The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-05-28
UNITED STATES LEAGUE
IS GURGLE- GURGLlAG TO
]. DEATH IN BASEBALL SEA
Goes Under Second Time when
Chicago Players Strike for
isss Payment of Wages.
PROVIDENCE POOR FARM
s,s z
Nothing Appears to be Coming
the Tigers Way Out OF
81 the East.
PROVIDENCE POOR FARM
BY RALPH L. YoNKER.

you hear coming out OF the east ehon
ates from the little eddy that II lei
where the United States league MAJ
sunk.
The unfortunate swimmer In tn'
baseball seas has already gone dowr
Once before. They do say that IL \
noes down three times, II Is gone.
tlre struggler rises to the surface
a,eain, II may be the last time we ca,
zee II. So watch closely.
eE,ast winter when baseball news
vac as scarce as pillowless canoes q
q Sunday at Belle Isle, several accom-
niodating gentleman advanced VIII
z bundles OF mysterious information
4 md misinformation. threats anc
1 arnmblings, promises and rumbllnSs
I all OF which wer esaid to mean thai
there were going TO be two new Die
baseball leagues organized.
The promoters of the diamond en-
terprise were more sensible than The
ensterners. While the westerners
confined their efforts to little pleas
ure trips to st. Louis, Chicago and
return. taking in the theaters ana
cafes and having business meeting
occasionally. the fasteners actually
diH some business. In the west, the
sKfewd men who threatened, cTawieo
into their shells when the matter oi
sskss was put mp to them. In the
eat. there was some capital invested
indTehabilitating more or less, out
wefn ball parks.
a. the west, the Columbian league.
which was to have included teams III
detroit, Chicago, st. Louis, Kansas
CITY, perhaps Cincinnati and Cieve-
land. got as far as the stage OF hay-
iAg it's president, whose name Is no"
almost forgotten, give statements to
the press telling what he was going
tosdo.
cfh. Detroit. threats to put in team
al Mack park worried along for some
time with Magnate Roesink their
SPONSOR. Then 1t seemed that ne
either couldn't raise the amount OF
coin necessary to satisfy the other
rnagnates, or he was too wise to dc
81. AT any rate, there was little
sizzle and the big explosion resolved
itself into a semiprofessiona base
(, bail team that ranks with several
other attractions In the baseball line
in Detroit. Eventually the remainder
of1the league vanished In thin air.
The fasteners. however, We're more
sure that the baseball trust was just
awaiting to be busted by the angry
fans who would rather see bunch OF
has-beens fighting for baseball liberty
ony field surrounded by dilapidated
stands, than they would Cobb and
Jackson scrapplng for the American
league pennant.
sWelcome as are the trust-busters to
the rank and file Of US, We still pay
our money where we think We are get
ting the most value for the least ex-
pehditure. The baseball public
thought that it was noble thing ID
do--to buck this baseball trust-but
they preferred to see DOME Bush and
Eddie Collins from concrete stands
than they did bunch Of has-beenS
and never-wasers from rickety seats.
Now the last gasp seems to be on
itlsrway. Yesterdays action OF the
Chicago team In striking until IL got
its wages, showed that. Even the
players, imbued as they are, with the
trsfstbusting duty, refuse to trust.
bust unless they get some money for
itns
THE Chicagoans refused to play al
y New York, and the IL people in the
stands went away with the grim hap
piness Of having done their duty In
defending baseball liberty again, any
way.
A short time ago. Cleveland gave
up its franchise. In Cleveland the
scheme had what looked from here
= to be as fair a trial as II could ash
Z for. The press supported the new
league. Much publicity was given II
The stories OF it's games appeared II
good places on the sporting pages o
the newspapers. The sporting extras
ran the detailed account of the games
n az Cleveland by the side of the DC
scfipfion OF the Maps struggles. Blu
TIM team and the league organization
was conceded to be joke and whel
no fans turned out TO see the contests
TIM inevitable result came.
There Is practically no interest Il
the league at four OF the towns nov
i'm the circuit. New York, Cincinnati
and Pittsburgh are dead TO its ac
vantages. Nobody appeared at Wash
ineton to All a date there yesterday
sosfhere was no game. Richmond an,
Rkadine. the latter the hot-bed o
mushroom leagues, don't care
great deal how things go.
And II lis only the latter part o
May.
~ looks az n there will be chanc
for budding bard to sing. What I
90 rare as day In June for the UEi
ted states leaguef"
-ei
while the bubbles OF the drownini
infant are breaking the surface o
thai placid baseball ocean. there Is
Thar hope that II dying a painful
dtkth That Tiger hope is that Prov
1tnHo IL going to furnish us wit.
|6u'||e ball players
Ifesldent Navin had quite a time
1n1rihcine Providence fans las
winter when he bought the club. tina
A <ns not going 10 be used nerell
4. 3 pasture for Tiger prospects. Cir
|.M1innliai evidence now brushes hin
.|'Ie and defends his case. Nothini
... come from out OF the east as yet
ard. 4ortt. nothing looms into sight.
M||.rI get. some OF those players
||1 we're Thought to bear the ear