16 OF SPORTS Some Reasons "Why the Baseball Magnates Should Adopt a Plan of Consolidation. SEW IOEK CAPITALISTS' POLICY. Hr. Talcott's Good Seasons for Trying to Save the Prestige of tlie Xa- tional Game. THE LOCAL FOOTBALL PKOSPECTS. 0ui About til Leading Pcjilisti-Thi Qtiirtj ted Esiih Bit'Ja. There are several reasons 'why baseball should form the subject of a lenjrthy discus sion in this week's review. One chief rea son is the fact that the annual meeting of the Players' League will be held in this city Tuesday nest. Another reason is that sev eral leading players and one or two capital ists are trying in every way possible to pre vent any settlement ol the trouble that has brought the national came iuio disrepute and to a great extent disgrace. For the life ot me I cannot sec why any man or body of men interested in baseball should try and prevent the settlement of a trouble that has cost many thousaud of dollars. Oi course, I am aware that no man will admit that he is preventing or trying to prevent a settlement, hut we each have a right to form our own opinion as to what are the intentions of people who are evidently doing their best to keep rival patrons apart and sustain the warfare. Depend upon it that those who are so acting arc no friends of the national game nor of those who pat ronize it. 1 don't hesitate to say that one of the most foolish things that magnates of the 1. L. ever did, and like the X. L. great people they have done many very stupid things, was to hold a meeting tn Phila delphia Thursday. The most important icature I may say fact of that meeting was to prove that the P. L. is tadly rent and that the wisest members of the P. Ii. were not at the meetiug at all. I sup pose we will not be wide of the ru.irK if we tay that those who met at 1'liilaJelpuia Thursday are the "Sjht-to-a-finish" taction; ia other words, the brave and valiant con tingent when other people ;roduce the money. 1 am not exaggerating anything, because we all know that the money pro ducers of the P. L. were these very gentie jnen who were not at the meeting and who Lave been censured by those who h.ive used their money. But really, there is something very amusing about those people who met at Philadelphia Tcursday. In the first place they were a party of men who had Jailed to arrive at any aiuisable settietnent of the baseball trouble in their respective cities, liut those gentlemen who were not at the meeting had settled their troubles; like good common sci.se business men they soon devised a plan of settlement and agreed to adopt it. Weil, but the fighting contingent who have been ell over the country collecting money lor something they call stock, canuot come to terms, at 3 east they don't come to terms, atid they ac tually meet to use influence to prevent the good work of other people. This cerUlnly is exceedingly rich and rare. TT W An Important Fact. But in discussing this part of t'ie subject one important fact forces itself upon us; a fact that we will all do well to note. "When the P. Ii. was organized its leaders told us time and time again that it was not intended to down the National .League. Why, sub sequent events have shown that a grosser falsehood was never told. The fact is just as clear as the sun at noonday that the bulk of the P. L. magnates desire to have the N. It. put out of existence. I don't say whether or not an ambition of this kind is right, but 2 want the fact cf the existence of that am bition plainly understood. The past season has proven to all of us that as two opposing forces the P. L. and N. L. canuot exist, and these who arc stulborn enough to turn a deaf ear to all entieaties arc bringing upon themselves a very grave respsibility. So far I have failed to perceive anything agaiust consolidation except sentimentality, ami 1 do hold that in such matters sentimentality is very ephemeral. But let tissunpose that the war is to be continued another year, and what will be the result? "Why, lo5es consiueraLly greater than dur ing this year. That is just assure an out come as the fact that the 240,000 profit didn't come to the P. L. this year. Well, then, the question is: Have we men in our midst ioolish enough to throw money away and disgust the public merely to gratify a petty whim? If we had neither a Players Leasuc nor a National League the heavens would not 'all. We cerUiniy can rest as iHred on that score. It we banish that ridiculous sentimental feeling that has mis led so many we will soon see that it will make no difference to any of us whether the ball club in Pittsburg is a Players' League club or a Katioa.il League club. The name goes for very little. Then, I again ask, why won't