Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-21
DIDN'T GET THE REDS.
Messrs. BruneIl and johnson Fail in
Their Mission to st. Louis.
A TALK WITH SECRETARY STERN.
He Says That the Club Will Go if the
Price is Paid.
CAUSES OF THE DIFFICULTIES
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE D1sPATcH.t

| ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISFATCH.l
CINCINNATI, September 2o.-Al that
portion of Cincinnati which is baseballo-
| cally inclined has been torn up over the
rumor that Cincinnati had been captured
! body and breeches by the Brotherhood.
The story has only added to the general de-
moralization that war has brought upon the
game. The bomb was fired too soon. Gin
cinnati is still in the League and may stay
| there As the club is now oficered it will
never ally itself to the opposition. Still
the future of the Cincinnati club is by no
means clearly defined. A fork in the road
has been reached. To the right lies the
line of League travel, to the left the Brother
hood runs. Before the slgnboard the club has
halted. If the latter route is chosen the
Messrs Stern and Sterne will abandon the
parties and it will proceed along under the
new management The future alone holds
the secret
SECRETARY STERNF TALKS.
"The probabilities are'' said Harry Sterne. to
THE DISPATCH correspondent that the sea-
son of '9l will find the Cincinnati club still in
the League. | am frank to say that am no
philanthropist. however, and if the Brother
hood meets our figures we will step down and
affairs brought about by the Brotherhoods
foolish warfare cannot see the wisdom in
holding on in the hope of regaining in three or
four years from now what we have lost this
season, and may in the next. There is no en-
co1ragement offered club owners in these days.
Every player in the Cincinnati team knows
that the club has lost money this year, and yet
if we were to ask them to sign contracts for
next year feel sure that they would all de-
mand increase of salary. This thing of jump
inrr oil haS frnD n
worse until the ruin of professional ball will
soon stare the players in the face. The fact
that men have played poor ball in the previous
season does not prevent them from asking for
more money the next.
COMMON SENSE REASONING.
'1n any line of mercantile business the rule
is reversed. If Eve man in my employ who
does badly on the road he is glad to sign con-
tract for the next season at the same figure
Not so in baseball"
HAS the Brotherhood offered $4,000 for the
club?"
Il do not believe that they have. President
Stern has given them figure, and if 1t is ac-
cepred we become laymen once more. do not
natl is lost to them. L honestly believe they
will win the fight in the end. They Certainly
have the best of the battle. do not think that
as business men are bound to remain in
that fight, however. Ii the Brotherhood pays
us our price, really think we would be fool
ish not to accept 1t. No o5her such chance will
ever be offered to save US from loss. am sure.
l would rather continue in the League. l know
of no one who wants to invest, do you? For
years the Cincinnati salary list has been mount
ing up with no corresponding increase in the
receipts. There can be but one end to such a
thing-colapse."
Despite all uenials there is faction that be-
lieves deal has been made.