Evening journal., 1904-01-29
TRI-sTATE LEAGUE .-,..
MAY Be BOUNCED
independent Baseball Asso-
citation Will Try to Expel
the Seven Clubs


brewing when the National Association Of
independent baseball clubs meets in Har-
risburg Thursday OF next week. is evil
dcncsd by the attitude OF President NJ.
C.. Rhone, of Wiliiamsport, and the way
In watch Secretary Jess NJ. Frysinger eS-
pressed himself last Sunday after being
put out OF the tri-state managers meet
ing.
The reason for the trouble is that the
great majority Of the managers Of the
clubs in the independent association do
not liks the organization Of the "Tri-
state Managers Association and they
propose to tput that association out Of
business.
The independent club managers who
are making the complaints against the
new organization declare that by ar
ranging eighty-four games for each club
10 oe played exclusively among them
selves. the seven members OF the Tri-
state Association have formed a COM
binason which will injure the Independent
Association. The claim Of the Independent
clubs IS that the Tri-State teams with
such full schedules will be practically a
league.
To this the other teams strcnuously OBJ
iect en- the ground that II will take away
a number OF their dates and will leave
them with too few games with the clubs
in the Tri-State Association who hitherto
were the star attractions.
The Philadelphia Giants and the Cuban
X-Giants are said TO be the most affect
ed by the move as they have no home and
play on the road and the formation Of the
"a
games from their best towns. Some Of the
managers Of the Independent teams go as
far as to demand that the clubs that have
formed the Tri-State Association and
that that body have nothing to DO with
them.
The outcome Of The meeting next Thurs.
day alone viii determine wha. action vii
really be taken. If the Tri-state team.
are dropped the action would be effective
and far reaching for the major association
as it would permit an the Independent
clubs to bid for the players in the Tri
State teams without breaking any con
tracts. In this way the players in one as
sociation could go to the other and there
would be a merry war ON between the tw,
| associations I'm attempt to weaken on'
another.
One thing that has incenscd the man
lagers Of the best teams In the older asso
{ ciaton is the refusal of the new assocla
I ton 10 admit some Of their number at tn
. meeting in Harrisburg on Sunday. Tn
? independent association has reached
membership Of about fifty clubs and mos
, Of them are angered at the new organlza
tion's move. What tho proposed actioi
OF the old association would mean 10 tn
Tri-state Association is hard 70 tell.
Are Good Teams.
The Williamspont, Penn Park. Whining
ton, Lebanon. Altoona. Camden and Har
risburg teams are recognized as tho bes
in the States and it is thought that the
. could run their own affairs independent q
tho old association. The men who ar
: planning for the destruction Of the me-
! combination claim that ao drop, them frol
! the Independent Asssoeia atom N0uldenere.
state its forming a regular icagno an
! lplaying only among themselves. AnothC
: chapter and perhaps the most interestin
viii be written in tho history Of the u
dependent baseball troubles next week.
''The threat made by President Rhon
of the independent Association of Base
ball Clubs. that the seven clubs compo:
ing the Tri-State Managers Associate
may be elected from the Independent As
sOciation. is not worrying the Tri-Stai
Officials" said manager yesterday. eth
Tri-State Association is composed Of III
lpick Of the independents and its clubs an
fully able to complete the season, viii
many OF thesindependents may not be Z
l. fortunate. The case in a nutshell is tha
d the Tri-State can do without the ind,
:. lpenjents. while the independents cam,
a do without the Trl-States."