Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-14
A LETTER TO V0NDY.
He Claims to Receive Some Promises
of Help From Scandrett,
TO SETTLE THE BASEBALL WAR.
Records of the Local Team and Pitchers
Work of Last Season.
THE EAST END BOWLING TOURNEY

Every patron of baseball in the country
will De looking toward to-morrow's meet
ing at indianapolis with more or less anx-
iety. To great extent the veal or woe of
the national game depends on the meeting,
because if the magnates who meet do not
resolve to abandon the present ruinous con-
fict going on a nong themselves the public
will lose interest in the game and many
clubs will eventually be wrecked. OF late
wears patrons of baseball have been trifed
with to a remarkable degree both by play
ers and BY magnates. Patience, like all
human qualities, has its limit and that limit
is almost reached. The majority of mag
mates are aware of this and that fact gives
hope of a settlement.
The League Favors 1t.
Almost every club in the League is in
favor of 12-club organization which means
a consolidation of the Association and the
League. But there are, indeed, many diff
fculties in the way OF consolidation not
withstanding the statement of Mr.. Byrnes
10 the effect that there will be no hitch.
Sunday games, big salaries already contract
ed and PLAYERS "stolen" are questions that
will cause some very warm talk. 1t seems
as if Won der Abe is now willing to con-
solidate, and he has received letters from
League representatives on the subject.
Among the letters is one from Secretary
Scandrett, of this city, stating that Pitts
burg is willing TO play Sunday games and
also willing TO join forces with the Associa-
tion on almost any terms A dispatch from
s.. Louis quotes Won der Abe as making
some very important statements which go
10 show that for a long time past he and
other League and Association representa-
tives have been discussing the matter by
letter. Won der Ahe's talk also shows that
President Byrne's recent trip West was not
on private business" but on q baseball
mission. the object of which was to advo-
cate the organization of a l2-club League.
During the conversation referred to Won der
Abe said:
A Letter From scandrett.
The only thing in the way of consolida-
tion is Sunday games. Four members of the
League stand ready to play Sunday games
in Association cities where they are per-
mitted by the authorities. These clubs are
Cleveland, PIttsburg, Brooklyn and Cincin-
natl the Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia and
New York clubs being opposed to Sunday
games. Mr.. Spaldfng controls the New
York and Chicago teams, and he and Mr..
Soden. Of Boston, are opposed to Sunday
games and opposed to consolidation with
the Association on any terms. We have let
tiers from Brush, of Cincinnati; Robson, of
Cleveland; Abel, of Brooklyn, and Scandrett,
OF Pittsburg, which state that they are will
ing TO join forces with the Association and
help its magnatcs organize a l2-club league.
and are willing to play Sunday games in the
cities where they are permitted.
1t was owing TO the receipt of these let
tiers that the Association this week went to
work laying plans to drop some of its clubs
The scheme is this: Con>olida tion in Phila-
delphia and Boston; take players OF tho |
present Chicago Association club and
drop Columbus aud Milwaukee, and form
the remaining clubs for a I2-club league the |
greatest organization baseball ever knew
About the Sunday Games.
or course there will be no Sunday games
in PirtsbuTg, but only in cities west OF here. |
The players OF the club are not opposed to |
Sunday games, ard the club directors fail to |
see any other way out Of the difficulty than |
playing on sundays where games are al |
lowed. But the local directors are emphati- |
Cally opposed TO the returning OF new play
eTS TO the clubs from which they came.
And almost every League club will be simi- |
larly opposed, and so will several of the |
Association clubs. 1t is also stated that all |
the y clubs which will make up the pro- |
posed league will have TO contribute equally |
toward the buying out of Milwaukee and |
Columbus. If 4 consolidation is affected |
the great gamers Will be those men who |
have recently arganfzed an Association club |
in Chicago.