Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-18
NOT TOBEUT DOWN
The League Circuit 70 Remain I'm
changed fol 9laee Years.
WHAT PRESIDENTIAL. I. BRUSH SAYS
Captain Duffy WanN Jim Mcclure
to Gafoaa.
CURRENT SPORTING NOTES
CURRENT SPORTING NOTES

If there is one man more able than others
| to outline the future policy of the National
League it is John 7. Brush, president of
the Cincinnati club. He has been generally
accepted as the head of that organization,
not only on account of his shrewdness, but
his great business qualifications and good
horse sense, which placed him head and
shoulders above his colleagues He says
that the much talked-of changes'in the cir
cult are largely visions seen by newspaper
men during periods of mental abstraction,
and that the present twelve clubs will make
up the league for the next three years
Mr.. Brush also says that the Cleveland
players will surely go to st. Louis, and
that both Cleveland and Baltimore will be
represented by teams made up of players
left out of the two consolidated clubs 1t
is very seldom that the Cincinnati president
allows his name to get into print, espe-
cially when quotations. are used, but he
intimated that the discussion of the cir
cult problem was hurting the game and
that the championship chances of the diff
ferent clubs. the rules or the players them
selves are better subjects to talk about.
AS chairman of the committee on reform
upon the ball field Mr. Brush said that
some notifications will be recommended
with reference to what is called the Brush
resolution, adopted at St Louis last spring.
What the changes are he did not care to
discuss or specify, as they would have to
be passed upon by the committee
In a recent interview in the Boston Globe
Captain Hugh Duffy is quoted as saying
that he is satisfied with the Boston team
with the exception of the catchers. In
Duffys opinion Bergen is the daddy of all
backstops, while he also thinks pretty
Wei of Yeager; but he deplored the fact
that the Boston magnates had failed to
III a linn (.;1iya fro, h.
club. That is the one man we need to
make our team complete" said Duffy,
and / wouldn't be bit surprised to see
Hanlon land him for Brooklyn, while Bos-
ton sits and looks on. With Mcclure we
would welcome all comers.''
With the improvements that will be made
in several teams that are located in good
base ball cities the season of 1899 promises
to be the best the game has experienced in
some years. The removal of the Cleveland
team TO st. Louis Will turn that city from
dead un'' into paying city while a
poor team will fare no worse at Cleveland
than did Tebeaus warriors. This same
state OF affairs VIII 1EreYail in Brooklyn
and baltimore, although the home of the
The fact that the Eincinnatis, Chicagos
Philadelphias and L6uisvi1es have been
strengthened over last season will make
them more profitabs 10 themselves and to
visiting teams than they ware in 1898 New
York, Washington and PittSburg are in
doubt; but it is safe. to say that they will
be no worse in a financial way than they
were last season. Boston will be profitable
as usual. An this. and the fact that the
war is over, make it obvious that the sea-
son of 1899 will be more prosperous for big
league clubs than was 1898.
The directors of the Louisville club held a
meeting in that city yesterday and elected
barney Dreyfus president, instead of
Harry Pulliam, the latter being relegated
to the post of secretary. 1t was given out
that the team will leave for ThomasviIle
Ga, about the middle aof March, where it
will do its spring training AS the public
subscription for stock in the cub fell short
many thousands of dollars of what was eX-
pected, those subscribed for were refused
and the money returned with thanks. The
directors hoped to pick up something like
Slo,V'o or si3,UU through the subscriptions,
but only $500 was subscribed