these people who are interested in these clubs meet together and make one club ot them? Ii anybody will give me a reason able answer showing why it should cot be done I'll say no more on the matter. Tlie "Wise Mea of tho East. Amid all the noise and bluster there is one thing which stands prominently out, show ing conclusively that consolidation can be general. I refer to the Hew York clubs. The directors of these clubs like sensible men have met and settled their quarrel. Because they have done bo they have been the object ol much abuse, Messrs. Talcott, McAlpin and llobinson have particularly been targets, hut these gentlemen have rea son and common sense on their side, and just as sure as we live, if they sever themselves from the P. L. it wilt be a sorry day for the latter. They have proven themselves friends of the ball players, and surely their advice cr opinions ought to be listened to no'w. Sneaking on this matter the other day. Pres ident SlcAIpin, of the P. L., said: "As 1'resideut of the League, I have done every thing Kissible in the interest of the organi zation. I have given advice that has never been heeded, but has been laughed at and pooh-poohed. As a business man, I thought I saw how things would eventually drift. And they have gone just that way. If this war is kept up it will mean the death of biscball as the greatest of na tional games; it will mean the supplanting of it by some other game. A continuance of the fight will cot injure us, but it will lHJurc the players. Yet some ol them aie blind enough ur.t to sec it. If a settlement is not made, the players in another year will have no occupation. "We are working as much for their interests in a perpetuation of the game as lor our own. Ko matter what is done the players will come out on top, that is, the good players. Dollars and cents cut no fiirurc with us. If the game is killed, as I have already said, we shall not suffer by it. A year ago I stated in one of our meetings that it would be a hard matter to go up agairfct so old an organization as the National League, and that to conduct lhr fight ou sound business principles each clab ousrht to put up 520,000 into a pool in order to keep us ptloat and iu good trim fur battle. 1 was jeered at lor thh advice. The money v. as not put up, but a time came when it would have been most acceptable." tr Some Sound Sense. Mr. McAlpiu talks like a sensible busi ness man, and had he nisde the same utter . ances last winter he would have been cheered 'o the echo by the very people who are cen- A REVIEW suring him to-day. I am aware that con solidation has the danger of monopoly con nected with it. Centralizing all the baseball interests will certainly have a tendency toward a gigantic baseball trust, but mat ters need not go that far. They may if a settlement is not made speedily, and let me btate at this point that the longer this hum bus: is continued the worse it will be for the ball player. He is the one and the only one who cannot afford to wait. Already there are signs of discontent among the players. All these rumors about a prominent man like Comiskey are probably not idle talk and this means that tbe words of Mr. McAlpiu ought to be very carefully weighed by every stock holder and every player iu the Players' League. If we make a retrospect of the late season we will at once see how foolish and how absurd all this quarreling and fighting has been. We cannot shut our eyes to the fact that in the estimation of the public biseball is of less importance to-day than it has been for years, and it is still being dragged down to a lower level. One of the wisest acts that the Players' League meet ing on Tuesday can do is to resolve to end this nonsense. If it does .that then it will go on record as being a very sensible body. The signs ot internal discussions among the P. L. people themselves point with no uncertain hand to tbe probable death of that organization if peace is not brought about. It is impos sible to avoid the conviction that should the New York gentlemen be forced out or should they retire, the death 'knell of the P. L. will not be lar behind. The public will be more disgusted with the discredit able affairs than ever. The talk of cither Mr. AVagaer or any of his friends buying out the Brooklyn and New York clubs may be good enough as mere talk, but I cannot bring myselt to believe that there are men who will spend thousands of dollars on any such uncertain thing as either of the clubs named. In this connection I am not violating any confidences when I repeat au opinion expressed by a friend of mine at the recent New York P. L. meeting. He made a statement to the effect that a year ago, or