Clipping:Detroit Club refuses to sell out to Indianapolis, buys Indy out instead
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| Date | Sunday, June 14, 1885 |
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| Text | Manager Watkins of the Indianapolis Ball Club today [6/13] returned from Detroit. He went there to learn whether the league club of that city would be kind enough to perish and make way in the league for the Indianapolis Club. He returned discouraged as to this scheme. “Twenty thousand dollars wouldn't buy that club out...” … President Marsh of the Detroit Base-Ball Club today said the Detroit Directors would not sell out to Indianapolis. Manager Maston has been given orders to strengthen the team, and it will finish the season and continue in the league next year as well. Chicago Tribune June 14, 1885 The Indianapolis Base-Ball Club is a thing of the past, and the Western League has probably faded from existence with it. Representatives of the Western League from Keokuk, Kansas City, and Milwaukee met here [Indianapolis] today [6/15] under a call to discuss the future of the organizaiton; but negotiations with Directors Mahone and Stearns of the Detroit Club kept the Indianapolis delegates away, and no meeting was held. During the afternoon a conclusion of the negotiation was reached, and the Indianapolis players were transferred to Detroit, the consideration being $5,000, which is about enough to reimburse the local club for its losses last year and so far this season. … The Kansas City club had two games scheduled to play in Indianapolis this week, and ll the Western league delegates denounced the manner in which they have been treated by Indianapolis. They left for home tonight, not knowing what would be their base-ball future; but the dissolution of the league is conceded. Chicago Tribune June 16, 1885 |
| Source | Chicago Tribune |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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