The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-31

that the lIOSL mas AEAA AlA- EAAAAAAtA e---N-
the players are actually in the field again.
his interest is absorbed in the race for the
championship pennant for 1895. The long
struggle for supremacy on the base ball
diamond will begin on April IS, and from
that date to the closing of the league
season at the end Of September. the play
will be as nearly continuous as bad
weather and the intervening Sundays will
permit.
Each club will play twelve games with
each Of the other clubs-six at home and
six abroad-a total Of 132 games for each
club. The schedule has some nOticeably
eood features this year. which are quite
new. Many Of the series Of games will be
broken up instead Of being played con-
secutively. A western team in the east
will not play three games with New York,
three with Brooklyn. three with Boston.
and so on, but in many cases viii play in
New York, then Brooklyn, then New
York again, and then two or three with
Boston, stopping on the return trip from
Beantown to complete the series with the
New Yorks and the Brooklyns. This
Breaking up OF the consecutive series of
games should increase the popular interest
by a greater variety Of opponents.
The season opens with the eastern clubs
pitted against each other and the west
ern clubs opposed by others from the same
section of the country. After this first
round, the eastern clubs go west and
make a tour of the west, playing three
ole
This section is followed by the western
teams coming east for a similar series
in June. Again east VS.. east and west
VS.. west, and again the eastern clubs
go west and the western clubs take their
turns in the east and then the shedule
winds up in September by another east
VS.. east and west vs. west series.
All agree that the prospects for good
ball large profits and extended public
interest were never brighter, and the
cranks are looking forward with UNI
bounded enthusiasm. OF course, each city
has its ''rooters," and all are equally con-
fdent Of the ultimate victory OF their
favorite teams, but the league race IS
vet to be run, and all predictions are
necessarily hazardous, for no one can tell
till they have played together what team
can do, and most of the teams have been
somewhat remodeled.
The New York Giants will start the
season with most favorable prospects.
Base ball enthusiasts as a rule, are very
optimistic, but there seems TO be good
reason for the great horde of metropon.
tan ''rooters" to believe their team Will
land near the top of the heap-if not on
the very apex of the pyramid-this sea-
son Last year wound up in blaze OF
glory, for although the Giants hnlshed
second to the Baltimore Orioles, they
~ l.. v.faaWna In 10 81 no
cial series of games for Temple cup,
PLAYED directly after the close of the reg
ular league season, they won four straight
victories from the Baltimoreans.
This spring there have been number
Of important changes in the Team, us
PLAYERS and it's managers. In the first
olace. Andrew Freedman, a New York
real estate dealer. has bought out con-
trolling interest in the club and now di-
rectz its movements Eddie" Talcott and
others of the old board of directors had
got tired sinking money in base ball, and
were glad to sell out their interests In the
management of the Giants. Freedman has
started in with unbounded enthusiasm.
He has secured a number OF new players
and has retained almost all of last years
strong team.
The chief loss to the club will be in
famous old johnny Ward the captain,
manager and crack second baseman Of
last years team. Ward is now pas;
master in the art of base ball, and has
grown almost too old for the
game. He has started in to study law,
and has given up base ball for good. His
old place will be hard to fill. Stafford and
little yale" Murphy are both being tried
in that position, and one or the other VIII
probably fill the place acceptably, though
not in Wards way. Davis will captain the
Giants this summer in their long cam
will act a { We'll
He plays third base. and is one
of the most reliable men on
the team. With such a quartette Of
pitchers as Rusie, Meekin, Clark and
German, and perhaps Knauss, the new
man, to fall back on, New York will be
strong in that department, which is half
the game in itself.
In Brooklyn there have been some
changes in the makeup of the Bride
grooms. Dave Foutz, last years captain
and manager. will give up playing this
season and devote all his energies to
managing the team. His eyesight bother
ed him before the end of last season, and
he had to stop playing bali for time.
Center-fielder Griffin will act as captain
of the team in his place. The Brooklyn
team has also been strengthened in the all
important pitchers box by the exchange
of Catcher Kinslow for Pitcher Gum
bert, of last years Pittsburg team.
Grimm's release has been bought from
Louisville, too, and he will take Kins-
lows place behind the bat.
At Washington there are a lot of new
men who are being tried for positions
on the Senator's team, and an effort is
being made to rejuvenate the club by an
infusion of new blood
In Louisville the same plan is being
tried. and the entire team from man
ager down to centerfelder is composed
of new men. all of whom are ambitious.
and thus need less squirting on than do
the veterans of the game Pfeffer will
probably captain the Louisvilles His
reinstatement was one of the disputed
points at the recent meeting of the Ma,
tional League. After long and bitter
argument, he was finally taken off the
blacklist. but only upon condition that he
pay fine of $500. for his connection with
the rival league scheme, and that he play
with no other team than Louisville this
season.
Buck" Ewing, the famous ex-captain
OF the New York Giants. has been signed
TO captain the Cincinnati team, and will
cover first base for them this season.
Ewing played with the Cleveland team
last year. until his arm gave out again.
when he gave up for the season This
year his arm seems to be in good shane
and BUCK is hack on the field a oafr