The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-31
Copyright by American Press Association.l

bone of the old League and fill its follow
crs with dismay. Since the statement wa!
made newspaper men all over the countrr
have been making a still hunt after the in
side trail of that deadly bomb. None O
us has found it yet-that is, not n trai
that one can swear by. met a Brother
hood man recently who gave me, as h,
claimed, the secret of the bomb. His stor,
Is that 1T is an agreement between the pro
prietors of the Louisville club and tn,
Players League, by the terms Of which thu
Louisville club if it wins the American as
sociation championship, will desert that
organization and play the champions o.
The Players league for the championship
OF the world, and after the games have
been played the Louisyilles are TO be ad
mitted 10 the Players league circuit in
place Of the Buffalo club.
Another story that comes to me is that
the deal between Won Der Abe and Phelps
that was a part of the business Of that
Philadelphia conference, has really been
completed, and that the denials Of it have
only been made TO keep certain people, as
well as the public deluded until the scheme
is ripe.
The next yarn is that the players of the
Brooklyn League club will, if they win the
pennanJ, get together AS individuals and
play The brotherhood champions.
but the widest OF ali the rumors is the
story telegraphed east by Chicago man
that Aaron Stern has decided to sell out
the Cincinnati club, and has placed price
on 1t said TO be so, 000 and that Secretary
Brunell, OF the brotherhood, has been given
an option on the club. and that be is at
present engaged, in company with Al
johnson, IN raising the money. When
johnson and Brunell have bought the club
they propose TO make it a Brotherhood
organization, and Cincinnati is to receive
a franchise in the Players league
Of all these stories, and many more
which might retail, the first one seems to
be the only tale of the lot which is at all
likely TO be true. The methods of Presi-
dent Parsons, of the Louisville club, in
1889, and the frequent conferences of Zach
Phelps, president of the American associa-
ton, with the men who are openly known
as the emergency committee of the Broth
erhood, lay both those gentlemen under
suspicion, aud there would be very little
surprise if the announcement was made
that Phelps and Parsons had made bar
gain with the enemies of the National
league and Of the national agreement 1t
would be difficult 20 estimate what the eff
feet of such a scheme would be upon the
fortunes of the National league 1t seems
TO me if the men who are alleged to have
made it are able to carry it out-a matter
OF considerable dOubt-that the effect
would not be very injurious to the Ma
tional league It would saddle another
twenty-five cent town and another advo-
cate of Sunday baseball on to the Players
league, and | believe that this would coun-
terbalance whatever might be gained by
the playing of a series for the worlds
championship, which this year is not likely
TO be over profitable.
The events Of the last week have given
us some clew as to the probable National
league circuit for 1891 The failure of the
once great Athletic club, a splendid organ
ization holding a valuable franchise, which,
by the way, has been ruined by the most
feeble and incompetent management with
which a club was ever afflicted, and the &C
QUESTION of Robinson. Mcmahon and
Welch by the Baltimore club, are indica-
tions that Manager Barnie's city will be in
the National league next year One is led
to this conclusion from the nature of the
salaries which are said TO be inserted in
the contracts OF these three men, an ag-
gregate Of something like $ll 900 for the lot.
Surely on the present outlook for next sea-
son no American association club could az
ford to shoulder such responsibilities 1t
has been hintld that Barnie has been
strengthening his team so as to be in readi-
ness to join the Players league, but such
an act would be so inconsistent with his
repeated assertions to me, and TO almost
every newspaper man in the country, that
to believe it one must believe Barnie to be
both hypocrite and liar
We are told every few DAYS that Pitts
burg will surely have National league
team next season. But who believes iti
The old league magnates are not foolish,
and it strikes me that those who do not
think that Pittsburg, is to be dropped must
consider them So There is only one chance
for Pittsburg, and that is the abandonment
Of her territory by the Players club. which
is a very unlikely thing at this stage of the
game.
am told that II Baltimore is taken into |
the National league the twenty-five cent |
tariff viii be continued there.
Joe Pritchard, Of St Louis, recently
made the broad statement that John B.
Day believed that Sunday baseball would !
that he was favorably considering such a |
scheme There isn't word Of fact in
that statement. Mr.. Day is irrevocably |
opposed to Sunday baseball, and would, | |
believe, retire from the sport altogether 1
rather than run club in "A league in which |
Sunday games were played.
THINGS THAT ARE SAID.
That the premature publication of the |
Comiskey deal has spoiled il.
That all Boston is up in arms at the ru- /
NOR that King Kelly is TO be stolen |
away from them by the festive johnson.
That Eddie Talcott blames the loss Of |
the Players pennant by the New York /
club TO Eddie Crane, and intimstes that |
Eddie c. viii not be a member of the team
next year.
That if Eddie isn't signed somebody will
have to put up for the $1,000 which Eddie
contributed to the capital of the New
lorks Qimited).
That I'd Crane was no more responsible
for the i'll luck of the Giants than several
other men who might be mentioned.
That an anxious public is watching the
Pittsburg misfits as they near the Louis
vile standard. You can almost count
them Ill; will they beat it-lll2
That Palmer O'Neul now comedies that
they will
That Billy Barnie was In big luck to be
representative OF the Association" dur
ing the settlemenz OF the ArA SIR. club
troubles
That be represented Baltimore when he
Scooped in Robinson, WEIGH and Mcmahon.
That William always looks out for NUN.
Al. l.