The times., 1898-07-08
ANsoN QUITS THE GIANTS.
Freedman's Methods Are Exciting
Disgust in Baseball Circles.

DksS IN baSeDaIi SlrcEes
New York, July T. Special. : Anson
had disagreement with Andy Freedman
and quit the management of the New
Yorks in disgust. He left for Chicago this
morning. Joyce has been placed in charge
of the team again.
Andy Freedman, president of the New
York club, is writilsng in anguishing tor
ments of diaboiieat disappointment these
July days. The cftfb or which he has the
honor of being the executive head, and
which he so boastfully declared, early in
the season, held letters patent for the
possession of the pennant for the season
of 1898, is not, and has not supported his
claim to that distinction. And now Andy,
in his great actl Of jax defying the ligth-
ming, is on the war path. "Scrappy'
Joyce was the frs, victim of his unre-
strained wrath, and he was compelled to
unceremoniously vacate the managerial
perch and get down into the ranks of the
common heard of everyday ball players,
and there hold himself amenable for fur
ther persecution, for failing To place the
Giants upon that high plane of playing ex>'
cellence that Andy had determined they
should occupy. The managerial reins
were handed over to osCapt. Anson, who, it
was thought, by reason of long exper-
ience as a conductor of the sport, and his
knowledge of all the intricate points of
the game, would be the right man in the
right place, and that he would rally the
slowly retreating Giants and line them up
again for new fight.
Anson, however, has discovered that his
warriors have been badly demoraliZed,
and that they won't rally toward the flag
worth cent, and now Andy has taken
a hand in the contest and is going to
make it not all along the line for every
body. No excuses for glass arms or
charley horse will go. Rusie must
pitch whenever Andy says so. An error
by an outfielder or an infielrer is to be
punished by immediate and unconditional
dismissal, without benefit of notice and
all salary due the offender to be confis-
Gated by the club owners.
Umpires who dare TO give close de-
cision against the Giants-it matters not
what the circumstances-are are to be
declared incompetent and their dismissal
demanded, and in case the president of
the League fails or refuses to dismiss the
accused party, the president himself Will
be officially decapitated.
This is the line of policy and the plan
of campaign that Freedman desires
adopted, and Andy expects results. He
viii not be disappointed; yet they may be
Of a character that will conduce TO his
perfect peace of mind, as base ball is a
very uncertain quality.
In relation to the New York Club. the
facts are that outside of their pitching
department, the club is as weak an ag-
gregation as there is in the League. And
Andy ought to use proper and ligimate
means to strengthen, and not resort to
such foolish methods as abusing and de-
nouncing umpires and making war upon
everything and everybody whom ne may
imagine are not in sympathy with his
club
The very serious charge OF incompetency
be made against John HeydIer is not we'll
founded or sustained by the facts The
decision made by Heydler, which has
shocked the nerves of the aggrieved
Andy, was a decision on one Of the bases,
and was in no way a test of competency.
but simply of eyesight. Heydler decided
the play as he saw it, and it is hundred
to one shot that he decided it correctly
as John as he is Familiarity called by
his Washington friends, is known to be
a young man of unimpeachable honor and
integrity. Freedman goes out of his way
to impugn Heydler's motives, by saying
that he has formerly been clerk of Mr..
Young, and, by implication, infamously
charges that he and President Young
were in a conspiracy to injure the New
York Club. This is simply contemplate,
and Andy shall be called down. He owes
an apology to not only President Young
and Heydler, but to the lovers and ad-
mirers of the game everywhere, who re-
spect fair and manly sport, and despise
the methods of the irascible Andy
A. Freedman Buys Players.