Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03

that Slavin is little better than he ever
was, and that jackson is not and Will not
again be as good as he was To make a
long story short, look upon Slavin as the
best pugilist in the world to-day.
Lyons and the Local Club.
Surely everybody who takes an interest in
the affairs of the local baseball club haYe
had enough of the Lyons case. If ever
there was an overdose of noise about any
thing or anybody there certainly has been
an over supply of noise and blurts about
Denny Lyons and his coming and not COM
ing to play in Pittsburg. Probably some
people have frothed away at the matter
| because they had nothing else to talk or
write about; be that as it may, some very
foolish things have been said regarding 1t.
No sooner was the fact made known that
Lyons had been assigned" to New York
than few individuals guided by a very
erratic impulse and no reason, began to
abuse President Young and everybody else
connected with the new League. Mr..
Young was held, up as robber and an
ignorant and partial man. 1t never once oc-
CURED to the persons who thus slandered an
honorable gentleman, that the best thing to
do was to wait and hear both sides of the
question. Had they done this they would
not have made such marks of stupidity of
themselves.
But the officials ofthe club did the very
best thing they could have done under the
circumstances. They sent Secretary Scan
drett to Washington to confer with Mr..
Young on tine matter, and, as a result, the
case is now understood in clearer and
more satisfactory light. Mr.. Scandrett soon
discovered that there was no reason for
all the rabid talk about Mr.. Young indulged
in by few persons. The Secretary found
that the best friend the Pittsburg club had
was Mr.. Young himself, and also that the
New York club had put in claim for
Lyons. The matter that could not be salts
factorily settled was that relating to the
right OF the committee to deal with Lyons
at all. This was really the only question at
issue from the start From what President
Young said to Mr.. Scandrett it was
evident that the. former and Mr..
Phelps had taken it for granted, without
inquiry, that Lyons had right to be put
into the pool of players for distribution.
President Young the latter very honorably
and frankly said that the case had better be
submitted to the League directors. This
was an indirect admission that even Mr..
Young was not clear as to the right of the
committee to dispose of Lyons. OF course,
it must be plain to everybody that the COM
mittee could not reverse its decision. The
case, therefore viii 20 before the League
directors, which is the legal and proper
way to have it righted. Had this very
sensible mode of procedure been apparent
to a few rampant individuals some very
honorable and fair-minded gentlemen might
have escaped considerable abuse and SLAM
der. Let it be known that President Young
is not a dishonest man; he is not ignorant of
baseball law and he is not an unit man.
His record as baseball authority is a re-
markable one for intelligence and fairness.
a Ray of Hope.
Well, the Lyons case is to be submitted
to the League directors, and I am inclined
to think that those directors will relegate
him to Pittsburg. 1 have read very care
fully the resolutions passed at the Indian
apolis meeting, and fail to see how in any
shape or form Lyons was within the juris-
diction of Messrs. Phelps and Young. He
was just as free to 60 where he liked as ex-
Pitcher Mccormick or Pete Conway.
But what perhaps misled the committee
was the fact that the New York club put in
a claim for him. That club, doubtless with
out investigation, assumed that Lyons
was on the list, and consequently every
body else except the Pittsburg club took it
for granted that Lyons was under the con-
troll of the committee. And this
prompts me to ask: Should
Pittsburg suffer because of the blunders
OF New York or anybody else? Not at ALL
True, if the New York club had not thought
that Lyons was within the jurisdiction of
the committee, it would have proceeded ct
once to sign him. But the ignorance On
the part of the New York Club should not
be used as weapon against Pittsburg
getting the benefit of her intelligence on
the matter.
The question is not complicated one and
chiefly because of this there is a very strong
hope that Lyons will come to Pittsburg.
But the case must be handled with civility
to all and those people who profess to be
friends Of the club must learn to cease
calling everybody rogues and ignoramuses
who do not happen to do things satisfactory
to their little minds. President Temple
and Secretary Scandrett, if let alone, will,
am sure, be quite able to put Pitts
burg's side of the case clearly and forcibly
before those who are to be the final judges
PRINGLE