St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-05
A CINCH IN BASE BALL
Four Men Alleged to Have Alb
Solute Control in All
Matters.
A Double-End Combination
That Is Apparently I'M
pregnable.
Bowling and Billiards Still
Continue the Popular Lo-
cal Sports.
Winners Of Races on Running
Tracks and Entries for
Today.

NEW YORK, April 1.-The Boston
base ball correspondent Of a m0ruing
paper sends this to his paper: cit will
be news of startling nature 10 the base
ball world that the new big tWelye-club
league is governed by combine; that
four votes absolutely carry the day in
all its present actions; that the four
Oldest league clubs are helpleSsly under
the feet of the American association
elephant, and that they are likely to re-
main there. The formation of this COM
bine took place in indianapolis and other
Western cities before the re-conSoIIda-
ton was made, and was part of the
agreement whereby the Louisville, ST.
Louis and Athletics were won over.
The combination comprises the clubs
from ST. Louis, Cincinnati, Cleveland,
Louisville, Brooklyn, Washington and
Baltimore. This combination votes as
a whole on all important questions, and
also in the election of officers. 1t
actually controls the votes. -Four votes
out of the seven, it is agreed, will gov
ern in caucuSeS, SO four clubs, by the
same agreement or compact, can con-
troll, and, in one case at least, has
actually controlled the new league legis-
lation.
OI QSI Aiic. Dy IIc, L IGIpS anu
Brush formed d new combination with
i'll the combination after the Indianap-
oils meeting. They secretly agreed to
stand together as unit On all i'm
portant issues. Any three of the
four agreeing shall control the
fourth, and those four. of course,
under the contract among the seven
rule the other three. Thus Byrne,
Brush, Won der Abe and Phelps have
the twelve club leagues by the throat
and whenever the three of these four
agree to prevent measure from carry
ing, or to introduce new measure, 1t
may be considered as done. They will
hereafter control all officials and COM
mitteeS, and Will see to it that the
Boston, New York, Chicago and Phila-
delphia clubs are no longer the dom
inant parties.
The first official act of the coalition
was to put Nick Young on before his
election. Nick had to accept the situ
alton Or take the consequences He
was not slow i'll adapting himself to
circumstances. John B. Day was re-
moved from the schedule committee
and Z. II. Byrne made chairman. Ever
since President Young has been very
Subservient to the interests of The
council of seven. This in reality. how
ever, at the present time is only
council of four"
"Der Boss'' Denies.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, April 4.-The story of
base ball combine telegraphed over
the country today finds no confirmation
here. President Won Der Abe, charged
with being one Of the chief conspirators,
said: ITS all newspaper fake. There
is absolutely no foundation for it, There
may be little jealousy, but that does
not amount TO anything. What do they
mean by referring to things that have
happened since the Indianapolis meet
ing? | guess they mean the organiza-
ton of the committees and other work
done with a perfect understanding on
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