New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-29
MAKING UP THE SCHEDULE.
TO AVOID CONF. Ct,sG FALL GAMES.
MANAGERS PUTTING THEIR HEADS rooErHGp-BKr.

JUDGMENT AND MJRE HARMDsY,
peonIe who tahe an interest IN baseball hercabout
ara wandering whether the old spnt % lcalonsy
bigotry and hostility, usually rampant among tho
managers, will crop again this year. The managers
are now engaged in arranging playing schedules for
the championship season, which begins in April. 10
Is to the interest of all the League and Association
clubs have few conflicting games in New-York
and Philadelphia as possible Such games not only
lessen tho dividends Of the New-York, Brooklyn. Phil.
adelpha and Athletic clubs, but also the gate receipts
OF every club In the League and Association The
baseball managers claim that they arc working in
harmony together, they at last perceive that tbs
interests Of the interests OF all The formal
publication schedules in March will show whether
| the rulers of the clubs arc In earnest or not.
| Both tho League and Association will have 20 con-
| cede points in the interest OF harmony. In former
years the League believing that their organization
the oldest and most formidable, dlsdaIned to
listen or arDitrae with their younger Association
rival The League men probably think that . tsef
they nS ever r but more friendly ,e "sssSer pre-
harness. That seems TO be the most sensible course
TO close observer, although the reverse condition OF
has already held preliminary meeting in PsbSrs
and agreed psns siaod sT s s eSsnse
viii probably be made in it before IT IS formally
adopted. Tits schedule which was arranged BY Man:
Championship season open April 2o and to end on
September 10
The veteran manager Harry" Wright thought fhas
the games should closer together, so that ths
Guardianship season would have terminated hf-
teen DAYS earlier The other members Thoughts
differently and the majority secuted the Idea Oh .ns
veteran. Each club will play 1915 CHAMPIONSHIP
games, sixty-three on homo grounds ana hHe num-
Der away nom home. This Is the same az isst yoa,'
The League and Association committees have areauy
had an informal conference and each now says thas
conflicting dates will be few and far between Man
aper Wright held conference with c. A. Byrne, OF me
Brooklyn club. Friday and the ,Hsgne % dna
the pros pective Association schedule were InIy usr
| cussed The Brooklyn club cannot afford to nave
Ssn gaTed on az he Poo Tie
the Brookyn Club in the coming season VIII roo 20
financial showing # must have as apSs Cub IS as
appear to be so anxious as the Brooklyn managers
ii viii probably be impossible to avoid Some con-
at the outside. The Association clubs will play lao
| games, the first occurring on April lo.
! There IS somc uneasiness among the baseball hghv
OF Kansas City over the Cowboys resurrected CLUB
At present there are two clubs located In that hiiy
city and tho general opinion seems to be that one OF
them will have to succumb Tic town Is fonrishlng
one but the citizens hardly have baseball enthusiasm
enough to support two clubs. The Western League
club seems to be the weaker and Will probably go TO
the wall The other Western League clubs are already
aware Of the case and becoming anxious about
their brother One of the regulations OF THIS
| minor league Is that each of its Clubs must lie
guarantee OF 81 800 that II Will all It's obligations
a. 94 s6m h the s Of the Kansas city
| club and are bowling fcrocously for that Sl'22uo
now weeh 80 Sa Re that a the of the
clubs will consolidate their interests In the new Ameri.
| can Association club and that the weaker western
League club Will be allowed to die In It's infancy.
While talking about the club of which the COWBOYS
are expected 70 be especially proud deliberate move
ments OF the new invite mention The CLUB has
been formally admitted into the Association Tor SONS
time and yet 1t has manager and virtually no
players. Who the former will be Is more uncertain
than the identity Of the latter. Manager WATKINS Oh
the Detroit Club, has been highly recommended 10
manage the club. but It is hardly probably that no
will, IN spite OF the opposition to watkins by the
Detroit players Club owners do not like the Idea OF
their players debating to them any more than mill
owners want their mers to run their business affairs
for them. The world champion players have been Sc
club may Insist upon their signing under Watkins or
not playing baseball at ALL Under baseball law they
as Il the Drot players will either have to play
the obnoxious manager or go into some less lucrative
but more laborious business.
The New-York Club proposes to adopt different
tactics for the preliminary at the Polo Grounds
this year. Formerly games played in the early spring
hardly interesting enough to make the most en-
th;sastic small boy yell Games with weak SEMI
professional and amateur clubs well enough when
teams Of that cabre play with each other It Is
entirely different when such clubs cross bats with
frstcIass League club This spring the local directors
say they will make every effort to give the followers OF
baseball exciting and evenly contested games
Efforts will be made TO short series OF games
and Cleveland clubs. Preliminary games with thess
mines would whet the baseball appetite for the reg.
ular championship games, which VIII follow In ther
wake The New-York Club Will play two games with
Princeton College and two more with the Yale college
Polo Grounds, as expected for The faculty is s and
opposed 10 contests between their students ana
professionals
The Young Mems Christian Association Of Pitts
burg declares that professional baseball players
shall enjoy the comforts Of their institution. This
does not look like real Christianity. No excuse Is
given except that professionalism is not popnIar in
the order Several Of the more godly players OF the
Ptsburg Club have been casting covetous glances al
the accommodations offered by tho Young Mems Christ.
ian Association gymnasium for some time AS the
, gymnasium offered good opportunities for indoos
exercise several of the players sent In appcatons ior
admission They were surprised when yney a @Erg r IN
Pttsburg and the forty or more professional players
there. at present. arc in quandary how they Will geo
Several of these players havo recently signed tho
pledge and promised to lead better lives and ms
rebuff from the young Christians may have bad ehec'
upon them.
The professional baseball player of to-day and tho
player Of eight are widely different
individuals The largo salaries offered by clubs have
brought many bright young into the business and
the strict rules woven By the club owners against
backguardlsm and drunkenness have driven the dis
reputable portion into other fields There j. many
a Young man, at present wen known a profess
baseball player, who Is an honor TO himself and 10
baseball
DEATH OF CUSTODIAN FLETCHER.
William H. Fletcher custodian OF the Produce Exchange
suffering from hasy consumption and broken
spirit for about six months died At his home In Brooklyn
yesterday He popular tho members and others
with whom contact because Of