Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-18
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Pictures of the Future.

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Two or three incidents will show like
fiashlight- pictures what is coming in the
future. Upon the subject of playing ball
on Sunday Mr.. Croker is on record that
he favors it. Possibly this bears out the
rumor that he is the owner of the New
York Base Ball Club. Whether Sunday
base ball is right or wrong is not the ques
ton. The point is that owing to the fact
that Mr. Croker, through his friend, Mr..
Freedman, owns a controlling interest in
the New York Base Ball Club. for the first
time in the history of the national game
base ball playing on Sunday in this city
will probably be the rule. The example of
New York will undoubtedly be followed as
far possible in the other eastern cities.
The games will be well attended: they will
divide patronage honors with Coney Island,
which, under the lax administration of
Tammany Hall, opposed as it Is to sump-
tuary and Sunday legislation, may be ex-
pected to blossom out into new glories and
new wickedness next season.
The purchase Of the race horse Ham,
burg by an unknown for about S6D,OOO
has called forth comment by sporting men
in this city that the horse has been bought
by a syndicate headed by Mr.. Croker. Mr..
Croker may deny that he owns Hamburg,
but Mr.. Croker has learned to deal in syn
dicates' in these latter days, ard the de-
NAL may mean nothing. Whether Mr..
Croker owns Hamburg or not it seems
that horse racing in Its worst forms is
about to be revived in New York city and
vicinity. Inasmuch as Croker made such
a dismal failure in racing alongside the
horses of the Prince of Wales on the other
side of the water his friends wish him bet
ter luck Oh this side.
That CreedOn-McCOy Fight.
A forecast of what may be expected was
found in the attempt of the ministers of
Long Island City to induce the governor to
stop the Creedon-McCoy fight scheduled
he wi NV thew
did not appeal to the local authorities.
Mayor Gleason is more despotic than the
car" the clergymen explained. He is
working hand and glove with the worst
clements of the town."
But why dent you see the sheriff or
the district Attorney" inquired the gov
ernor.
1--WE have done so, but they are as bad
as the mayor" explained the ministers.
The governor doubted his right to as
sumo that. the law would be violated by
the local authorities.
One thing that is certain to raise a storm
on the part of the newspapers Is the pos
sible passage by the state legislature OF
the Ellsworth anti-cartoon bill. This meas
ure which failed in the last legislature, Is
said to be certain Of success in the next
Senator Grady at the time his nomination
was prevented by the outcry raised by
the daily papers announced that he would
have hia revenge and that he would force
the Ellsworth bill through the senate.
Croker Is said to be in favor of the ELS
worth bill The proprietor of one of the
daily papers, an exponent OF the new
Journalism" Is said to have served notice
siderable Tammany following because OF
his influence that the newspaper Will not
only test the constitutionality OF the law,
but that its guns will be trained on Croker
and Tammany Hall. In this event Tam
many and the city administration viii be
without influential newspaper support.