Evening star., 1901-12-07
National Leagues Coming Meeting
Most Important in History.
ORGANIZING BASKET BALL PLAYERS
Carroll BowIers Too Strong for
Business Mems Team.
ORTS IN GEN E r A L

President Nicholas E. Young of the Ma
tional Base Ball League, his wife and son
Robert will leave Washington for New
York Monday morning to attend the annual
meeting of the organization. which con-
venes Tuesday in that city. When seen last
evening by a Star reporter Uncle Nick
had, as usual, no news to give out, but said:
.I have told the National League mag
mates that the selection of Albert G. Spald-
ing as president of the organization would
be splendid move on their part. I have
served the National League for many years
and am perfectly willing to retire on the
laurels which my friends tell me I have
won. Many of the club owners have asked
me to remain and l have no doubt that
they are yet my stanchest friends. Mr..
Spalding is independently wealthy and has
proved a good leader, heretofore. At the
head of the National League he cannot but
command the greatest respect, from friends
and enemies alike
Uncle Nick is great believer in the
future OF the National League and says
that it will be doing business at the old
stand for the next ten years as heretofore.
His ambition now Is to land his son Robert
in the office of secretary Of the National
League. Bob" as all his friends call him,
has worked with. his father for years, and
should he be selected for the position of
Uncle Nick in an emergency. Robert is
graduate of Columbian Law School and
has made the study of base ball a special
one. AS a result everything has been nam
Young's office for the past ten years. and
a continuation of this state of affairs is
promised should Robert be selected for the
new post of secretary.
A New York View.
Regarding the coming meeting in New
York of the National League today's New
York Sun says:
mo matter with whom the base ball sit
uation in the National League is discussed,
the opinion is invariably forthcoming that
the old organization that has controlled the
national game for the past Twenty-Five
years is in a precariOuS condition. Grad
ually the sound business methods that built
the league up to a standard that com
manded the respect and support OF the
community have faded away until chaos
reigns supreme because of the predom-
nance of an element that has been pro-
nounced prejudicial to the.bestShnt erests.of
the sport.
Some have declared that there is now a
combine in control; that this combine con-
sists of the Boston, New York, Pittsburg.
Cincinnati and St. Louis clubs, and that
these clubs are shaping the policy upon
which the league is to be -reorganiZed. But
to a man who knows the ms and outs of
that such a combine exists. 1t is true,
however, that one or two magnates, who
are self-appointed leaders, have had their
heads together for some time past with the
result that the league today, in the eyes of
the public, has made one of the most in
advisable moves on record.
John T. Brush of Cincinnati has been
the boss schemer in the league for years
1t was Brush who, by his transactions in
the league relative to the player question,
was directly responsible for the brother
hood war in $780, which knocked the game
higher than a kite. 1t was also Brush
who. by his schemes to upset the American
League, when that body was exclusively
western in makeup, was the cause of the
expansion of Johnson's circuit. According
to excellent authority it is Brush now who
is attempting to engineer a series of big
deals in base ball that are calculated to
work no end of havoc in the business end
of the game.
National VS.. American Association.