The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-10-03
MAaNATEs TO MEET.
There IL q Pronouuced Opposition to
Twelve-Club League.

There IL Pronounced Opposition to the
Twelve-Club League.
NEW YORK. Oct. 3.-There can be no
doubt that the meeting Of baseball mag
mates at the Fifth Avenue Hotel Tuesday
will be decidedly lively one. There is q
pronounced opposition on the part Of cer-
tain influential officials to the continu-
league, while those who were chiefly in.
sirumental In the formation Of the big
lprganisation will struggle to have its
existence extended
The most formidable opponent Of the
OF the Boston club He is q cool, clear
minded business man, and his, utteran,es
have great weight John I Rogers, she
Philadelphia ma0pate. In also opposed to
the big league and j. A. Hart If Chicago
Has also expressed opposition to It.
Chris Won der Abe left Sc. Louis for the
East last night. and before starting he
said that II thugs were not made salts
factory to clubs that lad been treated un-
fairly this season, there would likely be
breakup of the present circuit. In the
latter event Won der Abe thought there
leagues OF eight clubs, II there were two
leagues, they would be formed on q har.
monious basis. Salaries Of players were
sure to come down, and there would be
big deals for players
Nick ~ YoqnE ss.s . tho msss,ics as is to opn-
tion. The notes given to the retiring as
sociation clubs fall due this year. caus-
ing tightness In league fnancea Some
t60,O has already been paid out on that
account The 10 per cent assessment
levied on the clubs has not proved suffi-
Gent. ~ the attendance At Boston, New
York, Brooklyn and Chicago has fallen
Of wonderfully.
Football Notes.
College football Saturday, Harvard, 4s:
Dartmouth, o. Amherst, 20; Trinity, o.
Union College, 3; Rensselaer, Polytech-
mics, o.
A. A. Stagg, Yale's famous athlete,
will coach the Chicago University foot
ball team.
Manager w. B. Mafatt of the Yale
eleven submitted the following list of
dates, which includes all the games tue
Yale football team will play this season.
The Yale UNDERGRADUATES do not regard
the list as the mcst desirable, owing 10
the fact that only i've out Of tho thirteen
games will take place on the home
grounds:
Cot. 8. at New Haven, with Wesleyan.
Oct. T. at brookIyn. with Crescent A. o.
Oct. ~, at New Haven. with Williams.
Oct Oct S wssh WIN zSsssa AmSsrss
Ocl 20. AZ Nest i'Olnt.-Hlln u. .. military
Academy.
oct. ~. at New Haven. with Lehigh.
Nov. D, at New Haven, with wesleyan champion.
ship.
sylyania championship
Nov. "a, at New \ ork, with Princeton (cham pion-
Bhpl
The Intercollegiate Football Associa-
tion at Its annual meeting at the Fifth
Avenue Holel, New York, arranged the
program of championship games as fol-
lows:
Oct 2o-Princeton vs. Wesleyan, at New York;
70 cree, De Hart Orange A. c. alternate. w. A.
Nov. 5-Yale VS.. Wesleyan, at New Haven ref
cree, Alex Noffatt, Princeton alternate. IS. Ran
som, University OF Pennsylvania,
Nov. o-Princtt ton University OF Pennsylva-
mia. at Phila elphla; referee. Dashiel OF Lehigh ;
altt trnat w Graves OF Yale.
Nov. 12-Yale vs.. University OF Pennsylvania at
New York referee, Irvine OF irincetoni alternate.
TIac, Harris OF Princeton.
Nov. Zl-laie W.. Princeton at New York; ref
=. Dean OF Harvard.
Nov. 2i-Uniyersity of Pennsylvania vs., Wesleyan
nate. De Hart OF Orange A. Z.
Tue umpires will be appointed by the
advisory board which meets later in the
month.