Evening journal., 1894-07-25
WORLD OF BASEBALL.
Mr.. Wharton Knocks the
League Into a Cooked Hat.
ATTORNEY FOR DOWN STATE CLUBS


Fearing a Conspiracy OF the Wilmington
aud New Castle Clubs to Pad Their
Teams and Snow Under the Down
Countrymen, They Backed Out and Re-
tained Representative wharton OF
smyrna to Present Their Case Boston
Crawis Ahead of Baltimore
There is no Delaware State League IN
existence to day and there probably
never will be one Az the Hotel Rich
ardson in Dover yesterday thu schetoe
fell through with dull thud after hot
deba of thirty minutes "Attorney"
Charles Whsrton's oratory knocked the
bottom out Of 10 With crash and the
upstate baseballists parted from their
sunburned down state colleagues with
a ything but the best OF feeling.
IL seems that Camden an0 Dovers
representatives. had been enthusiastic
over tne formation of the league. AZ
they believed as did all the Wilmington
representatives.. That the league would
not only boom baseball, but. as planned,
/ would be a financial success.
Accordingly. the upstate representa-
tives went down TO the capital yesterday
sanguine Of a successful organic alton.
auager G l. Terry. the Camden en-
thusiast, who had been spoken of for
president, joined the Wilmington and
! New Castle representa- ives az the VIII
mington station and talked cheeIfully Of
the success Of the proposed organization,
| suggesting a change of schedule in order
that his club might play several home
games duri g the progress Of Camden
camp meeting, when there will be hun
dreds of people in that nelghborhood.
At he Hotel Richardson the upstate
representatives hied themselves to
dinner with the Republican State
Central Committee and other Whining
ton visitors, and then is when the
damage was done There was no dam.
age to the Wilmington contingent at the
dinner table-they Jared well-but the
Delaware league scheme was shattered
rs with shot and she'll
The down-state people held a caucus
in the basement Of tue hotel, and At
torney Wharton directed the caucus II
is presumed that be admonished hi.
wards Of Camden, Dover, Clayton anc
Smyrna that the upstate teams wer,
connecting q scheme TO wipe up tn,
ground with them aud that besides
losing all their games against paddle,
teams. they would lose their money b,
the barrel.
Nobody but these scheming Ken
countians, however, know what wa
done in the caucus room, nor will it eve
be known unless the powerful Iepresen
tative from Smyrna unbosoms himsel
this week in one Of the down.stRt
journals.
At any rate, the upstate delegate
entered the convention hall with fes
and trembling lest all was not well ant
their fears were soon realized. Afte
the meeting was organized by electing {
i. Terry chairman and j. A. Curr
secretary and before any statement o
the purpose of the meeting had bee
made, the Smyrna representative aros
and in howery speech, stated that D
had been chosen to present the views o
, Camden, Clayton and Dover and in tn
course of the somewhat exhaustive ad
dress said that those clubs had decide
TO reconsider their agreement to fort
8 state league and that they would nc
enter He depicted the near approach 0
winter time aud dire financial loss
such an attempt was made Il was ute
folly. The Kent countisns pressn
nodded their heads in assent.
,, Then the Wilmington men wanted {
reason with the caucusers All th
down state clubs had games arrange
with the Wilmington aud New Castl
, teams-some Of them two games Tn
upstate people we're therefore willing
so arrange the schedule that only thes
games as arranged should he played an
the league plan carried through anyhow
But, no; it was Of no use. 10 had bse
| killed