Clipping:A conference committee with the NL
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| Date | Sunday, December 17, 1882 |
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| Text | [reporting on the AA convention of 12/13 - 12/14/1882] ...there was an animated discussion over the motion to appoint a Committee of Conference to meet with the League Committee, the delegates of the Cincinnati, St. Louis, Columbus, and Athletic clubs being dead against it, while those of Pittsburg, Baltimore, New York, and Louisville favored the appointment of the committee. … On motion of Mr. Pank, of Louisville, the matter of the appointment of the Conference committee was brought up again in the form of a reconsideration of Wednesday's vote on the subject. In presenting the motion President McKnight remarked that after due reflection on this matter of conference he had come to the conclusion that it involved a question of very serious import, affecting the future welfare of the organization; and he did not think the convention Wednesday had duly considered the importance of it. “One bearing,” he stated, “which would result from a neglect of combined action with the League in the matter of observing the contracts and black-lists of each other's association, would be to open the door to the evil of revolving, and to introduce a phase of crooked work in the association which could not but be damaging to all the clubs of both associations. For his part, although his club has suffered as badly as any from violated contracts, he was willing to let that pass, rather than to bring about a worse complication of troubles by refusing to second the movement made by the League in favor of some compromise. Mr. Simmons, of the Athletics, seconded these remarks by withdrawing his vote of opposition to the appointment of the committee, and finally, when the matter came to a vote, only two clubs were found opposed to the compromise measures, and those were Cincinnati and St. Louis, and when the matter was finally explained, the Cincinnati delegate had his vote changed, so that Mr. Von der Ahe was left out in the cold on the question, the vote for the appointment of the Committee on Question being seven to one in its favor. The President then appointed Messrs. Pank, Simmons and Barnie as a Conference committee, and the Secretary was requested to notify the President of the League of the action taken by the convention, and that the American Committee was ready to confer with the League Committee on the subject of a compromise of the existing difficulties between the two organizations. |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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