The morning news., 1894-11-25
IA SHOW FOR BASE BALL.
Savannah has Little Prospect Of a
Club Next Year.

-. Talk of a State League, but 1t is
81. EucouraginR-The Texas and
c.r,ral Leagues Take Up the Old
..,+bern League Territory-McClos-
,.v+o Manage the Louisville Team
- season-What is Going on in the
world Of Sport.
The average baseball fan is Just now
.-zering whether on not he will have the
,lsssrre Of seeing professional baseball
his city next year. The prospects just
,,u. are certainly not very encouraging.
rss old Southern League has been re-
,f-sf and in its place has risen the Texas
.,l the Central Leagues, and Savannah
ts Dot in a position to enter either one of
tbose leagues.
There has been some talk Of organiz-
Ing state league composed Of savan-
nah. Atlanta, Augusta, Macon, Columbus,
on5 taking in Charleston to make it a six
crrb league. A league so framed, with a
good man at its head as president, a sal
srv limit of about $SOo-and a very good
team can be got together at that figure
and a short season, beginning about the
middle Of April and closing about Sept.
{ before the busy season commences,
would no doubt meet with success. At
bnta, however, will probably be in the
Central League and another city will have
to be taken in its place. Columbia, s.
e. could be substituted and the league
made an interstate.
John ]. McCloskey, who managed the
savannah team last season, has been en-
gagged to manage the Louisville team
for next year. .McCloskey has many frienus
10 this city who are pleased to hear of
his good fortune. He has already taken
the relns Of management and has signed
several good men.
There will be a lively time in National
League circles this winter. The winter
has generally been dull and uninterest-
ng with the base ball people but this
wear The National League has opposition
in the form of the association, which is
on the order of the old brotherhood. The
projectors of the new league promise
10 set hot pace for their competitors,
and have begun by signing, or claiming to
have signed, several of the best players
in the old league at enormous salaries.
suspendIng every player who mas had
anything to do with the new league. Al
together, the situation is promising of
some very lively tunes.
The IrrepTessIDle Ted Sullivan is still
IN the ring. Teddy has accepted a fran
ohise in the Texas League, and is just
now fitting here and there gathering
players for his team, and incidentally
iollying newspaper reporters. Teddy says
he is gong to show the people of Texas
what real good base bail is next year.
Beginning Tuesday there will be in
augurated at the Madison Square Garden
In New York city such a carnival of bi-
cycle racing as New York has never seen.
The meet viii last for a week. There
will be eight races every day, three class
A, three class B, and two professional.
Arthur Augustus Zimmerman, better
known as "Elm," the Jersey Skeeter,"
and numerous other aliases, has returned
from over the water, where he has been
busy the last six months gathering in
the shel.els, and will be on exhibition.
zimmerman has brought with him a CO.
ttrle OF foreign riders, who are also en-
tered With the best riders of the world
in attendance Father Time will certainly
have to get a move on himself.
Pnkey Bliss, the little Rambler scorcher, |
is soon to become a benedict. Mrs. Bliss
'o-be is a Miss Elliott, a charming young
lady Of Chicago, who rides a wheel, wears
boomers, and thinks Pinkey can beat
anything in the country.
Many changes viii take place in cycling
IN 49, Makers of medium grade wheels
are confronted with the necessity of low
erus their prices or improving their prod
net and many of them are doing the for
mer
The great race track at Waltham, Mass,
has always been considered the finest
rack in the country, but it now has a
hFdI in the new track which was
opened at Louisville last Week. The
rack is one of the finest in the world.
The opening was attended by all the
racks, and was marked by the breaking
n several records.
Reports from Tybee say that both Demp-
Sel and Bowen are every day getting in
better trim. The salt sea air and the bath
ing seem 10 have a wonderful effect on
me men, and they will both be in fight
ing condition two weeks before the
matches are to come off.
The Seaside Athletic Club of Coney
Island Will hold its next tourney Monday,
NoE. g. The principal attraction of the
night viii be the 2O-round contest between
blIlY Plimmer and Charley Kelly. The
alHcies supulate that the men shall
"eish IN at ia pounds. Several minor
polls viii precede the evenings sport.
The report that there is a possible
nance that the Legislature of Florida
Ilal pass law prohibiting boxing in the
s.als has raised the question whether the
rloposeu encounter between Bob F'itzsim-
mons and Jim Corbett will have to be
pISlponed. The only other available
EiaC5 ior the fight is either at New Or
@,eaas @ or in England. In the event of
Poslponement, new articles will have to
w signed by both men. The situation in
nutshell looks as if It would be some
M ~. Defore Corbett viii have a chance
" ueIend the championship.
.1ns University of Pennsylvania foot
hs"u team has shown itself worthy Of
1ns tlassed with the teams of Yale and
va .'-' ,ard II has recently defeated Prince
~. 1uI Cornell. On Thanksgiving day