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This Entire Document © COPYRIGHT, 1888, vt THB SPOBTISO LIFE PVBLISHIXO Co. KSTIBED *T PHIU. POST OFVICB AS SECOND CLASS MATTER. VOLUME 11, NO. 18. PHILADELPHIA, PA., AUGUST 8, 1888. FIVE manafted. You can't make a manager out of an ac­ Coggswell wa«, In hin d*y, one tive player. He must be free to act with perfect in- man paying ^H. nftSitthi? always ta Liffh LATE NEWS. dcpendenep. There is no money for me la Trov. iauK . neMwiiyn led..ff(it tho top of (ho batting list What would 9200 at the end of tbe season te, even If I tor ManchfKter. IIis only weakness as u ball player should come out so much nhead?" Sullivan left tow a was his Inability to throw well. yes'erday morning, fie will uot return unless it be A League Special Meeting for tho purpose of selling the nine. FRO3I INDIANAPOLIS. What Is Going On in Va­ THE CENTRAL LEAGUE. The Hoosiers Klated Over Three Straight Assured. From the Champions Club News aad rious Bodies. To Go On With Seven Clubs A Schedule Gossip. Committee Appointed. INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 2. Editor SPORTING Importance of the Wldner Case special to SPORTING LIFB. LIFE: The town was wild with enthusiasm last EASTOS, Pa., Aug. 4. At the meeting of the Central The Association's Special Meet­ League, held at the United Stutes Hotel, Eas'on, to- night over tho news from Detroit, and just at ^Base Ball and General dav, the seven remaining clubs of the astociation were this time tbe Indianapolis ball team is the great­ ing A League Collapses represented, ft wiia decided unanimously that the est organisation in tho country. The Hoosiers season be completed and that every effort be made to bave had such poor luck against the Michigan Sporting Intelligence. obtain a club to take the place of Blngham- men that the public here really only expected The Sunday Question. ton. Under article 26 of laws, etc!, all tho BinRhamton players are under contract to the boys to take one game, but when they THE TVIDXER CASE. the Central League, aad It was agrred to downed the Wolverines the second time the THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. asMgu ttiem to the remaining clnba. A committee on friends of Captain I>enny and hisnoblo followers 0ow Xew Orleans' Move Is Kegarded in the tho oew pche lule, consisting of the Atlentown, Scran- were greatly pleased, and when the third game An Official Call For a Meeting Issued at Capital. t; n and Nowask repregeuttttive^, were appointed to win taken with such ease the Hoosiers became the w Brooklyn's Demand. Bjwcial to STORTING Live. nitet at Allenton u n«xt Tuesday to report results at a meeting of the League to be held at Scran tun on the heroes of the hour. Indianapolis has at least had The American Association special meeting WASHINGTOX, Aug. 1. The New Orleans Club 9th inot. The following ros ! tit ion w«s unanimou-ly the 8iitisfncti-;n of pulling Chicago and Detroit duwn will now be held sure enough, an cfScial call evidently is trying to blackmail the Washington adapted: Resolved, Tliat tho Central Loapu* inanage- to third and second places respectively, and tlmt is having been issuoi fur the same, to be held at management in the Widncr case, for under meiitprct^stxagalnHt the actions of certain clnbs, parties Boniti coneolutior at lea*-t. Iho humiliation of being beaten aix straights by PitlaMirj? haa ot-ea parliiilly tuc Continental Hotel, Philadelphia, Tuesday, ba^e ball law they have no claim upon him and to the NiitSinal Agreemtnt for neg"tir*ting directly with players nuiler contract with Central League clubs wiped outt th,-',; sh that wi.s a bitter dose. Theteim Aug. 7. This meeting was to have been heU a their injunction is invalid. They propose, how­ instead of with the club manazeia. Resolved, That the Is iu Chicago to day and will 61; out the wet b. there. week ago, but for some reason Mr. Yon der Aho ever, to take the matter into the courts and hare action of the management of the Toronto, Chicago, Wo hope to get two of the three garner, but .will be was not reudy. President Byrne thereupon the case tried according to the common law. Cincinnati and Cleveland clubs be especially con­ satisfied with ono. The Hoosiers promise 1o make a brought matter* to a climax by the following m this trip than it did on the Inst one, The subject has caused President Young no demned. Resolved, That this resolution be forwarded, better record demand for a meeting, following which the call to ths