The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-12-06

men MOVE
Two Parks Are Ready
For the Next
Season.

With the closing OF the football sea-
son in sight, the interest of the base
BAH men is being aroused. The meeting
of this week will start activity and the
gathering of Tuesday next should put
the affairs of the League in condition
for the keying UP for the season.
The principal work at present is the
selection of grounds for the next years
games. Two plans have been proposed
to the League for consideration, though
the details of neither will be known
fully until next week. These embrace
proffers of grounds from the Boys
Brigade, which has a plot across the
Nuuanu stream. and from the McKin-
ley Park committee. which is working
TO secure an appropriate playground on
its site in Pawaa. Each organization
is anxious to secure the Baseball
League and from the outlook the per-
centages will be exceedingly favorable
for the players.
The great difficulty with the McKin-
ley Park grounds so far has been that
there appeared no possible way in
which the field could be fenced off so
that there could be collected a gate fee.
There is said to be under consideration
now method for thus limiting the en-
trance to the playground proper, and if
this is done there may be made such
an arrangement as will result in the Sc
curing of share of the receipts from
the games sufficient to assist materially
in the care of the entire park
The feeling is that the League will
play during the coming season with the
same clubs as last, unless there should
be some dropping out, and some mem
a reduction of the number of teams to
four, if such a change can be made
without knocking out of the game any
OF the clubs which now compose the
League. This would mean that the
proposal of the Elks team to join the
play next year would be refused.
The arguments made by those who
have declared themselves in favor of
the Four Club. League is that with a
greater number of teams there is such
time elapses between the games that
the men are not in the best condition
all the time and their play is not so
good as if they should be given a
chance to play every two weeks. The
system of two games a day is not
favored generally and the players would
be pleased with a one game a week
four club schedule it is averred.
On the other hand there are men who
are enthusiasts who declare that there
cannot be too many clubs if the inter-
est is to be kept alive and they favor
making the League larger and making
the games two each playing day if pos
sible. They maintain that there are
enough players to keep the full number
of clubs in shape, and they suggest
that there be a limit rule, so that there
may not occur a condition of one club
having on its list men who will have
no chance of play and who might
strengthen the other clubs if free to
sign with them.
The opinion seems that there will be
no action on the application of the Elks
just now, but that the question of fu-
some time closer to the season, when
the best club that offers will be given a
vacancy if one exists. The Elks have
chosen Cunha captain, and there are
several good men on the team, as it has
been tentatively made up.
The meeting of the League on Tues
day will have the choosing tof the Off
GERS of the League for the next season.
President Chillingworth has announced
his withdrawal from the game, but
pressure is being brought to bear to
induce him to retain the leadership in
the game. There is more than senti-
ment in this trying to hold the Deputy
Sheriff at the head of the League, al
though if there was no other reason,
the fact that to him is most largely
due the revival of the game. would be
sufficient. When the game was in the
dumps Chillingworth made it possible,
at personal outlay, to start the game
once more. and the growth of the sport,
and its hold on the people, must testify
to his work