Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-21
BASE BALL IS MUpDLED.
Too Much of the Game. May Spoil the
 Whole Thing.

100 MUCH OIFtne GamesAay spoil the
 Whole Thing
 New York, Jan 2l.--There will be an abundance of base ball this year. That it may be base ball of the best class is the fervent wish of all the cranks. That the New York club will do its utmost to place their team at the top of the heap is evidenced by the trading of Doyle for Garvin, Strong and Ganzel and the drafting of Casey, Crisham and Connor. This new blood should rejuvenate the Giants and make of them not only championship possibility but cham pionship probability. As the New York club nowis made up it has one of the strongest outtields in the country. It is composed of players who can bat as well as field, and this is what makes league class ill a ball player.
 Fortunately for the peace of mind of lceal cranks there will be neither American association nor American league teams anywhere in Greater New York. Otherwise the future of the game would not look so bright. Here there will be no division of in- terest. Every lover of the game in Manhattan and the Bronx may rally Sl while the Brooklynites will have a field all their own. Here there will be no rival clubs, as will be the case in Bos- ton, in Philadelphia and other cities equally unfortunate. It is an evil day for the game when base ball men get to quarrelling among themselves. In base ball squabbling spells ruin for those who squabble, a lesson once learned, but which evidently must be learned all over again.
 This season ought to be the bright est and best base ball season New York has known in some years. There was a time when it looked as if the general use of the bicycle might af- feet base ball injuriously, but that dan- ger has passed. Golf, too, has threat ened to do it harlh, but golf is not to be feared. So long as men are boys before they become men, base ball is bound to he popular. For ten boys who play golf there are ten thousand who play base ball, and love of the game fingers with these boys long after their boyhood days have passed. And nowhere except on the diamonds of the National league can base ball be seen at it's best.
 In the cities in which the American association and the American league or the National league and the Ameri- can league are rival bidders for the patronage of the base ball public there base ball is bound to suffer. Baltimore, which would not support one first class team, will be asked to support two teams of the second class, and for . time it may do it.
 But the change is bound to come, and there can be no doubt that it will come all too soon for some Of the combinations owning rival clubs. Then there will be q crash, with the prob ability that history will repeat ltselt and find the team supported by the DE league coming out on top. There Will be a loss of money all around; there will be a decrease ill public interest, and. so far as the players are con cerned, probably cut in salaries.
 If the men associated with "Mugsy'. NIcGraw ill the American league heed the words of Frank De Haas ltobi- son. president of the St Louis National league club, they will be exceedingly wary in their dealings with the scrap py little player. McGraw's skill. whether in playing ball or in driving a bargain cannot be questioned.
 According to President Robison Me Graw was not only guilty of double dealing with the proposed National as sociation last winter, but with the club which he himself organized as well. Then he did not sign a St Louis con- tract until he received $500 to pay man to run his saloon in Baltimore. McGraw is able to take care of him. self even in the American league.
 Boston. Jan 21.-A friend of Hugh Jennings here has received word from the Brooklyn player that his contract with Cornell will keep him at Ithaca until the close of the college season iu June. For that reason he is out of base ball, so far as accepting the man. aGement of the American league team in this city or the management of a team in any other city.
 Princeton. N. J., Jan 21.-Captain Green, of the base ball team, an nounces that former Captain Arthur Hiliebrand has been chosen to coach the base ball team. Hillebrand will ar- rive, here about April ]. Cage prac tice will begin about February 20 Catcher William Clarke of the Boston league team will arrive here ill March | to assist in the preliminary practice. He will remain until April. when the team will go on it's southern trip. It also has been announced that James Robinson Will train the base ball and track teams.