Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-12-21

ters 10 the hioptloh oi Il, 70. Siaiuils
plan Of reorsanAing baseball, at least 10
that part of il which covers the formation
of the American Association circuit. and
the opposition may, from all appearances,
prevent the plan heing carried out.
Perhaps il i harlly fair 10 cill ii Mr.,
Spalding's plan. The proper thing, per
, haps. would bc To say the plan made by
Mr.. Spaldiny and Mr.. Thurman. These
gentlemen outlined Baltimore, Washing.
ton, Philadelphia, Boston, Chiclgo, Column
bus, Louisville aud 81. Louis a. the best
and most desirable circuit for the Ameri-
can association, and they have got things
into such shape that there is no doubt
about any of the cities except Boston and
Chicago.
The only hitch that is likely to stop the
deal as To Chicago is the conditions which
the national agreement club there will
insist upon, which are that the association
| shall not play sunday games and shall
| charge fifty cent admission fee. These
same conditions will be eNacted in Boston,
but they are entirely agreeable to the
| Players League club there. which will
have the Association franchise If one is
granted.
The trouble in Boston j. on the other
| foot. The Boston club l. governed by
| Mrssrs. Soden. billings and CoIaut, IL is
| well known, and what any two uf the three
agree uppn j. the action ot the club. In
| this case Mr. Suden ls not aver-c 10 having
an Association club, hut his two partner,
J are decidedly uppnSrl to it, and If the
! question j. left 10 the club tu decide there
4. IL. II
| The decision doe, not wholly rest with
them The League has appointed con
ference committee, aud, while II has not
given thlt committee absolute powers, IL
j. not probable that it will overtlru any
plan Of settlement which the committee
may report But will the committee disre-
gard the wishe, of the triumyirss
There doe, not seem IL hc amy reason
why the Boston club should not make
some concessions, the salnr IA other clubs.
All Of them have been obliged To cpuceie
money or other considerations quite ~
valuable. The Boston CLUB, IL il agrees to
the establishment Of an Association club
in Boston, will not have to put up "A dollar,
and will merely run the chance that the
Association may indirectly hurt the at
tendance at the League games. OF course
the Association team might hurt the
League, but the chances are that with a
fifty cent tariff and no conflict the damage
would not be very great.
There are great many well posted peo-
pie who think that two clubs can never be
run successfully in Boston, and that it
would not take more than two seasons to
make this apparent and settle the question
for good. The Boston men, who are now
on top, aud who lost a good deal Of money
last season, naturally object to taking the
chances and To indirectly assisting to pay
for the experiments contemplated. They
would much prefer to buy out the Players
League club altogether. The Players
League club, however, will not sell oreyen
listen To any propositions to that end.
President Charles Albert Prince tells me
that when parties, whom he understood
represented the triumyirs, came 10 him
he informed them that the Players league
men would not even consider the matter
of selling out. Mr.. Prince also told me
that his club would not agree to the dis.
mantling of the champion Players league
team, and that a. To joining the Association
they didn't care anything about il. They
had not asked for a franchise II the AS
sUciatiOn wanted to join in with the Play
ers' league aud form "A new organization
the Boston people might consider il. They
would rcurganize the Players league be-
fore they would give up any of their play
ers. Now, most of this is a blutf pure and
simple.
Mr.. Prince is clever lawyeran a pleas
anil xrtf hal In Of. al
common sense, hut he realizes that he must
keep up appearances, and is making the
best front he can To help his club make the
hest possible trade IL can. No man knows
better than he that there must be trade,
and no one knows better than he that he l.
at the present time trying to make one
that will result to the advantage of him
self and his partners. and that his talk
about resurrecting the Players league Is
ridiculous.
That the league will treat its Boston
partners with consideration IL certain, and
that il will try 10 satisfy them that the
exigeDcies OF the case require AN Associa-
ti0n club la Boston IL equally certain, but
that they will force such n thing upon
them ia defiance Of their constitutional
rights is not likely. II will he seen, there
fore, that the Boston League men are in a
position TO dictate terms, and that II Bos-
ton is to have AN association team, TO be
run by the men who have lecn lehind the
Players league team, those men will have
to give up great many thib=, which they
say almost daily that they will never yield.
The final settlement now hinges upon the
settlement iu Boston.
Rochester, Syracuse aud Toledo will re-
tire from the American Association with
more or less grace, but ta.rr {. Hu question
that they will grt ont. Gen. Br.nErr seems
to hold little latter i#Hi ;iau any Of his
associates, aud il giyiJ i.u Association
people good dead -. trouble. lie has a
paper signed by Mc.srs. Lazarus. Whit.
taker and Won der Ahr, the inhnce com.
mittee Of the hssorit;io', Y arHnteeing
that the Assrclail n ,li. iemiuriTlte him
from all loss u be- N,H iti Jul - team into
Rochester. !la ll... Tai he lost SIS, ,0DO
and he probably u,D. "ud now sets that
price upon his rHirrrtHt. aud fortifies his
demand with tie .alraatce given him.
The Association p.Dp.r ,..y hat the finance
COMMITTEES nspi ~" nght 10 give such q
guarantee, anu UIaI legally Al isn't worth
anything. Gen Brinkcr says he proposes
10 find out just what II Is worth.
There il good deal of talk about deaL
for players, but none hs really been
made, yet In "A few Instances some thing
may have been agreed upon. John Ward
u very anxious to 20 to Philadelphia, and
would like TO play with and manage the
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