Show National Known as H 0 New New York League BY HUGH s S. S Whenever heno er I 1 pick U up UI a sporting article and see the he ier I Is preaching I dodge r wa way skip down a Jew few h huri r words because this is going to bo ba 0 a directed to baseball club oWners o Th Time The text Is old but th the events o of ot the re- re the cent week lle piled on top of some other e events o earlier in the th season sason ason make It rather tm timely ly If I you oU go Into ithe the league you ou will wi find the time smaller declaring th that thit t Omaha and ant Don Denver are arc glen Riven Iyer too m much h nd- nd In pl playing Scout around the coast and arul they'll t tell J you o ou that San Francisco and Portland get gt all ni lh b better belter ter teror of or It Go Into hc the Southern and six dt cities s ill a-ill wf Inform you that New ew Oi Orleans leans and anit Memphis always have ha a t khod the th h best sl of oC e everything Take almost an any minor league and th tIm tho players will wl inform Inon you ou honestly amid without prejudice e or at least without without with with- Ith out too much of oC It H. H that lint th the the- tho largest town to n tonI I gets ts the anlas ad In umpiring ar and ard in oth other r ways was Sn Say Giants Ar Are I Tutored a Go Into tho the National atonal league question e every ery ry player In the time circuit an and tHy they will v wJ practically without dissent inform you Ou that the New York team tam always has hns' the thc better beter of the umpiring This condition Is general in baseball In the American league for tor yea years rs the ller said Chicago always s 's had tit th tho better of ot it I but except during the ear early spring spring I have ii l not t beard that complaint complaint I have ha never heard hearl It in inthe tho the American association probably bl b be because cause caus th the tho cities are ar nearl nearly equal equal in size and richness ss The condition in the National league lealue as as regards New Tori has existed since Ince the day that Andrew Andret after atter t three ro years ear of or open striving to th th Jea league tc by keeping a loser In New cw York entered Into a truce with his enemies Since that ca day among players It ha has been ben the tho New NewYork York league With Sith the the entrance of or Brush and McGraw tho condition came to tobe tobe be bc accepted d and scarcely noticed d. d But this season Con a n condition has han arl arisen n that Is far tar beyond that McGraws McGraw's t team am am of or course has haH as usual rc the tho tH bene benefit fit tit of oC the cos close ones antI and some that w were re not close How man many gaines cames s have hl e been en decided cos one cannot estimate This was S expect expected d by br the opposing teams In ee t they have grown n accustomed to tl it But Dut the condition that ht hits has arisen latch lately lately late late- ly h is worse orp It I is an n open fight between t en the Chicago Cubs Cub and amid rr President J Lynch because the thc Cubs charge Lynch has d dc- dc crippled their team b by sUspensions suspensions during or Just juet prior to series New York and Chicago o. o time Each Each Each- the Involved In has imas been ben one Fh neran a man who according c to even en tho time New NewYork NewYork York critics I Is Incompetent but hut who f for r some somo reason reasor relon has hns been assigned to duty on tho the Polo grounds especially iu In dut series cries In Sn which tho Chicago and Pittsburgh Pitts burgh burg clubs have figured Saw Trouble Start I unopened happened to 10 see sec tho time game on ih the r Polo lo grounds that started the trouble Lavander Lavender Laven n. der was for or Chicago hl his spitball spit spit- pJ hail ball had the thc Giants Gants stopped was 11 umpiring behind tho the bat and was as so 10 bad on balls bals and strikes that Mathewson and Meyers irre re after aCer him and laughing at him Lavender was under tinder terrific punIshment punishment pun pun- nil all al the thea a way and anu n late In th the game gane arne grew Krew rew a trifle h In that crisis Finneran miscalled balls bails hals until the lie game become became a farce La en Lavender pl W was taken out was aS sent In and he lie was pounded all over o the time lot al A As Lavender r was leaving the field teW Zimmerman Zim Zim- merman Ta walked up imp perhaps half haI way from third to tho the plate What ho he raid paid to Finneran Finneran Fin Fin- Fn- Fn ner neran n I do riot not knoW Ho lie Ia was as s saying something and nd Finneran Finnern him out of the nio en-nio fm Perhaps the he umpire wits uns WIS