Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-09-08
FAC ENDS OF BASEBALL
O. P CayIor Writes of the Sea-
 son Now Closing.
LOOKING BACKWARD AND AHEAD.
There VIII Be a Strong Organization For a New Western League-The Ways and Means Exhaustively Discussed - Other Interesting Baseball Gossip.

Interesting Baseball Gossip.
 The organization of the Western league for 1894 is foregone conclusion. It is now only a question of the cities which will be selected to form the circuit. There are enough applicants to make two good leagues. A l2 club organization could easily be formed, but it is not at all likely that such circuit will be considered at all after the unhappy experience of the South ern league with that experiment. The cities reported as the eight to make up the new league are: St. Paul, Minneapolis, Omaha, Denver, Kansas City, Detroit, Milwaukee and Indianapolis. Toledo is also considered desirable site for a club, and it may be necessary to give her a mem bership in order to divide the OctagOn equally, east and west. In that case Den yer may be left out or an effort be made to put one representative club into the league for St. Paul and Minneapolis.
 The latter plan has been long discussed and often broached, but with no success. The idea has been to get n strong team for the twin cities, with a ground somewhere midway between the two centers and call it the Twin City Baseball club The plan has always failed on account of the intense rivalry between the two cities. This rivalry, one might think, should be money mak- ing and sustaining factor for two clubs up | there, but it is not. It has so happened that about all the interest in each city centered | in the success of the local team against its | nearby rival.
 As soon as one succeeded in beating the | other the beaten team was deserted almost | entirely by local patrons and soon dis banded. Then the incentive to keep the victor alive being gone, it, too, laid down its bats and closed it's grounds for want of patronage. It is pity, therefore, that Min | neapolis and St. Paul cannot come together, | at least on this one common interest-a partnership baseball club-and turn their | feeling of local rivalry into one of pride for | a membership in the Western league, turn | local enthusiasm into account in trying to beat out clubs from other representative western cities.
 | Should both Minneapolis and St. Paul insist on putting teams into the Western | league there will be an awkwardness en- | countered in making out properly bal | anced circuit. It would make five good | baseball cities west of the Mississippi, all | demanding representation and all entitled | to it by reason of former memberships and | patronage-viz, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Kan sas City, Omaha and Denver. The other three cities would have to be selected from a section several hundred miles farther east, and division of the schedule into | eastern and western halves would be diff | ficult task. Therefore it is very probable | that Denver, though a good baseball city, | would be rejected by reason of its geo | graphical situation.
 The circuit is bound to be an extensive one anyhow, reaching from Toledo to Kan sas City and maybe to Denver, and from | Indianapolis to Minneapolis. It would make very expensive circuit on account of the amount of travel necessary to carry out a schedule. But shorter circuit
 would not be so remunerative in point of
 population from which to draw.
 1 understand that parties in Detroit have
 already made application for franchise.
 It is very open question, however, whether
 Detroit, after some years experience in the
 National league with an expensive team
 whose deeds are still remembered and cher
 ished, would patronize baseball repre-
 sentative of a minor league.
 | One fact stands forth most prominently
 The west is on edge in baseball sense, and
 a Western league for 1894 is an assurance
 which has no element of doubt about it.
 The cities in the Southern league circuit
 which suffered this season. by reason of tn,
 bad business management of clubs in thos,
 cities whence came the trouble which dis ], rupted the organization, are already de
 termined to reorganZe for next year. Ther,
 will be but eight clubs too. The l2 clul
 lesson was an expensive one, but is wei
 learned. There will be no double champion
 ship again either. It will be up and at i from the beginning to the end of the seasoI
 and a fight to the finish.
 The game in the east is in n most health, ) and prosperous condition. The EaSterl league as well as the New England leagu will finish the season this month intac and be ready to build up teams and carr
 memberships over into next year. It i
 claimed, with some show of truth, that no
 a club of either of these organizations vii
 lose money, and some of them will be larg
 winners
 l There will be very little baseball pave
 after Oct. l, although the interest in tn
 sport and the preparation for the next SCI
 son will be double this fall and winter wha T it has been in the cold months for som years past. There is some chance of tn | | organization of a picked nine for the pun z | pose of trying to defeat the BOstOns in a extra series after the championship seaso
 ends Such scheme would be a novel on r in the history of the game
 6 An attempt has been made to bring tn
 New York and Brooklyn teams together i 6 October for post season series to decid
 the metropolitan championship. For tw
 seasons these local rivals of the east hay tied in their series, and general desire t!
 ists in New York and Brooklyn to have u , question of superiority decided IT
 chances to get them together, however, al k not good.
 The Cincinnatis and Clevelands al
 booked to play 16 games through Ohio af
 CT Oct. for the state championship. !, looks like bad and losing business. a Charley Comiskey surprised the baseba S world by appearing before the public in e card announcing his retirement from u game as player permanently and givir T. his reasons for retiring. He admits wit @ charming frankness that he has for son 1t time been on the decline as player al a says he cheerfuily gives way to young mt O who are coming and must have their da I He further announces that he will continl - in the game, however, a a manager, mayl V for some years.
 Anson, on the contrary, declares he wi
 play ball till he is 50 years old. What
 more, the veteran insists that he has n
 yet seen his thirty-siXth birthday. TT d chances are that uncle has exaggerated a both ends.
 have just discovered why he was so su
 missive on his recent eastern trip and q e so little kicking. Mrs. Anson was Wi