The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-08-31
NEW HAVEN WILL DISBAND.
MANAGER DURANT AND SIX PLAY
 FRS LEAYE THE LOCAL CLUB.

| Club Has Been Playing on Co-Operntive
 Plan-Excessive Demands Made for Use
 of Grounds for Labor Days Games-The
 Team May be Reorganized.
 Tn local baseball team will play no
 more games at the Savin Rock grounds
 under the management of Harry R.
 Durant, he having last evening given
 up the mana cement of the team and with his withdrawal from the game
 the club will lose the services of six
 of It's best players, Shortstop Fox, First
 Baseman Brennan, Third Baseman
 Doherty, Catcher Nichols, Left Fielder
 Taylor and Pitcher Red" Donahue.
 All of these players left the team yes-
 terday afternoon after the game with
 the Edgewood club and positively de-
 cline to play again on the team.
 For some time past. ever since Man.
 ager Durant assumed control of the
 team, it has been playing on the CO.,
 operative plan and has made some lit | tie money. At the time Durant assum-
 ed control of the club the team had been losing money and at every game | the managers of the club. Miller. Duffy
 and Mckee, were compelled to go down
 into their pockets and make up deficien- cies of anywhere from $10 to $50 game This was the order of events and Manager Durant said last night
 that each member of the triumvirate | was about $200 in the hole.
 ba; to io 1o;, he took hold of the team and succeeded
 in getting the players to work on the
 cooperative plan, in this way cutting of the expense off the heavy salaries | which had been paid to the players
 under the previous management of Mill
 Ter and others. At the time the base
 ball association was under contract with the Winchester Avenue Railroad company to play two games a week on
 the Savin Rock grounds, which con-
 tract Manager Durant continued, but arranged his games so that the trium- virs could rent the grounds to other clubs Fridays and Saturdays, thus de- irving revenue from the grounds for
 those days, as the New Haven team was not obliged to pay any rent for the
 use of the grounds.
 Everything went along satisfactorily under the new regime until yesterday, when Manager Durant was confronted with an announcement from the trium- virs to the effect that the club would have to pay them $10 for the use of the grounds yesterday, $1O more for the use of the grounds for the game to-mor- row and give them one-third of the gross receipts 6f The two Labor day games with Waterbury. This proposi- tion Manager Durant thought manifest ly unfair as the players working on the cooperative plan throughout the sea- son had only made about their actual expenses and were all depending upon their share of the receipts of the Labor day games to make themselves whole
 In fact it was only this expectation that kept the team together up to the present time.
 When the proposition was made to Durant he indignantly refused to con- ply with the demands and after notify ing the players of the state of affairs threw up the management of the club and refused to have anything more to do with 1t. His example was promptly followed by the six players named above and all refused to play any longer with the team. Nearly all of the play CTS live in Waterbury and they went to their several homes last night.
 After this disruption had taken place Center Fielder Mckee again resumed the reins of management and says that the club will play out the season. The club, he says, will be reorganized, new players secured and the games with Mayer, Strouse & Co.'S tomorrow and the two games with Waterbury ar ranged for Monday will be played. He did not state what players would be secured, but intimated that the team would in no respect feel the loss of the seeding players.
 Ex-Manager Durant was seen last night and expressed himself very forcib- ly at the manner in which he had been treated He said that the players men, tioned had all withdrawn from the team and would not play under any circumstances under McKee's manage ment. He characterized the demands of the triumvirate as despicable, es pecially under the circumstances, and said that the local players had only hung together up to the present time with the expectation of being able to make up little by the games on Labor day.
 The team has practically disbanded and it is extremely improbable that any attempt will be made to revive base hall interests in this city for some wears to come. Baseball is dead here and the venture at the rock this season has been a losing one from start to finish, It is said that even should | Manager Mckee succeed in securing l enough players to play the games ad- yertised for tomorrow and Monday, | those will be the last games that will | be played in this city and the only | reason that the club will endeavor to l play them is in the hope that they may | catch few more pennies, and that the | club will give up the ghost and end l its precarious existence Monday night | at the latest.
 Several thousand persons witnessed l the game between the New Ravens l which was finally won by the Edge | and Edgwoods yesterday afternoon, woods by a score of 10 to g. The game | was close and exciting and at times | brilliant The finish was especially ex- citing, when the local team with only | one run to tie and two to win, had | ~,o,, AT, ho ooc and ov,1Vy opa 1