Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-29
RATHER PECULIAR,
Curry Foley Says That's the Condi-
tion of Baseball Affairs in
Boston at Present.
THE TRIUMVlRS BOUND TO YIELD.
Some Sign .fcant Statements About the
Probable Players for Next Sea-
sons lone Team.
THE TRIUMVIRS BOUND TO YIELD.
CRICKET PLAYERS FOR THE BIG TRIP.
Jack KeLulifs Engaged to Train Deupsey-Gsneral
Sporting News Of the Day.
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DISPATCH.

fCoRREsPoNDENCK OF THE D1sPATcH.I
Boston, Dec. s7.-The baseball situation
here is peculiar; the Brotherhood people say
they will be in the American Association
next year, and the League people say that
there will be but one team, and that at the
old South End League grounds Spalding
mas had a talk with President Prince, and
the latter gentleman thinks that there will
be an Association team at the Congress
street grounds. There is no doubt but what
Spalding promised Thurman Boston fran
chiSe for the Association: if this were not
the case the Association magnates would not
froth at the mouth when told that the
Tniumvirs will not allow a second club to
locate here. If the Triumvirs and other
League club hackers get into muss with the
American Association. they will not run up
against a lot of GreenhOrns.
Some of the ball players are praying for a
conflict between the two bodies. for they know
il Will increase salaries and allow them to be
as independent as before the Brotherhood re-
volt. Il it comes to the worst and the League
club is compelled to allow rival TO locate here
for the sake of peace, the opinion prevails,
that the League club will skin its rival alive;
in other words. the League club will demand
the return of every player who was with the
Boston club in 1889 and afterward played with
the Players League. This demand. If success
1ul, would deprive the Boston Brotherhood
Club of the following men: Kelly, Radbourn,
Madden. DAILY. Brouthers, Quinn. Nash. Rich
ardsou and Brown. The Boston club also has a
claim on Dick Johnston who was with the Bos-
ton Brotherhood Club previous to his transfer
TO New York.
The League club has no use for some of
these men, but it is thought that every obstacle
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hackers IN order to make them sell out. Prince
wants nearly all of his old men. but would
willingly part with Kelly, Nash and Richard
sou IN order TO satisfy his opponents-Soden,
Billings and Conaut. Kelly, from all accounts,
is booked for Chicago, and the Triumvirs will
try hard to secure Harry Stovey to 'the only's"
place in righttield. There are many people
who think that there will not be any ill-feelinC
between the rival clubs: that in case the
League club allows rival to locate here it
will be for the benefit of both parties to have
strong PLAYERS who are already established
Boston favor:tes. Spalding's Suavity and melli-
huous tongue may bring the Triumvirs to his
way Of thinking. and he'll 'leich 'em" to dead
certainty If he has promised the American
Association 4 Boston franchise. The Associa-
ton magnates won't he monkeyed with in this
deal, and if Spalding cannot fulfil his promise,
there may be more trouble IN the near future
General Hi Hi Dixwell is 4 little discour-
aged, but still hangs on to his Brotherhood
stock The Brotherhood is dead" SAYS the
General, land we can't expect much from the
League. hope. however, that matters will be
settled up. and then / will know what to do"
have known this man Dixwell for over ten
years, and his equal as a baseball enthusiast
was never yet born. Year after year he travels
all over the country with the Boston club and
he is known TO every baseball writer in the
land. The General never gets mad, and every
year he squanders hundreds of dollars in buy
lnG little presents for the ball PLAYERS. Only
for the sudden rupture in the brotherhood the
General would now be in Europe, accompanied
by Young Morgan Murphy The General was
gong TO take Murphy ali over Europe and paw
all the young catcher's expenses Many bail
players have touched his kick" when short of
coin, and when you ask the General if some of
them didn't fall to come TO the center at the
proper time, he simply smiles and whistles that
tune which is always in high favor with under
takers, I'm Waiting, My Darling, for Thee"
CHARLES ]. FOLEY .