New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-02-21
THE BASEBALL SEASON NEAR.
PLAYERS PREPARING FOR WORK.
PLANS OF THE MANAGERs-IT SHOULD BE
PROSPEROUS YEAR.

| PLANS OF THE MANAGERS-Ir SHOULD BE
PROSPEROUS YEAR.
The baseball season Is coming on with rapid strides
and the players already preparing for the champion
ship Sensible players who have not gone South
| or to Hot Springs arc now practising regularly IN
gymnasiums. Unfortunately for baseball. there arc
stll some players connected with the game who are
making effort to prepare themselves for the cam
pagn. still, this careless. drinking element IS rapidly
| being wcedcd out Of baseball and In year or two
more there will be few sOtS left. But some who re-
port for duty out of condition this year will Get little
sympathy from their managers and little money from
the clubs Golfers. ball player should be In con
dion to to work when he reports In the spring. Just
the same a wOrkngman when he goes TO his shop
or Office in the morning Many ball players are
VIGOROUSLY careless about all business affairs. some
OF the players Of the New-Yorl club have not com
municatcd, directly indirectly, with p. 7. Powers
| since the latter took charge of the team This list
| includes some players who live In the city.
BIT John Ewing the Giants pitcher. whose spare
but long frame has been familiar spectacle ut the
Polo Grounds. Is not of this sort. 1he peculiarly
grotesquc movements which Long john practised
when delivering the ball earned for him the title OF
Carmcnclta Dispatches from the West bring the
Intelligence that Ewing is victim Of consumption
and that the chances are that he will never again
be seen on the grcen-diamOnd field. Always good
Hatured, cheerful and willing Ewing was popular Win
players and spectators. The writer has seen him pitch
ou a game at the Polo Grounds When he was 30 weak
that he could scarcely remove Ids uniform when he
reached the clubhouse after the game. Ewing Is
building some houses at Cumingville, suburb OF
Cincinnati. and he recently requested the local club
10 advance him 800. OF this amount 800 was sent
and the other 200 promised within ten
DAYS Before the ten days expired Ewing tee-
eraphcd that he would not need the 500 There
are few ball players this kind The average player
rod
on his seasons salary is happy, for it is as coed as
nfe-insurance policy.
The Brooklyn players will report for dnty next
week. and will start for Florida between March and
4. Ward is now engaged in signing his players Inc
fact that there VIII be reduction In salaries and force
across the river may retad progress for few days
still the cut I'm salaries will come from overpaid
players and the effect Dc really beneficial The
day Of star" players and STAR salaries went out
with the ba seball wars. There never difference
Of 500 and - 900 between National League payers
aud when the salaries range between FOO ana
5000 IT will be better for al concerned. IL VIII
eliminate Jealousy and encourage feeling Of equality,
eocd-feows ship and team work. The salaiy-lis Of Mt
five clubs In the Lene. however viii lie higher
this year than ever before. In this cty aud In Boston
tho salary list will not differ materially from that Of
| last year.
The National Leacu, meeting at tie Ffth
Avenue lo;cl March will about set!e
all the differences between the clubs anu
the cub-Owncrs. and managers Will be able u
scatter 10 their various hOlseS. The playing schedules
have already been prepared. and the work Of adopting
one Will be- merely matter Of form. The schedule VIII
show i54 games for each club or fourteen more than
las generally been the case. THIS Is made necessary
by increasing the number OF clubs 10 twelve The con
trovcrsy about ichard,On Will b. an ntcNs Ing one
| The club-owncis who take away the Giants
second bascman will vote 20 weaken the New York
team both In playing strength and In the estimation 81
the public Richardson signed TO play With the Ath
lctcs Of Philadelphia and that cib Il dead he Is
under no ollga'ion - 90 to Washington. The League
will gain nothing by assigning the little ba-eInan To
Washington for he says that he Will not play there.
aud he probably means just what he says.
The baseball Of the Manhattan Athletic Club
have determined upon yieoIOa, campaign for TIC
coming season. Mr.. Chas,caud has secured dat for
Manhattan iicld beginning on Wednesday, April u.
with Amherst. aud with other collcg" teams. aud de
carcs the diamond viii be put IN exceptionally hhe
order for the prng and summer campaign. II Is the
oil feet Of the Cherry Diamond team tO play on Mcdnrs
DAYS and saturday, during the season. am 10 ie, ~!
the ID 1rnncnt aud vel! organized teams Among h>'
who a:c expected r. take au active int'r-- ia h' d.
iaIl d,uartIncu are The Brown brother buell. .pIh,,
NofTlt Finley Naf,.. Norton. Els. lmMi,. Doirl,
smith tlblu. steven. O'ConnOr. Waite tdf9t' ana
Mitchell. Regular training IN the gymnasium cage I'M
the direction II professional cOichtis' VIII DC COZ"
tinued during February ana March