Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-11
THE DIAMOND


Joe Villa has the following to say in
the Boston Traveller regarding the pre-
cent condition Of base ball:
Though the league championship base
ball season has a few weeks to run,
there is evidence of an unheaval that
may result in an entirely new reorgan-
ization of the various circuits or a base
ball war. which in magnitude will dwarf
the brotherhood affair of 1890. hi other
day President Phil Peterson of the re-
Gently organized National Association of
Professional Base Ball clubs, was seen
He refused to talk for publication and
was so mysterious that naturally the OBJ
ject of his visit to New York was the
Eubject of much discussion. 1t has since
been learned on the best of authority
that Peterson came to look over the
ground for the placing of a National AS
ISOLATION club in Greater New York.
The association men have planned a
circuit to include Boston, Greater New
York, Philadelphia and Baltimore in the
east, with Chicago. st. Louis, Milwaukee
and Detroit in the west. If by chance
lHey COulu Sel 1IllSDuTS anu CINCINNATI
instead Of Milwaukee and Detroit, they
say they would not back away at all.
THE promoters of the new organization
have formulated a scheme by which, if
successfully carried out, the National
league will be wiped out and base ball
will receive a thorough cleaning up. 1t
Is recognized that unless some of the Ma
tional leagues weapons are taken away
the older body will put up a fight and
will spend thousands of dollars to down
any competition.
consequently the National association
men believe that if they can enlist the
support of the American and the Eastern
leagues and can receive substantial as
sistance from the Protective Association
of Professional Base Ball Players, they
will also get assistance from several Ma
tional league magnates who are tired Of
relationships and want to see the game
thoroughly overhauled.
"By arranging a combination of this
Kind, the schemers say that the clique
now in control of the National league
could be left high and dry, particularly
as the league circuit breaks up by agree
Ment after another season. In looking
over the field in Greater New York,
therefore, the association men feel that
there are just three moves to make in or
der to secure a first-class base ball plant
here. One is to buy out Freedmen in
terests in the New York club. A second
plan, if the first is found to be an i'm
possibility. is to purchase the, Brooklyn
club. bag and baggage, and thus gain a
firm footing in that city. A third plan is
TO induce the owners of the Brooklyn
club, Messrs. AbeE, Won Ter Horst. Han
No, o~l ~lo - r~,--I-~ H.
league and join hands with the new cir
nuit. The National association men, it is
understood, have made a proposition to
fhe Brooklyn men within the last few
days, but the exact nature of it cannot
be learned. The schemers say that the
league magnates do not love the Brook
iynites and that the latter are likely to
be thrown down at W. time.
IF the allegiance of the Brooklyn
fagnates could be secured, the schemers
believe that they could approach the
pwners of the st. Louis club, including
Frank DeHass Robson, and the Chicago
club, owned by the %Spaldings and con-
trOlled by James A. Hart. AS it is now
the National association stands ready to
put rival clubs in Chicago and st. Louis,
but there is a warm feeling of friendship
toward Robson and Spalding, who have
always fought to uphold the best ele-
ments of the game. With the Hopping Of
st. Louis, Chicago and Brooklyn out Of
the National league, and these clubs
forming a defensive combination by
themselves, it is calculated tina possibly
the old league would agree to allow the
new organization to live without having
to fight for existence. If successful,
therefore, in undermining the league by
winning from it three clubs with
grounds, fixtures and prestige, the pro-
motors of the association believe that
their position would be so completely
fortified that the minor leagues would
look for protection. In that way a new
national agreement would be framed,
which would govern base ball just as it is
now controlled by the National league"
Carey, Buffalo's popular first baseman,
has been chosen by President Franklin
to succeed Dan Shannon as the manager
Of the Buffalo team.
Reports from Galveston, Tex, are to
The effect that Rosie Weber, who was
supposed to have been lost in the great
flood, is alive, but that his wife and child
were drowned. Weber, who was a Cincin-
natl boy, has a record of being in the
league for a shorter time than any other
ud IHdI ever siSHeu d. CoHlidct. ne was
a member of the Washington club for
exactly forty minutes.
Charley Dryden writing from Brooklyn
Says: Say, doesn't that beat the pipe
organ? This makes the third umpire
mutiny in two weeks here in the home of
the base ball union and the hotbed Of
brotherly love. The Lobster trust, re-
Gently formed in New Jersey, should
really make an effort to include a ma
jority of the teams now playing ball in
the big league. Hurst certainly did
stretch the limit when he compelled the
athletes to finish in the dark, but there
is much justification when we reflect
thu both teams played like a string of
fsh-dead ones at that"