Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-09-28
ABOUT BASEBALL.
w. !. Harris Sizes Up the Sit.
uation Tersely
WHAT WILL hAPPEN OCT. 81
There Are Many kumors. No One Of
which May BE True, and some OF
which Are Positively Absurd-soms oi
the Things That Sre Said.

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A New Yorker who is undoubtedly In
the confidence of the Brotherhood recently
asserted that the Players league would
throw a bomb on the 5th day Of Octobe,
that will send a cold chill down the hsck
bone Of the old League and fill its follow
ers with dismay. Since the statement wa
made newspaper men all over the countr:
have been making u still hunt after the 10
side trail Of that deadly bomb. None c.
us has found il yet-that is, not "A tra.-
that one can swear 10y. ! met IA Brother
hood man recently who gave me, rs ~
claimed, the secret Of the bomb. Ills stor,
is that it is an agreement between the ptp
p~rietors Of the Louisville club and tn.
Players League, by the terms Of which "a.
Louisville club, IL it wins the American ~
ISOLATION championship. will desert thai
organization and play the champions %
the Players league for the championship
of the world, and after the games hay,
been played the Louisvilie> are to be sd
mitted to the Players league circui. IL
place of the Buffalo club
Another story thai comes To me is la
the deal between Non Der .Ahe and Phslps
that was IA part Ut the business of ina
Philadelphia conference, hIs really bee,
completed. and that the aelials 81 Il Aas,
only been made u keep certain peoE.!s. ~
well as tlepublic, dclg,lpi until the sCnsln,
is ripe.
The next yarn is ;hdt The niare.s 81 IN,
Brooklyn League club %ii!. il they win thu
pennant. get together a., individuals anC
play the Brui hcrhoml champions
But the widest at all the Is III,
story trl%egraphrl clsi by a Chicago mai
that Aaron Stern has decided " sell on
the Cincinnati ciub, and Ia, PLACED a pric,
on il said to Ice NO,JDD. and that Ses Ictar,
Brunell, OF the Brotherhood. has oee. giver
an option on the club. and that hp is a
present engaged, in company w.th A
johnson, IN raising the money. Whcr
johnson and Brauell have bOugGt tar clui
they propose 10 make IL \ Br1tLrrhfoI
organization, and Cincinnati l. to a-ctiv,
a franchise In the Players leagua.
OF all these stories. and Iapy NOR
which | might retail. the first che seems {,
he the only tale of the lot which j. At al
likely tn be true. The methods Gf Pref
dent Parsons, Vt the Louisville rlub, u
1889, and the frequent conferences uf liz !
Phelps, president Of the American associs
ton, with the men who are openl; knoSt
As the emergency committee uf the Broth,
erhood, lay both those gentlrm.n under
suspicion. and there would be very it'll,
surprise If the announcement was mad,
that Phelps aud Parsons had made n bar
gain with the enemies of the Nationa
league and Of the national agreement. II
would be difficult to estimate what the ef
feet of such a scheme would be upon tn,
fortunes of the National league. IL seem,
% me If the men who are alleged to hav,
made il are able to carry it out-a matte
of considerable doubt-that the effect
would not be very injurious to the Ma
tional league. 1t would saddle anothe
twenty-five cent town and another advo
cate Of Sunday baseball on to the Players
league, and | believe that this would coun
terbalance whatever might be gained b,
the playing of a series for the world
championship, which this year is not likel!
to be over profitable.
The events of the last week have giver
us some clew rs to the probable Nationa
league circuit for 1891. The failure Of tn
cnce great Athletic club, n splendid organ
ization holding valuable franchise, which
by the way, has been ruined by the mos
feeble and incompetent management will
which a club was ever afflicted, and the &C
QUESTION Of Robinson, Mcmahon AM
WEIGH by the Baltimore club, are indica
tions that Manager BARNES city will be Il
the National league next year. One is lr
TO this CONCLUSION from the nature Of th
salaries which are said 70 be inserted 4
the contracts Of these three men, an ag
gregate Of something like 81 900 for the lot
surely on the present outlook for next sea
son no American association club could Al
ford to shoulder such responsibilities, 1
has been limited that Barnie has bee
strengthening his team 80 As TO be i'm read
ness 10 ioip the PLAYERS league. but sue
an act would be so Inconsistent with hi
repeated assertions 10 me, and 10 almos
every newspaper man in the country, tina
TO believe IL one must believe Barnie to b
both a hypocrite and a liar.
We are told every few days that Pitt.
burg will surely have a National leagu
team next season. But who believes it
The old league magnates are not foolish
and Il strikes me that those who do no
think that Pittsburg, is To he dropped mus
consider them so. There is only one chanc
for pittsburg, and that Is the abandonment
Of her territory by the Players club. whic
is a very unlikely thing at this stage of ia
game.
am told that IL Baltimore is taken int
the National league the twenty-five cen
tariff will be continued there.
In. pritpbnrd of :, Inuis ra,au,Ii