Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-27
THE LEAGUE SCHEDULE
To Be Prepared Regardless Of Anything
the Players League NAV Do-The
New Organization to Be IG.
nored By the Older One.

| ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE D1SPATCH.1
BOSTON, January 26-President Soden, OF
| the Boston League Club. who is on the Sche'
dule Committee of the National League, said
to-day that at its meeting this week, the COM
| mittee would not guide its action with any ref
erence to the schedule of the Players League.
| This year." said he, according to our usual
| custom, the eastern clubs will go West before
| the western clubs come East. l under
stand that the Players League reverse this or
| der, in which case the number of conflicting
dates will be greatly lessened, but if every date
conhicted with theirs, we should go ahead and
90 what we considered was for our best in
| terests. We shall ignore the Players League
! completely in arranging the National League
| schedule. In Boston we shall certainly con-
| flict with the players on Decoration Day, Bunk
| er Hill Day and Labor Day, and we shall en-
| deavor to have scheduled to us on those days
teams that will attract as much patronage as
| those of the other side.
Il thought that when we purchased the re-
| lease of the Detroit quartet, a year ago, that
| for time at least we would not be compelled
| to do any more in that line. There was just
| one more man that we wanted, and would have
| paid well to get him, but the price asked for
his release was more than we were willing to
give; but of all of last years team that remain
with us-in spite of the fact that we went
to an almost incredible expense to get it
together, that we paid them very liberal sala-
ries and used them in a way that not one OF
them had occasion to find fault with-are
ClarkSon, Camel and Smith. do not say this
in spirit of complaint. The men who have
deserted us have acted against their own best
interests as they will learn sooner or later. and
they must take the consequences. mention
this simply to show that our hopes that we
would not be compelled to make any more pur-
chases of the release of players were but
dream, and we have had to do the whole work
over again.
I'VE have done this ungrudgingly because
our experience has taught us that the Boston
public demands good baseball, and is willing to
pay for it, and that demand we are bound to
accede to. We have already secured team
that is the superior in every respect to the one
last year, except perhaps, in batting, and in
that respect the new team is but little, if any.
behind the old one. The men are mainly young
players who have made brilliant successes
in the organizations from which they come
They do not come here with the regulations of
stars, such as most of the men of 1889 did, but
they are young, active, ambitious players who
fully realize that they have the opportunity
they have long sought for, of making reputa-
ton in the National League, but have been I'M
able to do so because the stars have stood in the
way, and can be depended on to do their very
best to make good the places left vacant by the
men who have gone from us, and at the same
time come up to the fullest expectations of the
publicn