nearly a year ago, tbe P. L. started out amid a country full of enthusiasm and with more than one star aggregation, and he reminded his hearers that the enthusiasm is dead and the stars are more or less obscured. It is amid a condition of affairs like this that another season must be started, he argued, if two organizations are to be continued. I am told that his statement or argument was followed by a profound silence. Hoif, the gentleman who made this statement is known to all of us, I dare say. I don't quote his words as being my opinions, but the opinions of a man who 1ms taken a very active part in the Players' League and has lost money in it. And yet, despite such convincing, such plain and common-sense opinions, we have irresponsi ble people trying to goad others on to a con tinuance of all this "humbug and ruination. Why, the thing is preposterous; and the wonder is that at this period of the world's history men can be found foolish enough to be identified with a condition of things that ordinary school boys wonid deem too stupid to have anything to do with. There is only one way by which the baseball magnets can regain public recognition, and this is by act ing like sensible people and terminating their Hilkenny-cat policv. a The Football rinyers. Football continues to increase in popu larity, not only in Pittsburg, but through out the conntry generally. The visit of the Princeton Preps to this city certaiuly had a good effect in more ways than one. The Preps not only gave an exhibition of good football playing, but their work was an ex cellent lesson for, the home team. As a re sult, we can reit assured that before another season opens we will have a very good team ia Pittsburg. It will take time to prove ivho are our best players, and it will also re quire good opposing teams. That we have Home good players, there is no doubt, but regular work against the best kind kind of kickers will rmKo our good men first-class. The Athletic Association has been compelled to increase the admission fee from 25 to SO cents. As a rule, I am a strong advocate for popular or low prices, but there aie occasions on which popular prices cannot be put in force. I think in the present case such is the fact. Such teams as Princeton. Detroit and Cleveland lost a large amount ot money, that is, their expenses are heavy and an admission fee of 25 cents will not yield sufficient to pay all expenses. I am informed by Secretary Dawson that only tbe force of circumstances causes the adoption of the 50-cent rate. Of course I anticipate that when clubs that are not so expensive as the Detroits play here only 25 cents will be charged. If that is so it will prove that the Athletic Associa tion want to deal lairly with the public. Put the association will have many oppor tunities to act cenerously with the public. It will have more events than football matches under its auspices, and if we have to pay a little extra now to see a good football team we may get something equally as good for a less price in future. At any rate the associations only starting out and it needs the help of all of us to put it fairly on its way. Carys Itecent Failures. L. N. Cary, the sprinter, who claimed that he ran 100 yards in 9J seconds a short time ago, has been trying to break some rec ords during the week. He did not try to make a 100-yard record, which, to me, is very singular. He, however, ran 110 yards, and tailed to break anv records. He ran iu very good time and proved beyond a doubt that he is a very good sprinter. I am satis fied, however, that he is not a 9)4 nian by any means, and while I say this I claim that he is a speedy enough runner to war rant a careful investigation of any claim that be may put forward. A great amount of the unpleasantness regarding Cary's lat8 claims would have been avoided had'the A. A. U. board condescended to examine his claim careiully. Finally the claim was ex amined thoroughly, but only through the newspapers after the board bad ignored it. This is not a safe way of doing business. The caEe ought to be a guide for future cases, and I am disposed to think that from now on claims for records will be very closely examined before being accepted. Cary cannot now reasonably complain about the non-acceptance of his claim, be cause with his own pistol tire he the other day failed to even t qual any record. Professional Sprinters. Speaking ot sprinters reminds me that there is an announcement I have intended to make on several occasions. It relates to challenges of professional sprinters which reach this office almost dailv. No less than seven arrived here daring tbe last three or four days, and not one was accompanied by a