Waterbury Democrat., 1902-12-09
BASE BALL NEWS.
National League Magnates Getting
 Ready for Business.

National League Magnates GeItlng
 Ready for Business.
 New York. Dec 9.-Members of the National league began assembling here yesterday for their annual base ball meeting, which begins to-day at the Victoria hotel. Hermann of Cincin- nati. Dreyfuss and Pulliam of Pitts burg, Hanlon and Ebbets of Brooklyn, Hart of Chicago and Brush and Knowles of New York, were all about the hotel yesterday. The principal talk was that the league would make $ pro- nounced departure from previous GUS toms and adopt a schedule at this meet ing. Hitherto the schedule has been matter for consideration and adoption at the spring gathering of the base ball solons, and it's adoption at this time means that the spring meeting will be done away with. The schedule com mittee consists of Dreyfuss, Hart and yesterday on the arrangement of the dates, according to those who said they knew what was going on.
 Tt will be war schedule" said one of these, ssthat is, good dates will be assigned to the most profitable cities, something in the nature of a challenge to the American league, and it will then be up to the American league whether there will be conflicting dates"
 This was one view of it, but another was that the National league was not inviting war but simply adopting it's schedule without any thought of what the American would go. Brush, when asked if the schedule was to be adopt ed at this meeting, replied: 'I don't know anything about it."
 Manager McGraw of the New Yorks said he would certainly prefer to open the season at home and the surmise was that New York would open at home with Brooklyn, with Philadelphia at home with Boston, Pittsburg in Gin cinnati and Chicago in St Louis. Also the belief was expressed that there would be Fourth of July games in the east this year instead of those games being played entirely in the west, as has been the case the last three years Ned Hanlon of the rules committee said he knew of no proposed changes in the rules to be considered. He says the foul strike rule has been good thing for the game and good for the spectators, and that it will be retained. That the executive committee will be 1OtdlACA duO AlO pl CSluCnL C1CCtcu 1S now thought to be more likely than ever. Brush, for one, has expressed himself as in favor of having at the head of affairs those who have more than sentimental interest in the game.
 l Secretary Knowles of the New York base ball club received word yesterday from Manager Willis of the Yale team that in case of tie between Yale and
 Princeton next spring the deciding
 game would be played at the Polo grounds. The Yale base ball schedule, recently announced, said this game was
 to be played at the Crescent A. c. grounds, Bay Ridge,s but evidently this
 was a mistake. Tn case there is no tie between Yale and Princeton, Yale will
 play the Crescent team on the date provided for the third game, June 13. An exhibition game between Yale. and
 the New Yorks may be arranged. There may be a cancellation in Yale's schedule, in which case the date will l be given to the New Yorks.
 l There were other men besides Ma l tional league men in town yesterday.
 Three leading lights of the American
 league. Johnson, Kilfoyle and Somers,
 were together at the Waldorf-Astoria.
 They are supposed to be here watching
 developments.