Show ARE FIGHTING AGAIN 0 P Caylor Writes of the Renewed Re-newed Baseball Battle i OBJECTS OF THE LATEST REVOLT What the Association Had In View When It Withdrew From the National Agreement Agree-ment Players League It is to be presumed the baseball reader by this time is familiar with the causes which led up to the withdrawal of the American association recently from the 3 national agreement Nearly every newspaper news-paper iu the country has dealt in the history his-tory of the Much case misinformation or c misunderstanding however Went out in the first heat of this baseball quarrel The Association justified its action on the al leced fact that one member of the national board the supreme baseball tribunal in the country had decided in their favor when the Bicrbaucr and Stovey cases came up for settlement that this dissenting mem ber was not their own representative on the board but the delegate from the western west-ern association that they Lad been betrayed be-trayed by their own presidenttheir representative repre-sentative on the board who had voted against them I Since this casus belli was announced Mr 4 Krauthoff the supposed dissenting mem her of the board has called attention to the fact that his supplemental decision was not dissenting but one which came to the tame conclusion with the other two mem Iwrs l only by a different process of reasoning reason-ing Mr KrauthoOc has also appeared in pub lie print above his own name justifying Mr Thurman the deposed American association asso-ciation president and declaring that the I latter body had no justification in the Uierbauer and Stovey cases for their with drawal from the national agreement It his been pretty clearly shown that the leaders in the Association revolt began planning for the break away before tho national board met that they had several objects in view First was the capture of Cincinnati from the League circuit second sec-ond was their firm belief that as soon as they should break away from the national agreement and reserve rule the mass of the unsigned exPlayers league or Brotherhood Broth-erhood players would come to them in a body Then after having been strengthened strength-ened thus in their circuit and their teams they would be welcomed back once more into the national agreement compact Subsequent events do not justify their faith They have secured the consent of A L I Johnson to throw the Cincinnati club into the Association if he can That is a task lie may however find very difficult to work out The League will dispute the ground with him as to the franchise and will claim the players by right of reserva tion The second calculation has been a disappointment At this writing the Association clubs have signed or claim to have signed the following exLeague Brotherhood players Hardie Richardson William Daly Dennis Brouthers Darby OBrien Tom Brown William Holuian and Joe Mulvey Of these neither Brown Mulvey nor Brorrihers was wanted by the clubs holding them under reservation and OBrien had already been released On the other hand the League have signed since the break such stars as Beckley Carroll ouiuj i uiuu Ryan uruiiiueri Fields Buckley Delehanty and Tebeau all of whom the Association clubs hoped to secure se-cure The above list seems to include nearly all that the Association clubs are able to coax away from tho opposition camp Much as some of the exBrotherhood stars would like to break away from the reserve rule they have doubts of the outcome and not much faith in the financial ability of the Association to endure in a fight against the powers that be Besides a great many of them have always objected to playing in the Association on account of the latters Sunday games and tie twentyfive cent tariff of admission This latter suggests inferiority of standing many ball players The meeting of the national board for the second time on last Saturday reversed the condition of thingsput the shoe on the other foot as it were The League and its national agreement allies through the supreme baseball power of the land the national board not only took up the gauntlet thrown down by the American association but ordered an offensive movement move-ment all along the line The board declared de-clared that the Association clubs by with drawing without assigning officially any cause for the act had forfeited all right to their own reserved players and that uational agreement clubs would have the right to sign any of the last named class The board further officially served notice that any reserved player who should sign nnd play with any such rebellious clubs would become ineligible under national agreement laws to play with any national agreement club The result hns been a sudden halt in tIle proposed triumphant march of the revolutionists revolu-tionists to power over tho bodies of their foes The most conservative of the Asso elation magnates undoubtedly regret that they allowed themselves to be led I away in the heat of a disappointment and to be persuaded without fully measuring the possible consequences to take up the I sword by which they themselves are now threatened j M J Kelly the celebrated Mike was I the first Brotherhood player to fall in at I the Associations call for recruits Kelly I has for some time been nursing a supposed wrong growing out of an offer by the Bes I ton Leaguo club of only 4000 salary a year whereas Clarkson and Bennett who remained true to their club when the players play-ers broke away a year or more ago arc getting get-ting larger salaries Kelly accordingly not only announced himself en rapport I with the Association revolt but started I out to sign players for them He was togo to-go as far as California if necessary but he returned home after reaching Utica I L The sudden collapse of Kellys ardor is Eignnicanc jc was ac first announced that he had signed a Boston association con tract and would be transferred to Cincinnati Cincin-nati to manage Johnsons team in the new circuit His acquaintances however do not believe ho has signed contract or that if he has he took possession of it himself as he did with the League contract signed last fall It is a way Kelly has of doing The national board are on record that universal amnesty this time will not be granted A sweeping pardon was extended extend-ed on two former occasions after the failure fail-ure ofas many revolts against the reserve rulevi7h those of the Union association and the Players league These revolts are becoming too popular and too expensive ex-pensive This time some heads are promised prom-ised totbe baseball guillotine O P CAYLOR |