The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-11
SPORTING NEWS.
The Sale of the Cincinnati Ball
Team Completed.
Hermann, Mayor Fleischmann
and &. b. Cox the Buyers.
A BIG BASEBALL DEAL.
Brush and Associates Received
Check For $15O,OOO.
New Owners Assume Indebted
ness of Near $4,000.

Cincinnati, Aug. 1.-THE Cincinnati
baseball team has passed into the hands
Of a quartet of the most popular elti-
zens of Cincinnati. A deal has peeh
consummated which places more IMAM
so per cent of the stock in the hands
of August Hermann, president OF the
board OF waterworks commissioners
Mayor julius F'leischmann and his
brother Max Fleischmann and George
b. Cox.
The stock was transferred to MI
Hermann last Tuesday, and is now oe-
posited in Cincinnati. John T. brush
has sold his entire holdings in the en-
cinuati club and will in the future nave
no connection whatever with tne team
further than that which his pos1tlon az
chief executive officer Oh the Natiohai
league will give him
The club will formally pass into the
hands of its new owners next odtui Jay :
when it plays its first game on the
home grounds after successlu l.oa :.
all around the circuit The new STOCK
holders will hold meeting some Gay
this week, when new officials Will pc
elected with Garry Hermann as the
new president. e,,,,,,
decided on. Treasurer Ashley Lloyd also
sewers his connection with the team,
and his holdings were sold with tnose
of John T. Brush. Joe Kelley VIII pc
continued as manager and Will be given
absolute authority in regard TO secufing
and signing players and managing the
team.
John T. Brush and his associates to-
dsy received a certified check for $I3o.
O0e and in return turned over thelr
holdings TIE stock of the club mas
been placed y the hands of the Lafay-
cite bank of this city. which holds 1t
for Mr.. Hermann, who has Deen the
principal figure in the negotiations.
The new owners assume an indebted
ness of from $4,000 to $4,000
The deal which was completed in In
dianapolis last Tuesday is the result oil
negotiations winch nave peen peiluihs
all this year.
After this came the sensational trans
action in Baltimore which was engi-
neered by Brush, and which gave the
latter and Andrew Freedman the pick OF
the players OF the Baltimore American
league team. By this deal Joe Kelley
became the manager of the Cincinnati
team, John McGraw was secured fol
was given blow which may end in its
being relegated to the ranks of the
minors.
The Cincinnati baseball team is just
ly the most famous in the history OF
the sport. for the Queen City is the
birthplace of professional baseball
There have been but few breaks in the
line of succession since the Cincinnati
Red Stockings we're organized on july
49, 1866.
When that team took the field nearl,
36 years ago. Harry Wright was pitcher
and L. L. Douglas catcher. and TIL
other members were Charles H. Gould
first base; Asa Brainard, second base
Fred Waterman, third base; J. c. Howe
shortstop; ]. v. B. Hatfield, left field
Rufus King. middle field, and J. Viii
liam Johnson, right field, with Nose:
Grant, substitute. In 1866 that team
played but four games-won two ant
lost two. In 1867 the Reds won sixtee1
games and lost one. and in 1858 wor
forty-one and lost six. Then cane thu
never to-be equalled record of 1859, wn-f
the all-conquering tour of the countr,
was made Harry Wright drew $2S. 81
week from the Cincinnati club anG
was the first salaried ball player.