Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-29
GETTING IT RIGHT.
Baseball Magnates in New York
Fixing Dates OF Games.
OFFICERS OF THE NEW LEAGUE.
Fitzsimmons and Maher's Battle, With
Opinions About the Result.
GENERAL SPORTING NEWS OF THE DAY

rsP1cIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPArcH
NEW YoHK, Feb. 2S.-The great schedule
committee has had their "sit" They are
Charles H. Byrne, James Hart, Christ. Won
der Abe. They have made a schedule to
suit themselves The committee has sue
ceeded in keeping to itself all knowledge of
the schedule beyond two or three general
features, consequently any comments on it
must arise from mere conjecture.
No Sunday games will be scheduled, but
any club desiring to arrange champion
ship game on that day will be permitted to
do so. Five of the 12 clubs will probably
consent to play Sunday games, which is to
be regretted, but it was q concession on the
part of the old National League that had to
be made in order to effect a consolidation
of all elements.
The New Officers.
When it comes to the election of new
officers for the League there is likely to be
some opposition to Mr.. Young's reelection
as Secretary. He has until recently been a
very popular man in baseball affairs, but he
has incurred the enmity of number of the
magnates through the assignment of play
ers, job which fell to Zach Phelps, of
Louisville, and himself In most cases
where there was any dissatisfaction the
trouble was overcome, but in the cases of
Tom Brown, Fred Pfeffer and Dan Richard
son there seems to be no possibility of a
peaceful settlement of the question.
Undoubtedly some attempt will be made
to upset some of the assignments, but all
efforts in that direction will be thrown
away, for the committee was given full
power at the time it was appointed, and its
decisions are final
The New York club seems to have either
forgotten or is bound to ignore this granted
power to the committee, for it has kept upa
great and useless crv over the assignment Of
Richardson to the Washington club. Fred
Pfeffer and Tom Brown, while they have
the sympathy of many friends, may as we'll
make the best of the lot that has befallen
them, for the disposition made of them by
the committee will stand, unless they are
altered through some private deal.
Still Fighting.
President Day says he will contest on the
ground that by reason of the option clause
in Richardson's contract he was practically
under contract with the New York club on
December g. and that the agreement was
that all players under contract with a club
on December should remain with that
club. Mr. Day, therefore, claims that the
Committee on Players had no right to
award Richardson to Washington.
There is very general impression that
such move as that contemplated by Presi-
dent Day will be a useless expenditure of
energy, as League officials all over the coun-
try have announced that they will not listen
to any proposal looking to the overturning
of the committees assignments. The rea-
son is that where one case is reopened a
score of others would spring up, the result
being that the League would be thrown into
worse turmoil than was the condition
previous to the settlement
The new contracts which the PLAYERS will
be called upon to sign will contain many
new but simple clauses that will bind the
men to the managers - months in the year.
Formerly they were only required to play
about seven months and half out of the
IL. Then advance money was given to
players when they requested it, and salaries
were paid semi-monthly during the playing
season. In the future advance money will
be optional with the respective club di-
rectors, and salaries will be paid in month
ly installments. In this way the players
will be under the jurisdiction of the club
they sign with all the year round. The
contracts will also call for a number of
other concessions from the players, many
of which refer to department.