New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-03-15
A SCHEDULE AGREED UPON
END OF THE EASTERN LEAGUE CONvEN-
TON
THE BROOKLYN TEAMS HARD LUCK IN THE

THE BROOKLYN TEAMS HARD LUCK IN THE
soUrH-GERMANs PROMISING WORK.
The delegates to the annual spring convention Of
the Eastern Baseball League finished their labors at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday and most of the
club owners left for their respective homes last
night all ready for the season. The general i'm
preston is that the coming season will be profit
able one. The important business before the
convention yesterday the adoption Of play
ing schedule. and this was accomplished with less
trouble than is usually the case President Powers
presented a schedule, and 1t adopted without a
dissenting vote 4 vote Of thanks was rendered
President Powers for his valuable services, and the
impartial manner in which he had distributed the
''pums.'
The championship season will open April % and
close on September Is Each club is scheduled 10
play liz games Sc at home and many away from
home Sunday games will be played at Buffalo,
Providence and Rochester. While these games are
scheduled. they will count in the championship
race. Every club will have ten Saturdays at
home except Buffalo. which will have only nine
They will play away from home eleven Saturdays
AS the good dates" have been equally distributed
or nearly so, there were protests. The games
have been arranged that the Toronto Club will be
at home during the Canadian holidays including the
Queens Birthday.
The holiday dates have been distributed as fol-
lows:
Decoration Day-Buffalo VS.. Toronto at Buffalo:
Rochester vs. Syracuse at Rochester; Wilkesbarre
VS. Scranton at Wilkesbarre; Providence VS.. Spring
field, at Providence
July 4-Buffalo Rochester. at Buffalo; SYRIA
cuse VS. Toronto, at Syracuse: Scranton VS.. Wilkes
barre at Scranton; Providence VS.. Springfield, at
Providence.
Labor Day-Toronto VS.. Scranton. at Toronto;
Buffalo VS. Springfield, al Buffalo; Rochester vs.
Providence at Rochester, Syracuse vs. Wilkes
barre. at Syracuse
The Spading ball again adopted and the
arrangements for the telegraph contracts for the
different grounds left In the hands OF Pres-
dent Powers to adjust he may think proper.
Last year. when the Troy club disbanded, the
Troy players went to Providence on their own &C
count and played out the schedule OF games. These
games counted in the championship. Hereafter II
such games are played they cannot be counted IN
the championship.
In the future the home club may demand that
game postponed by rain shall be played on the next
scheduled day. in there is no other open GATE.
This will compel visiting team TO play TWO games
in day whether IL wishes TO or not AS pain
the visitors, the home club in such cases must
give the visiting team $50 or 40 per cent or the
gate receipts.
The Brooklyn team is having the worst kind of
luck In the South. The Brooklyn and Washington
teams had three games scheduled at savannah ana
II rained each day. The two teams moved on to
Charleston, where rain again interfered with the
game.
If Germans work at Jacksonville yesterday can
be taken a criterion he may duplicate his feat or
1893, when he led the National League pitchers