The record-union., 1893-08-16
HARRIS. THE BLUFFER.
The Baseball Magnate Called Down
Severely.
HIS Trick Denounced by President
Wieland and the Other
League Managers.

There is music in the air in baseball
circles, and the RECoRD-UNIoN's state
ment on Monday that Harris, the San
Francisco manager, would hear from
Manager Moore of Sacramento. in no un-
certain tones, for having declared the
league at an end, has come true, as the
following from Yesterdays San Francisco
Chronicle shows:
1t was announced yesterday, says that
paper, that the California League had
given up the ghost. 1t was stated that
both the Los Angeles and Sacramento
teams had been discarded and that the
Oakland and San Francisco teams would
begin this week a series of exhibition
games. These games viii never be played.
Manager Moore came down from Sacra-
mento yesterday, and stated that he had
not disbanded his team. When Manager
Gieschen heard this he decided to take his
combination of willow -wielders to Sac
ramento and play the game as scheduled.
What team the San Francisco club will
play against is mystery, except 1t be the
Los Angeles team.
MOORE TALKS OUT.
Manager Moore was red hot last night,
and cid not hesitate to express himself
about baseball affairs.
This declaring the league season
closed is all the work of Harris" opened
up the country magnate. The Sacra-
mento team is still intact. l never noti-
fled the league that Sacramento intended
to quit. We are ready and willing to go
ahead and play out the season. II Harris
wants to get out of the league all well
and good. dispatch from the south
states that the Los Angeles team will be
here Wednesday ready to meet San Fran
cisco. 1t looks as ii Harris wanted to
Kill the league. No attention should be
paid to None. He is the worst little sore
head in this or any other country. How
dare he talk miSmanagement?
The new country managers have done
their share, but the effort to rescue the
game from the rottenneSs that character
lied it under the None regime has been
too great to overcome. The games since
Mr.. Wieland assumed the presidency
have all been on the square.
MooRE's LIBERALITY.
''I do not owe any money and have
paid for umpiring. Why, only for me
the gate receipts would have been at
tached last week for a bill OF $500 which
the California League management owe
to Mannasau from last year. l have
worked hard for baseball, but the None
outfit was too much of a handicap to
overcome.
1.-The gates in Sacramento have been
good, but the falling off has been in San
Francisco. Sunday gates have fallen
down to 500, where in former years they
used to be over 1900. This fact tells the
story OF rank mismanagement. The San
Francisco people have no confidence i'll
the home management. / am getting
tired OF being misrepresented.
Il tell you that declaring the season at
an end has been done without any au-
thority."
OAKLAND Is ALL RIGHT.
Manager Gieschen was also here last
night. lie came over TO have quiet lit
tie talk with President Wielaud. The
Oaklander was seen by a Chronicle re-
porter. He said: LAS soon as l found
out that | had been misinformed about
the disbanding of the Sacramento team /
decided that l would not play the exhibi-
ton games in this city, but would go to
Sacramento. The game has picked up in
Oakland since l assumed the manage
ment, but II has gone from bad to worse
IN san Francisco as regards the attend
ance. No one was authorized to declare
the league at an end. The game has been
fairly well patroniZed in Sacramento, but
there is niger in the fence some
where"
Thescountry managers are pretty well
convinced that the whole thing is a put
up job to freeze them out OF the league.
But we are not going to be frozen out"
said Manager Gleschen, in conclusion.
PRESIDENT wIELAND Is HOT, TOO.
Yesterdays Erdmi7ler says that when
President Wieland was asked about the
baseball situation, he said:
"W hat l want to know is by what right
Harris, manager of the San Francisco
club, announced on Sunday the disband-
ing of the California League. | am Presi-
dent of the league, and yet l say to you
that until | read in the papers Yesterday
morning that the league had been dis
banded never had an idea that any such
movement was intended. There is a
proper way 10 do these things, and if the
league had to disband it should have dis
banded in proper way. There was no
reason for the league disbanding, This
whole thing is Harris doing, and l don't
propose to quietly submit to it.
IN PLAIN ENGLISH.
"As President | have sent kilograms to
the absent managers for a meeting OF the
Board of Directors this week, and when
1t is held l will have something to saw to
Manager Harris, and L am going to say it
in plain English that he won't misunder-
stand. have worked too hard for base
ball to allow him to throw us all down
now, unless it can be shown in a meeting
of the directors of the league that the dis
banding of the clubs was necessity.
Eli Harris wanted to act fairly. and if
he had right to declare the league dis
banded, why didn't he send word to me
Sunday afternoon at the game? l was
there in the box and he knew il, Why
did he want to wait until | had gone and
then tell the newspaper men he had
something tell them? I'll tell you why
because he was and is afraid to face me.
HARRIS GALL.
81 have put up money for baseball in
this town, and so long as l am President
of the California Baseball League neither
Hank Harris nor any other man will de-
clare it disbanded until after meeting of
the directors.
"I had a talk to-day with Manager
Gieschen of Oakland. I have sent for
Moore to come from Sacramento and for
the Los Angeles manager, and when they
get here Mr.. Harris may hear something.
/ suppose he bases his action on the fact
that he owns the franchise for the
grounds. Well, maybe he does. | don't
care whether he does or not. He NAV
ind out yet that he isn't the whole of the
league"
When Mr.. Wieland was asked to spe-
city his charges against Harris he de-
clined, saying that would be done at the
meeting of the directors.
WITHOUT AUTHORITY.
At a meeting of the baseball MANAGERS
in san Francisco yesterday it was de-
cided that Harris had no right to declare
the league disbanded, and that the sched-
uled games must be played
The Oaklands will be in Sacramento to-
morrow TO fulfill their engagements.