New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-03-05
CLUB OWNERS TO MEET.
PREPARATIONS OF BASEBALL MEN.

THE SEASONS SCHEDULE WILL BE CONSIDERED
THE NETWORK TEAM.
The first emphatic action to be taken for the formal
opening Of baseball will be maze on Iuesoay
when the National League clubowners hold their annual
spring meeting tho Fifth Avenue Hotel The moneyed
men baseball began to arrive IN the oity yesHrday.
The are likely remain In session for several
days. much important WORK has 10 be done OUTSIDE OF
the formal acceptance OF tbs schedule This aimportant
document prepared this year by ~ f. Young e
president The championship season will consist OF l9Z
games instead OF 1884, was the case last year "heh
the opened entirely too early The hrst games
will played the last week In April ana the season WI"
close about September 80 This change IN arrangements
h generally commended and the rainy days Of April and
the chilly wind. Of october will be avoided There VIII
also be open left for the playing OIL OF postponed
games. The two..smes-!noned arrangement Wa
nuisance last year.
Outside OF the schedule the discussion the pro-
posed changes In the playing Will be awai'ed WIN '''
tsres There is diversity Of opinion regarding the
changes the clubowners will not take decided acoh
until the subject has been thoroughly discussed INC
chances are Of the changes advocated by MesS
Byrne Vanderhorst and Brush will be carried OUT MS
committee enlargement OF the DIAMOND
The committee recommends the putting OF the pl'ehef IN
OF the diamond. or sixty feet irch "e
home plate this be modified so that the p'ehcf
NAV not be nut back over FIVE Most OF the players
agree that Ave feet IL change enough The suggestion
that player who advances felow-plsyef oase on
sacrifice should be credited with 'tine al oat j.
good ono and should be adopted Such rule Will en-
courage team work. Many Of delegates will be agree
ably surprised the healthy condition in which they VIII
And the Ncw.York club. The reunion OF players ana
others made the famous trip around tie world VIII
probably take place Wednesday.
NewYorkers a. one time admired team Of SLUG
gers" they had here in 1888 but admiration for
that kind Of playing has died and "hustng brilliant
players are only kind in demand. Hereafter man
be good in all departments of the game. 1t Is
team PLAYERS that the management OF the New
York club is ambitious secure and II the work already
done is criterion that ambition will be gratncd. This
city never had Q brilliant Quartet Of lively players
has In Ward, Davis. Burke and Doyle Then
TO- Ticrnan Lyons. Fuller Keller Rusie Boyle. King
and Crane be considered anything but slow players
There is still doubt about the makeup Of the New.
York team and the uncertainty will continue until the
players desired all under 1t looks now as
Rusie Crane King. and possibly Sharott would be tho
pitchers and Doyle. Kelly and Boyle the catchers Con-
nor Ward. second base Fuller. shortstop;
Keeer. Davis Farrell third base. and Nernsn. Burke
Davis Farrell Kelly in the outfeld Many people be.
eve the club will have considerable trouble in sign.
ing Amos Ruse. the "Hoosier thunderbolt" as he Is
called always partial to high salaries, and he
will take kindly to the order OF anars Ruse
signed contract last season calling FOR s9ooo
or - q He released. however. in Octo-
ber and will have TO sign new contract this year.
As for Ewing local followers Of the game we'll satis-
with the deal by which the Giants get Davis ana the
excaptnin goes 70 Cleveland
c. D. White the president OF the Eastern League has
tsr,ed call for meeting OF that organization TO be held
ON March 10. This will give the National League an OPP
portunty hand regarding the minor leagues
The wholesale grabbing Of players by the dnereht Junior
leagues will trouble. The Southern League seems
10 been the chief conspirator
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Only 81 700 salary offered to James OHourke! Now
look out for spring freshc Of adectivcs from Bridge
port =,
what give up Davis! said F. de H. Robinson the
predent of the Cleveland club about TWO months ago
.why Eucd.ave Davis is more talked ooou' tnah
ANYTHING else in Cleveland" Yet Davis is now Giant
The graduate departments OF Yale are still camofing
for another that undergadua rule Ihey are
confident Of defeating the rule II aho'hcf h'eeu"s Is
held.
Jocal amateur clubs are organizing in large numbers
and more teams will the field than ever before.
The candidates for the teams in the various colleges
are being put through more severe training than usual
Keefe is coaching Harvard Clarkson YALE fouth ihcc
ton and Taylor Cornell.
As soon clever first baseman is secured inc Ne"
York will be in better shape than 1t has oceh Tor
three years.
Farrell has been released BY the Pittsburg club He
would make a god for the local team He Is
only good catcher but he can cover third base anu
he Is capital batsman
II vii, h worth trip to the Polo Grounds next sum-
mer when Cleveland plays here TO see Ewing try 70
beat his old comrades.
Ewing is not so diplomatic his old friends thought
Before he signed with Cleveland he said Boston would
win the championship Now he says that Cleveland will
win easily.
Carsey the pitcher, does not care again to play IN
PHILADELPHIA. He has running pitching school
In a Harlem gymnasium during the winter
Most Of the clubs will carry only two catcher' this
year. The change in the rules will help the catchers
except In throwing to the bases
Some OF Kellys friends seem TO think that he mas
gone aud forgotten that he saw Ward. and
that the opening Of only few days away
All the players have received their shock re-
garding salaries, and Of the will be signed in
. few days.
If 1t is not that the liquor shop in right field
will b abolished. It ought to be-
The happy Orioles will South March IS and
will return Baltimore about April 20.
Most people mistake the real intent OF the proposed
pitching rules Tho club owners ought TO try to word
their rules that people understand what they
mean John l. Rogers is the only Philadelphia lawyer
who can the guide and know wherc he Is att when
be gets through.
Much nonsense has been printed about the Brooklyn
managers helping New York strengthen its team. But
for brooklyn New.York would have had Richardson.
player who would the NewYok better than
any other man the Brooklyn helps herself
arst last and all time in big and li!tle things in