The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-07
BOARD OF ARBITRATION COULD
NOT HEAR BRUsH'S TALE OF
WOE.
If HE LIKED, BUT TT WAS OUT
OF THEIR JuRISDTC-
TION.
HOW JOHN GooDNow MUST FEEL.
Shot and Lost i'm the
Stretch.

John T. Brush is not the whole thing
In base ball. John t. had a suspicion
from the way the Indianapolis papers
have been jollying him along that he
was really the center Of the solar sys-
tenn and that Boston was only the focal
point of one peculiar cult John T. was
disenehanted last night at 7:30, at which
hour the board of arbitration Of the
National league, consisting Of him
self and Messrs Young and
Soden, adjourned until Nov II, after
dismissing Brush's scheme to disrupt
the Western league for lack of juris-
diction.
Poor Brush! He will bristIe more than
ever now, but the other members Of
the Western league will go right along
as though nothing had happened.
The board met in secret session about
noon and continued until the hour men
toned above, and at the close of the
session, President Johnson Young gave
1T out that the session had been de-
voted almost entirely to the troubles
of the Western league, as he termed
the effort of Brush to disrupt the or
ganization by pulling out Indianapolis
and Minneapolis with certain vested
rights to the title and prestige of the
Wy estern league" Mr.. Brush's petit
ton, Mr.: Young continued, had been
dismissed for lack Of jurisdiction. In
order to fortify themselves against a.
similar case in the future, the board
decided to give themselves power to
act on future parallel petitions by
or n i1orr o
follows:
The board shall have power to pass
upon any questions brought before it
by club member or members of any
organization when unjust discrimina-
ton has been made against any club
or clubs, and. if upon a hearing the
board finds that such charge or
charges are true, it shall have the
power to impose such fines or penalties
as 1t deems proper, or to forfeit and
terminate the privileges of such organ
1zat1on under the agreement
Action on an applica ION of the West
ern league for renewal of protection
under the adjourned meeting in Chi
cago.
The following resolution relating to
the matter was adopted:
Resolved, That before any action is taken
by the board in the matter of the application
Of the Western league for protection under
the national agreement, this board deter
mines and presumes that said Western league
is operating under the original constitution
which governed it at the time protection
was granted it.
Furthermore prior to any further action
by this board in the matter of the afore-
said application the said Western league
must file with this board for its approval a copy
OF the constitution under which ii is now
operating, as required by article of the ma
tional agreement.
Article was also amended to make four
members comprise the board of arbitration
instead of five as heretofore.
The decision to amend the by laws
seems to be a sort of sop for the in
fantile acting president of the Indian
al,olis base hall association, who might
have taken his dolls to Muncie or Vim
cenres had be been turned down COM
pletely.
1t practically means, however, that
the National league will not interfere
in Western league affairs so long as
the minor league does not rebel against
| the greater leagues rules Personal
spites of officers of clubs in the minor
league will be given no more recogni-
ton than the bull in the fable gave
to the fly that perched on his ear and
asked him if it tired him.
The decision was just what the
G. l O b anticipated from day to day.
Any other decision would have been
ruinous to professional baseball from
the financial standpoint. and it is
needless, perhaps, to remark that
when the financial incentive
gives out, there will be no more pro-
fessiona1 baseball