Show SPORTS MIRROR By JOHN OHN MOONEY Telegram Sports Editor With Robert Roert Murphy Player guild eoll the fh had z t. t It If wont won't bo be long are Take Tab Me M. Out to fa the fit Matt all Game Gain Is II placed re on 1 th fh baseball hit f parade by Who Wh Put lit fA th he In Mr Murphys Murphy's o Jit V lie 7 II The Players Players' guild which failed In it Its Ith first test tent Friday night when the rebelling Pittsburgh Pirates voted to play ball and arbitrate arbitrate arbitrate arbi arbi- their differences with the management In hi the fall fan Isn't as an new neww i as some nome would think In fact most writers r r w J are calling this the second strike In basei base- base T d i ball bail history and pointing out that Ty Cobbs Cobb's J J l suspension caused the first such walkout r In hi 1912 However according to Walt Tulley's Pulleys If f Baseball Recorder there was considerable p union activity before the turn of the thc cen cen- tury The first such outbreak according to the Recorder started In 1883 when hen the Union L n association was founded at PIt Pittsburgh burgh i This new organization openly avowed its lu intention In- In F to fight the arbitrary reserve rule rule rule- 4 I which one Union official described as an outrageous and unjustifiable chain on the F freedom of tho the play players rs Clubs were estabr r in Altoona Baltimore Boston Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- Chicago cago Cincinnati St. St Louis Lows Philadelphia and andI J I Washington Only the W Washington hington club made madet t any money and tho the lc league disbanded after one year But as for a a. predecessor to the present J. J Players' Players guild you have to go back to 1885 John ohn Mooney again agam QUoting Tulley Under the leadership leadership leader leader- ship hip of ot John Montgomery Ward an early-day early Providence pitcher the the players established an organization of their own in 1885 called the tho National Brotherhood of ot Baseball Players This or organization was originally conceived purely as aa a fraternal order which would foster good fellowship among the players and und elevate their standards of ot morale and deportment but it j loon oon became little more than a aJ J forum where disgruntled players jj would air their grievances grievances' ces' ces against I Pe the club owners The reserve resen-o rule role in lar Tar was subjected to bitter attack attack at- at tack in the brotherhood and as j the game waxed more prosperous prosper- prosper ous for the owners a great discontent discontent discontent dis dis- dis- dis content came about among the pl players pLayers especially especially among among the tile II tars stars who felt that the ever- ever Increasing patronage at the turnstiles turnstile was due to their own teU stellar performances The breaking point between players playe and nd club owners finally was wag reached on Nov Kov 5 3 1889 when the brotherhood issued a ap p public manifesto in which it openly declared that its member players would not continue under their current owners for another J season After playing a full tun schedule of between and games t tile tho n Boston club won the pennant pent pen pen- t p nant but the tho season was so bad f financially that the players were J glad to accept an offer of the National league to reinstate all players pla who had bolted That ended the rebellion Commissioner Fred T Ted Tedesco e d e s C 0 should do something pronto about getting the getting the leftfield bleachers back at Derks field where they belong With the Bees drawing overflow crowds it is a source of ot danger and inconvenience to the fans tans and management to have persons sitting sitting sit sit- ting along the tho foul lines One foul smash into the crowd Friday night hit a fan and anda a fatal accident could happen easy 8 as not We understand those let leftfield leftfield left left- t field bleachers have been taken to White Park and if so they should mould be brought back by the I time the Bees return from this road trIo Another r thing there should be adequate police protection at the crucial ball games such as Fridays Friday's Fridays Friday's Fri Fri- Fr- Fr days day's contest We Ve will admit Umpire Umpire Um Urn- pire Hirons was pret pretty y bad but buthe buthe buthe he deserved the common decency of protection When several leveral hundred hundred hun hun- hundred dred rabid fans are allowed to corner an umpire some hothead may cop a sneak meak punch or swing a bottle with the result that the umpire may be ho seriously injured That exhibition of sportsmanship in badgering an umpire was a typical typical cal example of ot mass cowardice and the police should take steps to break it up j e fefer M jv d wt i w 1 i i Ii i I p 4 4 t j W M S w i. i t LINDELL BACKTRACKS SAFELY Yankee outfielder Johnny Lindell facing camera Cleveland catcher Frankie Frankle Hayes The play oc occurred oc- oc gets safely back to first base baso in ninth inning of when Yankee third baseman game with Cleveland Indians as first baseman Weiss tried to bunt The Tho Yanks won on 6 to 5 to Ray Mack Alack 2 of the Indians waits vaIts for throw from hold second place Associated Press |