The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-05-13
BASE BALL TROUBLES.
A New York journal Tells the Cold Trut
About the Game in That Town.

A New York journal T. lis the Cold Truth
About the Game in That Town.
New York Times: All readers of the news
papers in this neighborhood are aware that
the New York base ball clubs. both of the
eague and of the brotherhood, have been
getting themselves persistently beaten since
The beginning of the present season. Last
year and the year before the New York team
won the championship. The reversal
vicissitude and the effluxion of
things in a manner that must be
more satisfactory to mOralists and phlloso-
piers than to the players of baseball and
their managers. 1t is result. of course. of
the disorganization of the league caused by
business for themselves as brotherhood.
Though an incidental, it is none the less an
important result of that action, for New
York has been one of the best cities in
The country to play base ball in, if
not the very best. The specta-
managers of the club have been able to pay
their players very handsomely, and to di-
vide among their stockholders in addition
I'm amount of profits SO large as to excite
the envy of the players. Doubtless it was
n order to absorb the income of the exist
ing clubs. in the form of profits as we'll as
in the form of wages, that the players un-
hertook to manage themselves. So far as
The New York players are concerned, the re-
suit must have been very disappointing:
In the first place, it is unlikely that there
could be any greater degree of enthusiasm
prevailed for the past three or four seasons.
Everybody has been exposed to it, and
Everybody of base ball "diathesis," so to
speak, has been infected by it. Local pat
riotism about anything is SO rare with us
That it is refreshing to see it manifested
OH hoc hnn To ~
it's pecuniary results, it was necessary that
New York should have strong team this
season which had reasonable prospect of
winning the championship. Two strong
teams would not be as good for the players
or fer the managers, because at most there
would be the same amount of receipts to di-
vide, and they would have to be divided
among twice as many people. If the play
crs could have persuaded the managers
who were not players to step out and leave
the business to them, or If they had COM
posed club SO strong as to take all interest
and all patronage away from the league
games, they might have had as much
money to divide as the club had last year,
and they might have got somewhat larger
share of it for themselves. Evidently these
were highly improbable contingencies. A
prudent player. who considered that he
WAS already getting ten times as much as
he could have earned in any other business,
would have hesitatec to risk his livelihood
upon them and would have preferred to re-
main as he was.
The result of the secession OF the players
has been that instead of one strong team
New York has two very weak ones, that re.
main at the very bottom OF the lists OF
their respective organizations. There is
thus no room for local patriotism or local
pride in the performances of either team. II
they were both good, the enthusiasm OF the
paying public would suffer by distraction
and division. 1t suffers very much more
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