Clipping:Detroit gets concession from the League
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| Date | Wednesday, December 1, 1886 |
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| Text | [byline Caylor] [reporting on the AA special meeting 11/22 – 11/231886] Manager Watkins was sent for. The convention would have been better pleased to have dealt with one higher in authority than Mr. Watkins, but treated that gentleman very courteously. Mr. W. began by saying to the delegates that the Detroit Club wanted to be perfectly frank and fair in their dealings with the Association and he was authorized to say this: They (the Detroits) would prefer to stay with the League, all things being equal, but they felt they had been directly crippled or shackled by the late legislation at Chicago, and that unless this work, so far as it affected them, was undone the club would ask for a membership in the American Association. They wanted to spend that day (Monday) in a telegraphic appeal to their various League associates for a restoration of their late rights with a perfect understanding and pledge that they would stay with the League should those rights be restored and leave the league to go to the Association were they refused. All they asked of the Association was to defer positive action until next day noon in their election of a successor so as to give Detroit a chance should they be repulsed by the other League clubs. … …...there seemed to be considerable sentiment favorable to the Cleveland syndicate right then and there, and the question was openly discussed whether it would not be a wise course to admit that club at once. There was finally a disposition developed, however, out of courtesy to Detroit, to let everything rest in abeyance until noon of the next day, especially as there was no necessity for haste in the premises. There is, however, a strong suspicion in my mind that a desire pervaded the delegates to aid Detroit in compelling the League to recede from their guarantee ground. However, the convention took a recess till next morning... … Shortly after noon Manager Watkins appeared and read two telegrams from President Stearns. One was that Detroit had received sufficient concessions from the League to warrant their remaining in that body. The second requested Mr. Watkins to express the warmest thanks of the Detroit Club to the Association for their extreme courtesy in the premises. Mr. Watkins supplemented it all by assuring the Association that he, personally, was disappointed, and had hoped his club would have joined the Association. He was kindly assured that no harm had been done, and withdrew, leaving not a ripple a excitement behind him. Indeed, there seemed to be a sense of relief pervading the entire convention. The Sporting Life December 1, 1886 [from the Detroit correspondent] In substance the outcome is just this: Detroit gets the percentage system the same as last year. Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsubrg and Boston have signified their willingness, and there is small doubt that before daisy cutters, hot liners, etc., are again in fashion, the League system of dividing receipts, as far as Detroit is concerned,w ill be precisely as it was last season. The Sporting Life December 1, 1886 [from the Chicago correspondent] [from an interview of Spalding] ...I received a telegram from Stearns at Detroit telling me that it would be impracticable for the Detroits to go through next season as a League club under the guarantee rule, and asking me if the Chicago Club would not agree to play any games that might be scheduled between our two teams upon the division basis so far as receipts were concerned. I understood Detroit's position fully and appreciated it and I thought Stearns' request only fair and just and so agreed to it at once and telegraphed him to that effect. That is all there is to it so far as Chicago is concerned. The Sporting Life December 1, 1886 [from the Boston correspondent] [from an interview of Soden] The Boston Club has made no concessions to Detroit. We have got the guarantee system and we intend to keep it. I imagine Al Spalding has made some private arrangement with Detroit and think it is very possible New York has done the same, but Boston has done nothing of the kind. The Sporting Life December 1, 1886 |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
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