•^^^** *^^^^ "^^^^ ^^^^"^^W KMTBBITIENTIRED AT PHILA.PWTT.A. POSTPftRT OrricsOrYICR ASAfl SECOND CLASS IIATTEB.UATTEB, THECOPYRIGHT, 1887, BY THS SPOBTISO LIFI PUBLISHING Co. SPORTING LIFE. PHILADELPHIA, PA., JULY 20, PRICE, FIVE CENTS. VOLUME 9, NO. 15. 1887. >ecome dissatisfied am! prevented them from playing American waters before the races for the America'1 most unique unilateral document extant; but for the >all as they should. Cup. resent 1 quote it only to show its connection with The Southern League has Irv»! "P to the letter of « he reserve rule. One of its clauses declares the play- LATE NEWS. THE MINORS. the National Agreement aa firmly iM« teason as any Views on Important Matters. AS TOCOmACTS. rs bound "by the Constitution ofthe National League eague under its protection, and this n»ct is too well Special to SPORTING LIFE. ud tbe Articles and Covenants of tlie National Agree- .mown by those in whose care the Nation*! Agree­ CINCINNATI, July 16. There has been BO mnch talk aent." Among these latter is included the reserve ment rests to pay any attention to any desire that ,bout ihe change in the presidency of the Association rule and in this way it is worked into the contract, Important Changes in Sev­ Cleveland may h;ive a city that has always been and Another Advocate for the that I asked President Stern ibis morning if he was The Question From a hich the player is forced to sign and it is thereby is now a tail-ender in base ball to remove its protec­ one of the bix alluded to as pledged for Joe Pritchard. given a lemblanceof legality. tion from us. That there wore many irregularities in He declared: "As long as Wheeler \Vikoff is in tho This, then, is the inception, intent and meaning of eral Organizations. he Southern League the first two years of itsexiatence Percentage System. field I am for him, for I believe in rewarding a man Player's Standpoint. he reserve rule in its simplicity; its complicity I will [ do not deny, but they were owing to the fact that the _ For liis faithful services. If Wikoff is out of the race presently describe. It inaugurated a sptcies ot serf­ game was new in the South, and little was known of dom, which gave one set of men a life-estate in the [ will cheerfully vote for Pritchard, for he ia a good managing ball clubs, but in what part of tbe country friend of mine, and oue of the cleverest fellows I abor of another and withheld from the latter any did not the same state of affairs exist at the commence­ Yon der Ahe Defeats the St. corresponding claim. No attempt has ever been made New England League Member­ 'jw." President B.trne, who is here with tho Brook­ The President of the Ball Play­ ment of the pame there? It^ad tbe answer In the lyn^, declares against* the percentage system, and Cin­ to defend it on the grounds of abstract right. Its long list of players blacklisted hy the National League cinnati does not favor it altogether. Mr. Ste n would unification, if any, lay only In its expediency, and ship Reduced A Substitu­ jind American Association, and if I remember rightly Louis Sunday Law Gene­ object to a division of receipts with Cleveland, for iu- ers' Brotherhood on Their he continuance of this should therefore be iw only there was considerable "tharp practice" in Cleveland cl«iin to a present existence. H was a protective gtance. Tony Mullune htts made a remarkable tion in the International. at the outset of ita experience, and that city had to ral Sporting News. r cord. In tiie last four games he has pitched only measure which gave stability to the game by preserv- blacklist some players. thrte runs have been made off him, and the Athletics Rights and Privileges. ng the playing strength ...f the teams and it acted as a There are B"iue people who writ*, for newspapers, jot them. The other two were shut-outs. Umpire check on the iucrease of salaries. Its immediate re­ who, if they lived in a c.ty like Cleveland, that was sults were clearly beneficial, opposition to it died away, THE NEW ENGLAND LEAGUE MEETING. Dunlevy, who was hurt in Thursday's game, hai gone compelled to withdraw from one league because it HOW TO HOM> THE BROWNS. to Evausviile on sick leave. KEN MULFORD, Jr. Jfr. N.E. Young, President National League: and. notwithstanding the peculiar, not to say servile, could n-jt maintain its club, and was making such n dis­ position in which it placed the players, they accepted Two Clubs Merged and the Membership Re­ mal failure of i's present attempt, and has had as much The Percentage System the Panacea For !