Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-10

tion has been violated by the magnates and
violated In Q very questionable way. Lot
us take the case of Tony Mullane as an e1.
ample. His case will illustrate others
Mullane was signed to pitch ball for the
Cleveland club at q certain salary. He
commenced to work and has done his work
well, SO well that there is no fault at all
about his work. The plea is made that the
club is not making sufficient money to pay
the salary bargained for and reduction IL
| claimed. Mullane objects and he has per.
| feet right to object because his employer,
have so arranged matters that not only will
they not, pay him the salary contracted fol
but no other club will This kind of thing
occurring in the middle of a season is Ger.
tainly getting matters down to q despotie
point with vengeance.
| Another View Of the Matter.
But there is still another very interesting
feature in this salary cutting business The
| magnates NAV deem themselves right in
violating contracts by slashing salaries in
the middle of the season because of poor re-
ceipts, but let me ask did they ever in
crease salaries systematically in the middle
of the season when receipts were coed?
There are many poorly paid men in the
League at present ana good players at that.
Well, if the clubs had been making money
would the magnates have gone to New York
in the middle of the season and agreed to
increase the salaries of all their poorly paid
players? Most certainly they would not
The truth is that good League PLAYERS are
going to have to pay for the awful blunder
of adding impecunious cities to the League
circuit A huge and a rotten-at-the-core
baseball monopoly has been formed which is
directly injuring good baseball cities and
wrecking the prospects of good players.
Temporary success to greater or less de-
gree may attend these monopolistic efforts,
but most assuredly there will be a collapse
in the long run. By all means, let mag
mates reduce salaries if they want to, but
OF Justice and fair play. To say the very
least, 1t wonld only be fair to allow .
player to try and get his salary contracted
for from some other club if his own cannot
pay it in the middle of season. No player
would, by any means, be allowed to leave .
club during the middle of a season with the
object of increasing q very poor salary into
q good one. '
Baseball magnates ought to be very care
full in formulating these new and very
strange plans of theirs. Unfairness begets
discomfort and nothing fourishes more rap
idly than discomfort when it once gets fairly
SIS baseball is concerned and in welding
their present monopolistic power the WISE
acres of the League should be very, very
careful lest q minsis suddenly sprung be-
meath their feet. There is nothing to fear if
tair dealing is the order of the day.
Courtesies of Philadelphia Amateurs.
A week sgo yesterday three or four Pitts
burg amateur swimmers went to Philadel-
nh ~ in ha sfa
there. They had hopes of winning a medal
or two, because they are good swimmers,
AND that fact will be fully understood when
iy-is stated that Messrs. Flower and j. Z
Taylor were two of the Pittsburgers But
they did not get any medals, and, according
to reports, never had the ghost of a show of
getting any medals, simply because the
promoters of the swimming contests were
determined that no medals should come to
Pittsburg.
A Philadelphia correspondent has written
me on the subject, and if what he says is
true, and have no reason to doubt his
word, the contests were simply disgrace
to those people who managed them. The
contests were held, 1 suppose, under the
auspices of the A A. S. N, and certainly
that organization ought to be called to
question on the matter.
An eyewitness states that Mr.. Flower, of
Pittsburg, who was conceding handicap of
IA seconds in the 100-yard race could Ger
talnly have won if he had received anything
like fair play. As soon as Mr.. Flower
caught his men he was crowded by his
opponents, some of them pushing their feet
In his face. To be sure, q man is sure to
keep in front of his competitor to get foot
of swimming may be the common method
in Philadelphia, but it is not known here or
any place where fair play is guaranteed. To
be sure, Mr.. Flower claimed foul but the
officials couldn't see where the foul came in.
Mr.. Taylor was also ruled out and he and
his friends are entirely at loss to under
stand what for, except it be that he was
swimming too fast
1t is, indeed, q very great pity that such
should characterize amateur
contests. Such conduct as is charged to the
amateurs was, had thought,
only to be found among the lowest grade of
professionals IF honor, fair play and gen.
erosity do not characterize amateur athletic
contests of all kinds they will soon lose
their popularity, and if there is anything in
the charges relative to the Philadelphia
contests. for the sake of the sport generally
they ought to be investigated. Mr. Flower
is member of the Three As, and that or
ganization should make inquiries regarding
the matter. The report of the contests, as
published in one Philadelphia paper, fully
bears out the charges.
Eomnwood Park Summer Kaces.
Next week our annual summer race meet
ing will round again, and doubtless if
fine weather prevails there will be thou
sands of people out at Homewood Park
every day of the meeting As far as the
entries are concerned, Secretary Nc
Cracken states that the meeting promises to
be a great one; indeed one of the best
Most assuredly tine races will be interesting
because the meeting is the first Of the Grand
Circuit, and number of horses not very
well known will be introduced to the
public.
Workmen have been very busy for long
time getting the track into irst-class con-
dition. As q result of this labor the trotters
will have just as fine regulation track as
there is in the country to travel on next
week The stake races promise to be ex-
trenely exciting, as the entries are good
and of excellent quality.
That the meeting will be a successful ono
every admfrer OF horse racing and outdoor
sport has little doubt. The directors of the
association have worked hard for success,
and it the weather keeps fine doubtless |
they will be rewarded by successful week.
The Big Local Field Dav.
Aword or two about the recent big field day |
Of the Three AS may not be out of place. |
With all others who like to see this kind of |
sport, j was extremely glad to note the big |
success of the days proceedings The con-
tests were good ones, and many of the per- |
formers were front rank men In some in |
stances the handicapping was not as
ine IN it might have been, but in the 100 |
yard race the handicapper was not very far |
out of the way. When a scratch shan, as |