, 1890-11-02

EAAyeFh "hy ID "Athout S~V NeAa
Season
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Peace negotiations are apparently of be-
tween the two major baseball leagues, yet
as an actual fact the capitalists are still
dickering and all hope OF an arrangement
is not positively dead. Indeed. it was never
more favorable. Il is true that the regular
conference was broken up by the attempt
of hi Brotherhood to force Messrs. Ward.
HAnion and Irwin upon the Players
league committee. Perhaps 1 should not
lay the matter entirely at the door Of the
brotherhood, as the player directors OF the
League were aided In their design by the
capitalists from Boston, Pittsburg and
Philadelphia The players were added to
the committee by a unanimous vote, but
this was because the capitalists opposed 70
1t found that they did not have votes
enough to prevent 1t and therefore wisely
concluded to make no open opposition. As
is well known, the original COMMITTEES when
in conference with the National league and
Association men had got pretty we'll start
ed upon a plan Of partial consolidation and
peace.
They found such smooth sailing and that
matters could be so equitsbly settled. with
mutual sacrifices on both sides much less
than had been expected, that they disliked
very much to see things go by the board In
the face OF the public demand for a cessa-
ton OF hostilities. When these gentlemen
found that everything was liable to end in
smoke owing 10 the refusal OF the National
league and association to permit players
whom they considered TO have been the
ringleaders in the movement which had
cost them such immense losses to partlci-
pate in the peace settlement. it Is not sur
prisinR that the capitalists should have TO
. certain extent taken things into their own
hands as individuals This they have done.
and during the past week there have been
q number of conferences between ind!
viduAl member OF the two leagues having
eventual peace for their object. The New
York men have already agreed upon a basis
for consolidation. the Brooklyn men have
got some idea Of a plan, and the Chicago
and Cleveland people are trying to find one.
Tit men who are trying to work the
deal are Messrs. johnson, McAlpin, Tai
colt, Robinson, Goodwin, Wallace aud Al
Olson on one side, and Messrs. SpAlding,
Day, Byrne, Robinson, Howe and Hawley
on the other, Just what these negotia-
lions may lead TO II Is hard to say at this
time. That It is the intention OF Mr.. Nc
Alpin and his associates TO desert the Play.
ers' league is hardly possible or probable.
IL may be hat they are trying TO force n
general consolidation OF the three major
organizations. This seems to be the most
reasonable superstition OF the two, and Il
indicates n split In the counsels of the
Players League which may be fatal to IL.
IL is plain that the men who have been
providing the money for the disastrous
war which the closing season has sus-
pended have determined TO prevent its
resumption. The Boston and Philadelphia
capitalists are making d great howdydo
about ~Et-nGtnR by their players, but it is
somewhat doub'ful v tisy would be SO
'Iud n they did rI' Lhluk that c-onsoii1I
LIZ a..-nir clos. which would force them
lsto a -r-1undHry circuit. Was almost i'm
n-oasiuir
Can n consolidation 10 forced by the in.
dividual action OF three or four clubsf IL
would seem hat II those clubs are New
York. Brooklyn. Cleveland and Chicago
that the answer would be in the afirma
tive. The Players league capitalists and
the Brotherhood FAY that even such a de.
lection would not be sufficient to do the
business. i am told that the Boston md
Philadelphia people are willing to put up
any aDsount of money to keep the new or
RaniIAtion going, and that a new circuit
woId be arranged in very short order. Il
stated that new capitalists can eRsi-
ly be u 10 start n new club in New
York, and that II the men behind the p. l..
clubs in the -four cities named decided
to pool their interests they could not
deliver their players, AZ the brotherhood
would not permit them 10 play anywhere
but In the Players league. The more rabid
OF the Brotherhood players say that rather
than see the Players league d"isintegrated
they would be perfectly willing to have the
gate receipts salary clause in their con-
tracts enforced against them, and cheerful
ly play for such share OF the gate money
IA might aerrt,a 20 thar, AHA R,nptF, - |
Pensez had tanr ~fqr1dEted.
As to new capitalists In the city OF New
York, IL is pretty safe TO wager that when
the present hackers of the brotherhood
there get tired successors for them will
be scarce enough to make the project
DTS hunting for them weary indeed. AS TO
new circuit, that Is exactly what the men
who are engineering the deal propose, and
can offer a better circuit han the
four Directing clubs IL left alone could hope
TO organize. As to the question of deliver.
ing the players, that is not SO serious as it
would appear or the surface. 1t Is more
probable that should the proposed
consolidation take place at least a third Of
the men who last year played with the
Players league teams would not be wanted
for next year In the leading league. This
Ii due to the fact that many of them did
not play ball as they could have done, that
many have lost thlr skill, and chat Others
who were rebellious and disslpated are
likely TO suffer for it. With a very few ex.
oeptions the players generally are after the
mighty dollar, and II Is not to be supposed
in event OF a consolidation As antici
pated that the Brotherhood would be able
TO hold them in line. The power OF the
Brotherhood in such a case TO dictate 10 its
would not be so great rs some Of
its chiefs now profess TO believe,
The preponderAnce OF argument appears
20 indicate that II the capitalists in New
York, Brooklyn, Chicago and Cleveland
can agree the other parties will have TO
fall into line, and that the much desired
peace and national championships will be
by n consolidation of the three
major leagues into one. II the men who
are now holding informal conferences
nearly every day cannot reach a common
ground on which an equitable agreement
ian be made, then the future of the profess
sional side of the game viii once more be
shrouded in uncertainty.
Those who believe that peace is necessary
10 the stability Of the gamea ash is now pre-
by professionals can, | think, take
pew hope that pence will be brought about
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