New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-01-16
BASEBALL CONVENTIONS.
MICH TALK AND LITTLE PROGRESS.
PLAYERS, LEAGUE DELEGATES TO ASoh"0N-
ToDAY-THE ASSOCIATIONS DEMANDS

PLAYERS LEAGUE DELEGATES To AooD-"
To.DAY-TuE ASSOCIATIONS DEMANDS
The baseball club owners in convention III VI,
city are determined to take no rash steps anu
propose 10 adjust all their conflicting iU'cfc'N E
dcIiberac but thorough manner IhoSe ih'oi0
the outcome Of the convention nave sroMa .nat TOO
the delegates tardy methods ana assert ''
,, linn has bcen expended in going over matters VI
a trivial nature. ... ,o,ocates
n credence Is put in the utterances OF the deiess
little actual work was accomplished at yes'cIu's
conference at the Fifth Avenue Hotel h'nou7n
convention has lasted three days, inc a0'" .ro
Jtraton has not been materially changer anu '''o
a,,i adjustment OF the difficulties seems as distant do
3, ,ras several weeks ago Yesterday the Aihcrl''i
Association made three futile attempts 70 ioia "so
inr and the delegates spent the remaEuer vi '' 80
wandering airhressy around tho coFridors' ino 10y
ers' League remnants were Just as uSco'So'"' w
certain. 49, ,.roeo,d
,d vrcrc moro Of a unit than for months past inc
ro,edo iniuncton bomb had been soused In the Pooi
of oblivion and will he heard Of no more by "si00
ment of counsel argument has been Poatpohcu i"' "
month and by that time all the dihculues VIII 10
arranged The Association men went 10 the'r noe'''e
room at If A. NJ and the delegates were caiIed 10 oiuo
bv President Allen W. Thurman The session i'''o'
evo minutcs when a recess taken until . p Ill
rho conference committee asked to give us report
and Nessrs Thurman, Won der Abe and bai1ile asheu
for more time the request being grah'ed
At 3 D. m the Association men probably heid ING
shortest session record, the delegates 'onis oa'
into The corridors after less than three minutes absence
Another attempt wa, made with like results. Inc
Associations one desire to know whether IL was
70 he allowed to locate clubs in Boston and Chcaeo
The League refused 10 commit itself ana tlc AsSoid
ton men could do nothing.
The retirement of the Rochester, Syracuse ahu
Toledo clubs from the ranks Of the Association VIII
Tna Tafpd
$40 900 the Rochester club $500 ana syracuse
81 900. the Association expending $4,000 to recon-
pense its undesirable members. PRESIDENT faIeo"S
of tho Louisville club, objects TO this scttehe' pp'
he will probably be outvOted.
1t said last night that the League wouIu rciuso
TO allow clubs in Boston and Chicago anu Ind' 'io
Association will accept either New-IIaven or Bufialo
for the East and Milwaukee for the West The Associa
t,on men declare that they want Boston and Chicago
and propose to have them. They declare that theS
are not establishing precedent in putting cluo ~
Boston against the opposition OF the cIuo alro'uS
located there and say that the League dld inc Saio
thing several years ago when it put CLUB III o.
Louis.
Tho settlement Of the difference will be left In the
hands of A. g. spading. c. II. Byrne and Allen W.
Thurman, who have constituted themselves speciai
committee 70 styaighten out the tangles The Boston
trlumvii' are not 50 bitter as they were on "eune'
day. They don't want an Association CLUB theio' anu
have not as yet maze any OHc' " N'O D' '
club To retire.
The prospect of consolidation between tne as
sociaton and The Players League was revived last
night but President Thurman puts hHseh on reco'u
a, wanting none of it. -, -.
The National League were in secret session ,g mosf
nf tuc afternoon. revising the new NATIONAL AeIvTT
mcnt They claimed that the Boston Chicago squaODie
was not referred to- . ., -. .ta
The Player League VIII hold meeting a. th
- lanes Hotel today. The debeatiOn of the
Vationni AGREEMENT clubs seems have given the
navrrs some encouragement. and they were Boosting
q dfv last nj VI ~ a
drl,clt ties 10 today's meeting viii be George wagner
j. f. Wagner and f. ;. Elliot from philadelphia arthur
Irwin, j. Il. Hart {. T.. Prince and Arthur DIX ,
f,om ro,tou: John NJ ward and f. +. clinton from
bNoollyn; A. L.: Johnson and John strG h IRON IRON
cleveland and Moses shire and john hlte from
uuGaIo j. Palmer ONeil will represent lfttsburg
he having effected combination in that cry ana
4 & Arson or James Hart will appear for chicago
r. b. Talcott will took after the Newfork Club.