for'eit. What I want to say is this: Those challenges cannot appear in this paper, be cause there is nothing to show that they are made in good faith. If any man desires to run another man why surely he will be ready to prove the honesty and earnestness ol his desire by putting up a forfeit. Time and time again challenges have been issued, aud they were nothing more than mere blus ter or jokes. Of course, this refers to more than professional sprinters; it relers to all professional challenges, and I trust that this announcement will not be forgotten. The object is not to keep out the challenges, but it is to insure tbe public and ourselves that everything is being done in good faith. Therefore, forfeits must accompany chal lenges. Among tUo'PogUlsti. On Tuesday evening next E. Smith, of Denver, and George Godfrey, the colored pugilist of Boston, will meet' in a battle which is practically to a finish. It will be another of these club encounters which have done fo much to ruin whatever good qual ities there were iu pugilism. However, when men contest in these clubs or more correctly speaking these saloon clubs, we have to measme the men accordingly, be cause a good man in a club affair may not be a good man in an ordinary 24-foot ring on the turf. As livjs I know Godirey hat done little or ".-" else in a pugilistic way than take part in stage or clab con tests. He and Lannon have had many en counters bnt my readers will know that my estimation of either of those men has never been a high one. Godfrey particularly is one of these performers who were brought out when the public was being galled by boxers or alleged boxers and their managers. In short, Godfrey has yet to con vince me that he is a pugilist, Regarding Smith, one cannot say much, because he u. to a very great extent, an untried man. Experienced men state that he is a coming champion. He is big enough, and may be too big. But if the big man from Denver cannot polish off Mr. Godfrey very handily, the former's future is not a very bright one, as far as I am able to judge. We must not believe all that we read in newspapers about the abilities of this man or that man who professes to be a fighter. Men like Smith, who are just step ping into prominence, have people surround ing them whose business it is to circulate all kinds of statements' about the "coming star's" prowess. There have been dozens of instances of this. Take, for instance, such a pugilistic fraud as Frank Herald. We can easily remember how, odb or two person's flooded the countrv with extraordinary storiex about Herald's abilities. It was to gull the public, and, as matters turned out. Herald was a rank failure. Of course, I am .not arguing that a similar state of things surrounds Smith, of Denver, bnt I do Bay that it is possiBle. However, we shall see in a day whether Smith has any just claim to tbe name of a good pugilist. The Middle Weight Champions. So far there has been no definite settle ment for an encounter between Jack Derap sey and Fitzsimmons. The latest advices from the East arc to the effect that there is little probability of a battle between these men. Some people think that it is Demp sey's fault, and others, of course, think that it is the fanlt of the man from tbe other side of the globe. I can come to no other con clusion than thinking that Dempsey ii to blame for the delay, and I add that in my judgment he is Tery wise in doing so. He has had a remarkable career as a boxer pugilist, if we can use the term, and none of us should be eager to see him rush to prob able defeat at the close. Better middle pugilists than Jack Dempsey have lived, and probably will live again, but that does not alter the fact that he has had a very busy and in many respects brilliant career. It might be more profitable to Dempsey were he to try and redeem his defeat with Li Blanche. Were ho to do that he would have just reason for retiring. Now that there is little probability of a battle between Dempsey and Fitzsimmons it seems very difficult to surmise as to who the next prom inent middle weight contestant will be. I don't know that there is any man in En gland that is anxious to face Fitzsimmons. There has also during the week been a little trouble abont arranging a match between the little fighters Dixon and McCarthy. The latter signed articles more than a week ago, and it is very strange that the Dixon party are holding back so long. They talked as if they would sooner meet Mc Carthy than eat theirdinner. However, they arc none too anxious to tackle McCarthy, and just as sure as the pair fight Dixon and bis friends will discover that there is a more difficult task in hand than was expeeted. McAuliffe and Smith. There is some talk of a battle between Joe McAuliffe and Jem Smith, the Englishman. I dare say that this pair might make a very good contest in a 24-foot ring, but I fail to see where Smith could defeat McAuliffe iu a glove contest under Queensberry rules. Smith is not such a bad fighter as many people think he is, and McAuliffe is not as good as his friends think him. But it is not likely that these two men will fight un til after the Slavin-McAnliffe case is tried. If the two latter are found guiltv there will be no fight at all. Pbin gle. 