Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-08
WHY NOT COMPROMISE.
Pittsburg Baseball Enthusiasts Would be
Glad TO Have the Players and National

Pittsburg Baseball Enthusiasts Would be
Glad to Have the Players and National
League Teams United and That at Once.
The time has come in the baseball war Tin
Pittsburg at least) when something In the
nature of compromise must be effected. The
causes for the meager patronage extended TO
baseball games at the present time are too wei
understood to need comment. 1t is the remedy,
and not the cause, which must be looked aIter.
IL may be said by some that effective remedy
cannot be secured unless the cause Tor the
trouble is thoroughly understood. Tnls ls
true. 1t shall be assumed thar The DISPATCH
readers are familiar with the causes. and, as IL
is our aim to do what we can to secure COM
PROMISE we feel that to agitate the causes OF
the difficulty might produce a'combative feel
ing among the contending parties.
The baseball public of Pittsburg are not IN
terested in any way in the strife between the
National League and Players League, What
is needed to restore patronage to the game is
good ball playing and the unanimous support
of the citizens of Pittsburg. AS it stands to-
day, the fight between the factions has disgust
ed many of the most earnest lovers of the game
of baseball, and this same fight has SO divided
the talent that good ball playing seems lmPos-
sible in either club. The National League clup
is not able to win one game in fve, and the
Players League of late have done very little
DtbteI. 1ueFe are enough Sklil6u playcIs AZ shc
two clubs, if they could be combined, to make
a frst-class club, one that Pittsburg could De
proud of at home and away from home, CLUB
that could hold its own against any club In the
United States. and there seems to be no reason
why these forces could not be united. There is
no principle at stake, and SO far as can be seen.
no vital difference of opinion.
The owners of the National League club
have large sum of money invested in the
business of baseball, and their object primarily
must be to get some return for their invest
hn f0 nf hA a uArCI
League. The officers of the National League
club make no secret of the fact that they are
losing money and while the Players League
have not made such an admission, the best in
formed calculators on the business of baseball
say positively that they must be losing also.
The policy of Mr.. O'Neil of transferring games
has practically gwen the Players League nom
conflicting dates in Pittsburg. In very few in
stances have the two clubs played here on the
same day, and still with the field practically
left open to them, their attendance
expenses. In some of the other
cities the lack of patronage AID
the decentralization of the business might prob
ably be attributed to conflicting dates, but here
the PLAYERS League have had practically moth
ing to contend with. This must mean that the
baseball-loving public of Pittsburg are tired of
the wrangling between the Players and the
National Leagues, and disgusted with the mis-
cradle exhibition of ball they are asked to pat
ronize. Is it not then time that the public de-
mand q compromise and settlement OF these
difficultiesc An arrangement should be made
at once whereby the best talent OF the two
clubs here could be united. Good exhibitions
of baseball would soon restore the interest and
patronage.