Clipping:Charges that the fix was in with the Indianapolis deal

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Date Thursday, January 24, 1889
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New York base ball people are unanimous in the belief that President Brush, of the Indianapolis team, is merely trying to squeeze out the large proportion of stockholders who are willing to share a dividend but unwilling to make up a deficit. There is not a more brainy man in the League than President Brush, and it is safe to say that he will come out on top. Indianapolis News January 24, 1889, quoting the New York World

Thus the farce ends, so far as the League is concerned. The Indianapolis club, minus the seventeen stockholders who contributed $500 apiece, is resurrected, and in the freeze-out and the subsequent rehabilitation the League has taken a part that is not creditable to that organization. The entire proceedings were tricky from the day on which Mr. Brush, acting for the old club, surrendered the franchise, through the farcical repayment of the $15,000 and its subsequent transfer back again to the League, and the reinvestment of the syndicate with League membership, until yesterday's order was promulgated. Nobody who knew anything of base-ball was deceived by the air of apparent sincerity that enveloped the surrender, but a great many have been disappointed to think the League would be a party to such proceedings. If the franchise had to be returned to Indianapolis, it should have been given to Messrs. Dickson & Talbot, whose offer was infinitely better than that of the Brush syndicate. Their price was larger, and they agreed to pay the debts of the old club. They offered $20,000 for the franchise, while the people who obtained it paid much less. President Young refused, last night, to state the price, but it is certain that it did not exceed $15,000, if it reached that amount. The probabilities are the new club paid $13,000 for the franchise and $1,000 guarantee for the first year. Thus, if these figures are correct, the League loses several thou8sand dollars, which, perhaps, they can well afford, but they lose more by not insisting that every cent of the old club's indebtedness should be paid before anyone who was connected with it is allowed to regain co0ntrol of the franchise. The League may learn in time that it has set an example that in the future will return to plague its inventors. Indianapolis Journal February 4, 1889, quoting the Washington Post

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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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