The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-23
Manager Leonard Signs Harry
Myers of New Haven to Play
InfieId on Worcester Team
HAD A GOOD RECORD
WITH MANCHESTER
Worcester Manager Thinks Local
Sporting Men Are Slow inNot
Taking an Interest in Club

Harry Myers is the latest acquisition
to the Worcesters. His terms have been
accepted by Manager Frank ]. Leonard
of the club, who is now in Lynn. Myers
belongs in New Haven He played with
the Manchesters of the New England
league, last season. He is an infielder
and covered third base for the Manches-
ters and is reported as a fast fielder and
capable of getting into the game in
faster company than the New England
league was
Manager Leonard is favorably inn
pressed with the plan of John T. Brush
to shorten the minor league season to
three and half months and then play
Eastern and Western leagues together
for one trip of each league. This is the
plan that Manager Connie Mack of the
Milwaukees spoke so highly of when
interviewed by The Spy man few days
since. Manager Leonard thinks the plan
Will make franchises of minor league
teams valuable The Worcester man
ager evidently thinks Worcester sport
ing men a trife slow in not accepting
an offer of half interest in the Wor-
cester club in case they will equip a
grounds. Concerning the present status
of the Worcester team he writes in ans
wer to an inquiry from The Spy: 1.-THE
addition of Baltimore and Washington
to the Eastern league would greatly en-
nance the valuation of the different
franchises. 1t seems strange to me that
somebody in Worcester doesn't come to
the front, and, by securing a half in
terest in the club, make sure of retain
ing Worcester as a member of the East
ern league, thereby insuring the reten-
ton of the franchise in Worcester. Mr.
Selee and are willing, in consideration
of any parties building and equipping
| a grounds, to take them as equal part
| ners, we to put the franchise, players
and all properties Of the club against
their plans, form a stock company and
GIVE THEM so PER CENT OF THE
STOCK.
"Comiskey being asked recently to
name figure for his st. Paul club,
quoted $4,000. The Toronto Ferry Co.
paid in the neighborhood of $500 for the
Toronto club. Judging from these fig
ures and comparing the relative merits
of the different clubs named, the Wor-
cester club, on the basis we have
named, is very reasonable"
The statement of Mr.. Leonard about
! insuring a retention Of the franchise in
| this city may open possibilities that
have not been considered in the specu-
| lations that have been made from time
| to time by Worcester base ball patrons
on the ground question. AS some of the
| clubs of the present Eastern league will
| be dropped in case Mr. Brush's plan
goes through and Baltimore and Wash
| ington are dropped from the National
league, the management of the Wor-
cesters may have in mind the transfer
ring of the franchise to some other city
or selling it to some other city if nobody
| offers to accept their proposition.
Whether Baltimore and Washington
would prove of material value to the
Eastern league over cities in the pres
lent circuit isn't so absolutely certain.
Both cities were in league that in
| cluded Worcester about decade ago
and neither was entitled to a blue rib
| bon. While both cities are considered
| just below National league timber, a
minor league is a vastly different propo-
sition and possibly they wouldn't be any
| better in a minor league than they are
now in the big league Cities that have
been members of the National league
and are now playing in minor leagues
aren't showing any too fast pace to
cities that were never members of the
big league. , at that in nearly all
cases years have interviewed between
their dropping from the big league to
| their joining a minor.