Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-10-12
TIRED OF THU NAA
Friends Of Baseball All Wish 1t
Were Ended.
WILL THERE BE A COMPROMISE!
This Is the Question hat Is Agitating the
Minds Of All the Cranks, and. Let Us
whisper IL, the Managers and h Play
ara M Nall

ers ms Well.
Copyright by American Press Association
Everybody on both sides Of the baseball
wal Is weary Of the fight; the public do
mands its cessation, and the press Of the
country Is shouting for a compromise.
Will there be u COMPROMISED
Well, there Is no doubt but some kind Of
an agreement will be reached under which
there will be comparative peace, but that
| n agreement can be made this winter
which will bring back the great enthusiasm
of 1889 and make 1891 a memorable and
profitable season In the annals OF the game
is not so sure. Undoubtedly an agreement
can be made that would accomplish this
much desired result, but there are so many
conflicting interests To be considered that
it is almost an impossibility to reconcile
them at this time in a successful manner.
The greatest stumbling block will be the
differences in the city OF New York. There
is really only one way to settle them so
that the business in that city will he profit
able, and that Is to amalgamate the two
clubs there. The city of New York will
not support two clubs, although amply able
to dose from a population standpoint. New
! Workers want one club to shout for, and
one only. The season just finished has
shown that very plainly. According to
the official figures given out by the two
clubs the combined attendance was 2O7,.
| DtA nr,tI..bn.l IIQ 81 90 men
Reduced TO dollars and cents the home
receipts were: brotherhood Sl, 100, League
Ss3.gs1. The actual receipts were not
over $1,000 for the Brotherhood and
about sli,o0 for the League. To do "A
profitable busi0,s the home receipts of a
club in New York ought to very nearly
reach the sum Of sj0,OlD. Both clubs lost
money this year, and had il not been for
an unusually large attendance away from
home both would have been tremendous
losers, the League club suffering heavily
a. il WAS. That another season Of conflict
would improve matters is not at all likely.
or that another season without conflicting
dates would allow both clubs to doa profit
able business does not follow, rs there was
very little improvement i'm the attendance.
with one exception, and that a Saturday
game with the Bostons, on the non-con-
ticting days of 1890.
The great objection, however, to an
a~malgamation in NewYork is the fact that
the hackers of the New York Up. H. club
are the head and front of the Players
league; they are the men who hold large
interests in the Brooklyn and pittsburg
clubs, and, what is more. they are the men
who pu. up the main portion Of the $4,000
raised by syndicate for the purchase of the
Cincinnati club. IL will be seen at once
that were these men TO consent to an ANAL
gamation, and the amalgamated club
should play in the National league, that
the Players league would be in a very bad
way. Indeed it would be practically i'm
possible that these men should continue in
the Players league and own half inter
est in a National League club. The boot
couldn't be put on the other foot, for the
National league will never agree to aban-
don New York. II there is an a~malgama-
ton the amalgamated club must be a
member OF the National league. Amalga.
nation could he arranged without difficult
ties of this kind in all the cities save Phila-
delphia, Chicago and Boston, and in those
cities 1t is very likely that both clubs could
live IL at peace and working under a non
conflicting schedule. 1t seems to me that
while there is every indication that two
clubs cannot he run successfully in New
YORK, the circumstances are such that the
experiment Will have TO be continued an
other year.
Much can be done, however, even though
AN entirely satisfactory compromise can
not be reached. As | have said, both sides
are ripe for an opportunity 10 try and ar
rangetbeterm Of peace. Allen G. Thurman,
Jr.. the attorney Of the Columbus club, is
engineering the scheme for the conference.
Through his diplomacy the American as
ISOLATION will probably ask the two big
leagues, neither of which will make any
advances to the other, to meet the associa-
ton In a conference to see what can be
done toward terminating the present I'M
fortunate condition of affairs ia baseball.
This conference will surely be held, and
it cannot but result in the good of the
game. There are some things it can agree
upon, and will agree upon, II there are not
too many hot heads among the conferrees.
IL can agree upon a ~non-conflict Of dates,
a change Of names OF clubs In those cities
where there are two organizations, a d.
vision Of the holiday plums In the seasons
best dates, some mutual changes, or rather
exchanges, in regard 10 circuit, and most
important OF all, IL can agree upon "A policy
Of non-interfercnce with each others play
ers. That these things will I've accom-.
plished ] feel sure. aud il is more than
likely that If any treaty Of peace can bo
agreed upon ii will be crowned by the ad.
mission OF the Players league TO the Ma.
tional agreement, and that this will be
done with very few notifications 10 that
document.
The National league can abandon Pitts.
burg and the Players can In return drop
Cleveland. The League got some 10000
people tn its games at pittsburg, aud the
Players got some 10000 people at Cleve-
land. Columbus or Louisville can he taken
in place of Cleveland, and Baltimore could
replace pittsburg. With the Cincinnati
deal completed the three major ~orglniza-
tions could coDdense themselves into these
circuits:
National-New York, Boston, Chicago,
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cleveland, Brook.
Ign, Columbus.
Players'-Thc Giants, Of New York;
Athletics, Of Philadelphia, White Stock
ings, OF Chicago: Beacons, of Boston; Blue
Stockings, Of Brooklyn; Cincinnati, Pitts.
burg Louisville.
The in the latter cipcuit are sug.
gestive, unless il WAS desired to call Wards