Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-03-03
NEWBASE BALLPLANS
Delegates to the National League
Meeting Assemble in New York.
CANADIAN ELECTION ESTIMATES.
The Screw Ferry Boat Bergen
Runs Down a Schooner.
STOCKS DULL AND sTAGNANT.
THE BASE BALL LEAGUE.

Delegates Meet to Adopt the schedule-Rec-
ignition Of Contracts.
NEW YORK. March 3.-The delegates to the
National League base ball meeting.we slow in
getting together this morning. Ex-President
Allen ". Thurman of the American Association
arrived early in company with j. Palmer
O'Neill Of Pittsburg. Mr.. Thurman was
in the best of humor. He did not
seem at all disturbed over the manner in which
the association had thrown him overheard
recently. Mr.. Thurman is still president of the
board OF arbitration, and will therefore take no
small part in the councils Of the National
League.
The principal business to be transacted by
the league Is the adoption Of a schedule. The
schedule Committee, consisting OF Messrs.
Byrne Of Brooklyn, Reach of Philadelphia
and Hawley of Cleveland, have prepared
schedule which will be submitted. This
may be finished today. Another point to be de-
cided is whether the league shall countenance
the signing of players already under contract
with the American Association. On this ques-
ton the delegates seem to be evenly divided.
Mr.. rHURMAN's BELIEF.
Ex-President Thurman, in common with the
league magnatcs, expresses the belief that the
American Association will die of its own folly.
Mr. Thurman says he told Chris Won der Abe,
when the latter came to his Office in Columbus
for the books, that Chris would be on
the stool Of repentance inside Of q
month. Thurman has very small
opinion of Billy Barnie, the Baltimore manager.
Barnie has been yelling SO much about contract
breaking. he says. and SO Thurman put in one
bunch all the papers in the case Of Childs, the
Syracuse player with whom Barnie is alleged to
have transferred, and Thurman wants barnie
dread them over, as he says, carefully.
'.As president OF the American Association"
said Mr.. Thurman, Il should have been glad
to give these disputed players to my organiza-
ton, but in all justice was forced to vote to
give them to the League"
DELEGATES CONVENED.
The delegates convened shortly after 2
O'Clock. The constitution of the league will be
revised in some particulars before any other
business is touched upon. Instead of occupy
ing one day, as was at first thought, it now
looks as though the meeting will last two or
three days. The schedule will not be reached
probably till tomorrow afternoon or evening.
The question in regard to the ACCESSIBILITY Of
signing American Association players who are
under contract forms the uppermost
topic of conversation. 1t is thought that
the majority of the delegates are op-
posed to the signing Of such players.
Pitcher Frank Knauss after the latter had
signed with Columbus, contends that he had
perfect legal right to engage his man. The
idea that no American Association contracts are
wand a1ter the break from the natlOnal
agreement does not seem to be much encour-
aged. The feeling against the American Asso-
citation is very bitter, but it is not likely to
induce the National League delegates to make
any rash move which will plunge the base ball
world into another war such as last season saw.
MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION.
ST.. LOUIS, No.. March 3.-Chris Won Der Abe
has called meeting of the schedule committee
of the association to be held at the Burnet
House in Cincinnati Tuesday, March 10. The
schedule meeting is really the spring meeting
of the American Association, and then and
there all the business to be settled up bearing
on the season of 1891 will be transacted.
THE INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE.
BUFFALO, MY, March 3.-This afternoon at
the Iroquois Hotel the international League of
base ball clubs will perfect an organization
which its originators believe will soon be the
second league of the country. At the meeting
today these cities will be represented: Buffalo.
Toronto, Rochester. Syracuse, Troy, Albany,
New Haven, Newark and Worcester. The
eighth city will be Newark or Worcester.