Clipping:Nick Young stalling on the Cleveland releases; did Lucas buy a property right?
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| Date | Wednesday, January 14, 1885 |
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| Text | [from a letter by F. H. Brunell] No little comment has been made on the action of Mr. N. E. Young in declining to publish the releases of the Cleveland men sent to him on Saturday, Jan. 3, and which, if he had done his duty, would have made them eligible Jan. 13. He has, under date of Jan. 5, acknowledged the receipt of these releases and also the positive resignation of the Cleveland Club from the League. Even if he had published this last notice, which, under the League rule, he was bound to do, these men would be eligible the 15 th. He publishes merely notice that Cleveland has tendered its resignation. All this is unaccountable action for the National League, which has heretofore occupied such a high standard in all its affairs. It looks very much as if work was being done that could not bear investigation, and that a suicidal policy, perhaps even the disruption of the National Agreement, may ensue. Mr. Young surely has never acted thus of his own volition. He has, we fear, been influenced by advisers. The resignation of the Cleveland Club was absolute. Most of its players had previously been released and the club had disbanded. The purpose evidently had been to delay matters, call the meeting of the League, and then accept the resignation, and if determined to take in Lucas and Thorner, give them a chance to fight for players. The American Association has not been the aggressor in this matter. It has occupied a straight and dignified position. If the agreement is crushed the League must shoulder the responsibility, and but few weeks will elapse ere it finds what a fatal mistake it has made. The Sporting Life January 14, 1885 Another reason for this delay is stated to have been Mr. Young's desire to save Mr. Lucas a property right, which he claimed to have bought from Cleveland. The Cleveland Club's officers, however, deny that Mr. Lucas bought anything of them but the resignation from the League. The team and contracts, they say, had been previously sold to Mr. Byrne for a large sum of money. It is but just to Mr. Young to state that he disclaimed any ulterior motive in delay in sending out the notices of release. He says he simply delayed matters until the League meeting, as he was undecided whether, as a point of law, he could accept the resignation of the Cleveland Club and release of its players until the League had taken action thereon. The Sporting Life January 21, 1885 |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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