Clipping:A premises liability judgment against the Syracuse club
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| Date | Wednesday, March 23, 1887 |
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| Text | In the suit of John A. Cole vs. The Syracuse Base Ball Association for damages for injuries received through the breaking of the railing during a game at Star Park...in the summer of 1885, the jury yesterday [3/18] awarded the plaintiff $3,516.50. The Sporting Life March 23, 1887 dissension in the Kansas City management The facts of the matter as presented by the Heim-Axman-Menges faction are these: No sooner had we got through the labor, worry and mortification of our defeat in the National League than a new trouble again presented itself. Mr. McKim who we supposed had secured the Western League franchise for the Kansas City Base Ball Association, now assumes a different air and demands $2,000 for the bare franchise; else, he intimates, he will place a team in this city if his proposition is not accepted. We were under the impression that he held the franchise merely as a sort of trustee for the Kansas City Base Ball Association. We paid him $2,600 for his stock in the Leuage club, of which amount we have had very little returned--in fact, have lost the whole $2,600--yet that was a business venture, and treated as such. This, with the $2,000 demanded, would make the most sum of $4,600 for what really cost him nothing. He proposes to impose this additional tax on us, and backs his position by a threat that unless his terms are complied with, he will prevent the Association from using the ball grounds, which he and Helm secured jointly for the use of the League club, and in which piece of ground he now owns a big lot. Well, I can safely say his exobitant figure will not be paid. Our only object in taking a position to the Western League is to keep up the interest here, as we intend to make an effort to re-enter the League or Association next season, and if McKim should conclude to keep the franhcise and play in the Western League, he does it with the sanction of the Base Ball Association of Kansas City, for we shall still continue as an organization. McKim comes forward and makes known his side of the case. McKim gives some inside facts which will prove interesting. He says:--”Let me give you some facts aobut this base ball controversy. I thought after the Pittsburg meeting [illegible] National game this season, so I took active steps to secure a franchise in the Western League, and I made a proposition to that organization for a franchise and received this leter from the secretary of the Western League... [the letter follows] “This goes to show it was granted to me individually, and nothing is stated in that certifcate that it was intended for the Kansas City Base Ball Associaiton. On the other hand, it plainly states that I am the grantee of the franchise, and which I propose to hold. I am perfectly willy to work in conjunction with Helm, Axman and Menges, but I feel as though I should derive some benefit for my trouble and expense.” The Sporting Life March 23, 1887 A prophecy about the fate of the AA [quoting Watrous of the Mets] ...it is only a question of time when the Washington and Indianapolis clubs will be forced from the League and the St. Louis Browns and Cincinnatis taken in, and, unless such a clause...is incorporated in the National Agreement to prevent such action, the American Association will be wiped out of existence, as they cannot afford to lsoe many more powerful clubs. It is better to die fighting with all the chances of victory in one’s favor, than to have the league continue to steal our members. The Sporting Life March 23, 1887 |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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