Morning journal and courier., 1889-02-02
EASE BALL NEW HAVEN.

rTauaSers Powers and Rurnham 10 be | Here About monday-A Ffrst-Class | Manager Who Stands High tn Base | Ball Circles Desires to Come Here Estimated Income and Expenses Tor | Tean-Are We to Let Hartford out do Us7 |
 The base ball question continues to pc | talked about in this city, but, as is perfectly | natural at this time, there is no one to take l the lead in forming team. Managers Powers and Burnham will be here about Monday or Tuesday. If these 6rst-elass managers can't awaken enough enthusiasm to have New Haven join the Atlantic league then the Elm City might as well be ostracised from the rest of the civilized world. The league that is proposed is the best minor one that has ever been formed in the history of base ball. It will include two cities in each Maesachu setts, Connecticut, New Jersey and Penn sylvania In such league as this team could be made to pay, even if no money was made. It has been definitely settled that Connecticut State league cannot live. New Haven has good chance now. A | frst-class manager, who is intimately cons nected with Managers Powers and Burnham and President Day of New York, desires to | come to New Haven. He resides in New England, and last season managed team in l the New England league which came out 1 very near the top. AS this league is 10 more he has several players reserved, all l frst-class ones, who are well known to all l New Haven sporting men. The Eame of the manager is known to the COURIER. New Haven should act soon, or he may go to Hartford. He had much rather, however, | come to this city.
 Lowell, Worcester, Wilkesbarre, Reading and Harrisburg all have a smaller popula- %hor1 hov Vat named will belong to the league. Wilkes barre has the smallest population, and they are agitating communication books for this season, which will keep the team alive. The Leader furnishes the scheme, and the CoUR TER makes the same applicable to New Ha-
 ven.
 Mileage books for railroads.
 l Why not communication books for base ball! 1 A new idea? That does not condemn 1t.
 Base ball itself was once new idea. | By communication book is meant one that shall cover all the games scheduled for ! Wiikesbarre during the season, admitting
 the buyer, or whoever he might send, not
 only to the grounds, but to the grand stand l as we'll These to be sold at $20 each, and
 New Haven, Milford, Birmingham, Ansonia, ! Wallingford, Orange, North Haven, Derby,
 Seymour, Guilford and all the neighborine I localities to be canvassed for their sale. Let
 the issue, say, be 1000. This, if all sold 1 means an income of $20, ,000, enough to give ! the club plenty of money to carry the busl.
 ness through, to put in the field and maintain | a irst-class team, one that could hold its OWL
 with any organization in the country, besides giving 8 large number of people an opportu , nifty of witnessing good base ball and lots oi . it at 8 comparatively small sum.
 | There will be about ninety games of bal
 scheduled here during the coming season. l communication book such as this article sug
 gests will admit to them all, grand stand ! E-:J led hnT1t , cents game. Under the old plan, 25 cents for admission to the grounds and 25 cents te | grand stand, these games cost the attendant
 $45, or 50 cents game.
 What is the matter with the communication book plan? It is good for the people-good
 for base ball. Some may object that they , cannot pay $20 in a lump for base bali
 They need not do so. Let it be stipulated 1T .. the book that $5 be paid upon delivery of the
 book and the balance in $5 installments, say l on the 18th of each month; that if the bal
 ance be not promptly paid the holder of the l book shall be denied admission from the
 time the deficiencies accrue until they be | paid up.
 It would work like charm, wouldn't it l No trouble in placing 8 thousand books
 couldn't be. There is large population to
 draw from; the scheme is new and would take.
 This system would also cast the burden o1 the support of club upon the shoulders oi
 the many instead of the few, every stock.
 holder being a season contributor, and would l insure a large attendance at each game ! which would greatly encourage the players and consequently give us better ball. IT
 every way it would prove beneficial and 1T no wise detrimental.
 Financially the scheme would work, talk. ing the International association's salary linn it, about as follows:
 INCOME
 One thousand books at $20 each .......... $40, ,00 |, during the season ..".. ......,.. .... 800;