Morning journal and courier., 1890-09-11
THE BASEBALL OUTLOOK.
Both Local and National-Possibi
 ties of the Future-The Present LO.

Both Local and National-POssibili-
 ties of the Future-The Present LO-
 cal Team to Remain Intact.
 There will be no change in the make up of the New Haven team for the balance of the season, unless an opportunity should pre- sent itself of selling the releases of one or more players. Should such a contingency not arise the end of the season will find the same players upon the team that are there to-day. No more releases will be made in order to reduce expenses Very few re- leases have been made in the club this sea son; fewer, in fact, than in any club in the country. The attendance at the games would warrant the management in releasing all the players, but this they have wisely decided not to do, but will reserve the remainder of the players on the team and endeavor to be-
 come members of the American associa- tion next season. The club will undoubt- edly lose money this season, but no inten- tion of giving up has been expressed, and | next season will find the club doing busi- l ness at the same stand, though it. is hoped l that it will be classed in a little faster | company. The small attendance at the games does not initiate against New Ha- | ven as a good ball town This city is one of the best ball cities of it's size in the country. The lack of interest
 and small attendance is due solely to the collapse of the Atlantic association Had Baltimore, Hartford, Worcester and | Jersey City remained in the race the inter est in the game would have been unabated | and the attendance at the games undimin- 1 ished Had Baltimore alone remained the | result would have been different and the
 interest kept up.
 As to the prospects for next season the
 situation is this: The New Haven club at
 the present time is about in the same boat
 as it was at this time last season, and it is difficult to predict what it's future will be.
 The American association is, as it has al | ways been, feeding ground for the Ma
 tional league, and is now schooling players for the Brotherhood also. These leagues | will have the call in case St. Louis and
 Louisville desert the Association and the
 Athletics are driven to the wall by the l competition now existing in Philadelphia. | In case these three clubs are out of it the
 Association will be in g position to consider l just such cities as New Haven, and New
 Haven will very likely be in position to
 consider any proposition that may come
 from the Association.
 The existence of the smaller leagues has
 been very precarious this season. Out of
 the large number that commenced the sea- ! son but two remain, viz, the Atlantic
 association and the Western league All | others have been compelled to go to the wall on account of lack of patronage or 1 some other cause. The interest this sea- | son has been divided, and the Brotherhood | movement has been the sole cause of the
 position in which the national game finds itself to-day. The days of discipline are practically done away with. No manager
 feels sure whether his players will remain
 with him or jump into the Brotherhood.
 The Players league have certainly done
 the game an injury from the effects of which it will take from three to five years to recover The outlook for nextseason is | at present very uncertain. It is, however, 1 probable that while the National and Players league will never affiliate,
 some action will be taken next season to avoid conflicting dates, etc., and thus af- | ford a living for both organizations. It is also probable that some sort of national agreement will be entered into between the two leagues, and in this way the game
 once more placed upon secure founda- tion. It is not likely that the two major
 leagues will conflict in more than four cit ies next season, the probable circuits of
 the two organizations being something like | this:
 National league-Boston, New York,
 Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Chi | cago, Cincinnati and Cleveland.
 Players league-Boston, New York, I Philadelphia, Baltimore, St. Louis, Louis
 vile, Chicago and Columbus.
 This arrangement would leave the
 American association with four vacancies
 to fill and it is more than probable that
 New Haven would be one of the first
 cities chosen to complete it's eight club
 circuit The present New Haven team has
 several players upon it's pay roll who are
 strong enough for the American
 association, and the team, with judicious
 strengthening in one or two positions, l would be fully able to hold it's own in the
 race. The local team has been playing
 good ball. but the American association is
 stronger than the Atlantic, as is demon
 strated by the fact that Baltimore is con-
 tinually strengthening her team in order
 to successfully cope with the other teams | in that organization.