The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-12-15

present but not voting. Then Spalding
opened fire again with the guns he trained
on the enemy 80 effectively on Friday. He
Having been elected President Of tho
National League, ! accept the once
and wish to say right here that / will be
absolute boss. I will take orders from
nobody and intend to run things In the
will be no combines or oliques but all Of
US must be on tho level and above board.
Four clubs do not seem to DO in accord
ance with my views. It is enough to say
that II they object II will not affect the
playing schedule which / win draw up
TO play ball there will be a club In each
city In the National League just the same,
SO that the championship race will DO de-
cided as usual. repeat that the issue
Freedman will remain In baseball. The
fight Is to be made OF the baseball records
OF each, with personality cut out Of II and
the American public as tho jury. Freed
man must 60 and II his friend Brush sticks
to him he Is liable to go down in the wreck.
Freedman makes an answer to- me
In this mornings papers that i am In base
ball for what i can get out Of IL. i do not
accuse Freedman of not being In the game
for the pure love OF the sport. He put
up about $50. 900 to gain control of the New
York club In 1894 and eince that time in
salary and dividends he has received Dot
$4,000 as his share OF tho investment,
while tho other stockholders ave re-
ceived about 500, 600. When the New York
club was threatened with ruin In 1890 during
tho Brotherhood fight. $4,000 had to be
raised before IL o'clock one night or the
National League would have gone under.
As my share / put up $50. 900 and received
stock in the New York club at a valuation
Of 100 cents on the dollar. In 1894 sold
this TO Freedman for 10 cents on the dollar.
which was quite a sacrifice, for ! never
believed in syndicate ball. In this line
IL might DO well SO say that Freedman
owes my firm 81 500 in bonds with interest
long over due and that we expect to col
lect II.
Freedman says tina I wanted 70 rot up
a baseball trust myself and Conant backs
him up in that statement. The facts are
all that arc necessary. Last summer In
June Mr.. Hart came TO mo with the state.
ment that the National League vas in bad
shape and pointed TO the success or the
American League, He said that a radical
change was necessary and asked me 70
help In q plan to get certain managers and
magnates out of tho National League,
a. their further presence was a detriment.
I aaid that while l wanted II understood
that / would not invest q dollar in the
scheme / would see what could do, Ac-
cordingly Hart went TO Cleveland TO SEQ
Robson who wa heart and soul in the
schome. II wa a plan TO secure nm option
on the stock OF each club, with the Idea OF
interesting local capital. IL the plan went
through the syndicate ball evil, as ex-
emplifed by the holding Of stock in the
New York club by Soden Of Boston and
Brush of Cincinnati would be done away
with; the ownership OF tho st. Louis club by
Robson OF Cleveland would also 10 blotted
out; tho control of the Cincinnati club
by Brush OF In5in"nr'l would DO
abolished, too. FurthG siil he plan was
to include. the honorable retirement Of
Freedman by paying him his price. Then
with new ownership, local capital and pride.
the National League would have been in
fine shape. 1t was not a trust at all. be-
cause no human being could organize a
trust To govern a national sport. i met
Brush and learned that he had II scheme on
foot 20 induce tho Baltimore and Detroit
clubs to jump tho American League. |
advised him not to make the move, but to
stick TO the plan l have outlined. lie
agreed to meet me and talk il over, but the
next thing | knew he was Town az Red
Bank helping to abrogate the national
agreement. Now, Freedman and Brush
are trying to create the impression that
I was the father Of their trust scheme,
II was simply a move TO get Freedman
ont. and / thought we could do IL through
Brush. who Is pretty close to the Now
York man. There are two letters which |
wan; the public 10 read. They will put
much light on this tangled situation
Spaldin9 then gave this correspondence
TO the press:
NEw YonK. June 20. 1901.
Ny DRAn BRusH Following up our recent
accidental meeting and coGversatiOn in Which
you mentioned the possible detection or de-
%scrtion of.tMo American League clubs to The
Naiional during mid 4. 9 ! have eiye1 ,hc
It over the more impressed ! become with the
MnwiSdon, at -nch a move. believe The
National League would he a loser by such
action and the American League the real
gamer
rs.p.Ds iIlg for N md while lN SOMA IL may ]
be- considered q fhrawd war mrisurr, yet II IL
ny opinion that Il will Prov" - boomerang
on th" National League and forever bel!ttle
and disgrac- tho two clubs which would be
guilty of such q Judas Benedict Arnold act
aud then again what does the National League
gain BY ~ II simply tales into its fold
Two more C.lbs that b a. only very recently
ptad n lars" sum 60 ret rid OF and relieve a
rival Of two uHl-'IIapl" dead wood clubs
IA makes gl opening for two moro desirable
c..."-. On" iu tD. Ea-' and one In IN" West.
,or next year / lhiuk you very much mis-
estimate the cal.bre and strength Of Tho
American leagus. Il you think such a move
would kil y T. mlsht and no doubt would
tLry would l.O doubt read u,t tLrif sChedgie. L.
Ia ID -iK club -"hsdur. tR- same a. the National
W. Inc i4r.ugsp II the Old CINCINNATI
cup b IA Brotherhood was a very iinpn,-
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