Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-01
A REAL HUSTLER.
President o'Nein Impresses the Cleveland
ers With His Energetic Qualities-A
Deal That May Be Made-PIayers for the
Forest City.

President OiNeill Impresses the Cleveland
ers With His Energetic Qualities-A
Deal That May Be Made-PIayers for the
Forest City.
.srEcIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPArcHI
CLEVELAND. Jan. Sl.-J. Palmer O'Neill is
tie most persistent and indefatigable hustler
that ever walked into Cleveland baseball cir
cles in behalf of a PittsburG club. If there is
anything that he left undone while in Cleve-
land TO help his own team it is hard to see what
it was. He was leaning upon the railing in the
news stand of the Weddell House the other
evening, and in reply to the query of a friend,
said: ---.--
u am out for business. am not going to re-
turn home until get just what want, or find
that cannot get it at all. mean to have the
best and strongest club that ever represented
Pittsburg, if l have to sign the last man the
day before the championship race begins"
O'Neill came to Cleveland simply to get
Tebeau- Had, he made a proposition to e&-
change Miller for Tebeau the deal would have
been made as quickly as the papers could have
been drawn up and the players consulted. He
wouldn't do that, but proposed another scheme
whereby for Pittsburg aid in other channels
Cleveland was to part with Tebeau providing
Cleveland got its share in the shift If that
plan goes through-and there is much proba-
billty of it-both Cleveland and Pittsburg will
be mutually benefited and both will start in the
pennant race with teams considerably stronger
than ever represented either city before
II Mack's case comes up before the National
Board and personal contracts are introduced
as evidence that Mack belongs to any particu-
lar organization, il is said that there is per-
sonal contract now in the possession of ex-
Secretary Brunell, of the Players League, be-
tween Mack and Hanlon which antedates all
others. From the best information obtainable
II looks as though Pirtsburg's claim Mack
was stronger than that of any other club and
stronger than Its claim on Bierbauer. The
strict and literal construction of baseball law
would give Bierbauer to Pittsburg at that
There is no truth In the reports that Cleve-
land is afterDelehanty, Gore, Radbourn, Crane
and half dozen others whose names have
been used in flake" dispatches sent abroad.
The men Cleveland is most anxious to get are
all Westerners except one, and the chances at
the present writing are good to get them. The
Cleveland club has more good men to begin the
present season with than it ever had.
The unanimity with which the other League
clubs indorsed the stand of President Robson
upon the sales system was not only gratifying
much more willing to rid itself of plan that
has proven costly experiment than the play
ers generally thought. The publication of the
letters was followed by queer protest from
well-known PLAYER, who, while in conversation
with THE DISPATCH correspondent, said that
The League magnates were now going to abolish
the sales system and prevent the players from
making any money out of the sales of their re-
leases. He characterized that as in harmony
with the usual grinding policy of the League
A year ago this time the same player was max.
ing great hue and cry aboat being sold like a
slave. Professional baseball players are an.
parently about as changeable as the chameleon
llBeRtin will 20 to Hot Springs and put in abou,
SIX weeks trying to get himself into condition