Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-08
NICK YOUNG s HAPPY.
The Veteran Chats Pleasantly About
Baseball Prospects.
CALVIN HELD UP AS A MODEL.
The East End Gyms to Have an Equestrian
Club This Season.
AMATEURS STARTING OUT LIVELY

H.
WAsHINGToN, Nav IA success, an
unqualified success, is the new League
declared President N. E. Young, of the
National Baseball League. He sat in his
''den" in his cozy cottage at Mt. Pleasant.
eyes" continued the veteran baseballist
and highest official of the national game,
"there is no doubt of the overwhe lining
success of the new deal. Considering the
wretched weather that prevailed every
where during April the showing, both
financially and as to skill displayed, has
been remarkable. Everyone is making
money, and I look for the most successful
season ever known in the history of the
game. The reconciliation of the clashing
interests, reconciliation effected during
the past winter, has been the salvation of
the sport For the past three years the
combined losses of the various baseball
clubs aggregated S1,O00,000, and I am
speaking within bounds. This year there
is every prospect of each club quitting a
big winner Never before have such games,
as are now being put up, been seen.
Anson and Calvin Are Models.
'The players of to-day seem to be much
"Undoubtedly. And their intellectual
development is constantly increasing.
Players realize that to retain public favor
and their respective positions drinking and
general disreputability must be abandoned.
Anson and Calvin are living witnesses of
the good results of temperance in all things.
They are as valuable to-day as they were
a dozen years ago. 'Phenomena' have
arisen, dazzled the public for brief season
by their brilliancy, but in a few short
months they have outlived their usefulness
and faded away from public sight and men,
ory, while the reliable player kept on his
steady way. AS for the standard of intel
lectuality, it is constantly rising. The
'heady' player is first appreciated by the
management and then by the public. In
time he is sure to achieve position of i'm
portaDce in the baseball armament, another
illustration of the tact that brains properly
applied always win."
,"What have been the largest receipts this
season."
"a little over 81, 900, when double game
was played in Chicago.
His Opinion of Pittsburs.
''The contest is going to be the hottest in
the history of baseball. Everybody is 'out
for blood, and at the close of the season I
anticipate seeing tie tor every place up to
the fourth or fifth. A difference of 10 or Is
games between the highest and lowest clubs
will reflect no discredit on the lowest
club"
As to Chicago and Pittsburg Mr. Young
said:
"Anson's all right. A remarkable fact is
that at the beginning of every season the
Chicago club starts rather badly but no |
matter how raw the material Anson has to
deal with, in a short time the club is put
ting up a great article of ball. The quality
never varies. 1t is always the same good,
steady game that, after ALL wins as many, if |
not more, games than the spurts some clubs |
make Anson's club will be found at the |
top when the end comes, perhaps not in first |
place, but near it. Discipline, regular |
practice, generalship and keen eye bring |
about the superior quality of the Chicago |
club Pittsburg's good work is causing |
some comment. There is no reason why it |
should not be continued for the club has |
good material and the players appear to be
working harmoniously. Harmony is verv
potent factor in every clubs success All |
the clubs are in good shape and expect
quite a number of absolutely errorless |
games will be recorded before the season
closes"
Odd Facts About the Game.
President Young fished out of his desk a
printed record of the proceedings of tie first
National Baseball Convention. held at No
$40 Broadway, New York, on March II,
1871. He and Harry Wright, of Phila-
delphia, are the only ones then present that
are now living. Mr.. Young was the Secre-
tary of the convention. 1t is the only copy
in existence.
Five thousand dollars worth of baseballs
are used annually by the National League.
Thew are sold to the clubs at the rate of SIS
per dozen and are shipped direct from Mr..
Young's house where each ball is weighed
and must register an exact weight of 5A
ounces. Until recently the balls were
measured, but since the covers are cut with
4 die this has been found unnecessary.
MAX F. IHMSEN.