Statement by Brown.

Concerning the mutiny, President Brown made the following statement to the public last night:

“On Wednesday of this week I found it necessary to discipline Jules Pappa for insubordination and failure to give his best efforts to the club. At the start of the game I merely relieved Pappa from playing by placing Colwell in right field. About the sixth inning, within my hearing and to all players on the club who were then on the bench, our side being at bat and with our team ahead at the time, Pappa announced that if the Vancouver team won the game which was being played the Victoria players would be handed their released by President Kingham who even then had made out the releases awaiting the outcome of the game. As any manager of a club could not permit such an insinuation against a club putting forth its best effort to win, I fined Pappa and suspended him indefinitely.

Recourse to Board.

            “Yesterday afternoon, when the players arrived at the park to dress for the game, the players who mutinied sent Captain Brinker for me. The players in question then put it up to me that I would either have to remit the fine on Pappa or raise his suspension or they would refuse to play. I told them that Pappa had recourse to the president of the Northwestern League and to the national board and if I had made a mistake I would be held responsible. Further, I told them that they had the evidence of thirteen players against one, and as to disciplining players there could be no interference from the players. With that players Wutell, Ruether, Kramer, Moore, Coleman, Barham and Gislason left the grounds, while players Brottem, Cheek, McCarl, Colwell, Brinker and Brand remained loyal to the club and were ready to play. Not having nine men to fill the positions, the game accordingly had to be postponed.

            “I have made arrangements for outfielders Emil Frisk and Reed, who was with the Victoria team early in the present season, and infielder Roy Brown, to report here on Saturday morning, and the game announced to take place at 1:20 o’clock will be played according to former announcements.

            “I can only ask the fans to bear with me for a few days until I can get into touch with players, and I can assure them that we will make every effort to give them as good a team as we have in the past, without sacrificing our principles or lowering the standard of baseball.”

Blewett Coming.

            President Blewett, of the Northwestern League, who was in Victoria yesterday and who succeeded in securing sufficient backing to ensure that club finishing out the season for that city, will reach Vancouver this morning to tackle the latest sensation. It is all but a certainty that the players who walked out on Brown will be immediately suspended, and that they will likely be blackballed by the national board from further participation in organized ball when the facts of the case are brought to the notice of that body.