Evening star., 1899-01-03
Manager Hanlon Favors Two Base
Ball Leagues.
TALKS ABOUT PLANS FOR next SEASON
Mccoy and Sharkey Ready fo'
Their Fight.
LITTLE MONEY WAGERED

Concerning his plans for next season
Manager Hanlon says:
Brooklyn has been hungry for a good
ball team for years, and 1 shall try to
give it a pennant winner If possible. We
do not expect, however. to give Baltimore
a poor team We shall have the nucleus of
first-class team in Baltimore to begin
with, and shall spare neither money nor
effort in building up a club of which we
and the city can be proud. provided, of
course that We can get any sort of en-
couragement and support from the press
and the public
Mr.. Hanlon expressed his regret at hav
ing to leave Baltimore, but said that the
circumstances were such that he was prac
tically compelled to make the change. He
admitted that the Baltimore club was for
sale. and said that he thought it would be
for the best interests of base ball for the
local club to be owned by local capitalists,
not interested in the Brooklyn club. He
said, however, that he would like to own
some stock in the Baltimore club and
would enter into a syndicate to buy 1t. 1t
was largely the Brooklyn men who wished
to sell their Baltimore interests which Is
quite natural, as it is the players and not
the Baltimore franchise that they want
Mr.. Hanlon admitted that an effort was
being made by McGraw and Robinson to
form syndicate to buy the club. If the
present owners held it, he said one of the
Baltimore players would be appointed man
ager, and that he himself would advise and
direct, more or less. Mr.. Hanlon said that
circumstances might have much to do with
which man should be appointed manager
and refused to say whom he was consider
ing for the position. From the drift of
what he said, however, it seemed quite
clear that McGraw was his choice He said
that Mr.. Barnie would not be elected
When asked whether he thought the effort
to form an eight-club league would be sue
cessful Mr.. Hanlon said:
" ou know as much as | do about It, I
am uniformed to what the other club
owners are trying to do if anything. 1
know that they would have difficulty in
forming the eight-club league now. Just
as soon as the matter was preached in
New YORK WaSnerS price for Washington
jumped up to 100000 and the Louisville
people withdrew their offer to sell. 1t
would cost good deal to buy out four
clubs. 1t would be much easier and much
wiser, in my opinion, to form two big
leagues, one in the east and one in the
west. An eastern league, made up of Bos-
ton, Providence, New York, Brooklyn, Phil
adelphia Baltimore, Washington and Pitts
burg or Buffalo, would be a big money
maker.
Just think of the immense saving such
a league would make in travelling expenses
short jumps, day travelling, few meals on
the route, no sleeping cars. Then in the
west line, compact league could be formed
of Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit Cleveland,
Pittsburg, Cincinnati, st. Louis and Louis
VILE or indianapolis. If intersectional con-
tests were wanted month might be set
apart in the fall for match games between
the best teams Of each league. | believe
such an arrangement would be better than
an eight-club arrangement with another
league, perhaps an opposition league as
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