The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-01-28
STRUCK bIGSNAG
Baseball Differences Not Yet
Wholly Settled.
PLENTY OF DISSATISFACTION.

terS to the auOpJlOl VI a. VI cP"iN4is1 .
plan of recognizing baseball, at least TO
that part Of it which covers the tormation
of the American Association circuit, ana
the opposition may, from all appearances |
prevent the plan being carried out.
Perhaps it is hardly fair to call 1t Mr.
Spalding's plan. The proper thing, per
haps would be to say the plan made ny
Mr.. Spalding and Mr. Thurman. These
gentlemen outlined Baltimore, Washing
ton, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, Colum-
bus, Louisville and St. Louis us the best
and most desirable circuit for the Amerl-
can association, and they have got things
into such shape that there is no DOUBT
about any of the cities except Boston ana
Chicago.
The only hitch that is likely to stop the
deal as to Chicago is the conditions when
the national agreement club there Will
insist upon, which are that the association
shall not play Sunday games and shall
charge fifty cent admission fee. These
same conditions will be eXacted in Boston,
but they are entirely agreeable to the
PLAYERS League club there, which will
have the Association franchise il one is
granted.
The trouble in Boston is on the other
foot. The Boston club is governed by
Messrs. Soden, Billings and Conant, as is
well known, and what any two of the three
agree upon is the action of the club. In
this case Mr.. Soden is not averse to having
an Association club, but his two partners
are decidedly opposed to it, and If the
question is left TO the club to decide there
will be but one club in Boston next year.
The decision does not wholly rest with
them The League has appointed a con
ference committee, and While 1t has not
given that committee absolute powers, IL
is not probable that it will overturn any
plan of settlement which the committee
may report. But will the committee disre-
gard the wishes of the triumvirs?
There does not seem to be any reason
why the Boston club should not make
some concessions, the same as other CLUBS.
All of them have been obliged to concede
money or other considerations quite as
valuable The Boston club, If it agrees to
the establishment of an Association CLUB
in Boston, will not have to put up dollar,
and will merely run the chance that the
Association may Indirectly hurt the at
tendance at the League games. VI course
the Association team might hurt the
League, but the chances are that with a
fifty cent tariff and no conflict the damage
would not be very great
There are a great many well posted peo
ple who think that two clubs can never be
run successfully in Boston, and that 1t
would not take more than two seasons to
make this apparent and settle the question
for good The Boston men, who are now
on top, and who lost a good deal OF money
last season, naturally object to taking the
chances and to indirectly assisting to pay
for the experiments contemplated. They
would much prefer to buy out the Players
League club altogether. The Players
League club, however, will not sell oreven
listen to any propositions to that end.
President Charles Albert Prince tells me
that when parties, whom he understood
represented the trumvirs, came to him
he informed them that the Players league
men would not even consider the matter
of selling out. Mr. Prince also told me
that his club would not agree to the dis
mantling of the champion Players league
team and that as to joining the Association
they didn't care anything about it. They
had not asked for franchise. If the AS
sociation wanted to join in with the Play
ers' league and form a new organization
the Boston people might consider 1t. They
would reorganize the Players league be-
fore they would give up any of their play
ers. Now, most of this is bluff pure and
simple
Mr.. Prince is clever lawyer and "A pleas
! ant gentleman, and withal "A man OF sound
common sense, but he realizes that he must
keep no appearances, and is making the
/ best front he can to help his club make The
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