Clipping:Ned Hanlon on the Brotherhood and the Rowe and White case
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| Date | Monday, October 14, 1889 |
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| Text | “The case of Rowe and White,” said Mr. Hanlon, “has been really what has spurred the players to take a stand. They were most unjustly dealt with, and when the Brotherhood took Rowe's case in hand it received a very severe snub from the League magnates. Now let me explain this, because it is important that the public should now know the features of that case. When President Stearns, of Detroit, resolved to sell Rowe and White to Pittsburg against their will, Rowe went to him and respectfully asked that he receive a portion of the purchase money, and he added that, if that was done, he would willingly go to Pittsburg. “However, Stearns replied that the deal was entirely between him, Mr. Stearns and President Nimick, of Pittsburg, and that Rowe had nothing whatever to do with it. This touched the player's manhood and he went home and commenced business for himself. But he wasn't even allowed to do that, and then the Brotherhood requested the League to have representatives of the two organizations meet and discuss the matter. As a result, the League replied that the case was not of sufficient importance to convene a special meeting to discuss it. This was an insult. Why, when a dispute arose about a game between the Detroit and New York clubs a special meeting was called at Asbury Park within a very short time. That case was certainly of no more importance than one that concerned the bread and butter of two of the most respectable and two of the ablest players in the country. But the disputed game concerned the magnates and the other case in question concerned the players. Well, that case stirred up the Brotherhood, and I may say it made the players resolve to take a stand. That stand will be taken.” Pittsburgh Dispatch October 14, 1889 Jack Rowe, of Pittsburgh, was asked if it was the Brotherhood movement that culminated to-day [11/5] that induced White and himself to go to Pittsburg when they did and play the season out. “Yes, that it was,” he said. “We got a long letter from John Ward, and upon consideration determined to go to Pittsburg. After I had been there a few days a reporter asked me how I liked the place. I think I told him I liked it as well as Oshkosh, Kalamazoo or some place of that sort. We played against our will, and told Nimick so. We wanted to get a release, but all the satisfaction we could get from Stearns, of Detroit, was 'play in Pittsburg or get off the earth.' The League has brought this action upon itself. Imagine a case like my own. We were not permitted, on account of a rule distorted to suit the purposes of the magnates, to act like free men and play where we chose. I feel like a manumitted slave.” Pittsburgh Dispatch November 6, 1889 |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
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