Arizona weekly citizen., 1893-01-07

and the fighters are reaping the benefit If ever a man had reason to regret l having stood by his friends and asso- ] clates that man is John B. Day, presi- , dent of the New York base ball club. ! He was once the proud owner of that concern. while 1t was in its infancy and
 known as the Metropolitan club. In 1883, when he had a chance to enter a team in the National League, he let the two Dillnghams and Walter Appleton come in and they formed the Metropoli- tan Exhibition company, which con- trolled the New York club in the Nation al League and the Metropolitan club in the American Association. Mir. Day be- ing business man retained the con- trolling interest in the company. They made money hand over fist each year until the war broke out between the League magnates and the Brotherhood, when the Players League was formed. Mr. Day was very popular with his players and they did their utmost to get him to secede from toe old OTggniza- tIon and join forces with the new. It was feared by the league that he would and they rallied around him in great shape and offered him all the induce ments on cath and be remained with them.
 It was a disastTious season as every boCy knows. All the clubs in both or ganizatiORs lost money, but the losses of the old organization were far greater than those of the new. The former held stiff upper lip, however, and actually bluffed the packers of the Play CTS Ls6gue into compromise of cOndi- tious- Day lost heavily on his New York club and was advanced so much money by the league sharks than in less than a twinkle of an eye his whole plant vas gobbled up and MT. Day was simply lost in the shuffie. They had Ii tie couscIence and therefore did not do their work too barefaced. They opened their large and juicy hearts and generously voted MT. Day a salary of S5000 for his services as president of the club for the season of 1891. This meg unanimous display of charity, gratituoe or anything you might cal! it, atOned for public prestige, which was really the main feature. They took good care to tenderly feel the pulse of the public that year to see just how solid MT. Day really was. In the spring of 1892 they put the knife to him, but only showed 1t half way for fear be would squeal and and the public would hear hIs cry, so they quietly convinced him that the club was losing and that his salary would have tO be reduced S2JO0. MT. Day stood 1t without murmeT. It was such q comparatively soft snap tEat these honorable gentlemen (Day's fer mer assOciates) do not hesitate to shove the knife clear up to the hilt on this Oc- casiOu, as they have now come 10 the conclusion that MT. Day is incompetent to run the club, after hampering him for two seasons, every way within their power. A new president is to be elected January G. and MT. John B. Day is to be retired, so the stockholders consider 1t fer the best interest of the club. This is the reward he receives for stand ing by his friends and associates. Had John B. Day joined forces with the the Brotherhood, or you may say Play CTS League, he would today be on the top Uf the heap. The would have been no National League monopclists gOb- bling up the base ball business, but that grab all" institution would have been wiped out of existence and the Players League would have been the leading or ganization Cf this country. All that vas needed vas one old head to advise them and the packers of the Players League would have stood as one and as solid as the rock of Gibralter Day would have been king in the base ball world, but 1t is the old. old story, q case of what might have been. Day stood by the league, but did the league stand by Day? A man can ePslly confront his enemies, but the Lord preserve him from hIs friends.
 JUNE RANKIN.