, for when the western clubs 60
east we have a shorter distance than any of them
to travel But il we were to be put in the eastern
division We would have to do some very lively
hustling to jump around with Boston. Brook
lyn and New York, and our mileage would be
much larger than that Of any other club.
This equal division Of the mileage will
OF course do away with the objec.
tions that We would otherwise be compelled to
raise against being transferred to the eastern
group. However, think this scheme to divide
the mileage expenses equally is very good
one. no matter whether Detroit takes Washing.
toms place or not, and / am surprised that
something like it was not thought of long ago.
Although the delegates were all on hand
shortly before 10 o'clock there seemed to be nc
ueslre 10 DeSlu business IN "a FORMAL manner.
When asked what was the cause of the delay
one of the delegates said We'll, the truth OF
the matter is We don't want to run
any risk of getting into. squabble.
These people are all sharp business
men and they are not going to put their feet
in it, you may rest assured of that There are
some knotty problems to be solved and they
will all be disposed of on the outside, SO that
when we go into formal session everything will
be calm and the sailing correspondingly
smooth"