Clipping:Spalding demands total surrender; scouting PL attendance
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| Date | Saturday, August 16, 1890 |
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| Text | [an interview of Spalding] Nothing but an unconditional surrender on the part of the Players' League people will be listened to by the National League. The potency and power of the National Agreement must be maintained and reaffirmed in order to make base ball profitable again to players and clubs, and it is the only way it can be done. To recognize any of the Brotherhood revolutionists by making a compromise would forever do harm to the game I can assure you that the League is perfectly able and ready to stand this fight for a long time yet. It is a business we have established, and we have not been in it fifteen years to surrender when we have the victory won. We are not fighting with out eyes shut, for we know how many people pay to see every Brotherhood game and how many sit in the grand stand. Ever since the season started an actual count has been taken and regularly forwarded to President Young. In this way we know just how much money the Brotherhood has taken in to fill up its treasuries, and as we have never been deceived as to their actual strength. Now the League is losing money. That we have not denied once this season. But our losses are not so much as the Brotherhood's. The difference between the League and the Brotherhood is this:--The League acknowledges that it is losing money. The Brotherhood denies that it is losing, and yet the public knows better. The League is friendly disposed toward the players who revolted, and when the surrender does come we will prove our friendliness to them to their satisfaction. Of course the Brotherhood will surrender in time, but it will not humiliate or dishonor their leaders. It is folly pure and simple, this Brotherhood sentiment of sticking together. It is always manliness to acknowledge it when you have done a wrong and are convinced of it. These players, in order to be more manly and honorable, should go to the men whom they induced to put up their money and say in a straightforward way that they will not ask for another dollar to be spent o them in a venture that is already lost. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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