The herald., 1893-08-10
WHO KILLED COCK ROBIN
THE BASEBALL SITUATION AS 1T
LOOKS TODAY.
The sncramentos Demand q Guarantee
Before Coming Down Here-was
the Local Team Mis-
Managed?

Yesterday the announcement was
made by those in authority that league
baseball in Los Angeles was probably a
thing OF the past. This ultimatum was
called forth by peculiar concentration
OF circumstances. The immediate fac
tor was a telegram from Mr.. Moore,
manager Of the Sacramento team. de.
manding 500 and expenses (about $425
in alD for bringing his team down here
for series of five games. Mr.. Ham
mond declined to enter into any such
agreement with the Senatorial magnate
unless q similar guarantee would be
granted to Los Angeles when next the
local club should visit Sacramento.
This Mr.. Moore refused to do, and as a
result the team did not appear at Ath.
letic park yesterday afternoon, and the
chances are very much in favor Of their
not coming at all this week. This, of
course, kills league baseball in this city
for the remainder OF the season. Mr..
Hammond Immediately notified his
players that he could no longer afford
to keep them together, and that the
club would have to be disbanded. This
formal disintegrstion has taken place,
and now Los Angeles has no longer q
league baseball team.
There are a great many people who
are now asking who killed baseball in
Los Angeles, and who is responsible for
the great diminution in the patronage
this year, from what it was last.
OF course it is next to impossible to
answer all these questions at once, but
the fact remains that unless something
is done, and at once, to rehabilitate the
game it will be many long day before
league ball is again possible in Los An
geles.
That one thing is to respond hand.
somely and promptly to the solicitors
who will today endeavor to put the mat
ter upon firm basis for the remainder
OF the season By means OF popular sub
scription, 1t will not take very much
money, and the advertising the town
receives therefrom will more than, pay
back any outlay thus incurred.
Manager Mooresw2s mapifestly upiust
in his deHlands, esincebnhe would mot
give az m9rh fruf stfbra "a h@ asked .fflS!gh ~
Los Angelessds Iiasti yearo MJ.s Wander e
beck made the lnerthsrnst teamsla m1gh
more liberal Nav M NIT v N
asked to give as much as tbeyrare, viii
ing to takes makes the SENATOR'S man.
ager weaken, afids the whole matter
drops dead.
And still .tbe popular. question is,
"Who killed Cock3 Robin?' When the
season closed last year the curtain was
rung down upon highly successful and
profitable engagement. And now every
one who is at all interested in the game
asks why was the denouement so dis
NAL
II was clearly unreasonable for Sacra-
mento to ask of Los Angeles what would
not be granted in return; but at the
came time it is deplorable that the buei-
ness here should have fallen away to
asuch an extent as to give the people
from the north an excuse for
asking q guarantee. A multi
plicity Of managers, or the ignorance
OF who was the absolute head oil
the Los Angeles team, may be respon-
sible ior good deal of it. When A
Gays that he is acting as agent for B. and
B says he has only advanced little
money to A but is in no wise RESPONSE
BILE further, and the creditors can never
get A and B together to find out ex-
actly where they are at-then of course
disaster will follow quick upon the heels
of misfortune, and hard luck gets
blamed beyond all bounds OF justice OF
reaaon. But that ia pretty near who
killed cock robin.
An effort will be made today to re-
organize the team upon an entirely new
basis. n4y ,!fiH &