Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-12
WILL. Hal MON MOVE ?
Brooklyn's TT esfsr to Washington
Still b hg Discussed.
FAVORED y EVERYBODY
An Expensive ETeam Must Draw
Well o4h lose Money.
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GENERAL SPORTING NEWS
GENERAL SPORTING NEWS

The rurnored transfer Of the Brooklyn
club to this city will not down. The ar
ticle in Saturdays Star has gone over the
National League circuit of cities land in
every paper in which comment has fol-
lowed on the subject the transfer has been
viewed with favor The poor attendance in
Brooklyn mas not only hurt the home club.
but the visiting teams have already drifted
far behind last years receipts.
Washington was good city to come to.
even with a tail-end club. say several Of
| the managers, but with a first-class team
receipts far above the ordinary would as
suredly follow.
Brooklyn is in second place and Pittsburg
| in third These two clubs came together
| in the former city yesterday and a crowd
Of ], 700 witnessed the game. Let the game
be played in this city under the same cir
| cumstances and a crowd of 1000 at the
least would be in attendance. Foxy Ned
Hanlon knows the situation from A to Z.
and the opinion expressed in Saturday
Star that the Brooklyn club will play it's
first game at National Park about July II
still holds good.
The queer part Of the agitation, from
Brooklyn standpoint, is the persistency
with which the base ball officials of that
city stick to the assertion that the club is
doing well and making money. In the face
of these statements are the reports sent
home by the treasurers of the different
clubs in the league after they have visited
the town annexed to New York. Without
exception every club treasurer has set up
wall of disappointment their expectations
of big receipts being showed under by the
slim attendance. A club in almost any Do
sition In the championship race can be de-
pended upon to do good business in the
early part of the season, but the receipts
at Brooklyn have been uniformly bad, and
but for the big crowds that welcome the
champions away from home MeSsrs Han
Ion. Ebbitts and Vonderhorst would quit
losers on the season. 1t is already admit
ted that the Baltimore contingent, Hanlon
and Vonderhorst, want the change, but the
Brooklyn end of the organization are, of
course, in favor of their own city The
question to be considered is how long the
Brooklyn end can stand the losing-money
pace.
The following paragraph was taken from
Philadelphia paper under last Sundays
date:
Business Manager Bancroft of the Gin
cnnati team, in discussing the rumor that
Brooklyn would transfer its team to Wash
ington. said he hoped 1t was true story
He says the champions are drawing very
poorly. and thinks with the team fighting
for first place Washington would be an ex-
cellent city to move to-
Ed Grillo. base ball editor Of the Gin
cinnati Commerciai-Tribunc, is with the
Reds in Philadelphia. end wired to his pa
per from that city yesterday as follows:
Notwithstanding persistent dcn1dlS
OF all concerned, 1t would not be at all
surprising to find the Brooklyn team
transferred to Washington ere long. The
championship teap has not been support
ed by Brooklyn as it should be. Hanlon is
carrying a large salaricd team and unless
the city supports it he cannot stay there
Washington is a much better base ball city
than BROOKLYN For years the capital sup
ported a losing. tail-end team we'll enough
to allow its osvaer tn put away neat
chunk of coin every year. 1t would nat
urally support a team of the caliber of
the Brooklyns. much better. Talk of such
a change has been going on for some time
ard. while it is still dcried. 1t would not
be surprising if it were effected before the
season is much older. 1t would be hu-
initiating blow of fate to force Hanlon to
transfer his team from Brooklyn after
having deserted Baltimore He would get
little sympathy from the old home of the
Orioles. where folks are still sore that they
were stricken off the base ball map"