Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-12
The League Directors Knock Jim's
Chicago Protests Clean
Out of Sight
BOSTONS AWARDED THEPENNANT.
All the Baseball Msgnates Meet in New
York and Big Rumors Are
Numerous.
POWERS ACCEPTS KINGS TERMS.
The EI-Ptsburger to Get $4,000 fcr,the season-Gen-
eral Baseball News.
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officials, the Fifth Avenue Hotel, was this
afternoon full of, buzzing conversation,
bursts of laughter, mysterious conferences,
earnest expostulation and heated argu-
mentation. 1t was the annual meeting of
the oldest and greatest baseball organiza.
tion in America, and no meeting of recent
years has had more,impo-tant bearing on
the national sport. Shortly before noon
Nick Young, who was,standing in the lobby
near Jim Hart, said he must get the Board
of Directors together, as there was great
deal OF work TO do. At this Mr.. Hart took
from his pocket three bulky rolls of manu-
script, and said:
''NIr. Young, this is o matter desire to
have brought to the attention Of your
board
One of the three bundles .of paper con-
sisted of 20 pages of foolscap, covered with
type-writing. The subject dealt with was
the way in which the National League race
ended, and the document was a,,minute res
ume of the charges against the New York
club and the circumstances on which the
charges were founded. Mr. Hart also ex-
plaieed his reasons for making the charges,
matter and render . decision.
The Directors in Session.
The Board of Directors went into session
at once and began to wrestle with Hart's
statement. For hours the directors re-
mained in conference, and when they did
finally emerge John b. Day remarked that
''the championship was awarded to Boston,
ol, <,f} }bo
hoard the National League as body went
into session. Secretary Young called the
reporters in after the meeting and read his
minutes This is his official report: The
Secretary presented the protest of the Chi
ca1o club against counting the games
rlaved ov and between the New York and
Boston clubs on the grounds of the latter
September %, 20, 80, and asked the Board
of Directors TO investigate as follows:
"First-Why President Day wanted, as
he is quoted as saving, the Bostons to win
the championship?
.'Second-Whv the playing of the two
extra games was arranged after Mr.. Day ar
rived in Boston, Monday, September 2S?
"Third-Why the New York club played
Two extra games if they were in such
hclplesslv weak condition.
"Fourth-Why the New York club
further weakened its team bv laying off
such good PLAYERS as Rusie, Buckley, Con-
nor and Richardson from such emphatically
incipient games as those in question?
"Fifth-Why the Chicago club was not
invited to give its consent to the playing of
these extra Cames?"
Boston Awarded the Pennant.
The Board of Directors thus condensed
President Hart's volumnous charges into a
series of five leading questions Then the
report goes on: After careful considern-
tion of all the statements and evidence pre-
sented, the board finds as follows:
First-Thar the statement credited to Mr.
Day is wholly untrue.
Second-That the arrangements for the
plavinC of double games could not have been
made except with the management of the
New York club either before or after their
arrival in Boston on Monday, September
2S In this case the usual custom was OBJ
served. Boston having obtained the neces-
sarv consent of six clubs. The double
games were arranged according to the rules
governing postponed games, and were en-
1irelv legal and in accordance with the
League legislation.
Third-That it appears from the evidence
presented through the representatives of
the Investigating Committee of the New
York club, that at the time the double
games were arranged the club was completed
with the exception of Rusie and John Ew-
ing and the subsequent weakened condition
of the club was not anticipated bv the man.
agement. The evidence shows that John
Ewing on September 21, was injured in the
New Yor&-Philadelphia game of that date,
and was not in condition to take part in any
game until October /. The evidence further
showed that Mr.. Day gave Rusie permission
TO remain at home previous to the arrange
otr l,a ln,,bl ha- h.,
not considered an important factor in the
Boston series, because of the fact that out of
the eight games pitched against that club,
the record shows that it had won but one.
Roger Connor's Case.
In the case of Connor, the evidence shoxs
that he was excused from participating in
Mondays game September %, and received
permission to go TO Waterbury, Conn, on
important private business. with the full
expectation that he would he present to
take part in the games scheduled for Tues
day and Wednesday, September % and 80;
that he left Waterbury Tuesday and was
delayed by a railroad wreck which rendered
il impossible for him to reach Boston for
the games Of September %. He PLAYED in
Wednesdays games In the case of Rich
ardson, he took part in the games of Sep
tember 2S and 30 and presented himself in
uullDIlu bn lHt OttH, DuL was ODl1geQ
20 retire on account of Illness
snd was unable TO take part in
any subsequent championship game In
the case of Buckley, the records and evil
dence show that his thumb was injured bv
foul tip in a game played September 2S
and that he was compelled to retire and did
not participate on account of such injury in
sl.v of the subsequent championship games
PLAYED by the New York club.
In relation TO the complaint that the Chi
cago clue was not invited to give its con-
sent to the playing of double games, the
board finds that the necessary consent had
been obtained from six clubs and the con-
SEM of Chicago was unnecessary. The re-
port was unanimously adopted. The Sec
retary's annual report was then read, after
which a resolution awarding the pennant to
Boston was adopted. \. E. Young was
then reelected Secretary for the twenty
second consecutive year, and the meeting
adjourned.