Clipping:Rumor that Lucas will jump to the Western League 2
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| Date | Wednesday, March 25, 1885 |
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| Text | From the tone of the St. Louis press we would judge that Mr. Lucas is in active sympathy with the movement to enter St. Louis and Cincinnati in the Western League. A formal application is said to have been forwarded to President McKim on behalf of both cities, and it is also stated that Kansas City and Indianapolis, smarting under the Ringo and Robinson outrages, are not averse to the admittance. These two may be willing, but Cleveland, Toledo, and we dare say Milwaukee, will never consent to the admission of Lucas and Thorner. We trust, however, that Mr. Lucas has been misrepresented in the matter. What would he have to gain by joining the Western League, run on the guerrilla plan, except to save a little money and gain cheap glory? Were he to take his club containing the blacklisted players into the Western League, his team would be as far superior to that League as it was in the Union Association last year, and would win a hollow victory and cheap glory. Is that the kind of base ball the St. Louis people want. Will that satisfy them? No, indeed! They want the best, and for that reason were so anxious to have their city represented in the League. We'll venture to say that the Lucas club could better satisfy the St. Louis public as tail-ender in the great National League than as leader in the Western League. The Sporting Life March 25, 1885 ...President Lucas has addressed communications to the several presidents of League clubs, beseeching a reconsideration of the action of the League whereby it refused to readmit reserve-jumpers and contract-breakers to the fold. He tells these officers that he is placed in a most unhappy and unenviable predicament by the heavy pressure brought to bear upon him by intimate personal friends and the united press of St. Louis to resign from the League in recognition of its unjust and arbitrary action, and unite with a movement to establish a rival association, to which all players under the ban of the League or not under engagement are to be freely admitted. He says that he and his friends will be subjected to heavy pecuniary loss by placing a weak club in the League, and he makes one final plea and inquiry as to whether the decision is irrevocable. The Sporting Life March 25, 1885 |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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