The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-06
THE FANS IN DOUBT.
Savannah's Position in the Southern
League to Be Settled To-Day.

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League to Be Settled To-Day.
The annual meeting of the Southern
Base Ball League will be held in Chatta-
nooga to-day. What will be the result,
and where Savannah will be in the re-
organization, remains to be seen.
There has been a good deal of talk
about leaving Savannah and Charleston
out on account of their being
too far from the center of the
league territory. This and the uncer-
return south leave the local fans in
doubt whether Savannah will have base
ball next season. The question whether
the league will be composed of eight or
twelve clubs will be settled, however, to-
day, and after that Savannah will know
where it stands
Manning and Long were in Detroit and
Toledo last week, looking around. just
what they are doing nobody seems TO
know. 1t has been pretty well under
stood that Manning would manage the
Kansas City team next season, but in a
letter to a friend in Savannah, "a short while
ago, he said he had made no definite
arrangement and didn't know what he
should do.
Savannah is one of the best base ball
towns in the south and it does not seem
likely that its franchise will be aban-
doned. The fact that there is no local
organization leaves the next season in a
good deal Of doubt
PLENTY OF LEAGUES.
The coming season promises not to be
lacking in leagues. Besides the National
League there will be in the field the New
England, Eastern, Pennsylvania, South
ern, Western, Illinois, Iowa and Texas
Leagues, with good chance for the Cali
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galvanized into life again.
The NationalLeague will hold its an
nual meeting in New York next week.
Two years ago there was a good deal of
uncertainty about base ball maintaining
its supremacy as the national sport. The
fight between the Brotherhood of Players
and the league contributed to the uncer-
I, tainty, but that is out of the way now.
At the end of the brotherhood fight
nearly every club in the country. major
or minor league, was insOlvent. The in
terest seemed paralyzed beyond any hope
OF redemption. The next year, instead of
lettering the prospect, only added to the
gloom. Then the league and the Ameri-
can Association fight was on, and what
little interest there was at the opening of
the season went glimmering before it was
far advanced. Another small fortune
was sunk in the business. Then order
was brought out of chaos. The twelve
league club was organized and at
the end of the season had a debt of $780,
600 hanging over it. That has been wiped
out, however, and the league is now out
of debt with a brilliant prospect for the
game next season. Unless all signs fail,
1894 will totally eclipse all other seasons.
The interest manifested in the game at
the end of the season Just closed leads its
friends to believe that next season will
be even better than the season of 1885
which was probably the banner season of
base ball in this country.
FOOT BALL AND BASE BALL.
There is prospect that the national
game of the American people will be
closely allied next year with foot ball. In
fact, there are indications that foot ball,
which IS at present confined to amateur
| and collegiate circles, will next season
flourish on a professional basis. The
great popularity of foot ball and the box
office receipts, attracted by the contest
between the teams of the leading col
legeS and universities, has caught the at
tention of some of the leading base ball
magnates, and it has filled them with
lofty ideas about the financial possibili-
ties of the new fad.
Ii 1t is such boX-oftice magnet, as an
amateur pastime, why should it not pay
il conducted on a professional basis?
Base ball IS summer game and cannot
be followed successfully when the air is
| charged with wintry blasts. Like the
leaves, it goes before the frost. On the
contrary, foot ball is too violent an exer-
else to flourish in linen buster or palm leaf
time. II is at its best in the season of fat
turkeys Consequently the two seasons
could be arranged 50 as not to conflict
A league park could be used to play off
| the schedule of games of base ball, as well
as a foot ball league, without either in any
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| TO BE DISCUSSED BY THE LEAGUE.
1t is currently reported that one of the
most important questions to be presented
at the coming meeting of the Ma
| tional League in New York, Nov.
| Is, will be the foot ball feature.
! 1t is said that some of the delegates to
| the league meeting will go there chock
| full and overlooking with plans for a
| foot ball league to be run as an adjunct
! to the national game. OF course, these
| plans are in a rather crude state, but thew
will be submitted to the delegates as a
sort of feeler. If they are favorablv
| received, and there is reason to believe
! they will be, steps, it is understood, will
be taken to organize league 1t is under
| stord that the plan that will be
| submitted calls for organization
OF teams OF foot ball players in all
! The twelve cities that are represented to
| the National Base Ball League. The
base ball championship begins
May l, and closes Oct 1. This
would leave time for the foot bali season,
| 1t could very well be divided in two. II
would be reasonable time to begin on
Feb. 10 and run to May in the spring.
and in the fall to start Oct. l and run to
| Dec ].
The plans call for a championship pen
nant in the foot ball league, Just as there
Is in the base ball league, with a regular
schedule of games arranged just as in
base ball
She-Oh, yes; just dote on lteraturel
| Papa presents me with new book every
birthday.