The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-12-12
National League Directors Decide
The League is a Perpetual
Body and Did Not Die Deem
Der 10
BRUSH'S REVOLUTION
SCHEME is DEAD
Also Decided That No Club Can
Be Expelled From the League
Except for Specified Cause
SpaIding Will Be President of
the League

New York, Dec 11.-John 7. Brush S
scheme for the revolution Of the ma.
tional game is dead, At the meeting
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel today the
National League magnates, by ma
jority vote, decided that the league
was a perpetual body and did not de
with the expiration of the Indianapolis
agreement, Dec. IS. 1t was also decid-
ed that no club can be expelled from
the league except for specified causes
as set forth in the constitution and by
laws of the organization Thus came
the end of Mr.. Brushs plan for syn
dictate baseball.
The vote came as the result of res
olution to declare the league out OF ex-
istence on and after Dec. Is. For sew
eral hours the matter had been DIS
cussed and argued pro and con. The
speeches, it is said, were stormy IN
their nature. Charges Of bad faith
were frequently made on both sides.
Finally vote was taken. The result
according to excellent authority, show
ed that Brooklyn, Boston, Philadelphia
and Chicago were against the MOTION
st. Louis voted aye, while New YORK
and Cincinnati did not vote. The re-
is back in the same spot it occupied
before the signing of the indianapolis
agreement in 1891.
An attempt was made at today's
meeting to elect A. G. Spaulding pres
ident 1t was at first reported that he
had been beaten, but this turned out
to be untrue. Shortly after the mag
mates went into session, .Dreyfuss made
a motion that the election Of officers
no Cd xtrith This ounnndhH that
A. G.. Spalding be unanimously elected
as president. The hitch came in the
matter of doing away with the order
of business so as to proceed with the
election. When the matter was put to-
a vote Boston, Cincinnati, St Louis
and New York voted to proceed in the
regular order, thereby setting back Mr..
Spalding's election until later. 1t is
stated upon good authority that at
least five of the clubs favor the cleo
ton of Mr. Spalding. They are Pitts
burg, Boston, Chicago, Brooklyn and
Philadelphia.
When the session began at 3 o'clock
in the afternoon, those present were
N. E. Young, President; A. H. Soden,
W. H. Conant, C. w. B. Billings, Bos-
ton Edward Hanlon, F. A. Abel, Har-
ry Won Der Horst and Charles Ebbets
of Brooklyn; Col John l. Rogers and
A. J. Reach, Philadelphia; Andrew D.
Freedman, New York; Frank De Haas
Robson, st. Louis: James Hart, Chi
cago, and John r. Brush, Cincinnati
At $50 o'clock tonight the league
rulers began another session, at which
they listened to the report of the
board of directors.
A story that Hanlon will manage the
New York team next season was killed
as soon as Hanlon reached the hotel
today. The only chance that could
bring him to New York wuold be for
Freedman to secure the consent of Eb-
belts, Abel and Won Der Horst, the
Brooklyn directors. All of them are on
record as refusing to let Hanlon leave
Brooklyn. He has an ironclad agree
ment with the Brooklyn directors to-
the effect that he stay with them
as long as they want him at a stpu-
lated salary
Kelly, captain of the Brooklyn team,
was mentioned today in connection
with the management of the New
Yorks.
The New York club today secured
Matty McIntire, an outfielder of the
Philadelphia American League, and
Quinlan, shortstop of the Montreal
team. Both players, according to the
clubs secretary, have signed New
York contracts.