, 1889-04-18

w. went iuto tnr Had,r with every man all
! right. snd in less time than 10 takes TO tell
it three OF my best men were crippled
That waS luck. and | tell you luck wins
games sometimes"
",s there much money invested In the
Ramt?" The manager took bis cigar from
his mouth as hr repeated this qurstion
"Well. | should say there vas. There is
q big amount Of money invested IN It..
Three millions? Well. yes; I should gay
more Of course IL is hard TO get ct the
amount OF money invested 10 baseball.
You see, most OF tho clubs lease their
grounds, and their capital Ia hard TO rsti.
mate. Boston probably has greater
amount Of capital invested than any other
club, for u owns its own gSovnds and has
costly grand stand The philadelphia
would cost the New York club couple OF
million dollars 10 buy The ate Of its present
| grounds, and then IL c0uldnt, for the
streets are 20 be cut through IL eventually.
10 the matter Of expenses, however. the
New York club leads. II coats about $780,
600 per yexr TO ruu the New York club,
which believe ia moro than Il costs to
msin,sin any other, but lknow, OF course,
the Boston club has spent = good deal OF
money In the last twc gears In bu.ing
Bepnet, aud the others, which may run
their expenses up pretty high. But ]
think that the expenses OF the New York
team are greater than those OF any other"
NEW YORK LEADS
What is the best baseball city 40 far as
attendance on games 10 concerned ?''
"Wpil. I think New York leads here,
too. But Boston " q great baseball CITY,
and no mistake. The record for attend
ance ut single game II 10000 That WAS
in New York. Well, Boston has come
very close to that. Chicago IL u great
baseball city IA we'll. These three cities
are IN. brst, with Philadelphia coming
next. for the reason that 10 IL u twenty-five
cent city. and not because It, doesn't take
in baseball The rest come after. ln New
York the attendance upon baseball games
range frou, EIGHT thousand on ordinary
days to fifteen thousand or more on holi-
days. II depends u good deal on the teams
that are playing
"How ARE the changes 10 the rules and
the system of classi6catiOns going to
workp"
II h,lieve they will work we'll. Moving
the pitchers box back and reducing the
number OF balls upon which batter may
take his base will, think. improve the
batting, and reduce the power OF the
pitcher. AS for the matter Of classihca
tion, IL will not affect the players nov
signed with teams, but only new men.
They will be graded and paid according
to their grading Men like Ewing. Mike
Kelly, Ksefe, Wplch, and men of their
class ure not effected by it. The plan WAS
adopted for the benefit OF weak clubs that
could not afford to pay star players. You
see soue players. az soon as they made d
home run OF u good a.d play would ex-
pect their clubs TO raise their pay the next
Un nk.n h.r
this might do. But as matter OF fact
only four or Eve clubs made money last
year The Bostons made n'on"y, so did
the Chicagos. 40 did the Philad-lphians,
believe, and" concluded the rAana ger,
1.-The New Yorks made little, but | have
my doubts about the rest.
HUNDREDS OF AMATEUR CLUBS.
The scribe disclained any knowledge of
tue number, aud, after the baseball mag.
nate had taken another pull ut his cigar,
he went on;
The wood, are full OF baseball players
There are 507 amateur clubs in Pbiladrl.
phia that W.. have Al list OF, and don't
know how many taer- may b. besides. !
am getting no the lists, hut they are not
complete. However, it il safe to say that
there are several thousand clubs
IF the kind in the country;
lntn take tue pToirSHHHai anu
r. s-mi-proiessional clubs in the National
League. the American Association. the Ia
tprna' iOnal L.avups, the Northeastern
league, the Southern League and others.
Why there must hp 600 or 200 of them.
FROM this you can understand why capl-
mlists invest in baseball clubs
lt's the great American game
said the manager. land it's getting
crater all the time" Mr. Mutrie DE-
clned to discuss the relative chances OF
clubs other than the New York nine for
the pennant. Other baseball men in New
York seem TO share Manager Mutrie's
opinion to a large extent A canvass
among q number Of those who claim To
know something about the national game
brought n variety of views. but conseu'
sus of them all may be interesting. 1T u
majority of those knowing are any thing
like right. the standing OF the clubs in the
National League at the end of the season
will be something like the list published
below:
This list may look different 10 October:
l. New York.
2 Boston.
3. Chicago.
4. PittsburR.
S. PHILADELPHIA.
6. Indianapolis.
Cleveland und Washineton-no choice.
1t is easy to make up lists about this
time. but it will be- interesting to see just
how far away from the right thing this
particular list will be in the latter part of
next October Mail aud Express
Indian Farmers.
One day this week we noticed two In.
dian farmers carrying home agricultural
implements under disadvantages that u
white mao would think difficult One was
mounted on pony and had plow tied to
himself. and another was mixed up with