St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-17

ing will come
E-S of this Column
bus gathering.
1t was stated that Milwaukee would not
send a delegate, and that Columbus had
given its assurance that it would not
desert to the more Eastern organization.
md the meeting was, therefore, de-
clared off.
The committee appointed at the meet
Ing held at the Wellington hotel, Chi
cagO, on Jan. 9, has succeeded in carry
Ing out its plans as laid out in the in
formal meeting on the 10th, and yester-
day called meeting to be held ut the
Auditorium hotel, Chicago, Jan. 81, to
complete the formation of the league
and set the managers to work getting
things prepared for the season of 1892.
While the members of the committee do
not as yet give out the names of the
cities selected. James Hart states that
The league will undoubtedly be COM
posed of teams from Minneapolis. st.
Paul, Omaha, Kansas City, Milwaukee,
Indianapolis, Columbus and Toledo.
Hy L. Hach and a reporter on the
Minneapolis Evening Tribune have
been very busy the past few days try
ing to queer! st. Paul. Yesterday
they started the rumor that only Min
neap0llS was 10 be taken into the new
league, St. Paul being left out in the
cold. This is wholly absurd. If one of
the twins Is left out the other certainly
will be. Mr. Hach has got the impress
sion that Morton and Bennett are work
Ing together and that they will vote at
The coming meeting against his admis-
,on from Minneapolis. Hence the at
FalWR mt TO
-
yeas Eastern p LEAGUE has @s ' be.
gun the organization of a new
Eastern league to take in most of
the minor towns from Buffalo
eastward. Mr.. White has been in Chi
rago part of the past week consulting
the Central league committee OIL organ
lZatlon as to the system of running
things. and expressed his delight with
IL. he says lie proposes TO introduce in
the Eastern league the plan of allowing
the secretary TO sign all the PLAYERS, be-
cause 1t destroys unhealthy cOmpeti-
non. MI. White also has a scheme
Whlch ought to take. 1t is that the pen
nant winners of the Eastern and Cen
tral leagues shall at the end of the sea-
son play series of games for the
Is that the Eastern league will be made
up OF Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse. AL
pany, Elmlra, Scranton and Harrisburg.
-
The committee on organization of the
Central league is still hard at work at
chicago, perfecting plans for the sea-
son. The scheme as to the make up of
clubs IS, In brief, to have the secretary
sign ll2 players, and then have a COM
mittee on appOrtlonment meet and as
sign fourteen of them to each club. of
whom four will be pitchers, three
catchers and one each for the other no
slllonS. The committee will take eight
slips of paper and write the name of
hrst 6aseman on each. then that of a
second baseman, ard so on through the
list. equallzing, as far as possible. the
fielding, batting, base running, pitch
ing and catching talent. When
the Slips are completed they will
be shuffied and thrown into a
hat. and representative of each city
VIII be gwen draw. In this way no
city Will know what players it is TO have
until after the drawing. After this is
done the method of procedure will be
thlS: Any manager, discovering for
instance that his team is weak at
Snort, advises the secretary of that fact.
ou" "t lhc oaiilC tlule, IL he WISHES, SuE-
gests that good player can be secured
Tor a certain salary at certain point.
1he secretary writes the PLAYER. and if
matters can be arranged so as to be mut-
ually agreeable he is signed. Of course.
TOO. the secretary will also ALWAYS
nave list of players who are olsen
gagged, and players can sometimes be
signed by communicating directly with
the secretary and taking some PLAYER on
the list. 1t is understood that there
VIII also be an arrangement bv which
ciubS can exchange players. 1t will be
seen ar glance at the scheme in IFS en-
tlrety that it will be impossible for the
various clubs to exceed the salary limit.
as all thelr players must be signed
through the secretary, who must not
only know where man is playing Int
ut what salary.
whether there Will be one or two
seasons IN the Central league is not vet
decided. but it is believed there will he
two, as the general sentiment appears
to be in favor Of giving the two-season
plan trial. Its great advantage lies
In the fact that the weaker clubs at the
outset nave chance to so strengthen
Up that they may be able to win the
pennant, or come very close to it, in the
eoCOlu StdSOH.
1t is pretty generally agreed that the
twelve-club base ball season will begin
early and end late. President Hart. of
the chicago club. who is a member of
the schedule committee, has written to
all of the clubs, and the majority of
them favor season of 154 games. This
Viii Will, neees ; starting the season
April and holding it open until Oct
10. Just what kind of arrangements
can be perfected does not appear
on the surface. The winners of
the the ,, two seasons are to play off,
Ing it after Oct 10 in cities like Chr.
eago and Cleveland. President Hart
also asked an expression of opinion from
the clubs on the question of making
two or three trips to town, playing
respectively three and four games on
trips, or playing two and three games.
The majority of clubs favored the three
trips and the schedule will probably be