Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-01-25
SHOULD YRRYFNLD
What's . Collapse of the Play :
ers' League Would.Lcad To. -
NO DEcREAsElx SALARIES LIKELY !,

The sagnase: Could Scarcely AsDra -
Let Revenge Iniuencs Their rreatnsas
+. Of the Mem in Any Evspt--A Prspsrs-
tory school for Ball Players. ia .s.e.s
The ball players' Brotherhood, whether 10
succeeds or not, will go down In baseball his
tory ms having accomplished a great deal for
the players Wisely directed by men Who
were not figuring ON making themselves rich
out Of IL, II would hsste. continued always to !
have exerted powerful influence on the;
National kasue and the game, and been q
, cheek upon those managers who might desirs
TO take undue ad vantage OF the players, and
there are some managers willing To slussse
the men to the limit Of ~ rules, snd often
beyond the limit. lN& 49,
! One cbuld reason that ! failure a. she !
brotherhood would put the players into po-
stion where the League would grind them
down into worse. condition than they ever
were in as regards the relations Of employer
and fmploye. And there are baseball writer's
who are asserting that such will surely be the
result Of a collapse ofithe Brotheslpoud move
faent. II is hard to Imagine Mat any sensIblSs
man can really bring himsslf 10 believe u
such ,fallacieus argumeht, eigA certainly
men WHO are supposed TO devote theinselvess
70 ftpdy OF the game, its history in the past,
and The history being mnds from day to day. y
must either be very pfejudioed sr very duh ~
ahaly yticaipdwefs to chainpfon 14ich q theoeS VI
IL is'useless 10 tbcoriyc on what thS u6aSs
mates could doin the event of acoliapssof
the Brotherhood. The only line, worth fob.
lowing out is thc ono which IL borrowed by
the things they could afford e. do. Baseball
has got boyond the point Of sentiment with
bothllipagnates aud players As played pro- /.
fessitnally, 1t is a question Of dollars and
cents FOR both parties. That q balance shali
bc on the profit side of the ledger il is necea.
sary to give tho pnblica square, honest and
artistic game, played for ali il Is worth and
decided on Its merits. There Is too much
capital locked up in the game, and the bread
and butter, of too many people depends upon
its success for the magnates to jeopardixe It. /,
Truly said the players, ii referring 10 tho
niagbates, "Tbeir eyes are IN the turnstlle,"
and II they had added, land ours are glued
30 the sarile Indicator" they would have COM
plctad u perfect sentence a. ala# Stgt ~
"a. TIP tremendous AnlouiID If newspapev dis
cussibn that tho baseball war has aroused
has resulted " a moro thorough understand-.
ing hy the publf Of the relations between
magHate aud player than has ever before ex-
isiedl Miilioiis " people have taken np ono
side Or tin other, but there are other millions
who love the game more than either playtr
or niagnate, lwhb know that the player H.
c0mIiarahi vaiy hut thn hero OF q day and that
good, fair and honest sport can only b. got
from we'll paid, cantepted men under good
rules and Discipline properly adpinistered
1t Is this tlass of baseball ehthusfasts who
woulp hold the balance Of power and prevent
injustice to tho piuyer with the tdrnstiis
elub.l sito ts-iNtabt lTtil49a tftHtA - X /.
j 1t Sonld not b. human nature II tbs mag
Mates did not hwyp fnelii,Gs Of dislike against
the rlngleadors who have epdeaypred to de-
stroyltheir business Interests and d desire 10
even hp for the attempt shonld IL fail The
chances aio that III tho course Of time the
League would t,ideavor 10 get square With
these Iuien, but hs hgainst this rank and flle,.
whorh tlIe magnatssl claiin have been led By
the noa, tbsio would he no feeling Even
the leaders would ~ safe against League !
disiike or, revenge forl n long time because t,
public opiniop ~ expressed IN dollars and /
cents would not sanction any harsh ,meas-
ures towards them. Eventually they might
be mada to feei Tho weight, but tho 'IIsag "
ceuldnot afford To make II very heavy. - 2
a As 70 salaries, there is not tho leust rsasoti
or argument to believe that they would b
smaller should the Broti,srhood COLLAPSE than
they are now. except w possibly = few cassai (.
I1,osd sfsrs who bava, ,t,.,ar accoraad !. i.r~~. .
increase have Ione contracts ~ tbs srpirs-
tIon oF which thev wiiI bnve iittia difI,cmitv
In renewing II their playing ability Il the
same, There were only few Of the present
League cities which were unable 10 pay large
salaries IN is6y, butt ID was because the gate
tecsAs were not fairlydivided. Under the
10 per- cent. division adopted hy the League
this year, these cities can now afford to- and
IL q
It ID true that IN The case Of Young nlavsre
lust making 4 start. salaries viii be low. g
they always have been, and they NAV hava
To srte n what longer time Mt medium
rates before getting the remuneration OF tho
present stars " IL not at all uplikely that
many new men Of good repute engage viii
be sigped FOR from Que 10 three wears at from
x2,OOOIto $500, and will have 10 hold their
own III good shape in order to get an jncreass,
or hold their own at the end Or the term OF
service ''t'lt L''', 49, ~ b'~ R'
IL IA hlso probnbIe that nil the clubs win :
engage from three to five yuuuc players
each, at small salaries, say al 900 TO sI 100
who have exhibited promise. The ,nsu viii
make quite o comfortable living while prac.
ticing md developing themselves 10 be future
stars. Tley win know when they are en- +
gagged that Il may be several years before
they are put regularly into the nine. and
hence the petty iealtusies that bave eristI.i :
,,,d ,,x,rai rIay.,,. ,.,,,a ~. ,s.,,,,ss !, . :
...;....a 49,. ~ 'eu ~
~ minimum, hos Ahow enat sucn pian
nus ever oeeh -cnhs'aeteu, but 10 " easy 70
reason out that 1t would. be natural result
Of the players revolt, Each club could well
afford 10 spend S5. 600 a year for tho purpose
IhayeIindIcated and tJns astah,,s,, ,,,a,,sr.-
,ory s,l,1,hs ',s,r 'f.,,,rs G,,.,, u ~.
wonId he IN tho e,,a 'c,,ita ~ ,,.oS,tatia =,
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