Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-15
JOHNSON SELLOUT
Caylor Has a Few Racy Things to
Say About The Latest Base
ball Transaction.
MORE HONOR Fol PALMER 0'NEILL.
Some Exciting Foo JilI Matches PLAYED BY
the Teams he Western ASSo-
citation League.
MORE HONOR Foi PALMER O'NEILL.
THE LOCAL BILLIARD TOURNAMENT.
Lore Ionsdts Sued fer Furious Drivng-Gensrsl Sport
ing News Of the Day.
oRKlsFoNpENcE OF THE D1sFATcH.i


NEW YORK. March 14-The President
of the United States went duck hunting
this week and was temporarily retired
from the world. But there was no vacuum
thereby One Mr.. johnson, of Cleveland,
came to tire fore as most important factor
in tie worlG OF gossip.
Mr.. johnson is what the boys call a Lu
Lu, with TWO big is. His eccentricity has
caused more trouble in the baseball
machinery of the country during the last few
months than is produced by the proverbial
bull in china shop. I've never seen a
bull in china shop; but comnon sense
tells me that man of nerve with an az or
gun could chase the bull out of the china
ship in few minutes. This baseball bull,
however. has been more troublesome. good
many maCnates have been chasing him with a
gun ard trying to hit him with an ak, but he
seemed to be a delusve piece of game and re-
fused TO be brought down.
Mr.. johnson, 1 think, can be classed among
the "A'' liars OF this broad and bountilul land
without giving hm one square foot of ground
upon which to base libel suit. He told Mr..
Won der H Horst that before lie would sell out
10 the League he would cnt of his arm. l am
not sure that he stipulated in the bond which
arm he would sacrifice, and II doesn't much
matter. My latest adviceS from Cleveland are
that the gentlPmlu's sleeves are full, both of
arms and aces. He will probably repudiate his
promise to Mr.. V on der Horst because he in
tends to get married after his visit to Hot
Springs.
] should very much hesitate before 1 per-
mitted one of my children to become member
OF Mr.. Johnson's Sunday school class.
This sell Off to the League was not new
idea with Albert. You may not be surprised
planned his way to q settlement with the
LeaEue has johnson had an lCea of spending
dollar to run a Cincinnati club in Cincinnati.
From the day he met Barnie and irwin in
Cleveland up to last Monday night, this man
has had but one object in vlew-to get safely
out of the business.
That is true as you live, and you know how
true that is. Do not ask me how ! know l.. My
information is indIsputable, and if it were not,
circumstances would bear out the simple un-
supported assertion.
Il was sorry day for the Association when
Irwin and Barnie stopped off at Cleveland on
their way to Chicago and walked into Mr.. john
sons parlor. He had no cause to love the
League men, and he had no reason to hone for
place IN the hearts of the Association mag
mates, But If he saves anything from the
wreck of his Players League venture he must
do it al the expense of some third party, for he
could not throw down the League.
HIS jimmy was clearly the American Asso-
citation. and with it he broke into the Leagues
treasury, but he almost ruined the jimmy IN the
job.
While in Cincinnati several weeks ago ne,
4oId
ident of that city that he expected a compro- |
mise with the League and that he was going to
Europe for three months wedding trip.
1 have been wondering what the good peo-
pie ID Washington think of Johnson's dis |
closure of the state secret that had the Asso-
citation been able to coax the Brooklyn club |
the national capital from their list. There is |
scarcely any doubt that this vote was taken |
Just as johnson claims 1t was. |
! still Insist that the Association would have |
been wise if it had swallowed its supposed il |
usage in the Stovey- -Bierbauer cases and bided |
its time. The trouble with the Association has |
always been that A few hot-headS have rushed |
through its affairs without giving cool second /
thought to the outcome. Baseball business |
probably more than any other requires con- |
servative men at its head and con- |
servative measures behind it. II has been this |
be-sure-Of-yOur-game method of the League |
which has brought that body out of SO many |
difficult and dangerous situations.
The conservatives OF the AssocIa tion have |
nearly all dropped out since its organization. |
! have but to mention sIch men as Mcknight, |
Williams, Wikof. Stern, Byrne and Colby to |
give few examples
1t is my opinion that the conservative men of |
the Association at this time could save that
body and soon make it powerful and profitable, |
If they would but step forward and take the
reins from the hands of the three or four fire
eaters. don't want to see the old Association
go to the wall, and it will NOT If reason takes
the place of the madness which now reigns
Let no one labor under the faIlacious belief
that the League Das paid for something in Gin
johnson sod What he could NOT deliver. 1t
was a case OF ''cinch' before the money was
paid over. know what | am saying, too, when |
] tell you this.
l cannot consctentiously subscribe my name
to this manuscript without lining little over
the white surface in eulOGy of that citizen of
yclept J. Palmer ONeil. There is no
before me 20 indicate the possess
ions in your city for which you all feel swelling
pride like unto an overheated grain of pop-
corn. But whatever they are ]. Palmer should
head the list. His steel-hue eyes are beacon
lights which all you PIttsburgers who love /
baseball should cherish more than the gas wells
which flame and hutter and occasionally con-
sumo few buildings.
Mr.. ON ellis mission on earth is made plain
He is to baseball wnat Bismarck was to Europe
3 few years ago Long may his side whiskers
wave.
When you meet him give him a kiss for me.
Q. P. CAYLoR.
LOCAL FOOTBALL GAMES.