Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-01
NEW BALL LEAGUE R1D1CULED.

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turn to the initial sack
NEW BALL LEAGUE RIDICULED.
Big Masnates Say There is Nothing in
Report That There Will Be a War.
From the New York Sun.
For several weeks past there have been
rumors of a base ball league to COM
prise clubs located at St. Louis Chicago,
Detroit, Milwaukee, Washington, Balti-
more Philadelphia and New York. The
matter has been agtated almost exclusive
ly in the west but the only ground for the
story has been a statement by George
Schaefer of St. Louis, who has declared
that he controls 100000 in capital, will
back club in that city and will play ball
in the new organization. Schaefer inciden-
tally has named the above circuit, but he
cannot give facts or figures. The Mil
waukee club has gone on record through its
president Kililea to the effect that it will
either remain in the Western League or
succeed Cleveland in the National League
but under no circumstances will 1t enter
any organization that may prove antago-
nistic to those clubs under the protection
of the national agreement. President Won
der Beck of the Detroit club has made q
similar denel while Ban johnson, pres
sident of the Western League who was
alleged to be mixed up in the venture
says that any such move would be suicidal
At Chicago Captain Arson has been re-
ported as being Interested in rival club
According to those who know the veteran
best he has no money to invest in base ball.
and is sensible enough to keep out of the
war, the disastrous results of which he
familiar with in 1880. j. Earl Wagner of
the Washington club ridicules the story.
He says that he is quite sure that nobody
would try to place club in his town when
the present Washington club is a loser
Wagner is loyal to the National League for
the reason that he has received assurance
that in the reorganization of the circuit he
Will be protected. The idea Of placing
rival club in Baltimore is regarded as alb
surd, especially when it is considered that
that city is poor ball town with
winner. At Philadelphia, however there is
an undercurrent of feeling against Reach
and Rogers. For some time a syndicate
has been ready to run an opposition con-
Germ, but it is headed by ar experienced
base ball man and has declared itself in
favor of organized base ball and will not
do business unless it can receive protection
from the governing body.
The New York club is a financial failure
1t is also unpopular with members of the
league and the public. There is no way
that this club could desert the league until
the ten years agreement is up without an
ENHANCEMENT in the court. Freedman has
been mentioned of the promoters of
the new league, but this is hardly probable.
There is a syndicate here which has been
formed to place another club in Manhattan
borough as soon as the twelve-club circuit
dissoves.
IL lHeTe IS any truth IN the statement
that persons desire to back a rival league
it might be well for them, SO the league
men say, to go back to the base ball war of
1870 and learn something of the experience
OF those who attempted to assist the BROTH
erhood of ball players in its scheme to con-
troll the national game. OF nearly fifty men
who put up money in that year to fight the
league only two remain in base ball. They
are }. Earl Wagner of Washington and w
w. Kerr of Pittsburg. 1t is doubtful
whether the players of the National League
tf1la
for the reason that many of them recall the
fact that the veterans who went out in a
{ body in 1880 were within a couple of years
frozen out by young blood which Under
other circumstances would not have receiy
ed a chance to develop. Every league man
has taken the trouble to investigate the re-
port and all or them pronounce it absurd.
The Columbia.
The cup defender Columbia has been
| lowed up from Newport to Bristol by her
| tender, st. Michaels, to have her new steel
mats restepped. 1t had been turned slightly
at the heel. A few minor repairs were also
| made on the new topmast while the men
| were working on her mast
The blocks at the heel of the mast were
removed, and with the assistance of the
derrick archer the big steel mast was
| turned back, that her spreaders were
again horizontal with the boat
The new Oregon pine mast and bowsprit
arrived from Boston this morning, but no
attempt was made to change these spars,
and 1t is believed they will be used only in
case of accident.
Female Base Ball Players.
game of base ball at Union Park Will
mington, Del, yesterday, between the
Brownson team and a club, with Miss May
Belmont and Miss Pauline West as the bat
terry, almost ended in a riot. The 500 spec
tators were dissatisfied with the game and
when 1t over made a raid on the box
office, demanding that their money be re-
funded.
N. S. Franklin the manager refused to
comply with their demands. A crowd of
| angry people followed the girl players and
the manager to their hotel. Two policemen
went along to keep the players out of the
hands of the crowd
General Sporting Notes.
Teddy Hale, the Irish bicycle racer,
started from Holborn viaduct. London yes
| terday in an effort to ride 100 miles daily
for year. Sundays excepted.
The Dixon-Santry fight, scheduled to take
place at st. Louis last night, has been post
poned to August IL and transferred to the
Lenox Club of New York
Parson Davies said: IT could not obtain
a permit from the authorities there. The
things in that town."
The eastern tennis championship in
doubles was won yesterday at Longwoo6,
near Boston, by the Harvard team II.
Ward and D. F. Davis had no difficulty in
dsposing of G. r. Budlong and BeaIs
Wright in straight sets.
Champion Walter r. Mansfield has again
broken the worlds record for long-distance
casting. At Slow Lake, in Golden Gate
Park, San Francisco, yesterday, he beat
| his own previous record of 131 feet, casting
his line 1873 feet. In the accuracy event
he made 95 per cent and s. per cent in the
delicacy event