New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-10-14
THE LEAGUI EAR CLOSED.
SUCCESS HAS Gro NED THE SEASON.

PIONSHlP PBNNANL
Tho regular championship season of the Nafonai
League closed yesterday and the final games OF the
American Association viii DO played on TUESDAY.
All the minor leagues have already ended their games
for this year, and many Of the junior teams nave
dlsbanded and their players dispersed u 'her
homes. The has been success a. isr ~
increased Interest in the healthy sport is cohcerhod
and Is also far from failure in financial sense
Few Of tho clubs will lose much money, ana upon
Investigation most of the losses will be found In the
Junior leagues Salaries Of all proportion 70 me
size OF the cities where the smaller CLUBS are 10 tho
reason they, whole, have not made money on 'hc
season. The smaller leagues are necessary aoIuacC
to the more powerful organizations and something
should DO done, plan devised to protect these
smaller leagues and keep them Ia tho hoid. Iae
young organizations furnish the playing material
for the older leagues, and training schools are
immensely valuable to both the League ana Amer'
can Association. The OwIicrs OF the smaller ciuDs
could, Of course, save themselves by grazing INC
salaries of their players and In other ways by reduc
ing they running expenses. They wont DO H. now
ever, and continue to pay salaries in some Instances
equal to those paid to players IN such
cities as New-YOrk Boston and Chicago. The pfac-
tce will have to be stopped or most OF the smaier
leagues will disappear within the next year OF TWO
4 convention Of the minor leagues from all over inc
country will be held shortly and the thinking heans
among the managers should devise some scheme ior
ting largo salary for bis services as no can. The
manager, however, who pays moro for such services
than his income will allow is an idiot ana deserves
no pity. by reducing salaries, travelling expenses
and hundreds OF other little exravagances inc minor
leagues put themselves on Just Is sound touhua
ton the larger organizations.
As the League season ended yesterday and the
Giants are the champions, they arc entitled TO the
pennant That coveted trophy will be presented 10
New Yorks great players at the Star Theatre To-
night The local club has been chasing 1t in Wild
goose fashion for the last five years. Now they have
at last got it, and the followers Of the game In this
city are satisfied. To-nights demonstration In their
honor promises TO be unique affair In many ways
About every seat In the house has been SOLD at IRON
81 to 500 each. The total receipts, which VIII
amount to between 80 900 and $4,000, will be equally
distributed between the Eighteen players now under
contract to the club. Tho players owe the testmo-
NAL TO several well known actors, who are great
baseball enthusiasts The entertainment VIII Des'h
about O'Clock. 4 score more actors and ac-
will give short specalties on the stage ana
then the local players, atlred In new evening dress
suits, Will appear and be ittngly honored Con-
gresham Amos J. Cummings will speak and formally
present to the players the trophy they have worked
so hard to win this summer Manager Mufre Will
accept the pennant In behalf OF his green diahohu
warriors. The various cups, watches and other ellS
always showered pennant winners Will also Dc pre-
sented TO the players. III was prUpoStu W
supper after the entertainment. but Manager Mutre
objected so strongly that tho easting part Of the
demonstration was omitted. Mutrie says bis men
still have a fight before them In their coming
series with the ST. Louis club for the championship Oh
the country. They Will delay their Teasing until
after they beaten been beaten by the western
Association champions. In case the worlds pennah'
Is won then feast and street parade VIII be In order
Tho first OF the series Of ten or eleven games be-
,,lar Cd fhn
Grounds on Tuesday, and If the weather Is at all
pleasant an enormous crowd Will undoubtedly be
present 1t was originally intended to play nine
cames one Of that number being contested In Boston,
but the selfish policy OF the management Of the
Boston club caused a change to be made four
games will now be played in New-York, four In
st. Louis and one each in Brooklyn and Philadelphia
In case OF a tic, the eleventh game will be played
on neutral ground, probably Cincinnati That would
make six games Association and five on League
grounds. Kelly and Gaftney will probably DO the
umplres In these games, and each man Is emlnenlly
fitted for tho work They undoubtedly the best
nm pircs in the two organizations. The small differ
ence in salary should stand in the way of selecting
such men. The series of games, as now arranged,
will be follows:
Al Polo Grounds Tuesday. October 10
At Polo Grounds Wednesday. october IL.
At Polo Grounds, Thursday, october H.
At Washington Park, Brooklyn Friday, October ID.
At Polo Grounds, Saturday october 20
At Philadelphia, Monday october %
At st. Louis. Wednesday. October "a
At ST. Louis, Thursday, October 25.
At st. Louis Friday. October 90.
At st. Louis Saturday. october 81.
A. Cincinnati, II necessary, Monday. October %.
The refusal of the New-York club 10 cross bats
with the Brooklyn nine at Washington Park to-
morrow has stirred up regular hornets nest among
the followers of tho game In this city and Brooklyn.
There has long been feeling OF hostility between the
mana cement of the two teams and II is probably
as well that the game will not be played One gamo
would signify nothing anyway, as TO determine the
superiority Of either nine would require a series OF
contests. Manager Mutrie says he could not afford
TO take his strongest team the day before the
worlds championship series is started, and ntimatcs
that he would not give the Brooklyn team the salts
faction of beating his club with an inferior team
In the field. The followers Of the game In Brook
Ign claim that the Giants arc afraid Of the Bride
grooms, but then tlcy would not dare say that on
this side Of the Bridge Then again It might be
dangerous work contradictng the story If an unfor-
tunate Giant admirer should find himself In Brook
Ign. series of games between tho two teams
proposed last spring and ought TO have been played
then. II was not policy for the Brooklyn team TO
play thon and II would not be policy for the New
York team 10 play now. In such game now tho
Giants would have everything 20 oso a.d no,lIns 30
gain President John Is. Day has entered the dis
cusson and says that he is willing to arrange ascres
vita Brohyn 10 DO played next spring before tho
regular championship season begins. Mr.. bay sug
eests that series Of tom five 10 seven games DO
played. The Brooklyn management now has a
chance to show It's sincerity
Father Mccarthy, Senator Eugene f. O'Connor, c.
NJ. Halsey and several other gentlemen occupied
private b0A at one Of the games at Washington Park
Brooklyn, last Tuesday. They deeply interested
In seeing the Brdeglooms knock out the Llevelands
and there were few thoughts of state Church until
Mr. Halsey remarked " Is marriage failurc'7
Then the game was forgotten Tor the moment Father
!. "A ia
o failure, urging that wcdlOck the bulwark OF
society. His opinion Endorsed by al except
Mr. Halscy said he: Marriage Is a failure as |
can prove to your entire saisiac lion ia minute
Look out there al tho BIidcgrons.n Tue smile that
followed was expansive and spread all the upper
part OF the grand stand.
The system Of transferring scheduled games nom
enc city to another Is wrong, and
should be discontinued This practice ha,
usually prevalent among tho American Association
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