Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-10-26
IT MUST Be Done.
Necessity Demands a Cessa-
ton of the Baseball War.
STUMBLING BLOCKS IN THE WAY.
w. 4. Harri, Thinks That the Players
Are the Ones Who win lave to Yield.
Failure to Compromise Means Ruin to
Professions Baseball.

Are the Ones who viii Have to Yield.
Failure to Compromise Means Ruin to
Professional Baseball.
II the present negotiations for peace in
the baseball wal fail the public will be
pretty sure to locate h responsibility for
it, and the men responsible will suffer the
most during the season Of 1891.
Professional baseball has reached an i'm.
portant crisis In lis career, and the settle
ment of the differences which have during
the past season acted as a brake upon its
popularity aud financial success has he
cong an absolute necessity. The public
that ~patronizes the game and supports IL
demands Il cessation of hostilities, and will
be satisfied with nothing else. The time
has come when sentiment shoald he aban-
doned and coinimon sense rule the base
ball magnates and players. Most OF them
realize this, but some of them are having
a great deal of difficulty in carrying out
what their convictions tells them Is a ne
cessity for the pcrpetuation of professional
baseball as a permanent and profitable in
stitution. And some Of these stumbling
blocks are Of a nature which should be the
last Ia torment the club owners.
A week ago there seemed To he but a few
obstacles Ia the contamination OF "A peace,
and they were of a nature which might
certainly with one exception have been
eventually arranged. That exception was
the demand of the Players league confer
rees that the National league should aban-
don itsname. This matter, which in the
minds of many was considered trivial, and
not likely to stand in the way of peace II
all other matter, could be agreed upon, has
become insignificant in face Of the opposi-
ton which has come from the Brot herhood
pf Ball Players and from certain Uf the
magnates at the Players league, who with
out knowing much about the deal pro
posed imagine that they are To be frozen
ont.
IL Is only natnral. that the Brotherhood
should lind much to he dissatisfied with in
the deal ~ it has been made To appear in
the public press. The indications are that
If the deal is finally cOn,lmGnatei the
Brotherhood will cease u D., "a power OK.
crpt rs Il beneficial and parfIg protective
order. Il will I've no longcria . position To
dictate 10 the managers. .Auaiaur thing
which worries the players J., me russib.r
a, ,.s,iiy that they NAV hs o;Ii-ci To play
with the men who stood bv In" National
league when the revolt occurred last win
ter. They also lind small comfort in the
fact that tie profit sharing feature Of the
player.' league will be abolished And
finally they were outraged by the fact that
the orIylnll conference committee did not
contain one man who directly represented
the p!aycrs.
ON the face of things these complaints
seem lust aud reasonable. but an ANALYSIS
of the situation Indicate, that there are
good business reasons As well as some sen.
t;mrntal ONES WHY the players sbuull nor
interpose objections to the settlement of
the baseball muddle.
IL is a fact that the only men connected
with the national game this season who
have made any money have been the play.
ers. Every one of them has received hi,
salary. and the minority have been maid
with the greatest liberality, there lsinp
many instances where they have received
more money than in nm, pr,yious season.
Nor i, this all. A numbero of PLAYERS, some.
thing like thirty in all. W stock in differ.
pnt clul,s. Only one of these c!fibs has
come am npyyybcre near even The hal
ance have had n deficit I'm their finances in
mos, ..Ises REACHING a very laru,. amount
Have The nl,,,rs oyyninu stock horn thrir
nronortion,te shnr.o f thns. loss.ss Ido
NOT think that a single one will say thar he
has b..n assessed vas informed y.ster.
dny by n gentleman who knows the inside
of the pIny,r.' league transactions and
rim. m,tbml. u.,l IA La.n ,L. inn
intact. n, We'll a. any man In lie country
,bu, ma uI,ycr has ba.n assessed an his
stock. iii, ,utir, losses have been footed
Lv the carirli.t. cha boy, ,nd.oynr,4I IN
max. o,.n,.rotiy. baseball a .pcc.s. and
carry uut ria, scheme. az IN. pI,vers rb.v
nav. tn,e IA at , terrific cos, T'heir losses
exr,,.I Ssu uo and .an,. al tba,n suv th,, a
ou.r,.r nf a milan mora will nor cny,r
their ~origin,l Investment In grrnd stands
fitting no grounds. etc. Tb.,, gentlemen
may Le relied unnp IA s.. thar th, int.r.
est of the nlnyars arr. nrot.,t.l NJ. far as
reason and iustic. and IN. absolut.. nec,s.
sities of the baseball business r,.ouire ,b.m
10 no They will ayrce to ma cnmnromise
or consolidation nroyidipy M b.r,yis,
Tn. nl,y.rs who bay. r.o..iv,.d ,b.ir
salaries and sucb rr.,tmeut from ,Iessr,
johnson. Tnlcntt Nc,Inin Goodwin Adj.
olson, Wagner and other hackers in the
supnort of heir cz,Is. In !, fybt which IL IL
universally acknowIelped will. II con.
tfnped N. ant "a and In disaster II !, does
mo-, min the game and ali connected with
il. from a financial standpoiu,. should not
now enter n onposition Ia a settlement
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