Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-17
The New York Club Comes Out Flat
footed Against the Sabbath
Day Games.
OPINION ABOUT EQUALLY DIVIDED.
Tom Brown Definitely Refuses to Sign a
Contract to Play With the
Louisville Club
MEETINGS OF LOCAL ATHLETES.
Catcher Earles Terms Accepted by the Local Ball
Clnb-General sporting News
-sPEc1AL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPArcH.l


NEW YORK, Jan. 16.-One club in
the National League has placed itself
on record as regards Sunday games. Pres
ident John B. Day, of the New
York club, has written to C. II. ByrnA
of the League Schedule Committee, that
the Giants will under 70 circumstances
play any championship or exhibition games
n the East or West on the Sabbath. Ac-
cordingly Mr. Byrne will take this matter
1nto consideration while drawing up the
schedule of games for the coming season.
just what the Brooklyn club will do in
the matter is a mystery. Mr. Byrne re-
fused to saw Yesterday whether his club
would play on Sundays in the West or not
but he limited that anything might be posi-
bic Still, it is thought that the Brooklyn
club will follow in the footsteps Of the
New York cluD The Boston club has come
oGt iatfooted against Sunday ball, and the
PHILADELPHIA, Chicago and Cleveland clubs
fought against the idea at the indianapolis
meeting, and are Of the same opinion now.
They Depend on sundays.
Baltimore and Washington have ALWAYS
been dependent upon Sunday games in the
past, and will undoubtedly play them in ST.
Louis, Louisville, Cincinnati, but not Pitts.
burg. St LouiS and Louisville were out
spoken in behalf cf these games at Indian
aDolS and would not consent TO accept
franchises in the new League until this
privilege was granted. John 7. Brush
Iavors plaving on Sunday for the Cincin-
natl club. both at home and abroad, while
Pittsburg NAV rake turn at it in ST. Louis
Louisville and Cincinnati, at any rate, and
possibly al home if the law will allow it.
From this it will be seen that the League
is nearly evenly divided in the matter, Bos-
ton. Brooklyn (probably), New York, Phil
sdeiphia. Cleveland and Chicago being
against it, while st. Louis, Louisville,
Pittsburg. Cincinnati, Baltimore and WASH
ington are in favor of Sunday playing.
These games in St. Louis, Louisville and
Cincinnati will prove g great financial as
siStance to those clubs, as il has been proven
more than once il the past.
Some persons have an idea that the League
in its recent settlement with the Associa-
tion merely laid the wires 10 work a grand
freezing out game for ST. Louis, Louisville,
Baltimore and Washington, and that the
first evidence of it would crop out when the
League schedule should be made public.
WEl Get Wha: They Ask.
But it is stated on official authority that
these four clubs will receive all they ask of
the Schedule Committee, and possibly more
than they deserve when it is considered that
thev are new corners and ordinarily would
lave to stand aside Tor big clubs like
Boston, New York, Brooklyn ard Chicago.
Some OF the best dates will be given to these
old Association clubs, and there'll be little
or no dissatisfaction from that quarter.
From present appearances the League sea-
soE Will open about April 4, and will close
on October 10, consisting of 1j4 games di-
vided into two series osI77 games each. The
winners of the two series will play at the
close Of the season another sncrt series OF,
say, Il games for the League and the
worlds championship. In this way club
that falls behind during the month OF April
May and jane viii still have a chance for
fnsl honors by taking high places during
July, August and September The Western
clubs viii be III the East probably on Dec
oration Day and Labor Day, and the East
ern clubs viii play in the West on July 4.