Evening star., 1899-03-03
GAMES
Schedule Adopted by the League
Magnates Last Night.
END OF TIE new YORK MEETING
A Large Amount of Business
Quickly Transacted.
CURRENT SPORTING NOTES

The New York Sun today publishes the
full schedule of games of the National
League for the season of 80, and says that
it was secretly adopted by the magnates
just before adjournment last night. The
Washington club has the following dates
at home and abroad
At Home.
With Boston. April 20, 81. %. "a, May Is,
16 July 3; with Brooklyn. April %, May 1,
3 8, October 3, 4, 3; with New York, April
%. &c. 21, 2s, October Il, 13, IA; with Phiia-
delphia April Is, 49, June IL, 13, Septem-
ber 6, I. s; with Baltimore. June IA, 16, July
4 o. August u, October 6, o; with Pitts
burg. May Is, 10. 81, June 1, August 16, IL,
IS; with Cleveland, July 1S, 10, 20, Septem-
Der 10. 10. Is: with Chicago, June 6, Z, s, Au-
gust s, o. 10, IL: with Cincinnati, July IL,
Il. 13, September IL. 12 13. IA: with Louis
vile, July IA, 10. II. September 90, 81, %
(a.m. and p.m); with st. Louis, June 2 3,
), August Il, IA, Is (a.m. and p.m.).
Abroad.
At Philadelphia, April Is, II, June 8. 10.
September (a.m. and p.m.). g. At New
York May ), g. s. o, July (a-m. and p.m),
). AT Brooklyn, May TO- H. II, Is, Septem-
Der 23, ~. 26 At Pittsburg. May 20. %. 90
NtIi anu pill) July -, 20, 30 ~ NAcNS-
land, May % %, "A, July 81, %, q, 25. At
Chicago, May %, &c. 81. 2s, July 80, 81,
August 1. At Baltimore. June 15, July 6,
S. August 10. p, October T. o. At St. Louis,
June 1S 19. 20 II, August 27, 2S, 20. At
Louisville, June %, "a, %, g. August 81,
September 1, .. At Cincinnati, June IS, 20,
July 1, 2, %, August "A. 26. At Boston,
August 4, >, 1, September p, 2S, 20, 30.
fIo roo hot
terday's meeting of the National League
magnates in New York was the most i'm
portant in years. They were in session
only about three hours, but in that time
legislation pushed through with an ef-
fectiveness that almost amounted to rev.
olution. The magnateS most radical stand
was their refusal to hearken to the advice
of President Brush of the Cincinnati club
Mr.. Brush has been going TO the front in
base ball politics with giant strides i'll the
past two years and that he should be
checked in his advance demonstrates con-
clusively that the other magnates desire to
have something to say about tie inside
and outside workings of the league. The
situation then resolves itself into the inter
rCgation whether the league can get along
without Mr.. Brush, as he certainly can
thrive in his own Dailiwick without delvinS
into the politics of the game.
1t was thought yesterday morning that
long series of meetings were before the
ma gnates before adjournment would come,
Dut TO the surprise Oh everybody bOSilitSS
was pushed through with a rush, ard at I
O'Clock an adjournment was taken until
after the s.. Louis club has been sold,
which will take place about March II. Dur
ing the three hours session the Hlagnates
adopted the Brush resolution regulating the
conduct of players on the field, but tackled
important amendm nts to 1T. They then
took up the Rogers constitutional amend
ments. and these too, We're adopted The
| rules committee report was also adopted,
| but the handicap placed on the Boston club
| on account Of a short left-feld fence was
knocked out. \ resolution was passed. de-
| fning the status of any club that will take
| the place of the st. Louis team after the
SALE, and the farming laws We're radically
changed. The usual resolutions of thanks
to the different committees were passed,
and then an adjournment was taken sub
| jet to the call of President Young. The
| division of the gate receipts at the Phila-
| dephia Park was left unsettled.
| BY far the most important change made
| in league laws yesterday relates to farm
| ing" Hereafter no team may hold more
| than eighteen players on its reserve list.
| and before club can farm a player 10
| minor league team that player must be
| offered to ali the other league clubs at the
drafting price of the league to which the
| club wishes to send him. For example, if
| league club wished to send a player to
| Richmond it could not put a prohibitive
| price on such player and ask the other
| teams TO waive claim at that price, Dut
| must offer the player at $500. the drafting
| price. Mr.. Brush cannot protect Indianap-
| oils players from being drafted by putting
| them on the Cincinnati reserve list and
| then farm them back to Indianapolis.
| The farming evil has done great injustice
| to players in the past and to league clubs
| without farms. Its abolition is a victory
| for fair methods.
| News concerning the players was very
/ scarce yesterday, with two exceptions
| Catcher Clarke of the BaltimoreS was sold
| cepted the terms of Messrs. Vonderhorst
| and Hanlon and will manage the Orioles
| the coming season. The selling of Clarke
| would seem to indicate that there will be
| no club in Baltimore the coming season.
| Cleveland being dropped also and the cir
| cult made up of ten clubs Everything de-
! pends upon the sale of the ST. Louis club
| and should this transaction go through ali
| right the moves of the magnates at the
| extra session will be watched with great
| interest
Messrs. Brush and Wagner had a short
| conference yesterday that should prove
| very satisfactory to both from a financial
| standpoint. The Pittsburg club opens in
| Cincinnati Saturday, April 10. The Pirates
| will not play Sunday games next season
| and the Reds would be left without an at
| traction on the most important day of the
| week in Cincinnati. 1t was arranged that
| Immediately after the opening game with
| the Phillies in the Quaker city the Senators
| will board a train and should reach Gin
| cinnati the next morning, play the Reds In
| the afternoon and then return to Phila-
| deiphia In time for the Monday game
| Considerable money is involved in the
| transaction. but poor train service and bad
| weather may knock the plans of the mag
| mates 'gallywest."
| GAME AND FISH PROTECTION.