The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-09
THE NATIONAL GAME.
No Signs of Peace for the War
ring Factions in the East.
CALIFORNIA LEAGUE RAG
hampton Portlands ut Monterey-Gos-
sin Of tho Sport-Rugby and Asso-
citation Football.

rhs outlook of baseball in the major leagues
4 the East is certainly not promising one,
sanecially when judged from a financial stand
mint The fight between the League and AS
sociation grows hotter each day, and both are
making determined and often successful raids
an the ranks of the other. Salaries even greater
sbsu the enormous ones of the past season are
4 Neing offered right and left, and such induce
reuts have won number of valuable men on
either side from their allegiance. The manager
4 4 the new Association club at Chicago ID Fred
pfefYer. who hss followed Anson's fortunes for
wars. and he claims to have capt1rad several
others of the big captains crack players. The
Athletics representing the Association in Phila-
dslphia. claim to have induced Roger Conner
md Dan Richardson. two OF the New York
league clubs oldest and best men, to jump On
he other hand the Brooklyn League club is
reported to have secured the services of
nan Brouthers and Joyce, of the Boston
Reds II 10 also said that the entire team
If the st. Louis Browns, even including
Comiskcy, the great captain and manager, have
( .umped to various League clubs. There are
\ sso reports of the desertion on either side of
number of other fine players, and runors OF
h other depredations are flying thick and fast.
The Association has extended this piracy to the
4 Ysnks of the minor leagues under protection of
/ The national agreement 1t has even come clear
/ % the Coast and invaded the Pacific Northwest
/ League the new Chicago club having made an
i offer to "Jiggs' Parrot, OF the Portlands.
i Whether such state OF turmoil can continue
remains to be seen. As yet there are no signs of
pesce, and both parties still crying for war
I 70 the knife. The League holds q meeting at
/ New York on Wednesday OF this week, and its
eoings then will probably determine to o great
extent the fate Of the national game for the
coming season.
\ On the Coast the warfare in the East has
created, Is q rule, but little more than passing
interest In California the baseball public is
4 Watching the outcome of the pennant race
The people of the Northwest, too, have their
eyes turned toward the South in expectation of
/ she coming struggle between their own cham
pions and those of the lower Coast The finish
Of the race In the CALIFORNIA League promises to
b Is closely contested aud as intensely excit-
ing ~ was the one in the Pacific Northwest
Il For weeks San Jose and San Francisco have
been having neck-and-neok struggle, and now
hey are coming down the stretch together
There yet remain but two weeks of the season,
With eight or nine games for each club, and
| San Jose, with lead of two games, seems to
/ have little the better chance of winning. The
LEAD 10 SO small. however, as to be overcome
almost any day, and San Francisco, by a win
/ ming streak, is very apt to pull to the front.
AZ the race goes on the champion Portands
are putting in the time getting into condition
/ ct Monterey. They leave there this week, how
ever, Tor san Francisco, to have fortnights
practice on the Haight street grounds before
Esntering on the campionship struggle. Word
comes that they have been weakened by tho en-
forced absence of "Kid'' Camp. who is by many
considered the strongest boxman of the four
who went South with the pennant-winners.
Nevertheless, with MeNabb, Wadsworth and
fanning the team will be well fixed in pitchers,
and there seems to be general feeling of conf
dence among its admirers as to its success in the
James with the California champions.