Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-16
Some, Remarks About the Local Base
ball Team and the Old and
New Managers.
LSSoTITIDN'S PEACE EFFORTS.
4 Few Entertaining Pastures Of Anna
teur Playing by the Various
Local Teams
ooRBETTs CHALLENGE TO THE WORLD.
Tns rw kpprUsching Big Sprint Races and
Pritcharfs OFFER to Pitzsimmcns

concerned if there is as little said about it
as possible. 1t has been a miserable jour
nev. and the sooner it is forgotten the bet
ter. l. would seem as if the team were
going from bad to worse, and GER
tainly the bad playing cannot any longer
be attributed TO bad management What
mean bv this is: That those who contended
the team were playing badly chiefly because
Haulon was manager were in the wrong,
lust as l would now be in the wrong by
arguing the team are doing poor work be-
cause McGunnigle is manager. The great
source of defeat is the downright bad play
ing of the players and taking them as
whole they stand ont as monumen-
tal disgrace to the baseball world.
It is preposterous to think that
so many of them are receiving
salaries almost equal to those of cabinet
ministers, and have proven themselves to
he neither useful nor ornamental. And
portions of the public talk about the in
Justice done ball players. So bad has the
work Of two or three high-priced players on
the team become recently that / firmly be-
licve there is AN intention on their part to
do had work wilfully. If there are the least
indications of this, Manager McGunnigle
should at once impose fines and suspend the
offenders without pay, even though he has
70 oficiate in their Stead The Pittsburg
public will support any action Of this kind,
because the public will not tolerate an in
Justice. | cannot avoid the conviction that
The ulavers could have done better had they
So desired, ard it is because of this that my
sympathy goes ont toward the stockholders
Of the club. These gentlemen commenced
the year by spending money in unstinted
measure. Whenever a star player was
available they secured him, no matter how
high the cost. There was only one object in
view, that was to have for once winning
team in Pittsburg at all hazards. The con-
ditions of the time were such as to enable
some of the players TO receive enormous sal
aries. They were paid, and what has been
the result? Why, they have been shame
ful failures. 1 say shameful, because it does
sr7ear that in some instances bad playing
has been wilfuL The directors of the club
deserve better treatment than this; they are
indeed worthy of better.
A Few Important Points.
I am. sure that it becomes wearisome
writing about defeats day after day, and
can, therefore, understand how painful de-
ieats are day after day to those who
have money invested in the club. These
stockholders, as [ have just said, have
struggled to give us a first-class club, and so
lar have failed simply because they have
been deceived. They have expended money
and labor enough 70 have pennant winner,
and vet the team are last. But the directors
are as heroic as ever. They have resolved
70 have new men, no matter what the cost,
and this ought to induce all of US to extend
our svmpathies to the directors for the
present at least. They nearly succeeded
THURSDAY in securing three or four proms-
ing Young men from the West. But other
chances will come, and, in the meantime,
trust that the directors will receive suffi-
Cient public encouragement to warrant them
in making all the changes necessary. OF
course. we will have the team here to-mor-
row. and in one respect there Will be treat
in store for the patrons of the game Anscn
aHd his Chicago team will begin their last
series here this wear, and surely well be
eager TO see this very wonderful team-a
team that on paper last spring did not ap-
pear 10 be in it with our famous sluGgers
And q strange feature about the Chicago
team is the fact that our champions can al
wavs put up great game against them.
Well, il NAV and IL may not be that one or
two new players will be in the local team
tomorrow, but of one thing 1 am sure, viz:
That Ans0n's team will be well worth see
ing. ard | venture to say that our heroes
viii give then a very hot argument. l
really anticipate three good games.
Those Peace Rumors.
The week lust ending has been somewhat
notable because Of the many rumors that
have been in circulation regarding 'tpeace"
between the American and the National
League. To me there has never seemed to
be any ''war, d" as the National League has
lot arraTed itself against the Association.
All there has been in it is that the Associa-
tion resolved to travel in another direction
from the \. L., and doubtless, because of
thiS, efforts have been made to magnify this
switching of into 2 war. The truth is, I
dom I think the Association could make war
on the League any more than a little terrier
log could make war on lion in the forest.
This being so, we NAV take it for granted
that sll these rumOrs of peace" mean the
association magnates are tired of going it
alone. But there is one very important
feature in this alleged war furnished be-
tween the two baseball organizations.
What 7 refer to, is the fact that almost all
;he trouble between the two bodies, OF at
least the trouble that the Association has
caused, mas been about Cincinnati. Ny
readers viii remember that when the Asso-
cia ion leaders broke away from the Ma
Jional agreement, they alleged that it was
because of unfair treatment by the National
Board in not giving them Bierbaaer and
StOvey. OF course, that was lie of the
tJolCest kind. The fact of the matter was,
;he Association was without a complete cir
ruig, and its leaders really believed that by
making break" they would get into Gin
riInaU and drive the League out. This
vas very dishororble programme,
u1;t il was nothing strange on that
account, rs far as the Association was
concerned. But the League has not been
driven out OF CINCINNATI on the contrary,
II is there aud doing ten times better than
The Association. The latter has made a
miserable failure in Cincinnati; an absolute
taiiurc, in fact, and no wonder that there is
a. desire to get out. Doubtless the Associa-
iion magnates led themselves to believe
-har with Kelly in the Cincinnati team the
latter would be great favorite but let me
say that Kelly has been even a greater fea-
trrc than the Cincinnati Association club.
And ! 60 further and say that it was the
League that made Kelly popular; and since
he left the League he has gone into compar-
alive obscurity. He has done more; he has
descended to the level of Association ball
playing, which nowadays means that if the
umpire gives an unsatisfactory decision the
captain of the aggrieved team asks him to
adjourn behind the stand and settle the
matter in prize ring style. Well, alto
,ether, the Association magnates, Kelly
and the Cincinnati club have done much to
iniure baseball during the season and they
lind themselves in dire difficulties By all
means let them have what they call "peace"
If they want it. If they desire to vacate
Cincinnati let the League help them in
their moving, but by all means give them to
understand that nothing short of the utter
Termination of the Association will follow