justified jus jus- An later hater Tinker held caplain cup cap lain who ho had been at short hort saw Zimmerman Zimmer man start off ort the time field and ran rn in toward Finneran AM As he came Caine ho 1 cried tho the did put nut him him cut What you YOI out but out for for or Youre You're out too yelled cle Finneran Then Tinker rinker went to him and told him hint some things I know a f few that ho he sil said Meantime Chance Chanco ran ral out from the bench and gave gao avo the umpire a l vicious ton tongue lashing Finneran backed backell away Chance Chanc foi followed Q and kept on oh H J said salt perhaps three ec thre times I as much as 88 Tinker ten tirns as ns much Ilch as ns Zimmerman Finneran did n not t him He reported to Lynch that he lie had pmt pit Tinker out for saying saving certain things 8 nfl ail after ho he was WM put Iut out olt and Lynch Lynth suspended Tinker r and Zimmerman for tor three thre days clIS broke up UI the time Cub team and the they thue l lost st th tha next two games gamos each b by one run Murphy mph prole protested Now Xo- added to Mc- Mc Oraw's control over O fJ tho time rule of or the Na National Nj- Nj league executives s i is Murphy's Murphys un un- popularity Jf H Murphy I that thil un is Is' Is sufficient reason for refusing the protest protest Just r to the the next aeries Merll s punished pun pimp kited Zimmerman rma for another j clash wih with the umpires and charged that ZImmerman Zimmerman Zim ZIm- merman merman was yellow jellow and ancl trying to avoid old playing in a series with New ew York The charge I Is ridiculous ulous but serves to show shoW the to s of or tho the president of or the league Chicago 0 whipped the Giants In that series beat beal them in the time next nest handily and cr crawled wl d closer Jn that next series rles Doyle and Meyers assaulted assaulted as as- sauld the un shoved sho abused and pushed him around the field Tho rho umpire was Bush McGraw said on the field ell to tonu nu Bush h that he would get gt his Job Meantime Meantime Mean Mean- Ur time Lynch said sall oi openly only that he ho Intended to let Finneran out arid and e 11 give Orth the Job Instead within a few few days days after ater McGraw McGraws s threat Bush was wa lot out omit and Finneran sent to umpire for tor the Cubs The result was another another clash and md Lynch suspended Even r malting maIng him h ineligible for the start sturt of the crucial New York-Chicago York ser series s in o Chicago fined Zimmerman and re repeated his that Zimmerman I Is yellow and afraid to pla play ng N New w York When Meyers n nd d Doyle attacked an an said spid that the they de deserved umpire Lynch tl suspension but that he lie would not suspend theta them on th the eve e of a New Chicago York series b it was top important Ho Hou suspended u rt E Evers s on the tho evo eve of a n. more more Imp Important Im Im- im- im p sHIes series In Jn the latest trouble Finneran shoved Evers in the tho ta face fao and I er Myers was as punished F cr for retaliating or starting to retaliate The Time facts thus stated ought to be 0 sufficient sufficient suf sut to to show snow that the National league lealue still I is the New ew York lea league e and that as sti Pr President Young once said There Ther is where the tho money moncy comes conies from rena Tho The public just discovered last week that the major lea league u ball bail bal players player have a union and more different ideas of ot what the pla players er are arc dol doing la labo have bo boon been n printed printe than tha these there are arc ar newspapers The fact tact Is that the new new organization started in June Jun as an immediate and direct result of or the trouble between n Ty Tv Cobb Cob and an nn insulting Tho The two wo league leagues h held ld meetings meetings motha meet meet- mot mot- ha ings s. s chose Davy Foute the old player as ns th their thir lr lender leader and settled down to work The They have howe done very veri little talking but the facts came out when the American merean league players held a meeting in New ew Tork York to draft laws anti discuss s measures Many Ian of oC the players are giving it out that the move is entirely peaceable and that there I Is no 10 intention of a strike From one high in authority I learn that ni the chief ehle objects arc arel D Demand for for- fora a of or the players player's side of ot a cn case bt before re ho hI I is punished Representation of or the players on tho the national and arid a voice in tho the making of S 1 laws S Insistence ot upon better protection of or pla players ers on on- on tho the tho field I |