Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-02-05
DUNLAP WILL BE A SENATOR.
How the Washington Base BAN Club
Getting Ecndy for Business.

Oett1ng Ready Tor BUSINESS.
Manager Sam Trott and Director Scanlon are
holding daily conferences at base ball head
quarters for the purpose of organizing the new
National team, and they are making very en-
couraging Roadway. tits probable that Second
Baseman Dunlap viii sign National contract
within twenty-four hours. as he has come up TO
the terms offered him by the local magnates and
is willing to wear the Senatorial uniform.
Negotiations for the rest Of the team are being
pushed with vigor. and there is no doubt that
every place will be filed by the Ist of March
with good ard efficient ball tossers.
THE EXHIBITION SEASON
will be opened on about the 9th of March and
VIII continue for about eighteen or twenty
days. Plans are now being laid for a series OF
games with some strong teams beginning with
college mines and developing to the stronger
aggregations of the other associations as the
home team begins 10 develop itself The regu-
lar season, for which the schedule has not yet
been arranged, will most likely open on the
18th OF April with either Philadelphia or Bos-
ton on the home grounds.
The bids for the work on the new park will
be opened tomorrow or Saturday, and work
will be begun about next Monday on the grand
stand. 1t Is designed to erect a three sided
structure to scat between twelve and fifteen
hundred people. 1t will not be as high from
the ground as that at Atlantic Park. and will
afford less room underneath for lockers, Offices,
&c, but as there is not the same crampinS for
land at the new park it will not be necessary to
utilize the stand for these purposes. The front,
straight section of the stand. is TO be 100 feet
long, and each wing, which will take an angle
OF about thirty degrees, so feet. There will
also be two open stands or bleachcrs sufficient
to run the seating capacity of the grounds up
to 5000, which will exceed tie figure ever at
tanned by any ball grounds ever established in
this city.
AT THE FEW PARK.
Owing to the amplitude of the park. which
contains much more room than is really needed,
the stands will not be next to the fences on any
side and there will be plenty of space all around
for the hitcLing of horses and for other puE-
poses. 4 change has been decided upon in the
arrangement of the diamond, SO that the bat
ting will be done from the west to the east. and
the grand stand will be built with its back
square to the west. The bleachers will run of
from il at slight angle. That on the south
Will seat the great bulk of the outside specta-
tors. The seats are to be made as comfortable
as any uncushioned bench can be and will be
twelve inches wide each. with q tread o. an
equal space and aisles running from top to bot
tom every thirty fee. or so.
There will be no difficulty in getting this work
all done by the first of April, and it is very
likely that il will be all done by the opening of
the exhibition season, so that spectators to
these early games will not be annoyed by the
progress of the work around them.
Secretary Young Of the board of control an
nounces that the board will meet for the pur-
pose of organization in Chicago on the 18th in
slant.