Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-03-22
League Meeting Ends and
Schedule is Adopted.
ALL TEE MAGNAfES ARE SATISFIED
Old Playing Rules Good Enough
and No Changes Made.
SPORTS IN GENERAL

inc tHecliHS OI the American League
megnates in Philadelphia. which has kept
the base ball world agog for the past two
| days, came to an abrupt end early last
evening, with the announcing of the sched-
ule of playing dates for the season of 1901.
Several matters of great Importance were
| discussed during the meeting, but were
lightly dwelt upon owing to the time con-
sImed in rearranging the schedule. A set
of dates had been arranged earlier In the
| season but after the announcement of the
National League schedule at the New York
meeting 1t was deemed advisable to re-
acrange the American League schedule so
as to avoid as much as possible conflicting
dates.
There were three different schedules made
up and the one adopted was the one ar
ranged by President johnson and Charles
Ccmiskey. Conflicts were avoided as far as
possible and the schedule will stand. If
the National League should meet again and
rearrange its schedule so as to conflict in
more games no further change will be
made and the American League will take
chances with the older body.
The schedule consists Of sixty-seven play
ing days and seventy games at home for
each club, the three extra games being
supplied by double-headers
In the matter of good dates the Washing
ton club has been treated fairly well. While
no holiday games will be played at home,
the Senators will be in Philadelphia July
4, and that is a big concession. Decoration
day In Milwaukee Is not much of plum,
| and offsets the good date with Philadel-
phia. In regard to Sunday games, Man
| ager Manning will play but FIVE during the
entire season, two with Milwaukee, two
with Detroit and one with Chicago.
The following are Washington clubs play
| ing dates:
At Home.
With Baltimore-April 90 80; May 1, 2;
July g. 10, IL; August II, IS, A.
With ADMINISTRATIVE 81. %. "a, %; Au-
gust %, %. "a; September II, Is, 49,
With Chicago-June Z, s, TO- IL; August
10. 20. 81; September q. % two games).
With Detroit-June H. IS, 10. 90; August
15. 16. II; September "a, Is, &c.
With Cleveland-June u. ID, IA. 15; Au-
gust 26, q, %; September 90, 81 3d.
With Boston-May g. 4. 6, Z; June q, 2S,
%; September H. II, 13.
With Philadelphia-May &c. II, IS, 20;
July 1, 2, 3; August 8. 9, 10.
Abroad.
At Baltimore-May 8, 9, 10: June %; July
-. 13, Is; August 1, g g.
At Milwaukee-May 30 (two games), 81;
June 1; July q. %. %; September 7, s. 9.
At Chicago-June 2, 3, 4, 8; July "a, %,
%; September 4. 5. g.
At Detroit-May %, %. %. %; July II, IS,
10; September 1, 2, two games).
At Cleveland-May q, %, %, a; July 20.
| %, %: August %. 80, 81.
At Boston-May II, Is, IA. Is; July 5, 6.
8; September IA 1.-TWO games), 16
At Philadelphia-April "a, %, %, 81: July
3, two games) August 8. 6, Z.
Conflicting Dates.
In the matter of conflicting dates Phila-
delphia willshave twenty-one days on which
the American will try conclusions with the
National League in the way Of drawing
patronage. The schedule has been so ar
ranged that no conflicts will come on holt
days.
Chicago has the same number of conflict
ing dates at home, while Boston has the
most. Owing to the Boston grounds not
being ready for April games. the schedule
makers were forced to crowd many games
there in May and June. The National
League has twenty-six games scheduled for
Boston in May and June and on nineteen
of these days the American and National
Leagues will conflict
Players List Withheld.
A matter which every owner, manager,
player and follower of the game has been
waiting upon with the greatest interest was
that of the official announcement of the list
of players who had signed contracts to
play with American League teams Presi-
dent Johnson announced at the recent
meeting here that the list would be ready
for official publication at this meeting, but
since then there has been so much back
sliding by players who had promised to
play with the American League and were
won back by the National League through
a promise Of raise in salary, that Johnson
determined to keep the National League.
owners ignorant of his list as long pos
sible, and for this reason the list was with
held.
This move was shrewd one on the part
of the American Leagues president, and
will be a stumbling block to the National
League managers. who have only been
waiting fO nd OYlfx WI nf fhair MI
it was necessary to approach
Another important matter settled at the
meeting was the adopting of the old rules
for the coming season. The new rules
adopted by the National League will GER
tainly prove great drawback to the play
ers, especially for men like Roy Thomas of
Philadelphia, whose fouling-off practice was
killed by the new rules.
1t was announced that there had been no
action taken in the umpire question, and 1t
| will remain as it was last year, one umpire
officiating. The three men selected are
Sheridan, Cantillion and Haskell, who were
with the league last season.
BOOK PROGRAM OF RACES.