St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-05
The SANITY City Gets the
Worst Of the Deal at Des
Moines.
TWenty-One Games to Be
Played in the Capital City
in September.
Morton Doesn't Like the
Schedule, but Proposes to
Play Ball Hard.
Half a Dozen Early Games to
Be Played by the Twin
City Teams.

President Thompson and Manager
Barnes are back from Des Moines and
express themselves as we'll pleased with
the revised schedule. To man up a
tree, however, it looks very much as
though st. Paul had permitted the other
teams to get the choice dates. 1t is of
immense advantage to any club to Sc
cure home dates for early games and to
crowd as many home contests into the
first two months as possible, for at the
opening interest is great in all league
towns and the club which gets big
proportion of home games in the
months of May and June has five times
as good prospects of financial success
as the club which gets its games Jumped
in August and September. st. Paul IS
scheduled to play twenty-one games at
home in eptember-one-third of all
the contests to occur here-while the
other forty-two games are scattered
through all. the other months of the
season. Under the most favorable cir
cumstanceS September games do not
draw one person where those of May
draw ten, but suppose st. Paul comes
home for this last long series somewhere
below third place without any chance
of winning the pennant. They will not
III this case average 200 people to the
game. Manager Hart was kind enough
to say of the old schedules: "If allowed
to stand it will bankrupt the league"
The new one may not bankrupt the
league, but it appears to be pretty cer-
tain to knock the bottom out of the st.
Paul cash box. And, by the way, Des
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twenty games in chill September. Den
yer fares best, as it gets thirty-three
games before the first of July, whereas
st. Paul gets but twenty-one. The Col
oradO team plays but two games in Sep
tember. st. Paul also comes in at the
tail of the procession at the seasons
opening, as it plays its first games with
the Sioux City club, located in the
smallest town in the league. Altogether
the local management was badly treated
at Des Moines, and it will take a COM
bination of good luck, fine playing and
pull on the bank account to get the
team through the season on such a
schedule.
MORTON is HUSTLING.
Manager Morton and Secretary Hoch,
of the Minneapolis base ball team, re-
turned from the schedule meeting at
y
Morton had rested short time he at
once started out to see the property
owners in the vicinity of the new park
to find out their views as to whether the
great national game is nuisance" or
not. ''SOme of the managers" said Mr..
Morton, "wanted to get some of the men
l have engaged, but told them that
the best were none too good for Mime
apolis. My men will all remain. and
we will have good games here this sea-
son. The regular season will open May
H." Morton is not specially pleased
with the schedule. but says he had to
be satisfied with it.
TWIN CITY GAMES.
The st. Paul and Minneapolis teams
will play series of six games for the
championship of the Twin Cities and
the gate receipts before the regular sea-
teams have been summoned to appear
for practice next week. The games
will be played on the following dates:
Saturday, April Is, at Minneapolis;
Sunday, April IA, at st. Paul; Monday,
April 10, at Minneapolis; Tuesday.
April 16, at st. Paul; Wednesday, April
IL, at Minneapolis, and Thursday. April
IS, at st. Paul. The Minneapolis games
will be played on the old ball grounds
in South Minneapolis. Owing to the
fact that the umpire of exhibition
games cannot fine players for offenses,
each of the two clubs will place
S100 in the hands of President Nc
Cormick, of Omaha, from which fund
the umpire of the games will be
authorized to draw, the fines against
the players of each club to be paid into
the treasury Of the opposing club. In
this way the management of the con-
testing mines expect to preserve as good
order during the contests as prevails
during the playing OF league games.
President Mccormick will hold the
money until the games are finished,
after which he will send it to the um-
pire, who will make the division in ac-
cordance with the fines that have been
imposed, and the fines will be taken
out of the first months salary of the
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