The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-11-10
HAS LEFT DER Boss"
Capt Comiskey, St. Louis Ball
Player, Joins the Cincinnati
League Team.
For Many Years He Had Been Won
Der Ahe's Right-Hand
Man.
Peter jackson Challenges Paddy Slavin to
y Finish Fight-Results on the
Race Tracks.

. CHICAGO, NOW S.-lV CuA now 10 th'
nounced with certainty that Capt. Co
miskey, of st. Louis, will not play ball will
the American association next season. AnC
it can further be announced with certainty
that he will play ball with the national
league. 1t is stated on the best authority
that the Chicago sx-brotherhood leader has
signed a contract at 4 rather large salary
with Mr.. Brush, the proprietor of the
national league team in Cincinnati.
Coniskey was Won der Ahe's 1--WE of
strength on tho field. Season after season
he worked hard for the German boss. and
won pennant after %pennant for st. Louis.
His salary last season was $4,000. In other
wears, before the brotherhood movement
advanced the price of ball players. Capt.
Comiskey worked hard for less than that
sum. He ia an able man and ranks next to
Capt. Anson "a Il general n a de-
veloper of young players. At the
same time he is an ideal ball player and is
more interested in the winning or the losing
of games than any other captain in the
country, with the single exception OF Adrian
G. himself. Comlskev made n failure of
his last years club in this city because ne
did not have an opportunity of exercising
the power that is p ger to a field captain.
He was attempting to manage Il team That
was made up of players widely diverse in
opinion and practicc-a team that was con-
stantly ~wrangling with itself. He was thor
oughly disgusted with it all before the sea-
son ended. and was the first ball player OF
the brotherhood who had the sense and
foresight to see that tina brotherhood was
doomed. He was the first ball player to
sever all connection with the movement and
return to the national agreement.
Comisky will enter Cincinnati not as q
new or unknown man, but as an old
friend, Cincinnati knows him to its cost.
No player could be 30 we'll chosen as a
leader for the Cincinnati club. Comiskey
can rank with the best league captains.
good team under him can put up base ball
that will make Uncle Adrian know that he
has an opponent. The cranks will look
forward to the Chicago-Cinoinnati games
of next season with more interest than the
Red Stockings have aroused since their ad-
vent in the league. Patrons of the game
in every city will give a warm all hail to
the new giant.
Comiskey's conduct in preferring the
league to the association at this j%uncture
stands ont in clear contrast to the conduct
of a few other older players whose names it
sl6 uOG u6C6SadIy W NcAblOA IL buOulu dl5O
be q sound warning to some of the younger
players who are now trying their hand at
contract breaking.
Eastern dispatches to-day are of a double
color. They confirm the story that the
league is about to absorb all the good there
may be in the American association and re-
establish base ball on a larger scale than
ever before. Then this confirmation is fur
ther denied and it is stated that the ~associa-
toms backbone is much sitter than the
first story gives it credit for. The second
color eliminates a design on the part of
the American managers to give the national
league a great war in Its s~trongholds. 1t
is proposed to put al American as
ISOLATION club in New York, a scheme
that would bring the two bodies in touch at
New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Chi
cago-the four best base ball cities in the
land. Another statement is made to the
effect that some of the league magnates will
Join hands with the association and help it
to establish itself on the solid rock. Then
comes a repetition Of the story that Prince.
of Boston, has offered to sell out his club to
the Boston triumvirs-Soden. Conapt and
Billings. All of these rumors cannot be
true. That there may be some little ground
for some of them is possible, but as a lot
they bear evidences of being imaginary.
New York is fatherinR some rather wild and
contradictory base ball gossip which may
be sifted down to facts when the National
league meets in the Fifth Avenue hotel this
week.