New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-12-11
WHAT ATHLETES ARE DOING
PLANS OF THE BASEBALL MEN-TRACK AND
OTHER SPORTS.

This Is certainly not the time for the BASEBALL club
owners to make blundcrs yet blunders being made
and they are OF the kind which Will those who make
them considerable annoyance That the future welfare Of
baseball depends upon careful business management Is ad
mit,ed by all who Interested in the sport The club
owners most garing error at present has teen the way
in which the selsonS official averages have been dis
ributcd. The public at large is interested in the players
percentages and there good why hec official
should not have been the newspapers for
the benefit of the public has been done in other
seasons. This year different plan has been adopted.
and the club owners have been hoodwinked The aver
ages Of local players only the different cities
while the complete list is sent to little paper whose
circulation is confined exclusively to ball players.
Local followers OF baseball are beginning to show a
lively interest In the probable make up Of the New.Yor
and Brooklyn teams for next summer yet the club
keep under and refuse say anything C.
IL. Byrne OF the brooklyn Club. makes dash for the
wds OF Jamaica as reporter hoyes In
sight. while r. T. Powers. the manager u the
New.YOrk Club. hides in the NewJcrsey swamps for
days II he thinks newspaper Is waiting him.
That several emphatic changes will be made In both
assured. The proposed OF Ward from
TO New.York has It's advantages. Still. OF the
directors Of the New.York Club are opposed
brotherhood leader Richardson may return the New.
York team. and this would be the most popular step
Ewing will not only remain in the New.York team. but
he will do tho bulk 81 the catching.
The minor baseball leagues also getting into shape
coming The salaries paid In OF the
smaller last almost orge those
paid tie large league and The effect Of such inu
nous policy and unnecessary extravaganza apparent
Salaries In proportion dawing power, u the clubs
will be paid and then the stockholders may get chance to
make small interest the money invested Tho meet
inc the Eastern League at Albany on wednesday was
harmonOu and bun"Slkc 1t j. stll unccrtin whether
the league viii be rcOganiz,d the old plan whether
the Eastern and Western leagues Will be consolidated into
an Anne can Association Tho smaller clubs Ike the pro
posed innovation q increasing the base lines 10 ninety
tIee feet and placing the pitcher In the centre Of the
diamond II ois0 settled that The circuit should con
sis, Of only cght clubs. In the Eastern and Western
leagues are not consolidated tie Eastern circuit will be
made I'd from the following cities: Buffalo. Troy, Al
lany Hnrhauton. Providence. Ncw.Iiayen, Worcester.
tco Ire WilAcsbdre. ScranOn 81 rlcu>c aud Toronto
glance over tho official averages which came % ilsht
las, week show more conclusiycv than usual why the
NcuYork team did nn!sh The season better than II
dld New.York has only ono batNran with a percent
eoc over 300 whlr most Of tie other teams have from
tvo n nyr Irocklyn rad three. ond 80 did Phiiade-
pAl, In naso. running III parcfs Doyie and Burke
cd the be-, work. tho former having 80 sto' "-r'
Ia hi. credit and the latter 90 Wand heads the B""'h
team q, ,bls respect with 20. wh' Ghhn and o'BT'n
are tied with 6, Zach. nama,,a fA OIL wonderfully In
ase.running kep: his remarkable work with the
hat Bovia q disappointment . Nc"-fofk his Dat
ting average Of .0l 5,nr O.. wort he ever made Ton
mo- las. season had batting o. only 2S3 While
Kocfo III, ed New.York pitcher m1d' only !. hit"
DURING N, season. tn, Ncw-Yofk pitchers w"r' far
better hot.mcn than their Brooklyn or fmhd''pma
brethren.
Tho ~, REGIMENT again comes tn the front to give
tho vooS a,hle,, follower, something to talk about.
The canes 81 . vcar ago caused SPLIT between inc
Amateur Atlc, Union Rnl tir regiment aud ia, hfht
c,r.s yin rcopcn tie old wound. Every nan WHO
competed viii De- d,qu1.lnd Us the Amateur Annette
r.ot1 and uul,.s o.. tls o. ~" latter organization
,ccnt tie athletes itey to icna'n di-q''"h' ''f
,or,c Gu, Z, cone. The .chDre = orhnt' l'sm'h"'
i,lc ,.. ,tlon 10 ic pun Independently Of tho Union
ho. been nroachci bat whether t. VIII ever ina'f"'tr
r,,,,i,. N io Son. While che IN Ecfmcnt would
f,vor such scheme 10 douhuu II enough o Tho o''r
regiments would Join 10 nab. th' scheme 'u'',"'
-e intercollegiate NAlr- Assertion is rln inai'h''
of the Union aud q" regiment, could DO inc ''Hc ''"R
hy combining nni wof.iuc toceth
Tho ,roui,as o. ,ho Bcrgc'cy khleh" As'o'''lon INV
and NAV II / b, settled ~ tn meeting on IhnT'AF hN'
Tie opposition against d.. J.hn = WIN" is h'onr' DIV
IN, f,cors friends or. l,v and show d'N ZION !" ''>'
a.do ro.ssc nnarcnl Ir,ht. 9 PROVE u".r friendship
Secretary q aflc. f. Mlni.-r head 'A' opposition anu !"
ca.nai o.er,cr u looks ns u re Opposition "onn nav
carried last wcc's stormy m'iiHt y 10 h' i"'' N' -
,h, n,.tpo.s r.i,,d q I-rpo ey delaying H1t'-.
co,or-or,.. nav De- ie,,h,d lut = T. 60 IL Wit be
vtra' victory for Dr. WHIT. Affairs have never been
,,o>1.-ois since Charles r. NathoNso'. th' OF P''lH'
Of Inc H.rscy .t 'ic A~o.a'i'H, and h' ifca' WIN
d,ey o,d hcpad ofpanlge sle University Athlete club
The annual meeting q the Manhattan Aihieoc 'iup
yin h hold tomorrow and tn annual election two weeks
later George " Carr. who ha, trrn rf'dr' since ''
organization q the Cherry Diamond VIII not h. 'au'
date for reelection Mr.. Carr has aiorcd hard ara earn
csv ,r the success. 81 his club and Boz thinks that hc
now ontltl,d T. p rest Neny mnbf- 81 To 'inn arr
Violently opposed 70 Nj carr, retirement 'n' '''N az
unaaim,l. In the opinion that De or9ht 40 '. 10 '""
ln.clf 10 Be- llar,d the Bond ~ Cow rhoN. "'"
vek9own In the lnarc!al ond political world j. hh'F
ffar~'l t..tr a. -l.