Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-18
A REVIEW OF SPORTS,
Artful Dodges INDUCED in by the
Leaders of the American
Association.
WHICH is THE UNFAIR PARTY?
The Affairs of the Local Ball Club and
Something About the Signing
of Players.
WHICH is THE UNFAIR PARTYq
JACK h4ULIFFE AS A MODEL BOXER.
COrbetts Offer 10 the Irish Champion and General
Gossip About Pugilism.

In no branch Of sports has there been
anything bordering on the sensational dur
ing the week, except it may have been
among the trotters and their followers.
Outside of rumors, and lots of them, there
has been nothing to attract the attention in
baseball as far as any definite happening is
concerned. But the rumors have been
great and important, and if one-half of
them are true, we will be lucky if we have
anything at all left of the National League.
According to the Association malcontents
and thunderbolts, this organization, if such
1t can be called, will wave its flag in every
League city next year, and the poor old
League will soon be done for. All the
''stsr" players of the League, we are told,
viii rush to those wild-brained men who
claim to have done so much for the national
game; 1 mean that fraternity in the Asso-
citation whose motto is to rule or ruin.
but they have all been there before" and
not very long ago Let us look the matter
square in the face and see what it amounts
TO and also see, if we can, what is and
what is not reasonable connected with it.
While don't believe that the Association
magnates intend to do half of what they
say, do believe that they intend, or at
least would like to put club into Chicago.
They would like to do this from mercenary
reasons and mercenary reasons alone, just
ss they acted the part of traiSors, wreckers
and blackguards to get club into Cincin-
natl. In order to have some kind of pre-
tense to put q club into Cincinnati they lied
aud altogether were guilty of conduct that
was despicable in every sense of the word.
] am not exaggerating facts when 1 say
what l am now saying. The American
Association got into the hands of few
ignorant, conceited, and at the same time,
wild-eyed individuals whose great object
was to pose before the world as baseball
maCnates of great potency. Failure after
failure had followed the Association. Every
now and again its circuit was being re-
arranged as some of its cities were complete
failures. On every side the dire effects of
bad general local management were seen
aud altogether the Associstion's condition
was bad one. The National League came
10 its rescue and gave consent for an Associ-
alton CLUB In Boston which was one of the
great things desired by the Association.
But the depraved greed and cunning of such
characters as have recently had charge of
the Association soon showed itself They
wanted TO have Cincinnati also and were
really persuaded by some small-brained
people that if they would put team into
Cincinnati it would soon knock the League
team there into oblivion as Cincinnati was
an Association city.
Low Kind of Scheming.
Well, these Association degraders of
baseball stopped to the very lowest kind of
trickery in order to get their team into Gin
cinnati. They made a claim on certain
players who had been legally signed by the
League. They knew beyond all doubt that
they could not by any moral or civil law
obtain these players rightfully; they had no
valid claim to them whatever. But these
Association wreckers did not want these
players; they wanted to be refused their
services so that they could turn round and
say: We'll never get fair play here and we
had bette; Just go and help ourselves
OF course, we all know that they went
81 once TO Cincinnati and went with joy
snd shouting. They had been led to believe
that 10 matter how they got into Cincin-
natl they would be the great people there.
But their trickerv failed as it always has
done and always will do. They were glad
TO get out Of Cincinnati, and their failure
there was Just one more proof of the utter
4udbllllN Ol -ASSOClaslO0 IedueTS 10 IldnaSS
affairs. Well, then we have these same As
FOciation characters plotting and scheming
70 get a team into Chicago under circum-
stances and conditions just as disreFutable
as those under which they tried to capture
Cincinnati Dreams of the money there
Will be in Chicago during the Worlds
Fair have prompted these persors to even
stoop lower if need be, thaa they have in
the past 10 try and pocket some of that
money, and it seems certain that every per-
Bon connected with the Association will
combine to place team in Chicago.
And in their efforts 10 locate club there
the Association people are circulating all
Kinds Of false rumors so as to induce good
ball PLAYERS in the League to desert the
latter Doubtless the names Of one or two
PLAYERS have been secured as an attraction
10 start with. For instance, Pfeffer may
have given his name, and 1 would be sur
prised if he did not, because there is moth
ing on earth that he would stand alOof from
If he thought there was any notoriety in it.
He mas a predominating love of promi-
ncnce, no matter how that prominence is
obtained; his desire to be something of
baseball maTnate is so strong that he would
face death itself in trying to attain his de-
sired enC. Depend upon 1t Mr.. Pfeffer has
not been trying for two CT three years past
10 ruin old clubs and establish new ones for
bNNoe'PS
pie 1t has been only to satisfy his own
conceited notions that he should be "some-
thing and that he should travel about the
country as labelled baseball magnate Mr.
Pfefer is indeed a wonderful man, and OBJ
jccts 10 anybody outroaring him in fame
why, when John NJ. Ward wrote his book
or baseball didn't Pfelfer also produce one?
think l know the gentleman who wrote it.
PtcHcr wanted the glory, and his name was
put on it as the author. What slaves to
conccit some of us are. But it is noteworthy
that alI these baseball players who busy
themselves SO much in trying to ruin the
National League are the very persons who
e. all times receive most money from the
League This prompts me TO say that if
our pUiicG-up pfetiers were made managers
thev would never forsake the League as
long as their teams held together, which L
fear would not be long. The League ought
to be glad to get rid of all such men as
Prefer.
Some ArtfuI Dodging.
Amid the efforts of the Association
worthics to pilfer and carry on system of
free booting, their latest President, Zach
Phelps. is daily repeating the chestnut"
Of the Leagues unfair dealing with the
Association in the past Now let US see
where the fair dealing and unfair dealing
has been. The League was before the pub
lie first, and made territory for ITSELF it
cultivated that territory. Then came the
Association and it took territory for it.
self and subsequently, the two organizations
Joined hands in carrying out a common pur-