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This Council selects a Chairman from its numbers, who thus be comes President of the Republic and assnmes a Cabinet portfolio. -usually that of foreign affairs. He is clothed with no powers of appointment to otnee; his co-members of tie Cabinet, even to the Judges of the Supreme Court, are all elected. He can serve but single year; hence his time and 'alents, instead of being devoted' to filling offices and iieeking a re-election, are given to the services of his country. He is helped in his efforts for pure and economical government by a corpse of trained statesmen. THE C.TVTI. SEKVICE. The country possesses firmly established, long-tried and perfectly satisfactory civil service system. Wo inducement could lead the patriotic Swiss to go back to the prac tice of turning tbe offices of the Govern ment over to a horde of "practical politi cians," to be corruptly dealt out to their followers and associates. In fact, tho term "politician" is scarcely known, or, if known, only spoken of with contempt and disgust. Political "boss lsm" would be a diadly calling there. Men are trained to fill all minor offices and are promoted to high posts only on proven merit. The system has proved wonderfully econom ical for the Government, and better and fit ter public servants than formerly are found iu all places of trust and honor. Civil service in Switzerland has not caused the people to lose interest in the government or the welfare of the conntry. On the contrary, they are proud of the high excellence of their officials, and look with contentment upon a system that assures the people public economy and the State honor. SMALL SAIiABIES AND FUBITY. The salaries of all officers are small, so that public officials do not and cannot as Bume tbe style and extravagance so unbe coming to a people's government, or an of ficial extravagance that only comes, as a rule, with high salaries, short terms of of fice, aud consequent temptations to be cor rupt. A dishonest official cannot clear his skirts there by renigning and going back to work in his political party till his crime is forgotten. One dishonest act aud he will never hold office ayain. "By their fruits ye shall know them." Switzerland is a republic like our own a Government of the people by the people yet its system of civil service has not only saved millions of money, it has increased the patriotism of its citizens and brought honor on tbe country. Almost the first difficulty that besets a people trying to govern for themselves is the question of revenue. 'Where is the money to come from? Taxes, the bugbear of all nations, also puzzle the Swiss. The method of raising them in some of the cantons is alike interesting and novel, THE EICH JAY THE TAXES. No official assessment is made on property. Blanks are distributed to every house, to be filled in by its occupants. The system is known as "the "progressive" tax scale. A, who owns $-4,000 worth ol property. SUITS. w Don't imagine that because we have confined ourselves, for want bf space, to the quotation of the low price and medium grades, that no fine goods among the stock we now offer you. On the contrary, there are"sQme hundreds of the finest garments- you ever laid The prices in the higher grades are the same in proportion as those we quote for the cheaper garments. SUNDAY, NQTEMBER' pays taxes only on halt of it; B, who owns $25,000 worth, pays taxes on eight tenths of it; while C, with his $100,000 worth of property, pays taxes on the whole. The result is that C pays, not the proportional 25 times tbe amount of A's taxes, but GO times as mncb. The income tax is managed after a similar fashion. The rich pay out of all-proportion to the poorer classes. They probably would not change places with the poor, however, even to save what they decry as unjust tax ation. The plan is not always a popular one. Leaving every man to assess himself has tbe disadvantage that the rich, with stocks and bonds, sometimes do not make return of them. "When a rich Swiss dies, however, the Government control of bis estate quickly makes amends for all .his past misdeeds in the way of assessments, and every penny of taxes held back is now deducted, together with compound interest and fines. Report of Patents. Higdon & Higdon, patent lawyers (Wash ington Associate, Ex. U. S. Patent Office, 12 years), 127 Fourth avenue, Pittsburg, re port the following: Henry Aiken, mill ap pliances (four patents); Cleaver & Fassold, regulator for dynamos; A. Denke, rotary engine; Joseph Forsythe, rotary steam en gine; Aug. Haller, salt-evaporating tank; W. H. 