secretary of the Board of Arbitration and be though no 8pt?cial complaint \va<i made of ihat. The end of annoyance, as various papers have tele­ published in the New York and Philadelphia papers. pitchers ail teem to b:- iu fiuw shape and p telling good was issued: graphed here for his opinion. He holds that the bull. Shrexo ha a (ione greut work, and l:un!ick hai BROOKLYN, July 31. W. C. WIK^FF, KSQ., President Washington Club has a clear title to Widner'a ser­ surprised his warniett friends. His opening game American Association, Coliiirbus, 0. Dear Sir: Uur- vices, in view of the tact that tbo Southern League LATEST FROM HEADQUARTERS. agHfuftlMioit w::s very fine, aiid if he keeps it up im: and rubst-qceut to tho recent visit'of the Brooklyn cea-ed to exist as soou as its membership dropped be­ (luring the trip the young man will te a pnpnUr Club to St. Louis to play tliere its regular scheduled low four clubs. Of course this decision is drauc from President Young Issues a Call For a Di­ favorite in ItidiaMipclia whfn the team returns home. pames, the prominent journals of tbat city published the (nets as related to him by Manager Sullivan. The rectors* Meeting. Fur Btirerr to hohl Detroit down to throw tculU-rlng sNitfni*-nts and oh»rg<s <peuly and publicly made by New Or eaus Club is vet to be heHid on the subject, Special to SPORTING Lirx. hits \9 a record of which few pitchers can boist. The Mr, C. Yonder Ahe, the president of the St. Louis ami ifcj testimony may throw a different light on tbe WASHINGTON, Dt G.rAug 4. President Young has team put up u brilliant tame during the l>ettoitseries Club, tl>at I, as tlie r resident of tbe Brooklyn Ba*e qu*-:tion. decidtd to call the directors of the League together aud did some timely btick vorK. The boys go from Bud Association, had tampered with oueot the players t-o much has been said on this subject, that Mr. John !ii special meeting at Asbury Park on Aug. 16. The Chicago to New York, and f hope to set them keep up of the St. Lon in team, viz., Jame) O'Neil, in other I. Roger*, toiicitor of the League, concludes tirai The place of rendezvous is tho Coleman Hotis* and the hoor their fine playing. word*, that I h«d been eudvavoiing t> make bioi dii- Wulner case tails up an eotiie^ »*tr question ULder 10A.M. A full attendance is expected, as it is desir­ . NOTES. Katisfied with hi-* position iu ii;e St. Lou's Club by tempting offers to join the Brooklyn (earn, bate ball law, aqd therefore suyrgesU that a special able that the various controversy pending may bo ^''^^^ffi*-^ President Brush Is going np to Chicaco to-morrow ttee.'::,^ of ijjo Board of Direetms be called todit-p'ise dispose d of sffectTially. It Is also expected that the *•::%,••- •••.>^c^;f^.<:j-; •;.^;..:-:.->i :-.%->* at;d bad thereby caused him to neglect tiia to see ihe last game with Aiison mid his ni"D. work and play negligently so ua to secure hia of this Hud uther pending matters. The ca'l wiil be Ltapuo maguatei will play a game of ball on the The- Ilocsiern will hm-e new uniform*", but just what ma>1e in a few tiayg as soon as President Young can beach and afterwards take their annual bath In old release. Furthermore it was charged (hat I had thev will be has not yet been determined upon. iufluenced Sir. Rcbert Ft-rguson, one of the official obtain an expression of opinion a« to when the ocean. A telegram was received at League head­ MOTT, McGeachy, who played left field for De'roit in'85, meeting can be most conveniently held pr>haMy quarters thfa morning announcing th*t the Detroita umpires of the Association, to pri-stttute Ma position, The Sporting Life's Baltimore Correspondent, put up a great pame a^aiust Ms old friends in tlu- two for tlie bent-fit rf the Brooklj n Club and to tbe direct on the 15th inKt. The IMUsburg-Philadelphia had signed Schtffler, late of the Lancaster, Pu., Club. fiist contests. Ilin timely stick woik brought in the and the Pittsburg-New York COD tested games R. M. LAHNER. carnage of the .St. Louis CIu!>. At first I deemed tl.e-» Known to Fame as "T. T. T." winning rune In both. merely the result ot piquo and disappoint­ will ah?o be cou»iderrd at the special meeting, together Deriny's core finger will not heop him off third base emanations With several appeals of individual players. Gilllgno A Ball Player Overcome by the Heat. ment resulting from the St. lonis Club scff«iiug and Gardner ea< h have claims fur salary due them but a ftw day*.
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