Waterbury Democrat., 1901-12-13
BASEBALL NOTES.
The National League Magnates Still
 Daadlocked for President.

The situation Ill the aHalrS or tue National league of professional base ball clubs was reduced yesterday to q fight between X. G. Spalding on the
 one side and Freedman on the other, supporting the trust scheme of the,
 Cincinnati magnate presented to the
 delegates in new form. By the hand writing on the wall, it was deduced that Freedman will be vanQuiShed and
 that Spalding will hold the whip hand
 in the near future
 As stated yesterday, Brooklyn, Chi cago Pittsburg and Philadelphia are a unit against the trust scheme which, though it received death blow on Wednesdays revived by the schem- CTS last night with thick coating of sugar. But, according to Dreyfuss of Pittsburg. who is still the king pin, 1t will not be damned down the throats of his friends no matter how long
 Freedman & Go may talk in favor of it. In short, it is case of the Freed
 manites dying hard and the inevitable election of Spalding to the presidency,
 or a general wreck of the National league. If Freedman and his allies do not weaken within q given time, the opposition, it can be said, is prepared to make a counter move that will leave the schemers high and dry.
 When the league adjourned at 12 o'clock Wednesday night, Brush sent for two newspaper men and informed them that the to vote, taken on the question of changing the regular order of business for the election of officers, was really a defeat for Spalding; that k the amendment tackled on to the reso- lution, asking for the unanimous cleo ton of Spalding, was q trick which hoa yaH 1ilyn n charm In Oflnr
 words, the schemers wanted to
 create an impression that they
 had beaten Spalding, whose
 election means their withdrawal from the lime light. But Soden and Conant of the Boston club knocked tals statement on the head yesterday when they said that Spalding had not been defeated at all.
 In fact, a to vote, even had it been taken on the nomination of Spald- ing, would have been more of a knock down for the trust crowd than for tie man who is anxious to uphold the honor of the old league.
 Robinson of St Louis, when asked about the matter earlier in the day, said that he did not believe SpaldiEg's name would come before the meeting
 again, but it did just the same, and thereby showed that q fight to finish is on. When Spalding was asked what he had to say about the apparently open opposition to his name, he said last night:
 T positively refuse to discuss league
 base ball affairs further than to say that as my name has been placed i'll nomination for the presidency of tha league without my consent, 1t is Up to the league ito decide whether am wanted or not. 1 am in no hurry Tor decision. but now that my name has been placed publicly before the con vention I feel justified in demanding that it should come to a direct vote
 without any mystifying riders. The league men are responsible for getting
 my name into the eScOnyention Without
 my Knowledge and direction and they must get it out the same way. l posi- lively refuse to meet i'll secret confer
 ence any league magnate or magnates pending this vote,9 Though Brush denied that there was any trust
 scheme in his brain when interviewed l in the corridors, he talked on the sub ject four hours yesterday before the meeting. He did not call the scheme I trust, but said that it was com- l bination of interests for the good or all. "One for all, all for one! Let us be brothers and have harmony! was his war cry. But the men who Will
 not tolerate a trust were firm, ana
 Brush found it impossible to get his l widowed plan before the convention except in an informal way. The mag l mates have been deadlocked since Tues l day on the proposition which involves the life or death of the league Ana l tbev will be deadlocked until the
 Freedmanites surrender to SpaldlnS s
 will. for the big Chicago mans line
 Italian hand is greatly in evidence.
 There was no tangible evidence of pos
 tive news in the corridors, but the sit-
 nation. as outlined here, was clear 10
 the men who study base ball politics. 1 Bristol Dec 13.-It was announced l late last evening that every lawyer III
 Bristol, including Judge Epaphrodltus
 Peck, Hon N. F. Pierce, Judge R 5. I Newell, George w. Rourke, William J..
 Malone and c. F. Conlon, have volun- l tpered their services to back the local l baseball managers i'll any legal pro- I ceedings brought against the action of l the league officials in barring Bristol
 from the circuit. The lawyers claim
 the action was wrong and are pre- pared to fight it. Things are getting
 decidedly warm.
 The disgust and indignation over the
 way in which Bristol was dropped did
 not sabate yesterday and nothing else
 has been talked about. Everybody
 agreed that Bristol had been used in
 a manner which was wholly unwar- ranted and bids fair to break up the state league. Numerous stories were l floating about the streets yesterday. It was learned that Dr Reisling would ] remain with the Bristol team provided l there is one in the town, and that
 seems to be the determination of those
 who have managed baseball here for several years. Those who are in a
 position to know claim that Bristol
 was unlawfully put out of the league
 and on that ground the action of the
 magnates will be bitterly contested.l
 William J. Tracey. the managing own i CT of the club, said yesterday that in
 case Bristol does not enter the state league, the town will have team in
 the field to. play in 2 league composed 1 of Waterbury, Winsted, New Britain, 1 Torrington, Willimantic and Rock