New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-02-19
TO PLAY BALL IN ENGLAND
WOULD John BULL PAT WELL TO Mn TT
MANAGERS REACHING OUT FOR PASTURES NEW
PROSPECTS OF AMATEUR CLUBS

PROSPECTS OF AMATEUR OLoD~
~. Metropolitan Exhibition Company q last rec-
ognzes that It owes something W .o0 Psos
-,,,sas N nay the debt The striking feature OF
sh,. cor,arv Is the NewYork Baseball Ciuo' ana the
urs,r,,v feature OF the company IS tho htue pioe
cs ground Just north Of Central fsrA o" ~h'on 'ne
above mentioned striking feature plays ossco@iI
T,a. ara so,,e no pie tho city who do not believe
N. New Yora nlne knows how to play baseball Those
~ nave watched tho painful efforts Of tho club to
v,n on, honorable p sition In the League champion
.hr roce for the two or three years are fully
c,,sel.,s THAT n the team knows much about base-
ran i,,ss,c It has cunningly kept such knowledge
from TIE general public The directors promise bet;
playlns, but also more inviting grounds Whether
En-, es ssu psI next octobeT viii tell A''
A magic wand. or rather paint brush. is to b
tales his leave, and remarkable change Will occur
yellow paint viii be smeared all over the grand stand
aud more artistic finish with a pot OF bruwn
pant viii follow close after to touch up the outer
edges ,-.-,,,.,v nor
aousenss in arranging the players IN their positions
this year. Past service and records will MAKE no
difference with the hard hea tied manager some ,hc
OF tho young players do better TX during t tho
early srr!ng gaines than the old PLAYERS then ,nS
relies will I've sb~lvcd make room for young ana
more useful bio d. II this rule IS strictly adherod TO-
next fall
Ar n moct,nq of the Nassau Athletic Club on We'd
pesday IL was decided to put strong baseball nne
In the field as could be p issibly secured o'fiynn
will manage the nine and promises 10 have gooaiy
lot Of amateurs gathered by the time 1t Is warm enough
to play baseball 1t originally intended to have
the Amateur League composed Of eight clubs, but 1t
is moro than probable now that but six will enter
The old list emIr aced the NawYork Manhattan, Staten
Island Bergen Point, Brooklyn and Nassau athletic
clubs and the Rivngton and Young America clubs OF
Philadelphia The latter two. however will probably
no, be asked to join. Six strong clubs could DO put
In the field 10y tho local and suburban athletic clubs,
and the race for tho amateur pennsnt would be cx
citing Said a member of the Nassau club yesterday
The League VIII be run on dlefen, us sca Rsr ,@s
Pon, clubs took all tie gnms and so m, mor,1sa
s and ey de e5s apa the
slg9e This year II there are any plnms, esch c mn
except rs pitching and catching department good
pitcher and catcher are wanted but not nigh Rroeeu
wholly amateur"
Although IT has not been fully arranged as yet 1t
Is highly probable that strong baseball clubs Will
invade England after the coming season has been fin
ished in this country. The st. Louis club will be
one aud probably the New Yorh club will be tho
other. If by any chance these two teams should win
tho pennsn In their respective leagues the trip will
certainly be made. Won der Ahc, the owner OF tho
ST. Louis club has just returned from Europe, and he
unusually enthusiastic the scheme lie says
that such tour ought to be financial success but
that If it should prove failure he is willing to lose
5000 John b. Day, the loading stoc khoder in the
New-York club looks with favor on tho plan, but no
may be 50 Disguised with his Giants before the
ends that he would rather send them to warmer
climate Euglshmen have seen Buffalo BIZ and his
cowboys and John L. sullivan md his big knJckles
The have paid heavily from Ihelr purses i9r ame
privilege. They may take sufficient interest IN our
national game TO patronze the travelling baseball
musols enough to prevent the managers rom lCs,hg
much money. 1t is also probab!s that a paseoah
team NAV be taken to Australia The natives OF an
ada Mexico and the West Indies now howl In unison
baseball with tho Quilted states. Why Shonld not
England, scotland aud Ireland Join In the chorus
Speaking of the project recalls to mind former
trip to England made by the Boston and Athletic clubs
Just fouIteen years ago The teams left Phfa-
delphla In July 1874, with their pockets bullying
out with money They returned IN September with
empty pockets but wei crammed heads Fourteen
games were played the other side, the Boston club
winning eight aud the Athletics SIX games. After the
two teams arrived i'm England and IT was found that
baseball was an unknown quantity there, the Ameri-
cans logan play cricket eighteen Americans against
the regular English elevens. In this way the base
ball players defeated nearly all tho famous cricket
teams pa Uth0r 9io. egaudfng, AnsOn, Harry"
and George Wright belonged to those teams at that
time The crowds at the baseball games were 50
small that at contest only one spectator was pros
ont This is probably the smallest attendance al any
professional baseball game but one, alC sDguarly
enough that one game was played IN this country;
The contest took place Troy several years ago, and
was between the Then Troy League and Chicago clubs.
I, had raiued AL day and few supposed the game
the Grounds The Chicago club In the lead for
the pennant, and insisted upon the game being played
Before the game was started two OF the PLAYERS went
the box Office and getting tho % cents cav" " TO
the spectator and Insisted upon his leaving the grounds
The match consequently played without spec-
tatOr being present.
Christ der Abe the happy German owner OF
the ST. Louis club has been spending some baseball
dividends In seeing England France and Germany this
winter He returned last week Won dci Abe saw
many things the other side that astOnshed him,
and he says the he the more he felt like
yelling - Rah for American He saw the other
American products, John L. Sullivan and Buffalo Bill,
while there, and says both Of those curositles are
making money Won der Abe, who is pugnacious
when angry, says he especially astounded at the
manner in which many people on the other side will
bear insult rcscnting 1t. He they talk
loudly when angry, but that they do not fight much
The German manager went into a London cafe ono
night and taking a seat at table began to drink IN
the music and little lager beer. One OF Buffalo
Bits cowboys soon after In and did likewise
The fantastic costume Of the cowboy aroused the
amusement of of the spectators and several be
gan guy" him Tho cowboy stood II as long as he
could, ard then went and struck heavily built
Enelishman sounding whack in the face Tho cow
boy arrested aud put under 10000 bonds
Buffalo B!ll got his friends to inercede with justice
and the cowboy released. but only on condition
that he should leave the country at once