White Will Not Play

White Will Not Play

The "Deacon" Breaks the "Big Four" of the Detroit Ball Club.

Detroit, Mich., March 13.- The "Big Four" of the Detroit baseball team- White, Rowe, Richardson, and Brouthers - is broken. "Deacon" White, the veteran third baseman has finally given his decision on the contract for 1888. It is that he cannot play another game under Manager Watkins, and this means that he has played his last game with Detroit. He says that this decision has been forced upon him by the nagging of the manager, which he alleges was due wholly to personal spite and a desire to freeze him out of the team. The whole trouble is one that dates as far back as a game played at Washington two years ago. In this game White failed to make a move to second base, judging that it wasn't safe, and Watkins thereupon fined him $100. White then threatened to quit the team at once if the fine stood. The fine didn't go and White rapped a three-bagger when the bases were full, winning the game. White claims that since that time Watkins has gone out of the way to be disagreeable.