New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-02-25
IN THE FIELD OF SPORTS.
BASEBALL MEN GETTING TOIh hEn

rur GIANTS tn REPORT ro.DAY-ARRANGING FOR
INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE CONTESTS -
LIVELY GOLF SEASON EXPEcTEp-AMERi-
CANS ALWAYS PAY THE FREIGHT
The baseball PLAYERS are getting ready 10 hvaoe
the South, while the club-owners nave ,ai"eu .'."
|ace. toward New-York The Giants Will report to-
- s ,a~. ,or savannah tomorrow. and. with
,ha convention at the Fifth Avenue Hotel which
begins to-day, the lively incidents IN the oaseoaii
wear can be said TO have begun Inc pdsepaii ell
thusast emerges from his -FOUR mohths retirement
WITH feeling of JOY He will start in training his
vocal chords at once. to be In good voice wnen
~. onening games played here about April l.
Tho meeting of the Playing Rules Committee OF
The National League will be held at the Flfth Ave
nue. Hotel to-day. Edward Hanlon the chairman OF
IN. committee has been In correspondence with the
other club-owners about contemplated changes In
the rules and as the committee has already laid out
i,s pIan Of action the meeting should not be pro-
traced one. The most important question to be de-
cIded will be the pitchers position There Is no ike
Nhood that the pitcher Will be put back into the
Old square or box, has been stated. The slao
however against which pitcher must rest his foot
in pitching. may be lengh ened from twelve to
twenty-four inches. This will give the pitcher
slight advantage over the rules Of last year.
Manager Davis will remain quietly at NO l."
Broadway to-day, and receive the Giants as 'hes &c.
port for duty. Several players, who are now III '"e
West, will go South directly iIoii '"N :.
The PLAYERS who report here VIII start Ioi '"
sonyille on the steamer Tallahassee tomorrow an"
Davis expects to return and open the locai S 80,
AZ the Polo Grounds about April ]. NICK H.e'e
will he the host at beefs,eak dinner 10 NC bbnmai
schedue meeting Of the League VIII pe He'u y"
Wednesday.
Athletic sports will have an internatloena id,Vs
+h,s year 10 n larger extent than ever peloie; a.
Sa,,hff, however whether q team OF Ensnsn ~ ~
Ill nIavers will visit this country next IAN. me
Assocation game here has not arrived al thdt otas.
or nonularty which would warrant the expense vi
sending a team 10 this country. ,,, .,,u,ors
That a team of intercollegiate athletic cniHiplohs
will go 10 England compete against me Dest lneii
AZ oxford and Cambridge seems propaDie, aIinousn
IL is not assured by any means Many oDs.asieS ar
hridgs might not agree upon such an arrangement.
and then some OF the larger colleges here might not
assent TO such a schedule; $500 - r,,u,ord hr.
Ii cost Yale $500 send her team 70 f.hsaI,u. pu
.ha nronosed tour of all-college team might hot
he so expensive for the college boys may nave '"e
Games in better weather than Yale met Win.
ANYWAY America pays the freight ana seems
.on.ssn, 70 do so American generosity has seldom
sbnne ont more clearly than has done In the pres
ent international controversies Inc New lDIk 81.
ie,ic club will pay the expenses or the fngsh yea III
a. This country and the intercollegiate athetlc AS
Isolation will pay the expenses or the American
TO England
Golf is likely 10 have considerable following TINS
year and the United states Golf Ass0cia'osh ma
ALREADY made arrangements Tor tne hoIunk oI a TIC
onen championship will he eligible 70 amateurs ana
nrofessionals The first prize will be wv OF whlcn
IA will be expended in gold medal and sloI gwen
in money 10 a professional or expended ~ pia,e 10
on amateur Applications for membership should
be sent 10 II. q. Tallmage. NO. ~ "htehali-s''
city.