Clipping:Limited progress on implementing the Brush plan
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| Date | Wednesday, December 19, 1888 |
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| Text | [ from R. M. Larner] “The new classification rule takes effect on and after to-day [12/15] and a ll players who are not under contractual obligation now will have to be graded in accordance with the provision of the law.” This was the remark of the president of the League this morning when your correspondent called at League headquarters to glean the latest information on the subject. Mr. Young expected a flood of new contracts by to-day's mail or by telegraph, but he was disappointed when he discovered that a brief telegram from Manager Loftus, announcing that Joseph Lohbeck and Oliver Tebeau had signed with the Cleveland Club, was the extent of his correspondence. Up to date only two clubs, Washington and Indianapolis, have complied with Mr. Young's request made several weeks ago for a statement showing what players are to be exempt from classification. These lists should have been in hand to-day, was yesterday, Friday, was the last day the players and managers had to come to an understanding that will be bending under the rules. Philadelphia, New York, Boston and Pittsburg should have had their lists in by this time, and it is supposed the desired information is now en route to Washington. Mr. Young positively declines to give out the names and grades of the classified players, on the ground that such information, so far as he is concerned, is to be regarded as secret. He says he will not be responsible for any guesses that may be made in any quarter, and he will neither affirm nor deny any statements made on the subject. Each club will be furnished with a classified list of its own players, but the New Yorks will not be permitted to know how the Boston or any other club is graded, and vice versa. … Mr. Young has already proceeded far enough to realize that he has a difficult and a very disagreeable task before him. He proposes to do full justice in every instance as he prefers to be in their favor rather than against them. The members of the Washington and Indianapolis team, including Denny and Glasscock, have been rated, but as above stated, nothing definite on the subject can be learned from Mr. Young. The Sporting Life December 19, 1888 [correspondence from A. G. Ovens] Mr. Brush tells me that none of the local [Indianapolis] players will be signed before they are classified by President Young. The Sporting Life December 19, 1888 |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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