Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-02
BELONGS TO PITTsBURG.
That's What President Soden, of Boston,
Saws About Louis Bierbauer.


Says About Louis Bierbauer.
CORRESPONDENTS OF THE DIsPATcH.i
BOSTON, Fen All is serene in the League
camp here, and the only question that puzzles
the Triumvirs is What players shall We let
goP" Kelly was going to Chicago some t.nic
ago, but it's dollars TO nickels that Kelly will
wear Boston uniform next yesr. Brouthers
was another man the Triumvirs had no earthly
use for some time ago. but sentiment on this
subject has changed, and Don't let anyone be
surprised if Brouthers' "ame is on the reserve
list which must reach Nick Young by February
8. Radbourn couldn't play on another Boston
team for neither love nor money, and
now Manager Selee, OF the Boston
Club. has come forward and declares
that the directors will make an egregious mis-
take if they let Radbourn 20. And Selee is
right, for Radbourn never pitched better than
last year, and with the liveliest ball ever used
in the professional arena. Radbourn, however,
is one of the sulkiest and most independent
players living, and the fact that the Boston
Brotherhood club would not have hired him
for another season shows what a hard man he
is for any manager to control. This is an old
story though, and it need not surprise anyone
if Radbourn plays with the Boston League
team.
The Association team will be known as the
Red Stockings, and Arthur Irwin will manage
it. Irwin is husting for players, and
expects to sign some good men before long.
They say here-the Association people-that
the Red Stockings have a cinch on Connie
Mack for catcher. The same old stale gag is
being paraded before the public-that Mack
does not want to go to Pittsburg. This is a
very rocky excuse when it is taken into con-
sideration that Mack lost about two months
salary in Buffalo last season In addition to $500
that he was foolish enough to invest in stock.
If Mack had any objection to going to Pitts
burg there was no need of his being in such a
hurry to sign with Manager Hanlon. think
Mack will have to go to PiItsburg as he is still
under League control.
In regard to the Biertauer case. Presideu t
Soden, of the Boston club. has this TO say:
"Yes, / think that Bierbauer belongs to the
Pittsburg club and any League club could Jump
in and sign SUovey, Larkin or any Of the old
Athletic players. The Athletics. according to
the national agreement. should have sent in
their reserve list of players last year-in Octo-
tober-but this they failed to do.'
Unless O'Neill voluntarily gives up BIerbauer
he has the best of the case by long odds.
Thurman nor any other man, can ride over the
laws laid down in the National agreement, and
these rules were not lived up to by the Athletic
club. If the American Association claims the
right to hold on to men who played III the
Athletics of 'S9, then that organization should
pay the back salaries due to the Athletic
players of 1890. As matter of fact, there is
no Athletic club in existence, and if Wagner,
the present owner of an Association franchise
in Philadelphia, wants use the name
Athletic he must purchase the title from the
owners of The old club who threw up the
sponge last fall. CHARLES J. FOLEY.