>EAR SIR: I take this method of calling the at­ t ss for the general good. duced to Six—Other Business. Mrs. Maurice Daly Injured. tention of the base ball world to some matters of trouble with players and trafficked in us many of them the Association's Ills. Special to SPOUTING LIFE. But, however satisfactory in its original application, A meeting of tho Now England Base Ball as Clerelmid has, wou'd not risk throwing mud as Mr. importance to the National game. I address I PCHrcely believe there will be anyone found to Brunetl did in his letter at the Southern League for Special to SPORTING LIFE. NEW YORK, July 16. While Mrs. Daly, wife of nstify it in the purposes te which it has been recently League was held'at Haverhill Jul^ 11. All the CLEVELAND, 0., July 16. Please Mr. Maurice Daly, the billiarJisf, was descending a you in your representative capacity as president, clubs were represented. The minutes fear of attracting attention to themselves. to put this down. implied. of the In conclusion let me aay if the Southern League is There is only one way to keep the St. Louis Club from 9i«ht of e'one steps on Thurs lay at her home in Hunt- »nd I do not mean to imply that you personally Instead of an institution for good it has become one ington, L. I., she tripped and fell to the bottom, s*rik- are responsible for the things herein set forth. last meeting were read and approved. The boldiu< out with a view of getting fancy pi ices for its going into the League. What I eond you herein can porevil; instead of a measure of pro'ectiou.ithns been Lowell-Salem game of July 5 was protested on good p!a^ era, tho other leagues could get the joke ing the stone flagging b'.-low, and sustaining very se­ Your reputation iFedasahamtlo for the manipulation of a traffic in be depended upon. This ia the s'ate of affairs. The for fair dealing is too well the ground that tho Salems played Flanagan, jn it by refusing to pay these fancy prices and let the vere wounds on tbe bead aud body. She is now con­ known to admit riayrrv, a sort of nwcnliition in live stock, bv which League has united In a determination to get the St. fined to bur bed. ____ ____ of such a reflection, and the re- an illegal player. The protest was dismissed- i-outhern League players alone, and by doing this pect in which you are held by all ball players suf­ ,hey are bought, sold and transferred like so many they would not only save such fruitlesi trips as have Louis Browns into thoir circuit, and stands ready to heep. The Blues-Lowell game of July 11, waa also pro­ been made South of late for players, but they would dump Indianapolis to make room for Comiskey's men. Umpire Changes* ficiently attests our confidence in yon as an official Ideal wrong will always work Itself out In practical tested, and the protest was laid on the table. ilso icmove the great annoyance from the Southern They do not want Cincinnati or any other Association Special to SPORTING LIFE. and our appreciation of you as a man. wrong and this has been no exception. Tbo rule it­ League managers who have grown tery liied of this I should like to describe fully tho relations self was an inherent wrong, for by it one set of men The resignation of Arthur Larcom as umpire :lub. They want the Browns, because tho tatter have UTICA, N. Y., July 1G. Internationa! League Um­ was accepted jnd Umpire Phillips was dismissed. constant t a nipt ring with thoir players aud in many pire/"Ted" Sullivan has bum released at 1m request. which exist, between base ball club and players, seized abeolu'o control over the labor of another and instances by clubs that can less afford to pay good a great reputation everywhere and aro doubly the n its development it has gone ou from one usurpation The substitute umpire question was laid on tho Wui. McLeau, who went home n:ck, renames bis old but as this is not possible in a limited article I salaries than they can and if they do not itop it very drawing card any other Association team is. Now th«t position. will confine myself to a consideration of these re­ to another until it has grown so intolerable as to table and the meeting went into executive ses- soon they will be compelltd to stop it, CBEOLE. the League bas adopted the home receipts pUn, the threaten the present orgauizaton of the game.