Clipping:Bidding to replace the Maroons
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| Date | Wednesday, March 2, 1887 |
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| Text | The League committee of three met at the Monongahela House, Pittsburg, Feb. 21, according to call, to decide upon a successor to the St. Louis Maroons. They went into session at noon, wrestled with the problem until 9:30 and adjourned without arriving at a satisfactory conclusion. Their failure to decide upon a definite course was due to the fact that they could not unanimously agree upon either Kansas City or Indianapolis, and according to the resolution which called the committee into being any action to be binding had to be unanimous. When the committeemen--Spalding, Day and Young--went into session they called the representatives of the Indianapolis Club before them--Messrs. A. J. Treat and Louis Newberger--who proposed ti give the League $10,000 to be admitted as the eighth club, and hsowed sufficient finanical strength to get them a good, strong playing team. They said they would take the Maroon players as they stood, and agree not to dispose of either Denny or Glasscock during this year. Mr. Treat said that they did not wish to pay out a large sum of money for the Maroon franchise, but they made the proposal on purely a business basis, which was to be admitted to the League just as the other clubs had been admitted. They were not paying out money for glory. They would take the Maroon players, but would not go beyond the salary limit. President Stromberg, of the Maroons, was next called before the triumvirate. He simply hald up both hands, told that he resigned, and watned $15,000 for his franchise. The committee accepted the resignation and the Maroon president was excused, his seance with the committee lasting just seven minutes. E. E. Mengeathen took a turn, with propositions from Kansas City. He was closeted with the committee until 3 o’clock. He proposed to give $20,000 for the Maroon franchise and players, and to py the travelling expenses of the clubs visiting Kansas City; that is, they would allow the sum it would cost from St. Louis to Kansas City. They founded this proposition on the basis that if St. Louis had remained in the League clubs would have to go there anyway, hence the offer to pay the amount of expense necessary to go thence to Kansas City. A majority of the committee was strongly inclined in favor of the Cowboys, President Nick Young alone being in favor of considering the Indianapolis matter father. Spalding and Day would, no doubt, have brought President Young over to their of thinking had not dispatches been received from Presidents Soden, Reach, Stearn and Hewitt favoring Indianapolis, some of them being very emphatic. This blocked the case, and the committee adjourned early in the afternoon. Later one, however, the committee again went into session to consider further offers from Kansas City. They wrestled with the matter until 9:00 o’clock, and finding it impossible to agree they again adjourned, agreeing to leave the matter to the League meeting, which will be held at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, March 7. The matter was left in this state partly becuase the committee could not agree unanimously, partly becuase the spring meeting of the League was close at hand, and also to give the Indianpolis Club further time to strengthen themselves financially in order to make the League a better offer. The Indianapolis people have, it is said, $16,000, of which they are willing to pay $10,000 to the Maroons for their franchise and players. They will pay the League nothing for admission. This would leave them $6,000 working capital. They have also been offered $7,000 for Glasscock by Boston, and $6,000 by Washington for Denny. This would give them $19,000 for working capital, but they want to keep both Glasscock and Denny if admitted. Kansas City also insists upon retaining all the players, although it is hinted that Glasscock may possibly be released to Chicago in return for Spalding’s friendly services. Indianapolis still has the better chance of ultimate success, but must raise more money, else Kansas City will surely beat her out. |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
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