Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-20
alters Of Regret Regarding the
Local Baseball Team and
the Present Season,
/ 2EDTT Is DUE MR.. M'GUNNIGLE.
he1stest Phase Of the Efforts b Smooth
Down League and Assccia-
tion Troubles.
BE TlUITFFB AND GIBBONS FIGHT
netzrs of TIE Contest the Contestants. snd the
Referees Decision Fully Discussed



son is so nearly over" said patron of the
local team the other day. That regret,
which was a genuine one, will be shared BY
almost every local lover of the game. It is
EASY TO understand why the regret exists.
Had the ball season only been half over our
tean might have landed in first place before
the end was reached. There is nothing ex-
travagant about this conjecture, for there is
not a team in America to-day who are doing
better work than the team OF Pittsburg. II
ever ball team PLAYED championship ball
surely the locals have been doing it for
some time past, and of course while this is
-erv pleasing to all of us the fact still be-
gets the regret have Just referred to. The
local team have been rroverbial for making
good finishes, but it would seem that their
'pirit on this occasion is going to surpass
al previous efforts If they can keep up
ne form they have been displaying for
s0me time past they are sure to finish in
afth place, but it is too much to expect
-hem to get any higher In the short time
here is TO go. True, they may have to
lCht hard for the fifth position because they
we're SO far behind and have had to
hey are. But the fight for fifth place will
make the series which begins at Exposition
Park tomorrow with the CIevelands all the
more int eresting. 1t is possible that the
local team NAV put "clincher" on fifth
olace during the series, and if they do, they
viii deserve lots of credit. But we can all
cons cieIliously give Manager McGunnigle
a7d tn 'eam rousing reception tomorrow
rnev 80 worthy of it, depend upon it, and
nothiG: would look better than an immense
crowd To greet their return. There are only
siz games TO be PLAYED here this season, and in
heir pre- 1T form the local PLAYERS are well
worth seeing. They are certainly PLAYING
netter thaa they have ever played before,
md don't hesitate to say that, in my
cdcment very much of this success is due
}auager McGunnig!e. As manager he is
% success. Fe is endowed with qualities
nat specially beft him for the position, and
oarticularly is he able to battle against preju-
ice and all that kind of opposition that
prings from bigotrv. The thought some
ines strikes me that efforts may be made
have him return to BROOKLYN next
=eason If a change like this should occur
= will be a great loss indeed. Whatever
nav have been the objections against his
coming here, ] think there is unanimous
.iesire now to have him remain. And it is
only Tair to say that while we may feel glad
# Mr.. McGunnigle's services, we would
acver have had them had it not been for j.
Palmer O'NeiL He fought desperately for
he retention Of the new manager, and now
hat al the quibblings and quarrelings are
over 1t is only fair to point out this fact.
The General Situation.
Most strenuous efforts have been made
during the week to secure what some people
csl ''peace;" that is, to have the American
Association and the National League ioin
hands and once more swear allegiance to
Zach other The efforts NAV or may not
have been entirely successful, but deem it
safe to say that the feeling between the two
'rganizations viii never be pleasant 1
are not what kind of settlement is made,
he elements which compose the Association
md the elements composing the League
IRE so diverse that they will not mix There
S in the Association an illiteracy which al
ways has caused and always will cause the
lowest kind of mistrust when everything is
cot going along SUCCESSFULLY. What defin-
ltely mean by this is, that when bad man
agement brings reverses on the Association
Is magnates ever charges the League with
acting dishonesty; and wherever mistrust
If this kind exists there cannot be per-
rlsnent peace. We have all seen time and
.;1ne again that there is no stability what
yer in the American Association. Its
members are ready to make changes of i'm
aortance every week during the season and
his schoolboy desire for change is imported
Nv them into any national organization that
hey NAV be connected with. When other
members Of a national organization object
20 this spirit Of almost daily change then
ne Association magnates declare that
everybody is working for their downfall
There always has been, and, predict, there
always Will be a marked difference
Aetween the League and Association.
And the ball players arc aware of
his, and as a result almost every good
player in the country wants to play in the
League. When the local team were re-
emily in Philadelphia Bierbauer and an
Hther member of the team were approached
relative to their joing the Athletics. An
emphatic refusal was given. and subse-
guently the players expressed themselves
the eject that they had had quite sufi-
lent of the Association. Now find that
his is the general feeling among ball
?layers, and surely they ought to be able to
distinguish the good from the bad. Bier
haaer won't go back to, 1 was going to say
he flesh pots OF Egypt, but mean the
American Association if he is at all reason
ably dealt with IL the League. l can say
he same Of Corkhill, and John can easily |
return to the Association, for his services
are in demand there. But isn't it interest
ing to find the Association intriguing for
League players while declarations for
peace end fair dealing are being loudly
made?
The McAuliffe and Gibbons Affair.
One of tho most disappointing and most
unsatisfactory hStic contests there has been |
tor long time was that between Austin |
iibbons and Jack McAuliffe 1t was dis |
.ppointing il itself and its abrupt termina-
ION has caused any amount of dissatisfac- |
ION. Along with more than 1000 others
/ was nearly crushed to death in getting
ITO the Granite Club building at Hoboken, |
lily expecting TO see one of the best light
eight contests of the decade But, let
le say, tie contest was hardly worth seeing;
-srtainly it was not worth the crushing and
ushing we had to undergo to get to see it,
ince the affair took place there have been
ages written regarding it, and intend to
~ more about it to-day. My opinion
NOW will differ from that of many people,
but most certainly don't arrogate to my
If the right TO hold the only correct
ard, not at all. Those of US who are able
% form opinions at all have a perfect right
. mold those opinions and to express them.
q Is my work TO publicly express mine and
lCSt certainly I'll do i: and they can go for
a they are worth. / alone am responsible for
hem, and 1 may add that long experience
As taught me- to know that in ex-
reSsing ones opinions the most bothersome
aople to deal with are those who don't
low enough to form an opinion of their
.n. Well, then, about the fight. There
..ss three leading features 10 discuss regard
= 1t, viz: the lighters, the fight and the
.ieree's decision. There are other matters,
81 course, but these are the leading three.
tirst let us discuss the fighters. McAulife
-ndnnhtedlE is one of the hast lirhtMeicht |