The San Francisco call., 1897-09-23
RELIANCE TEAM
ACTED FAIRLY
Management Gave Leave to
Play Exhibition Ball
Games.
Official Statements That Show
the Crooked Work of the
Tournament.
The Committee Said Twenty-Five Per
Cent Was Enough for the
Management.

Reliance Club does not intend to
rest under the stigma that the club was
dropped from the baseball tournament be-
cause of lis failure to comply with the
rule. A committee from the club spent
a large portion OF to-day hunting up the
rules and the reports OF the meetings Of
the tournament committee to prove that
no rule was broken.
At the eXcitable meeting last Monday
Mr.. Lange the Reliance representative,
TOLD the Examiner people that the paper
had officially stated that for two teams to
play an exhibition game was not an in
fringement of the rules This was strenu-
ously denied by the management and
nearly led to a fight.
To-day, in the Examiner of August l.
the Reliance committee found this state
ment:
''Et has been decided by the
committee directing the tour
Ilament that in future tOEurna-
memfs clubs viii be allowed 10
play exhibition games Wher-
ever and whenever they please,
and with whom they please. so
long as they do not Interfere
with scheduled tOurnament
games.''
The Reliance Club says that ii needs no
further evidence OF the crookedness OF the
tournament management than Is con-
tanned in the above statement and the
motion OF Secretary Pringle made last
Monday that the Reliance ard Gilt Edge
teams be expelled because they played an
h IL It,
day, on which day neither OF the clubs
nor the Sacramento ball grounds were in
any way connected with schedule tourna.
ment games.
When the teams demanded that 90 per
cent OF the gate receipts be given to them,
the management made the state ment that
the expense OF maintaining grounds was
so great that nothing less than 90 per cent
OF the gross receipts was sufficient 10 man.
age the tournament.
In the Examiner of August the Reli-
ance committee a work to-day found the
following statemet:
COAX View Park at Sacra-
InenfO Is under the control of
one -. G. Morton, who never
did anything En his life 10 ad-
vance the Interests OF baseball,
and w mo iS in the business now
solely for the money lac can
make out OF ID. He being the
manager OF the only grounds
at SacramentO, Morton has
taken the position that the
Gilt Edge team must play On
his terms or not at all. EAe has
been giving the players "a small
percentage Ofthe gate receipts.
and has taken the lions share
for himself. EHe did not even
treat the visiting teams with
courtesy, but compelled them
10 lodge at cheap hotels and
allowed them but 30 cents per
man for meals. This naturally
aroused the resentment of the
teams. and to help break the
monopoly the committee re-
solved to schedule no more
tournament games at Sacra-
mentO until Morton treated
them more literally. The conn
Initsee thinks that IL Morton
receives 35 per cent of The net
receipts he il doing pretty well
from "a business point Of view.
The clubs attracted crowds TO
MOrtOn's grounds, and the
committee thinks ii only fair
that the teams should receive
most of the money. HE does
not give "a single cent 10
charity *''
The Reliance Club asserts that no other
explanation OF their sportsmanlike stand
ing in the matter or of the duplicity OF
the management is needed than a com
parison OF the columns of August and
September of the Examiner, the seli-con-
stituted official organ of the league.