Evening star., 1901-12-11
Sensation Sprung Today by National
League Magnates.
OBJECTION TO THE PLAN, HOWEVER
Not Considered Quite the Proper
Thing in Sports.
g SSIP ABOUT PLAYERS
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.

Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
NEW YORK, December 1.-Two sensa-
tions We're sprung on the base ball world
in New York this morning. The first was
that the league had some intention of maxi
ing a syndicate CT itself and going into
business on the plan by which J. Pierpont
Morgan runs his steel trust and other in
dustries That idea was not far from right
although there is little probability that it
would be put through. Several base bali
owners in the National League who are of
opinion that the plan has some good fea-
lures are not willing to subscribe them
selves to a proposition of this kind which
savors a little too strongly of the COM
mercial idea that seems to have impreg-
mated everything in the United States in
the last two years.
AS one club owner remarked, "They may
make syndicate of the theatrical produc
t1ons and not get away with it because
there Is nothing about the theater that has
to do in any way with sport, but 1 don't
belleve that ii is just the time to attempt
1t with base ball or at the race tracks,
fian Originated With John Il. Brush.
The plan is supposed to be a scheme that
John T. Brush has been laboring upon for
for long time. Mr.. Brush is not the
only person who has to do with it. There
are others to whose attention it has been
brought and they are commercial men who
have favored it, That appears to be the
only trouble of the National League.
Those who compose it are men who have
prospered III business and know the ins and
outs of that phase of life better than some
of the base ball men who are not so sam
Suine as to how they will fare if they are
brought up against Wall street methods.
When IL try IN a L
the same methods prevail, and somehow
they will not hitch Probably they never
will.
The other sensation was that Ned Hanlon
ager of the Giants for another year. 1t is
only fair to say that such result would
depend quite entirely upon putting through
the trust plan. If it should be accomplish
reason to believe that in the grand shift
of players and managers it might be deem
ed eXpedient to make Hanlon the head of
the New York club. Hanlon has not been
consulted about the matter.
he might offer some objection, but even
that is doubtful, for Hanlon is not the kind
of manager who will hesitate when the op-
pOrtunity to better himself is placed before
him, and there is no one who will deny
that Hanlon as manager of the New Yorks
would be better fixed than as manager of
the Brooklyns
Hitch Comes With Brooklyn.
The hitch comes with the Brooklyn man
agement, and it is not very probable that
they will let the best manager in the league
go without something of a fight. Freed
man has been after Hanlon before, but he
could not get him. for the loss of Hanlon
to Brooklyn would mean great deal more
than the Brooklyn management imagines.
1t is a fact that New York has been after
Kelley, the first baseman of Brooklyn and
it is not improbable that he will be mem
Der of the New York team next year.
If Hanlon does not come across the river
Kelley may be got to lead the New Yorks.
For a long time it has been Kelley's am
bition to be at the head of a first-cIass
base ball nine. If he is sent from Brook
lyn to this city he will be manager and
captain unless Freedman should succeed in
getting Hanlon, which seems quite i'm
probable Kelley, however, is so good that
he will shine well in New York. and he is
sure to get cordial reception
New York may lose another player W.
Turner is said to have been offered So 600
by the Detroit club. If he has received
such an offer from the American League
1t is almost certain that he will be invited
by Freedman to go and take it. Freedman
poses as a philanthropist. He has several
players who are under obligations to him
in more ways than one
As soon he hears that they have re-
celVed offers from the American League at
a salary higher than that which he cares to
pay he goes to the men and assures them
lhdt tHe Desl lHlTS tney can 90 is to go in
10 the other league, for they haven't very
long to live in the base ball world at the
best. and then he writes a letter of con-
graduation to the other nine on the fact
that they have got one of his PLAYERS This
is not joke, but really a fact.
Nothing Done Yesterday.
The business that the National League
accomplished yesterday, that is the busi-
ness that they gave out as having accom-
No
There is great deal of caucussing, how
National League meetings, and as a rule
1T amounts to more than the actual work
In the meetings, which is ratification of
that which has gone before.
DreyfusS has the pennant for 1902 and
he was more concerned over that than he
was over anything else that the league
did. He reached the Fifth Avenue Hotel
at o'clock in the morning, and there he
remained until the board of directors went
into session. Somebody asked him what
ne was doing around SO early. why" re-
piled Dreyfuss, Il understood that there
was to be a meeting of the board of di-
rectors of the National League this morn
Ing. and thought that it would be a good
thing to get around and cinch my claim to
the championship before New York or Bos-
ton or some other city came and claimed
had no right to it, The Pittsburg man
was more pleased over winning the pen,
nant than he was at the amount of money
that he was reported to have made in
Pittsburg during the year. That was no
small amount, either.
Without any question Freedman is urging
his claims very hard for recognition from
the other magnates in more ways than one
He has pointed to the fact that the New
York team is the best money maker in the
country when 1t amounts to anything and
has told the other club owners that if they
want to succeed 1t Is their duty to give him
some help. While Freedman has been a
much-abused man, and has deserved a
great deal of it. there is no doubt that he
has repeatedly offered big prices for some
of the players that belonged to other club
owners Only to be met with a sneer and to
be asked price that no other owner would
even receive hint to pay
Quarantine Against PhiIadelphia.
ST. THOMAS, d. w. l., December H.
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