, 1890-11-16
INTERNAL STRIFE.
w. l. Harris Says There Is Lots
of 1t in the Players League.
A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION.

The key 20 the situation in the baseball
middle is certainly held by the capitalists
of the New York, Brooklyn and Cleveland
Players league clubs. These capitalists
also own very nearly a controlling interest
in the Cincinnati club, and it Is claimed
could succeed in bringing that o~rganiza-
ton into line with any plan which they
might agree upon. Whether they really
can do this remains to be seen. The Play
ers' league capitalists in Boston, Philadel-
phia, Pittsburg and Chicago appear to be
determined to continue the warfare of 1890
another season, and /. they can hold the
Players league together and control it the
fight will SO on, perhaps not so directly as
conflicting dates would make it. but there
will be no peace of a nature likely to bene-
fit the national game itself.
No matter how it may appear on the
surface, there is a wide breach between the
capitalists Of the Players league. Four
clubs are apparently un~Alterably opposed
to consolidation and in favor of perpetu-
ating the Players league, Three clubs
have been doing all in their power TO bring
about a lasting peace which may insure
harmony among all factions and insure
the future prosperity Of the game. The
Buffalo club has no capitalists behind il,
~ A1A 80 - AaAe ~ oLA ~ AhLo IA hAlAal x
ure in the matter. The action of the Gin
cinnati club, owing to the uncertainty
about the feelings OF the different owners,
is equally undecided. The men who desire
peace are trying TO force consolidation,
and those who are against it are trying to
coerce the peacemakers to remain in the
Players league and go on on with another
year of strife. The more both sides scheme
and maneuverthe further apart they get
| md tba har1ar II Ia for than 70 rannnofla
their differences of opinion.
When / say that the New York people
hold the key to the situation l mean
simply that II they hold put and carry out
their plans, ard the other clubs remain
obstinate, the baseball war will be practi-
cally settled, for although the Players
league may continue in existence it is not
likely to be a very formidable rival TO the
National league without a club in New
York, and with the men who have been
backing t. New York, Brooklyn and
Cleveland P. L. clubs in tSs National
league that organization will have little to.
worry 1t.
Messrs. McAlpin, Talcott, Robinson and
their allies are satisfied that there is no
room for two clubs in Nav York, Brook
Ign and Cleveland, and they are equally
satisfied that the people demand that this
senseless warfare over the control of pro-
AcoaloliA OdstOdll ShhlA tnls anu LudI us
continuance will ruin not only all con
cerned financially, but the professional
game itself, SO far as it IL to be considered
as a profitable investment.
II they favor what is known as the "rule
or RUM policy, aud to a certain extent
that is what their insistance upon peace
means, they are in no way behind their
opponents in this regard. To use a sport
ing expression sit is horse and horse"
Rather than not have consolidation by
which they believe the game can be saved,
and all parties will have an opportunity in
time to get back their losses, they may be
willing TO save themselves, although by so
doing they a a step which may ruin the
Players league. On the other hand, the
men opposed to them are quite as much in
favor of a policy which is equally worthy
of being called rule or ruin" for it is a
continuance of q strife which in the DELHI
crate opinion of seven-tenths of the base
ball managers of the country will ruin the
game, and il this opinion is the correct one
it will ruin all concerned to the extent Of
their vested interests therein.
The New York men have no disposition
to let Others make the money they nave
already invested a dead loss, and so far as
| can judge by many conversations with
them 1 think that when it becomes evil
dent that a general consolidation is posi-
lively out of the question they will resign
their club membership in the Players
league and consolidate their clubs with
the National league clubs. This opinion
applies merely to New York and Brook
lyn. Whether Al johnson will follow
them in case matters reach such a crisis is
a question of some doubt.
Col. McAlpin made one offer to the
Players league. and l think he is still
ready to stand by it. He told his associates
that when capital engaged in a fight with
capital all interested shorld bear equally
the burdens of that fight, and he proposed
II 1t was decided to fight to the death that
each club hou put up 10000, as a fund
from which all losses should be made good.
He even offered to make the amour $50
900 for each club. This offer was not ac-
cepted. Col. McAlpin's theory is a bust
ness one, and will commend itself to bust
ness men everywhere as being the only
proper way to carry on war between capt.
talists.
TIL capitalists who are opposed to any
move which threatens the existence of the
Players league, charge that the New York
men and those who aid them are traitors
to the cause, and that while they can have
no just objection If the Messrs. McAlpin
and Talcott want to lay down, they CON
slider that if those gentlemen wanted to
quit they should have gone about it in a
different way. They think the proper
thing for the New York men to have done
would ave been to notify them quietly
and allow them to have purchased the
club, and not do the business in a way that
would throw down. their general part
ners in the enterprise. They say that they
will not allow the New York men to get
out unless they sell out to them, and they
propose to enforce this claim with the
BOND signed by all parties when the League
was organized. Under this bond they
claim they can oblige the New York men
to remain in the Players league.
Against this the New York men say they
will not sell out, and that the bond is use
less for the purpose mentioned. In this
view they are sustained by Judge Bacon,
of New York, who says that there is
nothing in it which can prevent them from
leaving the Players league should they
decide to do so.
How the Players league can continue
successfully with its hackers antagonized
in this way Is u problem. 1t would seem
that the organization would have more
chance4 for success by letting such un-
willing partners go and forming a new
circuit. w. L HARRIS.
An honest Swede tells his story in plain
but unmistakable language for the
benefit of the public. Zone of my
children took a severe cold and got the
croup. | gave her a teaspoonful OF
Chamberlain Cough Remedy, and in
five minutes later | gave her one more.
By this time she had to cough up the
gathering in her throat. Then she vent
to sleep and slept food for fifteen min
utes. Then she got up aud vomited; then
she. vent back to bed and slept good for
the remainder Of the night. She got the
Group the second night and | gave the