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II COMFORTS M DEBTS i Become doubly apparent.with each chill blast that makes the streets deserted and drives us closer to our hearths and firesides. PRIDE IN OUR HOMES Should be a feeling predominant in the breast of every man, woman and child in thU blessed, glorious Land of Liberty. Let the cost be what it may, stint yourselves of un necessary pleasures, and put that money where it will do the most good. PICKERINGS Will aid yon In this laudabla ambition, and, by doing so, benefit themselves in establish ing their name even more firmly in your memories than heretofore. f OUR PHOUD BOAST" Is ind always has been that, notwithstanding that we place 'all lines of HOTJSE FTJENISHING GOODS, viz., FUENITTJEE, CABPETS, STOVES. ETC., in our house at your disposal, and privilege of buying, if you deem it prudent, oa EASY TIME PAYMENTS, We charge yon not ONE CENT more than strictly cash concerns, and the public is be coming gradually aware of that undeniable fact. The increased patronage of our numer ous friends attests the success ot our HONOBABLE METHODS. I'j FURNITURE- vite a rigid examination of designs, finish, and last, bat sot least, our unapproachable prices. IN PPDDUTC "Would say that we have earned the claim of Leaders. Goods 111 uMlii C I O" unequaled in style, quality, quantity and stunning low prices. Kotariu advance, cent in them for you. Embrace the opportunity. herculean efforts in all grades. LADIES' CLOAKS- are cognizant of the fact that they must go, hence we make it snow. PICKERINGS never hold over stock. It's like buying gold dollars for SO cents. COMFORTS AND BLANKETS---K need of them. Splendid goods for the money. Like all our other varied departments, the largest assortment in the Gas City. We are certainly capturing the business in this line. CASH OR CREDIT- tne entire nouseuoia, irom tne neaa ol tus uuuuy uj the lovely babies in tbe crib, happy and contented. It is a glorious thing to gain a victory, politically or on the field of battle, with flying colors, but it is far more meritorious, and better still for the humanrace, to achieve a victory by more peaceable methods, such as is tamed by PICKERINGS in their per sistent fisfht to annihilate high prices. Fathers, mother, sisfers, brothers and sweethearts will attest that we have accomplished this much desired feat, hence the great rush at PICKERINGS' Corner Penn Avenue and Tenth Street All our bonds in circulation are good for $1 in payment of bilU-aggregating ?10 or over. P. S. Stores open on Saturdays until CHILDREN'S OF Our Price. Satinets that you will find are selling to-day in many stores 95c at Si 50, A nobby line of Cassimeres, in Plaids and Checks, which Ql 7j ought to fetch $2 50, v In Blue Chinchillas, see the Coats we can now show you at 2.50 $2 50. They ought to bring $4. v ' - All-wool Stripes and Plaids in Cassimeres and Cheviots, with and without Capes. They would sell at $6 if we Q 00 so marked them, ' V- CHILDREN'S SUITS. Our Price. Aline of Cassimeres in Plaids and Stripes, that we might 1 '50 with justice ask $2 50 for, ' v Fancy Mixtures in Cheviots, Cassimeres and Tweeds, regu- g9 50 lar $3 50 goods, v " . Single and Double-breasted Meltons in assorted colors-, QQ 50 black, blue and brown, ought to be $5, y"' Elegant Pleated and Plain Cassimeres and Cheviots, in rich, 5 00 fancy patterns, worth $j, v Black Worsteds, in Narrow and Wide Wale, also beautiful designs in Cheviots and Cassimeres, single g QQ and double-breasted, ought to sell for S8 and even $9, V . We have the largest and most attractive line ever brought to this city, embracing car loads of Parlor, Chamber, Dininc "Room and Kitchen outfits. Would cordially in xne coous speac tor memseives. -sj per We can doable discount all former -BSecond large invoice to hand. Plush Coats, Newmar kets, Sacques, everything in the line, at sweeping mid season slaughter prices. The season is fully on, and wa Eemembfr our motto, CASH OE CREDIT, and that, ty patronizing us, a small cash outlay will make iOTH STORES, 10 7. IT., union hours. no9 OVERCOATS. there are eyes upon. VI nl
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