New-York tribune., 1894-02-04
GETTING PE1DT FOR EfSLGiLL
PLAYERS ALREADY DOING GYNNAslrM WORK
SUBJECTS FOR TIL CoNNEN1lo% I'D


CONSIDTlt
Another month ard the followers or baseball w!n
be nearly in their glory. By that time the makeup
og the teams will be determined upon, the various
schedules VII be issued the players VIII b. starting
their preliminary work AMI nclriy everybody VIII
he looking forward 10 the opening games Baseball
xnerts are predicting for 1894 one Of the most sue
cessful baseball seasons IN the history o. tne sport
The candidates for the places the various college
teams are hard at work even at THIS cary Ha'' ''i
the PLAYERS will take the field for practice as soon
as the weather VIII permit Yale, Harvard ana
Princeton candidates are showing good forh ana
the prospects FOR capable team at Co'HmD'h O'-
lege are brighter than for several years
In the professional field the players at last rccoS-
nize the importance Of getting into condluon carry
in the wear and fewer fat and habby payers VIII
report for duty this year than in the past Advance
money has been a scarce article this winter when
in a measure accounts for the new order or thines
Letters received daily by the officials OF the New
York and Brooklyn cubs show that most OF me
Giants and Brdegrooms have begun gymnas!uin
work Burke and Wilson hard at Work IN
gymnasium in Harlem, and word j. received from
Indianapolis that the mammoth Rusie is twenty
mounds lighter than he was when he left the club
last fall II this IS true Ruse should report iorty
pounds lighter than he d.d last year. ana his pi'ch-
Ing during the coming season ought to be the best
Of his really remarkable career.
BASEBALL RULES AND SCHEDULES.
The present month will be an interesting one 70
club owners and players well as to followers OF
the game. Players are 70 be signed, the ruIes 70
be changed. schedules adopted and spring tours are
10 be arranged The Rules Committee of the Ma
tional League, which consists Of \. }. l'each, OF
Philadelphia; John r. Brush, Of Cincinnati ana e.
Won der Abe, OF s.. Louis, Will meet at cincinnati
tomorrow 10 decide what changes are advisable IN
the playing rules. AZ these rules VIII govern ABOUT
all the professional as well as the amaio ar games
g., ,ncc c1fa
tee should make no changes without considering the
subject carefully The rules Ia use last year cannot
be improved upon % any great extent ior the
changes made in 1893 accomplished about all the re-
forms then needed. The new pitching rule worked
like charm and It would be nonsensical to make
further change in this direction The only real re-
form In sight Is the rule relating TO the bunt hlt'
that scientific play which caused 80 much as
cussion last summer and during the present WINTER
Thinking players managers and club-owners have
had plenty Of time 10 study this play and the gen
eral opinion seems to be that n mistake VIII be
made il It IS eliminated. Modify bit don cast II
out The rule Is a good one as II H. ana @ IL can
be made better by careful pruning Tne bunt prop
tbe most scientific features in baseball today. When
a player attempts to bunt and a loul results, let
The foul be called strike. This will prevent bum
glers and natural ''suggers' IRON 2i''npalhs - -
s really fatieung to see batsnen Ike OIiourke
Brouthers Connor and Thompson try to bunt
80 PRIzE-FGHTEEs WANTED
Tho suggestion made by Edward Hanion. the
president of the Baltimore club. that C0rbrti. the
cbampion pr!ze-Gghter, become a baseball player
has started Il hornets nest into actvity-somcthing
uanlon did not expect Prize-hghting ana baseball
,o. ,vant together and they never will. ana If the
clubs who are after Corbett insist upon SIGNING MN
,aro ,vill be a lively controversy over the matter AT
~ annual convention Of the National League
witch viii be held at the Fifth Avenue Hotel on
February -. . - -. - ,,.A
rhc dispatches from Boston that John !. Brush
&, irving 10 sign Corbctt for the Cincinnati team are
nrobably unofficial. Latham the Cincinnati third
pasonan Is I'm Boston, ana AZ he IS "A notorious
o:n.n ne is probably responsible for the Boston
die"afches MIR Brush has always been known -
cb1,mninn the dignity Of baseball. and The League
and his friends will not believe that ne wants ID
,niT ha sebalI and pugillsm until they near him ad
NIT II. -. ,....,...i IN ., th. N,,f,,,I
aag,,c standard there would be- fewer objections -
tIy sirninp with club. but everybody Knows that
hn can do nothing Of the kind. Ihe cub which
"igocd hiu would do 50 merely for the eject cor
hgt,s nresrnce would have on the gaze rccrips. Np
sbjeshows Of any sort are needed IN uase'tl' Ihs
,a,nn has stood alone and II continue o. stand
%,hout any public betting and without champion
uugilists attached 10 1t. one enteIPrslhg manager
tSroatens mat in case Baltimore signs corbett he
wi sien ex-Oueen Eiluokalani 10 sell score cards