The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-06
NEXT SEASONS PITCHERS
CLARENCE DUNBAR, OF GREEN
FIELD, ADDED TO THE LIST.
Dfscusses Prospects for 1904
Crowley and keIium Will Pitch
Labor Day Games

scheduled for indianapolis having Deen
transferred to that city. Williams will pitch
for Indianapolis to-day. The banner crowds
OF the season Will witness the games at
Washington Park tomorrow, Labor day,
when Louisville plays mere. Tn Colonels
are making a game fight to stay in second
place, while the Hoosiers are striving just
as hard to reach the second rung. The
morning game will be called at 1890 and the
afternoon game at 3 o'clock. Crowley viii
pitch for Indianapolis in the morning and
Kellum will be in the box in the afternoon.
Box seats for the afternoon game are on
sale at Huder's drug store. Louisville VIII
also play here on Tuesday.
Toledo comes Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday of this week, and those games will
finish the season In Indianapolis me
Hoosiers will then visit Louisville. Column
bus and Toledo. closing the season at To-
ledo two weeks from to-day.
Manager Watkins dispensed a little in
formation yesterday concerning his team
Tor next season. He has signed Clarence
Dunbar. a young giant pitcher. of Green
field. Ind. for his 1904 team. Dunbar has
shown some very fast work in semi-profes-
sional company. and pitched for some time
with Berger, the young Greenfield pitcher
now with Columbus. Dunbar was at the
park yesterday morning and worked out
with the Indianapolis team. Manager Wat
Immediately signed him for the coming sea-
son.
II guess we will be all right next season
as far as pitchers are concerned said Man.
ager Watkins. I'VE will have Crowley,
Ford. Newlin and Allemang, who have been
tried and found to be hrst-class and who
viii pitch better ball next season than they
have this year. besides Dunbar and a few
other new young pitchers TO try out We
will also have some of the members of the
present stan not already mentioned back
with US next year. / can say that the in
field and outheld will be as strong as the
pitching department. and with the men 1
get Indianapolis will have the fastest team
IN 1904 that ever played in this city"
The work OF Allemang for ST. Paul has
been gilt-edged. and il is largely through
his good pitching that the Saints are in first
place. Alemang was secured from Toledo
BY Manager Watkins. and when O'Brien
snortstOp Allemang was loaned to ST. Paul
for Marcan- Allemang will return TO In
~dianapolis next year and Marcan will go to
st. Paul. O'Brien Will be in condition to
play his regular game at short next season.
Xxx
The national board Of the National AS
ISOLATION OF Minor Leagues has considered
the proposed national agreement formu-
lated by representatives of the major
leagues and the agreement. as a whole, was
found TO be utterly unsuited to minor
league needs. so conducive to major league
aggrandizement and so subversive of Ma
tional Association interests. If not exist
ence. that the sentiment was unanimous for
rejection. IL was decided TO return the
agreement 10 the major league committee
men with the following resolution:
This meeting unanimously decided that
IL could not subscribe 10 the agreement pre-
scented at Buffalo. The committee repre-
senting our association was authorized TO
present the agreement in amended form TO
the general committee that met at Buffalo.
A resolution was adopted that il be the
sense OF our organization 10 hold 10 the
terms of the Lucas resolution, which was
adopte5-at the last annual meeting, held in
this city, Oct. q last"
Tb this is attached a copy of the famous
Lucas resolution. unanimously adopted by
the National Association at its meeting in
New York, October, 1902. This resolution
definitely commanded that in the event OF
any future major league overtures for a new
national agreement the national board shall
decline TO accede to anything affecting the
autonomy, status and independence of the
National Association. or to make it a party
OF the second part, or tributary to major
leagues instead of an equal partner in any
new agreement.
In discussing the action Of the minors in
rejecting the agreement and the agreement
itself the Sporting Life says:
The National Association has rejected
the new national agreement, formulated by
the two Overambitious major leagues. The
National Association could do no less in self
respect. in regard for its members rights,
in justice TO its constituents. and for its
W welfare; in fact, for its very life. The
issue was plainly put up to the association
by the arrogant major leagues: Rejection,
with independence and life, no matter how
strenuous: or, acceptance, with immediate
self-efacement and final extinction. To
nave accepted this agreement would in
evitably have entailed the dissolution Of the
National Association. without any compen-
sation to it's members, as there is nothing
good offered in the proposed agreement
that the association does not already fur
nish its members, and much evil that this
body shields its members from.
Prom the position IL has assumed the
National Association should not recede, or
permit itself TO be dislOdged by threats or
cajolery. AS the nursery and fountain
head of professional baseball the National
Association has nothing to fear. if II but re-
tains its courage and remains loyal to itself.
In the event OF war the National AsSOcia-
ton. with its nineteen constituent leagues.
can give the t0D-heavy major league COM
bine a winning fight. But there will be no
war. because the arrogant majors have no
fenable excuse for a tight. No war of sub
5~ugation or fight for enslavement will re-
ceive the sanction or support Of the Ameri-
can baseball public. Moreover. war is ex-
pensive and the resources Of the over
burdened major leagues are already strained
TO the limit.
Far from being the salvation of organ
lied baseball this agreement would be the
death of Il, unless il be assumed that all
there is of organized baseball is embraced
In the ten cities comprising the National
League and American League circuits. In
effect this agreement is not national at all,
inasmuch as IL seeks but To safeguard the
privileges and monopolies of the two major
leagues; Is but an extension of the Cincin-
natl peace treaty: and fails to benefit, pro-
tect or even recognize, except Incidentally
and unfortunately. that truly national
body-the National Association OF Profess
sional Leagues. with its nineteen league
members. countrywide circuits and thou
sands of employees and players.
Stripped OF all verbiage. all pretensions
and reduced to naked facts. the new So
called national agreement is in letter, spirit
and effect neither more nor less than a bold
attempt-with the aid of that former trust
buster, the American League, now grown
cold to baseball liberty-t0 re-establish the
former major league baseball trust: with
two masters instead OF one for the vassal
minor leagues until such time as the two
major leagues can be consolidated con-
summation steadily being sought despite
hyp0critical pretensi0ns 20 the contrary. In
tional Association is not wanted as a, per-
haps, future trouble-making, full partner in
the proposed trust. All the use the trust pro-
motors can find for this great countrywide
organization Is 10 serve as a carpet or foot
! stool for the major league feudal barons
Y Just as the peasant masses OF Europe bear
upon their broad backs the corrupt mon
arches and insolent aristocracies OF the ole
world. which appropriate 10 themselves ev-
erything aud leave the So-called lower or
Nrs only the bare right of existence. . "
Whoever formulated this agreement has
no reason To be proud or his work, and the
4,f-e ~N-rrrffenA that RaEGad nnnn and an