Clipping:Detroit Club ownership
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| Date | Wednesday, December 28, 1887 |
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| Text | [reporting on the resignation of Detroit Club President Stearns] Messrs. Stearns, [James L.] Edson,and [G. M.] Vaile own between them 260 of the 400 shares of stock of the club as follows:--Stearns, 60; Edson, 65; Vail, 135. At Saturday's meeting these three gentlemen shook hands over a pledge not to dispose of their stock for one year, so that the club will remain under the same control for at least a year. As but 201 shares are necessary to elect a president it is seen that the three gentlemen named control that formality. The Sporting Life December 28, 1887 an assessment that Bryne runs the AA [from the Baltimore correspondent] Several years ago this correspondence contained a tribute to the abilities of Mr. Byrne. His intellectual portrait was carefully drawn from personal observation of him in convention and out of it. He was then the intellectual superior of his colleagues with the exception of Mr. Caylor and Mr. Phelps. He is a natural diplomat, and this characteristic gave him the advantage of Mr. Caylor. Mr. Phelps having more important business to which he devoted his energies, left Mr. Byrne master of the field, and Mr. Byrne has become, what will not surprise any observant and thinking man, the ruling mind in the affairs of the Association. In fact, Mr. Byrne IS the Association. As a natural sequence of superior general abilities, he is president, secretary, board of directors and all the committees. He is “Captain, cook and all the crew/On board the Mary Jane.” The other members of “the ring” fondly delude themselves with the belief that they are participating partners, and their thinking so is one of the greatest tributes to the peculiar abilities of Mr. Byrne. Either by study or by intuition this admirable diplomat becomes thoroughly conversant with the subtlest governing characteristics of his colleagues, and he manipulates this knowledge so delicately, and yet so skillfully, that there is responding result without even the manipulation or the true product being observed by the subjects of it, and it is even justifiable to put this in print, for the members of the ring will never actually realize that it is o. they are under the influence of a species of mental mesmerism or personal magnetism that paints black white, sees trees as men walking, and all those other psychical mysteries. The Sporting Life December 28, 1887 |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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