The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-28

The troubles of the Eastern league
continue to grow instead of lessen.
Ever since the cut in salaries the Syra-
cuse team has been losing more money
than ever, and if the following from
the Syracuse Standard is correct the
Stars are in a bad way just now
UNLESS the attendance picks up SUBJ
stantially during the next two days
the Syracuse base ball team may not
come back to Syracuse after the trip
to Buffalo and Toronto. While the
team costs 500 a month less tnan it
did before the cut and while railroad
fares and hotel bills are less. toe, the
attendance, little enough a month ago,
is even less now. The team certainly
will not finish the season unless there
is decided pickup in attendance.
Since he made the offer of 81, 900 cash
to the team to finish the season Mr..
Kuntzsch haslost nearly $1,000. The
players showed themselves financi rs
in declining the tempting bait offered
them The team, formerly the most
expensive in the league, is now cheaper
than most others, and is playing as
good ball as any-as good, in tact, as
did the $500 team. And yet the at
tance of the cost. There are seven
weeks left in the season yet and no
prospect of an Improvement in attend
ance.
TRANSFER OF CLUB.
Worcester is anxious to get the
Syracuse team and franchise, but Wor-
cester is not likely to get it, Roches-
ter is a more probable candidate. The
attendance at Rochester during the
last weeks of the season there was a
great deal better than in Syracuse.
The team was bad. 1t not only played
poor ball, but the crowd, led by Bon
ner and Boyd, have killed baseball
wherever they have played.
Rochester didn't support a losing
team, but Syracuse hasn't supported
winning team. The Syracuse team
in Rochester probably wouldn't make
money, but it would do better financial
ly there than in Syracuse, and better
than the Hoboes did there. No offer
has been made to the owners of the
park, but the plan of transferring the
club to Rochester for the remainder of
the season is being considered.
And if the Rochester people show
the desire to have the team there that
they are expected to, the team will be
transferred. In that case the team will
probably play Sundays at Star park,
and although they wouldn't be the
Syracuse team any more, there would
be paying crowds there to see them
1t wouldn't satisfy Syracuse to lose
the team, but the team certainly will
be lost unless there is a pickup in at
tendance at once
In an interview Mr.. Kuntzsch, the
owner of the Stars, said that if the
attendance does not improve the club
will in all probability be moved
NEW LEAGUE SCHEME.
There is also a scheme on foot to div
ide the Eastern league into two sec
tiors next year. A despatch from Sy-
racuse says that Manager Buckenber-
ger of the Stars, has written letters to
baseball men in cities of Central and
Western New York and of Canada, to
test their feeling towards the PROPOSE
ton that an international league be
formed next season from the Eastern,
cutting out the New England towns
and Wilkes Barre. The advantage
gained is not only in getting towns
that are considered better patrons
but in making more compact circuit
So that railroad fare shall be less,
The towns which it is proposed shall
constitute the league are Syracuse.
Utica. Rochester and Pufalo, Mon &.
treal, Ottawa, Toronto and Hamilton.
AS Rochester has always supported
good team literally, and also has one
Of the best baseball grounds in this
country 1t is almost certain that some
attempt will be made to put a team in
this city next season.