The sun., 1902-01-14
SpALDING CLEANS UP THE DECK
WRITES 4 FINAL BASEBALL LET
TER 70 JOHN r.. BRUSH.
Declares That the Absolute Surrender Of
the Freedman Combine Is the Only
Way Out Of tho Present League Tansie.
and That Freedman Must Be Ousted
nv tho New York Stockholders.

and That Freedman Must DO Ousted
by the New York stockholders
AG. spalding, President of theNational
League, concluded his baseball corre-
spondence relative TO the situation yester'
day. In doing so, spalding cleared the
decks" for action which may be looked Tor
at an early date. The letters follow;
Mr. Joh, T.. Brush. Indianapolis. Ind:
DEAR SIR: Your belnted letter written
,he sth-publishcd the 9th reached me
SATURDAY evening Of the nth. and found my
correspondence department. so choked up
Nth ether work that could not get on q
reply until to-day.
To avoid further argument and for the
saks OF cleaning up these ancient transactions
I will plead guilty 10 every baseball crime
yo have nsS,ed mr OF pneSioas Sm ~ s6ees of
ISL tho Indianapolis League "hold-up Of
$40 the brotherhood mistakes Of 1859 and
800 and in fact an 9tnsr eise areVious to
ir iort9nSte mat and unaocountuble hlunder that
ysgg made SS your ~ lAf baseebai sebfi SduSty md
became the servile -uriah Heep' TO MI
Andrew Freedman. ,. ,.os a.,
hat time is the direct cause Of the present
prostrate condition OF the old NATIONAL
E whose Tepptst1n ,a sIS snf nnt hs Sn
fortunate nTrtnerShip wns formed.
Aside from your resurrections of foreign
events and the s1TGaS9 rn.S PS pon's 40 OF much amse
ment | note only the following points that
would seem TO cal forth an ans from me:
NJ tRis infamous so-called Freedman-Brush
busted trust scheme sworn on 70 me 1o9
told me in MIR Hart's ofiioe n chicago ana
w was ~ I,s father. You amaze me by, stating
hat this trust scheme was never discussed
n any LeHsHs se exclusion Sf ses2S SGS
everything else for nearly three DAYS at the
recent League meeting, and for corrooora-
ton q BIZ ISsH Ssa S@ as
Sir Soden's letters 20 me. which was forged
barefaced faischoods that the Freedman
-Four" persist In giving out also. shows that
this notorious Freedman-Brush trust scheme
meeting. and also ut conference az hed
Bank last August n the presence OF Messrs'
FseSmM Brush Brush aim 1Ps tho sSnos o having
been your first tutor in basebau politics. and
until you formed the firm Of Freedman a
s:a was n yoSI e9er tsat S
trust scheme was never discussed in any
League meeting is beyond my compre henslon
and can only consrue 1t as another evidence
Of tho banefIl influence that "Frectmanism
You admit in your letter that I was Presi-
dent OF the National League for sixty-slx
hours and ask you. am any less the Presl-
dent now than ! was during that timet 10
remove an oficlal from offloe Impeachment
During those slxty-siI hours of my un;
Interrupted, OCCUPANCY OF the Presldentiai
holiday and a Sunday-there were only thir-
teen business hours and during that time
| presided at the final session OF the League
SnsiSsss is1as was transacted. @ among other thing.
the election OF a Board OF Direction; an Ar
6iIatioS Board Committeee n on the eI ke,is'Saa Sa
last but not least a Schedule Committee. OF
which latter Somnittes ! am s Ihs
a striking comparison to the deadlock
results Of your previous four days session.
10 which you claim N your letter a,ono tnat not
You say Il had not .buttsd II. eyerythins 9
sIssnson SsS oa'' Of p'fn fresSmsnis% But surely
friend Brush. you do not mean TO imply that
Il took four days 70 discuss A. g spAding'
but L am. an nKious 70 know what you claim
You did during these four long DAYS OF the
recent League meeting Neither the press
the daily statement that was given out
Nothing done except routine Work ana the
sSnsdeSasoS s,11es Of sss ~. Ii. o
cial records AS secretary OF the meeting do
not show any changes IN the constitution,
you voted your partner Freedman, the sum
Of $4,000 as rental OF Manhattan Field for
last year. against which freedman claims
Of rentals reoeived Tor - use Of tho ground.
during that time. How about the one item
ef 9yySr $1,000 that 2 published statemsn,t. :
the New YORK club Tor the use OF TIE grounds
for football natcheHf You surely cannot
ipdorse such shell-game bookses ping uethodS, i,C,
rental 10 be credited 20 "a" Polo Grounds
seoount. when u Nes under stood win ne
Manhattan Field rental account This il
only one Of the minor results Of freedman
lam and 4 isamalihg thAt you. SOden Coma NJ
and Robson can indofss OF even apolo-
gi,e for its author
In clofing my comments on your saT castiG
sooompli he'd durins those thir,sen bushes. +.
houIr, viii again call our attcntlon tO the
nlAuorm ol vhlcl J Nasslecied. winch 10
TO promote. fu.'ct. elevate and p.rpstuAte
the sam" ol l"-riau. the national Geld sport
10 eliminate all object tianaule features
thai may tcnd ~ degrade ahd dsmoraiizs
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