Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-25
THE DIAMOND.

brought about by reorganization or res |
olution. w. M. Rankin of the New York
Clipper, who is never radical in his views
and is a close student and accurate his
torian of the national pastime, advises |
the American league to declare it's indie
pendence of the National league and OPP !
crate along the lines of the old American
association in the following paragraphs:
1.-The American league teams are MAX
ing rapid strides toward the pinnacle OF
baseball fame. This has been more no.
ticeable this year than ever before. AT
Chicago the American league team is
being Endorsed by people who We're once
bitterly opposed to minor league ball
players. They are getting an article of
ball far superior to anything they
thought the minors capable of putting
up. Besides this, the people say that
the rules are more adhered to by the
players of that body than they are by
those of the major league, and the gen
eral department of the players OF the
younger organization is far better than
that of the players of the parent league.
The affairs of the American league are
in the hands of capable officials and the
rules are strictly lived up to, or the Sc
verest punishment is inflicted upon the
violaters. 1t is this earnest and steady
work of the executive department that
has brought the league to the front. The
time is almost ripe, if the period is not
already here, for the American league
to emancioate itself from the yoke OF
servitude. The public is tired of a trust
or monopoly in baseball. Let the Amer
lean work on the plans of the old Amer
lean association. While it will be better
for all parties to work under a national
agreement. the two organizations should
be entirely independent of one another.
If UGH a plan is adopted next fan 1t VIII
be hailed joyously, and there will prop
ably be a revival of the old-tlme inter-
est. Rivalry between two leading or
CARNATIONS is needed to place the game
where it was before the ABSORPTION OF
the old American association by the Ma
tional league at the now amous lndi-
napol meeting during the winter OF
1S91-2.'
The arrest Of Sherman Duffy, a Chi
cage newspaper writer in Detroit. re-
Gently, on a charge of crimlnel lloel.
based on his story of the mobbing OF
Umpire Cantillon on july IA, In winch
he severely criticised the conduct OF
Owner Burns Of the Detroit club. is de-
nounuced by President johnson of the
American league. The papers were not
served until late in the day, in the hope
of keeping Mr.. Duffy in jail over sun
day, but in this Burns failed. the De
troit sporting writer's secured bail for
Duffy, who had been in Detroit two
days before his arrest. All the trounle
in that city has been due to the petty
trickery which he has tried to practice
But Ban johnson blocked the game, ana
IL is Sdlu lIdl lie oiu a li"JoA
other club owners are OF the OPINION
that the American league will be better
off without Burns after this year.
John B. Foster, writing to the Cinciln-
natl Enquirer from New York, says:
That a movement is on foot to organ
ize an American association is certain.
Meetings have been held and the ground
has been carefully canvassed by sood
men. l believe that something OF the
1yi,I hos come To the ears or IOnn i.
Brush. and hat accounts for the inter-
view recently where he announced that
he was in favor of a return to the Ola
12-club circuit. That means taking IN
Baltimore and Washington and freezing
out competition in those cities. If posi-
BILE, and if not possible. in making the
competition as hot as possible.
In addition to this attempted organ
ization of a new association the Amer
lean league is beginning to feel its oats,
and will make a grandstand play either
this year or next. Perhaps it will not
amount to much, but it will give the
league owners a little more worry, as II
they had not had enough IN the past.
The Philadelphia players, thhey say
will withdraw from the Players assocl-
alton if Mccain isn't disciplined for
throwing a ball at Wolverton's head.
Perhaps if the Philadelphia players
would say that they have been looking
for an excuse to get out of the ascot
talon ever since it was started they
would come nearer the truth. There's
the crowd that doesn't want any Play
ers' association in theirs. Ihey doh
think it worth the dues.
Three meetings have been held within
the past six weeks where cerrain league
magnates Wen over the situation, SO
far as it relates to the next agreement
between baseball clubs. Four men are
pledged to go together, no matter what
happens. It is said that there is some
prospect that the debts for which the
National league is now liable will not
all be paid by the time that the nresenl
whether the present organization viii
not have to be continued until it meets
all it's obligations.
]. Earl Wagner wants to get back in,
to baseball. He is in no hurry t.
come until the national league has pait
all that it owes, including a good slice
to him. Then he would like to return
and start that celebrated bargain coun'
ter of his. Wagner made enough in thu
ball players that he sold to pay for two
or three mines.
If the New Yorks could have pulled
up on their present western trip the!
would have returned to their city with
chance of quite a little pile of none,
est was actually getting aroused unit
the team dropped two in one day a
Pittsburg, and that set it back again.
According to the latest records com
piled up to last Thursday, Chicago i
now the chief slugging club of the ma
tional league, the Orphans having rollet
up SIS extra to 500 for Cincinnati ant
500 for Pittsburg. The champion Brook
lvns are fifth in totals, and the tall en-
New Yorks are also t~ail-enders in thi
particular. Chicago's lead is explaine
by the shape of the Chicago grounds
where a hit to the right or left fiol
bunds off the bleacher wall and result
in a tWo-bagger. The Orphans lead i
sacrifices, the Brooklyns in stolen bases
New York second while Pittsburg, Bos