Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-28
Present Status of the War for the
Field not Very Encouraging
for Either Party.
DROWNING MEN CATCH ATsTRAwS,
And Each Side in the Grea. National Con-
treNersy Sees Evidences of the
Other Weakening.
TIE WISH is FATHER TO THE THOUGHT.
Will Either Pittsburg Team Break Its Record and
Win Two Games This weeki

The past week has been glorious one in
The baseball war, and the charges and
counter-charges of the conflicting companies
have been at times amusing. The old say
ing that drowning men catch at strsws"
was never better illustrated than in this
Equabble for baseball patronage. The
slightest apparent weakness shown by either
side draws the other to the belief that the end
is nearing, but the ''wish is father to the
thought"
When anyone thinks the baseball war will
close before the end of the season, he is very
much mistaken. There have as yet been no
real evidences of weakening on either side, ex-
cept those seen through partisan eyes.
The League people say the Brotherhood
players are not drawing their salaries. But
they can't prove it. and so long as these men
want to play ball for principle it is no ones af-
fair but their own. In fact it only tends to
show that the League has still the harder fight
They can't get men to play without salaries,
and as consequence must go down in their
pockets. while the other people are making
enough to pay expenses, and are not compelled
to pay more for salaries than they have to
spare If the Players do not let their greedi-
ness for money get away with them they have
the best of the League in this particular.
THE WEEKS CROWDS.
The teams in this city have not been drawing
quite so large crowds the past week. The
League has had on an average of $50 and the
Players about lS00. or course you must de-
duct few from these counts as turnstiles are
not infallible and sometimes slip a few cogs
But even granting that the figures are true the
money brought in would hardly keep a good
minor league team. So that as necessity, the
bank accounts must be broken, or the boys will
have to play faro for salaries and then probably
not get them,
GAINING CREDENCE.
The old story of transfer of playing dates
made by the local National League team will
be enacted again this week. This may be a
good financial policy, but the story that the
National League owns the Pittsburg team thus
gains more credence. In fact it is becoming so
that at each trip the team makes very few peo-
pie expect it to return. The schedule says they
will but that is as unreliable as the turnstiles
have been of late.
Some time ago Mr.. O'Neill said that accord
ing to League rules the full quota of games
with each club must be played in this city dur.
ing the season and that no more games would
be played in Cincinnati. Now he says that Tom
Lotus wants the dates of August 6, z and
scheduled for this city transferred to Cincin-
matt and that the change will probably be
made. Was MIR. 0'Neill mistaken about there
being such rule or has new one been made
for the benefit of the Pittsburg team? He
should rise and explain.
THIS WEEKS GAMES.
The first part of this week Captain Ewing and
his giants will be at the Players League
grounds and according to schedule are to re-
ceive a good beating. Following them Man
ager Johnnie Ward and his Brooklyn "Mis-its"
will appear and show what a truly good man.
ager can do with with patched up team of
players.
At Recreation Park Manager Mutrie will
show off his little band of youngsters and vet
Grams and the probabilities are that their blood
will be spilled at least once. 1t would be use-
less TO ask either local team to win two games
In one series. One will be satisfactory.