The evening times., 1899-02-21
The Delegate Question
status of "a Corporation.

What becomes Of the corporation known as
sport -man'S Park and Club when the sheriff
SAYS: sold 10 tie highest bidder!" Is il still
alive. or i ir dead. II il Is alive and Tom,
Dick Harry j. the purchaser. viii Mr.. Becker,
who is reported to own the majority of the stock
Oi that corporation. be IN control part owner.
although he may not have been bidder. even.
OF viii Tom. Dick. and Harry insist Upon abs
lutc ownership. Ii sport ~Tnnl', Park and Club
is alive after the sale and that i the corporation
To which League privileges attach, what does
tGr purchaser get for has money. il Sportsman :
Park and Club l. dead when the sheriff says
sold and ii all Ot itS assets were included M
icf sale. and they no doubt would br, would
llnt the purchasing parties. whoever they may
be-. be new and distinct organization from
that which had fallen beneath the sheIIHS ham
uIer and IS such, if they wished 10 send dele
gates 10 the League. be required 10 apply az
,urding the conditions imposed 10y the appIl-
,suts and depend upon the favorable action ot
the League Tor recognition
Does the fact that the >port-nau'- Park and
Club j. bankrupt destroy the constitution and
lis provisions for the remaining members OF the
League. and does il prevent such Legislative &C
iinu A. could have been taken before the bank
uiptcy!
II j. unnecessary 90 consider a reduction Of
circuit for the purpose ut Grading the action of
court Court, pretty generally discern what -
right and what l. wrong; what j. legal and what
l. illegal. l have no anxiety IN that direction
l believe thar the worst that can bciall -
Louis in a baseball sense las already happened
Some Sarcastic Filings.
Frank Hough. of the Philadelphia In
auirer." INDUCES in sarcastic aings at
John T Brush and President y. f. Young
with reference TO the reduction of the
twelve League clubs. He starts out with
iollying Col John l. Rogers, with whom,
he says. he has not been upon the most
friendly terms of brotherly love; and
avows in forceful language that when il
comes down TO the national game in its
national aspect. no matter how many cogs
he may slip from a local point of view,
Colonel Rogers is a flat head" or words
TO that effect He goes on to say that
Colonel Rogers has always been in favor
of an eight-club League. is now, and would
vote for it tomorrow.
Does Hough intend TO be understood as
meaning that Colonel Rogers would vote
for a reduction OF the League to an eight
club organization, Internationally, with
out qualifications or conditions? Would
the colonel draw on his bank account to
pay his proportion of the amount re-
quired to purchase the vested rights of the
four clubs whom il is sought TO drop from
the League?
With all due respect TO Frank Hough it
is not believed that he has fully present
ed Colonel Rogers opinions upon this sub
ject If So the colonel has been unfor-
tunately represented by other parties with
whom he has talked.
With reference to this matter, there are
several other magnates of the League that
would vote for a reduction of the League
under certain conditions yet under the
conditions that now confront them il is not
believed that there is a magnate in the
League, with the exception of Colonel
Rogers. if he is correctly reported. who
would give his consent to the change
MIR. Hough, unintentionaIly no doubt
does gross injustice to Mr.. Brush when
he charges him with trying to accomplish
reduction of the twelve-club League
What Mr.. Brush's opinion may be three
years from now is conjectural. but he is
unaiterably opposed to a reduction of the
League at this time for the reason that il
is impractieable, if not impossible. and he
has so decided. IL is therefore unfair and