New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-03-10
AN OUTBREAK IMMINENT.
THE BASEBALL FEVER WILL SOON Ez
RAGING.

av,,proMs THAT THE COUNTRY WILL HAVE ID
WORSE THAN EvER-PLANs FOR THE SEASON
resore the uresent month the baseball fever VIII
be raging from 70 San Francisco sno nom c'1
to New-orleans Every indication points 70 me moss
successful season the history OF the game Inc i>sns
and Association are wealthy and powerful and stand on
solId foundation The minor leagues are also IN better
condition than usual. The email cluos nave pfsh.eu ~
past seasons mistakes and most OF the teams wan % fu
busaess principles this year. The coming race 0l ~
Intercollegiate championship is also exciting
interest and the followers Of Yae and Harvard ana ms
friends Of the orange and black OF Princeton can or wohs
how their respective teams cah be peaeen. se.
however is the general outside ayorite the CLUBS %
the local amateur league simply waiting FOR staos
weather TO start the ball rolling The number Of amateur
.his city and Brooklyn into the hundfecs
and all making active preparations for the opening "
the The Chicago and Al-America cuos VIII az
rive city from their trip around the world cary ~
april and the reception be given them win also hei7
TO start the season with boom.
Managers players and critics bowling for more
batting said oldt time pitcher to the writer the other
day. That is right, too. We ought 10 have moro
batting Those monotonoas games where the pitcher and
catcher do all the work longer popular People
want 70 see lively batting and fielding aud all nine men
In the field work. IL the pitchers continue 70 mn
prove, outhelderz can be dispensed with Your
managers and crcs keep up the cry for more batting
why don't they do something or suggest some plan
which will result in that reform The managers Know
how to do 1t II they want to, but they DON'T Tney
want club the opposing pitchers but they
don't want their pitchers batted By opposing elubs
Every manager has q plan which VIII penens
his own team and pitchers 10 the disadvantage of
others OF course the others won't aeceps
any such conditions II you 90 TO manager and SUCCESS
a plan to holp batting the first thing he wrsay Is;
wonder how that win affect my pitchers have plan
which VIII affect all clubs ase let the manufacturers
Of the regulation baseballs put better ball the Market
That viii increase batting. Why Of the balls pus
f,a 0oId IL FIR two
ought to DO made to week have dissected many
ball and find the same trouble with all Of them. The
yarn used in many Of them instead Of being fine snd
better ball on the market cry for heavier batting
cease. No, your suggestion put rubber IN
the ball would not do With more rubber the delders
would not be able 10 handle the ball. and oil tho poor
catchers would be simply annhilaed In few months.s
An admission made to the writer few days ago By
two OF the directors OF the Boston club is significant
I'm the of time the natives Of Boston Oh,
that newspaper talk can't believe that know
they ought be forgiven During the last winter
Of Boston papers devoted columns Of space TO the
that Ward going Join the Boston club and
captain the team II dwelt upon at such length that
the followers Of the game in Boston worked 70
fever heat Meeting Messrs. Soden and Billings In the
city the other day. the former asked he had sban
doned hope OF securing Ward ." Why" laughn0ly said
Mr. Soden 1--WE had much hope Of securing Ward,
anyway" Meeting Manager Mutre yesterday the writer
informed that tho Boston club had made
offer for Wards release. Mutrie said that he and
Billings had had informal talk about Ward but that
1t amounted to nothing.