The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-01-25
BASEBALL WAR
ENDED A FEUD.
The New York and BROOKLYN
Clubs Bury the Ratchet.

2 The internecire strife among the mas
: mates OF the past few years has caused
many strange combinations. but none car
J. hold n candle TO the remarkable change r.
! me relations between the Brooklyn and
! New York clubs.
; back In 1899. or thereaboutS, he Immediately
Clashed with the late Charles II. Byrne
| president Of the Brooklyn club, and from
Fanizations Of Greater Kew York have beer
at daeger,s point continually.
Last year the tight waxed more bitter
than ever, the Brooklyn people being the
leaders in the battle against the trust
| scheme OF Andrew Freedman and John T.
tween the Loyal Fours and Royal
| CCurs." in which A. q. Spaldiug was The
| central figure.
Echoes OF the bitter struggle were heard
right through the past championship cam
yaiGn, and II was believed tina the breach
had been made so wide and deep as TO be
bridges the city government decided TO
Now, however. after n strife lasting ten
years, the two clubs are brought together
again and all former differences were for
gotten in n Common cause. The New York
and Brooklyn clubs los; their fight ut Gin
rlnnati, but after all. there is some good
accruing from the baseball. war, and that
Is the establishment OF peace between the
Nationai League clubs Of Greater New
York.
Many Chicago men VIII be seen on the
diamond this coming season in all parts of
the country. Most of the players will be
with Junior league organizations. but some
few will wear the uniforms of clubs In the
big leagues A partial list of the players
who will play professional ball is as fol-
lows: Skel Roach, Butte, Mont: Dusty
Rhoades. ST. Louis National League; Jimmy
Ryan. Washington American League; Jack
powsl, st. Louis American. Chick Fraser.
philadelphia National; Tom Hughes Boston
American League; Harry Dolan, Chicago
American Erpnk Roth phf'4i.lnhia No
tional; otto kreuger. st. Louis National
League: Harry Lehman. Seattle. Wash;
SoXie Neuman. Joliet. Ill: George OLeary.
Davenport; Fred Quitman. Davenport; Fred
Ransome, Davenport; Red Dwyer. South
Bend; l.. Hoffman. Evansville; Fred Wenig.
Davenport: H. Wigs. Cincinnati National:
Frank Martin. Louisville: Ed Hughes. Dav-
EXPORT; Charles PeaSe. Louisville: Jack Rre-
man. Atlanta; Petite Berg. Omaha: Charles
III. Croft, Rochester; II. White. Louisville:
Herman Schafer will also be in the game,
but rs yet has not announced where.
Toledo has signed Pitcher German and
Catcher Blankenship.
President Fred Postal Of the Washington
American League Club worked a surprise
on D~elehanty. About a week before Del
he asked Mr.. Postal for $500 advance money.
The club president sent him $500 INN adilte-
ty and followed this with a check for $1,000
the other day. Postal made an investiSa-
ton. and found that while his first check
had been cashed, Delehanty still has the
$1,000 paper. Postal decided that he might
as well save the l,0Io. stopped payment on
the check and Informed Delehanty by wire.
Clark Griffith, who is to manage the New ,
York American League Club next summer |
says that the Gotham team will train in At |
Ga. and New Orleans. The team
Will be at the Georgia town from about the
ter date the Cleveland club will vacate New
Orleans and the New York Americans will |
follow at the New Orleans park.
Now that Princeton and PENNSYLVANIA |
authorities have become reconciled /
the history of their past engagements is of
In baseball in 1873, when the Tigers won by
IA score of q to s. There were no more
games until 1856, when the two teams met
three times. Princeton winning twice. Two
games were played in 1887. the first result !,
In a tie score and the Tigers winning
The second. The Quakers lost the only
played the next year and were de-
feated twice in 1859. BY a score of s 70 3
pennsylvania was victorious in 1889, and the
next year defeated the Orange and Black
vice; the scores being 6 to 4 and 8 to ..
l'he Red and Blue was triumphant in the
game In 1892 by a score of 6 to 0, but
cst the second, s to !. Three games were
in 1893. Princeton winning the first
.wo and losing the third by u score of to
Three games we've scheduled for 1894.
nut the second was postponed on account of
# 4 to 3, but Pennsylvania overwhelmed
he Tigers in the second. the score being q
II rowing from 1879 to 1885. when the
,lgers abandoned that branch of sport.
continuously from 1876 to 1894 the football
on winning twenty-eight of thirty games
'iayed. There has never been a dual track
meet between the Tigers and ouakers.
Pitcher Weldon Henley has signed with
10Th Atlanta and the Philadelphia Ath-
etics for this year. according to reports
The whole question now hangs on one
,olEtc winch contract did he sign first?
Ielphia about the first day of December.
ianager Powell says he signed an At
anita contract about the same date. If
he terms Of the recent peace convention.
VII come to Atlanta and Connie Mack
he sighed with Philadelphia first he may
the South and his Atlanta friends I
will set the bulldogs Of the law on
Is trail in short order for the money he I
ccepted and the contract he signed and +
hen broke.
La Joie is now out OF danger, and rs soon t
3 he Is able to travel he will be sent to 5
Club. G
18th Delahanty and men Of that type is
itcher White. Not more than n week ago I
g wrote a letter to Manager Shettsline. In I
hich he intimated that he had not signed 1
contract with the Chicago Americans. I
he letter was shown to President Pulliam, h
the latter said that White himself had 4
to .Pulliam only two weeks ago C
lat he had signed with COmiskey. Pull II
am also said that Comiskey claimed he 4
'uld produce a contract signed by White n
st August: If this is true. which IL no "
'ubt Is, White broke his contract with
e philadelphia Club in the same manner q
which Delahanty did two years ago. W
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There will be a lively fight between tn. a.
and Minneapolis clubs for the n
rvices Of Third Baseman Oyler, who di
aged on the baltimore team last season. lie
I'd the case will be brought before the al
,ard OF. Directors OF the American Asso- pl
alton for adjudication. The contract &C
Sned by Oyler. together with the letters q
wrote to Manager CantiIlon, have been l.
omitted to President Hickey, who has te
so received the papers IN the case from al
e Minneapolis Club. "Wilmot has not the OF
ghtest claim to the services of the PLAY III
commented Manager Cantillon, "and If
tiers written by Oyler after he signed te
tn me show clearly that he was being