Clipping:Day attempts to buy the Indianapolis Club
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| Date | Thursday, February 20, 1890 |
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| Text | John B. Day and J. A. Gordon, of the New York League club, have gone, and they did not buy anything or anybody except their tickets to New York. … Before the conference of these gentlemen with Mr. Brush, yesterday morning, Mr. Day took occasion to explain his position to the newspaper representatives. “I have come here,” said he, “to buy the Indianapolis club just as it stands, and would like to take every player in it to New York. We know and appreciate what Mr. Brush has done for the League, but think that now, interested as he is in seeing a successful fight waged with the Brotherhood, he should consent to the transfer of the club to New York, if adequately compensated. Such a move would crowd out Washington and thus give us eight strong clubs at eight good points with which to fight the Brotherhood. I don't care to say what amount of money we are willing to pay for the Indianapolis players or what other means we propose to use to bring about the desired result. If we can get them we will have a club as strong as any in the League.” After making this somewhat presumptuous statement, President Day, accompanied by Director Gordon, left his hotel to seek President Brush. The three gentlemen were closeted nearly three hours, and the result of the conference was decidedly unfavorable to the realization of the New Yorkers' hopes. Mr. Day presented his arguments in favor of an eight-club circuit, appealing to Mr. Brush's judgment to sustain him in his point that a far more successful stand could be made against the Brotherhood with eight strong than with ten weaker clubs. “In fact,” said Mr. Day, among other things, “the dates of the strong Eastern clubs with the weaker ones in a ten-club circuit might almost as well be left open, so far as attendance is concerned. There is every reason in the world in favor of an eight-club circuit as opposed to one of ten clubs.” To this Mr. Brush replied that, so far as Indianapolis was concerned, Mr. Day would remember that its representatives had gone into the League meeting last fall strongly opposed to a ten-club circuit. They had fought the admission of Brooklyn and Cincinnati, not because they opposed those clubs, but for the reason that they felt it unwise to increase the circuit. They had battled against admitting the two Association clubs until they stood alone, and then gave in only on the explicit condition that Indianapolis was, under no circumstances, to be dropped. He further told Mr. Day that the ten-club circuit had been formed over the protest of Indianapolis, and that the Indianapolis club proposed now to stand by that circuit. And so the conference ended. |
| Source | Indianapolis Journal |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
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