The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1903-02-13
GOSSIP OF THE DIAMOND.
yoha =. Hush and HIS
Principle in the N"ti""ai
League.

The same motives that prompted Oh
Arthur Lynch to take up arms Tor me
Beers. although he knew the.ehafSe
of high treason would be put a@alhs.
his name for SO doing. moved Johh l.
Brush To oppose the majority oil the
National league bias eball masnates at
the recent Cincinnati meeting. lie
thought he was fighting a battle of
principle, and only yielded when he
he was shown by Garry Hermann
and Col. james \. Hart that he was
on the wrong trail. 1t required cour-
age for Mr.. Brush to bring suit for
Injunction against the National league
with a possibility of having to give
bond for $1,5O0000. He receded
gracefully from his beligerent atti-
tude, however, and gave to baseball a
firm and unwaveriDg peace.
Mr.. Brush is thought by many follow
ers Of the national game to be only
representative of the old Freedman
TamInany interests in the New York
Baseball club. But this is not the
truth. / have it from an honorable
member of the National league, him
self stakeholder in the New \ ork club,
that Mr.. Brush is tie real owner OF a
ma jority of the stock of the Gotham
club. lie was acting within his rights
and TO protect his vested interests.
The story Of Mr.. Brush's long connec-
ton with baseball has been lost in
the whirligig of time, but as matter
of fact he is to-day the most unique
character left in the old league. Es-
sentially business mamie swept out
a store and built fires years ago and
began at the foot of the ladder, as did
Marshall Field. He was induced to
take an interest in baseball in Indian
apolis.
For a considerable time the capital
st permitted his baseball ventures 10
be only side issue with him. I'm a
business man, with ia ncy for backing
baseball teams" he would say. But the
time came when Mr.. Brush became so
infatuated with the job of "magnate"
that he bought an interest in the Gin
cinnati ball club of The National lea que.
Retaining his indianapolis team in the
minor league, Mr.. Brush was attacked
by the minor leaguers as magnate
taking an unfair advantage of his mir
nor league confreres. The critics
said he 'farmed' good major league
players in his minor league team. won
the pennant with them and then drew
them back 10 his major league team
,ybppaV.r ba ,yaOteI
There came a time when his minor
league holdings seemed to vanish like
smoke The bas bal business for Mr..
Brush narrowed to his Cincinnati hold
ings. When a syndicate was formed in
that city to buy him out, II was sup
posed that Brush, THE smooth" was
off he baseball map But he turned
up in New York, richer in holdings
than ever. And then. in his old Gin
cinnati home, came the mSueces full
fight of the magna;e against nearly
all of his associates. He viii not admit
that this is 10 be his last year in bas e.
ball, but is awaiting the entrance Of
the American league into Greater New
York with the scent of legitimate
baseball warfare filing his no>trils.
rs New York is the greatest city in he
| union, so VIII the baseball struggle
for patronage there be the hardest
in the country. All the fans" viii
watch the New York rivals and see
what smoke" NJ. Brush will raise.
e. G. WESTLAKE.