Clipping:St. Louis's prospects in the League
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| Date | Wednesday, February 2, 1887 |
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| Text | St. Louis... cannot possibly go on. It has no team capable of making a good battle; in its struggle to pay off old indebtedness the club has exhausted its resources, and there is no money to go with, as a large part of the club’s stock is still unsold and unsaleable. Hence there is nothing left but to sell out to the best advantage. The club might have made a deal with Indianapolis, but it asked an exorbitant price for its franchise, and at the same time attempted to sell some of the more desirable players to other clubs. Twenty-five thousand dollars was the price asked from Indianapolis. The latter, however, was not willing to pay more than $10,000, and for that sum wanted all the players. Hitherto the League committee had held hands off, but when Mutrie went to St. Louis with the announced intention of securing Denny it was time to call a halt. The New York Club had no right to negotiate for Denny. When the committee was formed it was for the purposes of distributing the strong players of disbanded blus among the weaker clubs, and the three strongest clubs, Chicago, New York and Detroit, were placed on the committee, so that they could not, without break of trust, assign players to their own clubs. President Young was subsequently put in Detroit’s place on the committee, and a provise was made that any act of the committee shall require a unanimous vote. By this metheod no member of the committee can take advantage by a combination or deal. This disposes of all the senseless chatter about Spalding and Day working to oust St. Louis to secure Glasscock and Denny. If St. Louis sells out to day, their players and the entire team will go with the franchise. For this reason Mr. Spalding called New York down when Mutrie went after Denny, and for the same reason St. Louis was stopped from further trafic in her players. As the case now stands the St. Louis Club has no alternative, but to go on in the face of certain loss, or to retire with equally certain loss. The club has no money to go on with and cannot hope to make both ends met during the season under the newly adopted guarantee plan with strong opposition at home. If the club chooses to sell out it can sell nothing but its franchise. The players will go with this in a body and individuals cannot be singled out and sold to any club other than the one purchasing the franchise. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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