The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-24
HAS KILLED THE GAME
Ball Too Much for
Good Sport.
RESULTS OF THE SEASON
Most Of the Clubs Are Said to Have
Made Money for the Magnates.
Nothing Has Been Done to
Prevent Rowdy Ball.

The Chicago Times Herald gives the
following review of the baseball esason
for 1899:
After running the gauntlet Of syrdi-
cate ball. r.)W:lylSnl and transferred
games, the season is brought TO an end
to the pt"unlary benefit of the ma jcrity
of club owners in the c:,cut ana with
Brooklyn the CHAMPIONS.
There was no luke in the decision #
the championship. Tile, leaders were tee
far apart even Il make the race inter
esting when the leaves began to turn
in the exasperatingly long season.
Brooklyn forged to the front about
midsummer, with Boston tagging be-
hind and Philadelphia moving up.
The Bostons We're unable to keep up
the chase and Were sadly buffeted by
the Quakers and Orioles. Close on the
flag end Philadelphia seemed to hold a
safe lead for second place, but Boston
crawled up and the final chapters in the
league contest were saved from mono
tony by the spirited race between Ros-
ton and Philadelphia. Fridays game
settled the chances of the Quakers, and
incidentally lost them $4,000, which
Colonel Rogers had promised them had
they finished in second place.
After Philadelphia came Baltimore
ST. Louis and Cincinnati in order. Gin
{,
for foothold on top of the second d.
vision Should the orphans defeat both
ST. Louis and Louisville to-day they
will finish in seventh place. Should Inc
weather man take hand and prevent
the games from being played, or should
Chicago lose one, it will occupy the
eighth position in the race. with LOWS
vile only a few points behind. Then
come New York, Washington and
Cleveland.
The year. on the whole has been
fraught with important happenings.
The meeting that brought the most
variegated and srotesque schedule into
being was marked by personal encoun"
ter between the magnates. The follow
ed the long drawn-out negotiations over
the consolidation of the Baltimore and
Brooklyn clubs.
McGraw and Robinson ware given
what was left of the former champions
in Baltimore and the team turned cut
to be the sensation of the year. With
seemingly only two good players 10
start with, the aggregation did wond-
ers and finished in second place.
The team turned out SO strong :Eat
Med Hanlon thought he could borrow
some players to- strengthen his own
team. The scheme partly succeeded.
and the Robson brothers in Cleveland
and st. Louis. encouraged by The re-
suits, stated the syndicate plan in the
West What syndicate ball has done
for the game is history. 1t killed the
game in Cleveland and hurt it in st.
Louis. 1t has made what was once the
greatest Of sports smack too much Of
the counting Room.
The means-sadopted to cheat Louis
vile out Of its Sunday dates did much
harm to the game. The public, al
though only locally interested in 'he
fortunes of the Colonies, seemed to 1e-
gard the performance as not in keeping
with the once established reputation
for probity and uprghtness of the mag
mates.
Financially the majority Of the clubs
are said to be on the right side vt the
ledger. Reports from Boston, Philadel-
phia. st. Louis. Brooklyn and Pittsnurg
speak of heavy bank accounts Cleva-
land was a dead loss to the Robisons
and the players practically went on a
strike a few weeks ago.
Adrian c. Arson is authority for TIE
statement that the Chicago club made
over 100000 on the season, and the ex
captain is probably not far out of he
way. The attendance on the local
grounds was heavy at the beginning of
the season. breaking all records. When
the team took a tumble the receipts
dropped correspondence.
The Chicago team has been a f!isap-
pointment to the local fans" Tom
Burns has not been the success as a
manager it was expected he would be.
Burns friends lay the blame at the
door of President Hart, but Hart claims
that Burns has had free reins, and The
problem is still unsolved.
While calculations have misrarried
and general dissatisfaction exists, the
managers are negotiating with one an
other to better conditions. 1t has been
found that President Young has been
of little or no use to the game. He has
failed to discipline a single PLAYER. He
has done nothing about preventing
rowdy ball and he is slated for renewal
by the magnates who coined money
when the game was in it's halcyon days |