Clipping:Ewing claims the League wants to consolidate with the PL
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| Date | Saturday, July 5, 1890 |
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| Text | [from an interview of Buck Ewing] [Ewing describes his visit to his home in Cincinnati] “I went out to the grounds that day with Loftus, and while there I met John B. Day. I knew that Spalding's representative was in Cincinnati, and also that John T. Brush, who, I believe, is interested in the New York National League Club, was in town, and that these three had been holding a conference. I shook hands with Mr. Day and we sat down together. After some conversation Mr. Day confessed that none of the National League Clubs were making money, and said that the Clevelands and Pittsburgs were ready to quit at a moment's notice. 'There are four clubs, however,' said he, 'that have agreed to stick the season out. They are the Brooklyns, the Bostons, the Chicagos, and the Cincinnatis. As far as I am concerned,' he continued, 'I would not pay my team's fare back to New York unless I thought some sort of a compromise with the Players' League could be reached.'” “I told him,” said Ewing, “that the Players' League was losing no money, and that I did not see that it was to their interest to amalgamate. Mr. Day then further unfolded his object. It was, first, an amalgamation of the Players' League with the National League; second, the best players were to be chosen from both leagues to form a major league, the residue to go towards the formation of an association. Of course under this order of things the old magnates were to resume their position at the helm. Mr. Day asked me to lay the proposition before the Players when I met them in Cleveland, and although I told him what their answer would be I promised...” … [Day's reply:] I expect some big changes to be made within a month, or both the leagues will pull through the season. One must go next season, and I believe it will be the Players' League, as the backers of that organization have neither the money nor the experience of the National League. I do not say that all the League clubs will live through the season, but six will, I am sure, and come to the scratch in 1891, there being a solemn compact between the New Yorks, Bostons, Chicagos, Philadelphias and Brooklyns to stick together to the end. The National League is not, as reported, aiding its weaker members, its policy being to have every club stand upon its own bottom. The League is simply prepared to fight this battle to a finish, and will do it till either itself or its rival is forced to the wall. … Whatever may occur next year the chance of any compromise between the warring leagues is not only remote, but impossible. There will be no compromise this season and no efforts made to bring about one. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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