Evening star., 1900-01-13
BASE BALL OUTLOOK
Official Statement of the Status of the
American Association.
COMPETITION Is ASSURED
Seven Cities in Line, With Lots Of
Choice for the Eighth.
CURRENT SPORTING NOTES

| Sporting Life, the official organ of the
contemplated American Association, has the
| following to say in this weeks paper
about the movement. Editor Richter
stands close TO the promoters of the as
| sociaton. and mis- writings can he classed
with the inspired order. He says:
"A great many misleading statements are
| being printed these days about the new
| American Association, owing to the fact
| that the promoters of that organization are
| not giving their plans away or are talking
| fColishly for publication. but are working
secretly to perfect the organization. The
scrbes are necessarily driven to spec1Ila-
ton and they are doing some very bad
| guessing.
The facts are just as stated in last
weeks Sporting Life. and all statements
regarding the association in this paper MAY
| he accepted as authoritative and official.
| The association to date comprises seven
| clubs. with backing and grounds secured
| i'll Chicago. ST. Louis. Milwaukee,. Detroit
Boston. New York and Philadelphia.
In this layout there may probably be
| one little change. although that is not at
| al likely. The eighth city will he selected
| from Baltimore. Washington or Providence
| Applications for membership from all of
| these cities are in. but the association is
| in NJ greater hurry TO fill in the one va
cancy than the National League is IL cut
| down its circuit from twelve clubs 10 ten
or eight.
For good and sufficient reasons the :den-
t:ty of the hackers and locations of grounds
| in Philadelphia. New York and Detroit
and the identity of the applicants from
Providence. Washington and Baltimore is
rot 10 be revealed at the present time.
Suffice it to say that what We have damn
Ell above for those cities is absolutely
true
1T is not worth while to r. print the CUFF
about the association that has been pub
lfShed during the past week. We wish to
deny. however. emphaticaiiy the published
Chicago fake statement that Anson is
working to bring the association and league
into harmonious relations. Such thing is
not possible at the start at least. consid-
ering that the association proposes to be
rival. not satellite. of the league; and for
this reason must invade and share at least
hve cities at present moIopolized by the
league.
There may be peace with honor a year
hence; but for the present it is useless to
anticipate that. In fact. such anticipa ton
would be idle in view of the leagues love
of dominance and aversion to sharing its
self-appropriated territory with any organ
izatiOn calculated to make it hump itself to
secure public patronage. and behave itself
sufficiently to retain fair share of it.
"All that the association has a right to
expect. or very sensiby does expect Is
ike the immortal Grant, to compel peace
by fighting for it. just the old associa-
tlon did in 1883 and in 1891 The purse
proud and monopoly-bred old league has
never yet yielded to anything but fear or
compulsion. and only fools need expect or
nope that 1t ever Will And the new asso-
citation will have very few fools In its fold :
indeed, no organization ever started with
more base ball brains than the new asso-
clatI"n contains right now