The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-10
BRUSH HASN'T BOUGHT IT
The st. Louis Baseball Club Not
One of His Assets.
THAT Is WHAT HE SAYS
But If He Can Do Anything Within the
Bounds of Decency to Help Pull
That Team Out of the Hole
It's in He'll Do It.

Indianapolis, Ind, Jan. 9.-John T.
Brush, being asked to-day by a repre-
sentative of the Associated Press If he
for his own account or his friends had
purchased the st. Louis baseball club,
replied that neither himself nor his
friends had bought that property. Be
ing asked if there was any prospect of
such a purchase by himself or his
friends he replied emphatically that
there was none. Being further asked
TO explain his recent visit to st. Louis
and Mr.. Won der Ahe's visit to Indian
apolis he said: early in December
MIR. Won der Abe appealed to me for
financial aid. Upon his statement and
showing | endeavored to handle loan
that would place him upon his feet
again, but found IL impossible and inn
practicable to do 50. He then offered
the club for sale. j secured for him a
prospective purchaser in the firm of
Messrs. Dickson & Talbot of this city,
who were willing to buy his club If 1T
could be delivered to them free of in
eumbrance, at their price. Messrs.
Dickson az Talbot, while having no
immediate experience in baseball, are
well qualified to succeed in this enter
prise If they should engage in it, as they
are endowed With the dual requisites,
ability and money. While it Is true
| that local syndicate has long been or
|
| franchise at figures which have been
made public, Messrs. Dickson & Talbot
| have been in no sense competitors in
| their negotiations. They have only
entered the field when invited to do
/ so, which has been on several
4 occasions and have always re-
tired whenever impracticable barriers
arose or conditions imposed that rem
dered it impossible to continue negotia-
tions. The financial affairs of the club
| IN, hot tit1cr I'm
! be very difficult matter for any one to
| buy and get a clear and unincumbered
title. Suits. judgments, mortgages,
claims tknown and unknown), make 1t
| extremely hazardous to buy, and the
| refusal of Dickson & Talbot to longer
| consider the matter is due to this fact"
You are criticised in some quarters
| for connection with this matter upon
the ground that YOU are buying the club
on your own account and that Dickson
& Talbot do not represent the financial
| interest"
Yes / know. but that makes no diff
ference to me since it is wholly and alb
solutely untrue. / have an interest in
the welfare of the national league. My
desire to foster and promote its best
welfare may not be any greater than
that of my partners in other league
cities, but do not feel that it is equally
as great. St. Louis has been the dis
appointment of the present organza-
ton. Any change that Will insure the
redemption OF st. Louis to its. proper
place in the front ranks of baseball
cities ought to have the encouragement
and support of every magnate in the
national league. Anything that | may
do within the lines of legitimacy to ac'
complish this ] will do, regardless O
the criticisms of the few whose stock il
trade consists mainly of jealousies anC
revenge. The national league owes ii Il
itself to furnish whatever assistance !
may consistently with propriety in re
storing st. Louis to something like it:
former prestige on the baseball map
Mr. Won der Ahe asked me for assist
ance Messrs Dickson & Talbot invited
me to aid them; my efforts have simpl,
been in the interests of both and ulti
! mately for the general good of the ma
! tional league"