The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-21
Mccarthy Takes the Reins to
Aid Baseball Move.
Boston Promoter Insists the
New League Is a Go.
TO MEET THIS WEEK
In Baltimore to Further Discuss
the Project.
Louisville Is Anxious to Enter
IfPlans Succeed.

Boston, Mass. Feb 21.-Thomas F.
Mccarthy, the boomer of the Boston
association team, still insists that the
New American association will be
20 and intimates that McGraw is
gutter. Mccarthy returned from Chi
cago last night and found awaiting him
the following telegram:
''Philadelohia will furnish $1,000 as
soon as the circuit committee names
the eighth city"
F. c. Richter sent the message.
There" said Mccarthy, Il told Nc
Graw and Parson that they were too
hasty They had no right to call mat
tiers off. Matters are not off; there was
no earthly reason for this thing not go
ing through.
HAD I arrived in Chicago earlier the
deal would not have been declared OF.
Here everybody was declaring what
chap AIcGraw was to stick to the as
sociation and yet he is the first man
10 throw up his hands. 1 do not pro-
nose to stand for that sort of thing.
Il have wired Arson that McGraW's
action in calling the movement of was
wholly unjustifiable and have requested
him to call meeting in Baltimore the
coming week. I want to find out just
where we stand. 1 do not propose TO
be thrown down.
SAYS BOSTON IS READY.
Boston is all right and ready to
so on. If McGraw and his partners
have determined to quit, let them come
out and say so in a regular meeting
of the association held in a regular
way.
Il think the association has a splen-
did opportunity, and 1 tell you right
here 1 could put a team in Boston that
would be a hummer.
Il could show these chaps something.
They want to know where I can get my
players. I can get them all right.
Il have notified all the members OF
q the association of my request to Arson
TO call this meeting and have asked
them to notify me if they will be pres
emit If it comes right to a, showdown
we can get along without Baltimore.
.'McGraW already had gone when 1
arrived in Chicago, so 1 sent in pur-
suit of him. I found he had gone to
Philadelphia. On his return to Balti-
more he said the Philadelphia parties
could not secure grounds and he in
tended to wire Arson the jig was up
Il begged him to wait awhile, to hold
off for six days, and then, if matters
were not satisfactory, he could take
the action he intended Had he not
been so precipitate we would have had
clear sailing.
L have not yet given up the ship. I
think matters are brighter for the new
association than at any time. There
is not a club that is not ready to post
ALS t0sUuOs why tli4S dClAOi1 III dDdlAAOAA-
ing the ship makes some of US look
like a lot of fools"
LOUISVILLE is CONFIDENT.
Louisville, Ky, Feb. 21.-The Amerf-
can association probably will be or
ganiZed this week, in all probability at
Baltimore. The following telegram
from Thomas F. Mccarthy received
yesterday explains itself:
"Will W. Douglas, secretary, Louis
Vile, Ky. McGraw's action was IN
al H0rfgad wired call
q meeting in Baltimore this week. VIII
you come? Boston is red-hot."
Mr. Douglas imediately wired Nc
Carthy that Louisville was sorely dis
appointed over the failure Of the assO-
citation and that the local organiza-
ton, the Eclipse Baseball association,
still was ready to make good accord
ing to the original proposition and
would attend a meeting in Baltimore or
anywhere else.
Louisville will send Messrs. Douglas
and Whiteside to this meeting pre-
pared to post all Of the 5000 If neces-
sary. The Eclipse association was dis
solved last night, but it was done with
tbe sincerest regrets, and every man
Who subscribed for stock stands ready
TO put up for an association team.
MONEY READY IN LOUISVILLE.
More than SAC, 900 can be secured here
in tWenty-fOur hours. The proposed
Louisville club already has signed
eleven big league ball players of well
known ability and everybody here is
eager for the new organization to be-
come a fact.
Baltimore, Nd, Feb. 21.-Stockhold-
ers of the New Association club dis
oussed the future of the club at a meet
ing today and it was agreed unani-
mously that the organization should bt
kept up.
The action Of Peterson and McGraw II
refusing to go on with the association
under the present auspices was ratified
but it was thought by the end of the
year matters would be in a different
position and the association could be
formed and carried out to a successful
conclusion. in which case Baltimore
,un1lld he ready to 90 in