Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-09-09
A JUST INDICTMENT.
The Merits of tho Quarrel of the Two Big
 Leagues Properly Defined.

The Merits of tho Quarrel of the Two Big
 Leagues Properly Defined.
 One of the best summaries of the sit uation and of the true status of the great war being waged by the National League against it's new rival, the Play CTS League, we find in a recent issue of Taggarts' Times, of Philadelphia. It is not so very long, but decidedly com prehensive, and is most effective in dictment of the National League and powerful plea for the Players League. Here it is:
 Boiled down to solid fact, there is only this difference between the Nation al and Players Leagues, viz: The latter claim the right to exist and do business, admitting at the same time that the League has this same right as we'll as anybody else who wants to form an or ganization, play ball and charge admis- sion to the games, while the former deny the Players this right, imagining that they have patent right or monopoly on baseball, and the sole claim to do l business exclusively in the eight cities in which their clubs are located. This is a fact which can not be disputed.
 "The magnates refer to the Brother hood men as wreckers. Pray, what have the Players done to wreck the game? Did they not fulfill their last years contracts, then quietly organize league of their own and attend strictly to their own business2 Have they not shown | themselves capable business men and played good, honest ball ever since? Has anybody heard them squeal about l the attendance or observed them doing any thing to bring scandal upon them, or the good name of baseball?
 ''On the other hand, what have the magnates done? Did they not offend self-respecting men all last winter in going around the country bribing play CTS? Did they not sour people by bring ing uncalledfor lawsuits against play CTS to harass, annoy and bluff them and then go into open court and wash dirty baseball linen in public? Have they not since then endeavored to create apathy among the people by openly as- sorting in public print that baseball is dead? Have they not right along and are they not now at work trying to wreck the new League? In short, are they not now raising all the fuss that iS being raised just now that tends to in- jure the game? Who, then, are the real wreckerS?
 By doing their utmost to break up the Brotherhood and getting their old players back, the League makes an open confession of weakness; that is, that their present players are not as good as those of the Players League. Of course any man who knows any thing about baseball knows that the Players League is twice as strong as the Nation al, only it looks funny now to have the latter admit such to be the case, by im- plication, after their buster earlier in the season that they did not miss their old players, and guaranteeing their patrons as good ball as they ever fur nished. The novelty of the new men is wearing off rapidly, and now that it has come down to question of ability and gilt-edge ball playing, the newcomers are not in it, and the magnates are be- coming convinced that ball players are not made in day, and, like in every other profession, experience counts.''