The Washington times., 1902-04-01
NATIONAL LEAGUE TO
CONSIDER SCHEDULE
Combative Magnates Meet in
New York Today.
DREYFUSS HAS A SCHEDULE
Fate of National Organization Hangs by
Thread-Col. John I. Rogers Ready to
Fight Pittsburg Plan-General Base
ball News.

Today is the day in the National League
camp. For the first time since the
Freedman -SpauIding rumpus the mag
mates will come together. and what the
result will be no one has so far dared to
prophesy. Neither faction has in any
wise relented and both are as bitter as
the day the break occurred
The recent decision by Justice Truax
will not act as a soothing balm to the
feelings of Messrs. A. G. Spalding & Co.,
while il the learned occupant of the New
York bench had reversed his finding there
would have been equally ruffied gentle
men on the other side of the fence.
The Freedman four. or rather the rep
resentatives of the New York, Boston.
Cincinnati, and st. Louis clubs, held a
preliminary conference at the Democratic
Club last night, and, according to report,
they decided to do all in their power to
eliminate A. G. Spalding from the af-
fairs of the League.
The Freedmanites, 1t Is understood,
have several candidates for the Office Of
president. Those whose names were men
toned tonight were John B. Day, E. B..
Taleott, A. G.. Mills, and W. C. Temple,
of Pittsburg.
Freedman, it is asserted will insist
upon the election of one CT these men.
But if certain rumors in circulation to-
night can be believed the SPalding four
will. after all, present solid front
Then there is that terrible schedule
question. President Nick Young has pre-
pared his. President Barney Dreyfuss has
prepared his, and several other magnates
have prepared theirs. Each one thinks
the particular output of his brain and
Drawn is the best ever, and no one will
be prepared to admit that there are
others
May Compromise.
OF course, a compromise may be effect
ed and If the magnates have any idea
of continuing the fight against the Ameri-
can League this will be the outcome. Al
any rate, the diplomatic resources of the
| milder magnates will be directed to this
end, and every possible concession will
be made by this party to keep those more
strenuously inclined from flying at each
others throats.
| At the conclusion of the meeting there
will probably be enough spoiled schedules
/ left over to start a bargain counter. For
| he first time since the organization OF
the National League, Pittsburg will take
an active interest in the schedule ques-
| tion. Heretofore the Smoky City man
agement has been content to go along
| playing ball and to leave the vexed ques-
| tions to it's more combatiye fellows.
President Dreyfuss. however, has pre-
pared schedule of his own, and from all
| accounts it is a wonder. A suggestion OF
what It contains has leaked out and al
ready the Eastern and Western magnates
| are calling for help. He has announced
| that he took no notice of the American
! League dates in tabulating his playing
| arrangement.
Rogers Kicks Vigorously.
| This is all very well for President Bar
-ney. What does he care for the American
Leagues playing schedule? He is firmly
| entrencned in one of the best baseball
cities of the country; there is no oppo-
'tion to his autocratic sway. In fact, he
the only real thing. and he knows it.
I That is simply nuts for Pittsburg, but
| the magnates who are fighting riva
team, in many cases infinitely stronger
| than their own aggregation, right in theil
own bailiwicks. have raised an awful roai
| of protest. In this chorus the high -pierc-
| ing shrek of one Col. John l. Rogers i:
easily distinguished. Col John l. is call
| ing police at the top of his lungs. Chris
/ tian forbcarance is all well enough in Its
| place. but Col. John |. is up against some
| thing that calls for more strenuous ac
ton. II is n case of doing others or get
| ting done himself.
In this predicament there is nothing tc
| do but await developments. Col. John |
| comes to the front with the statement
that Dreyfuss is selfish; that he is, II
| good plain English. lobster to thini
that the magnates will accept the list o
games that he has prepared. This, o
course does not EeIp matters to AM
great extent
Chicago With Pittsburg
To add to the complications already ex
isting. President Hart. of the Chicago
Club. has announced that it is his inten
tion to support the schedule prepared
by President Dreyfuss, and between th'
two they can make it exceedingly warn
for the other magnates. This little by
play by the PorkopOlis management mus
mean that the Pittsburg schedule is es
pecially Ienient toward them in regar'
to conflicting dates. while Philadelphia
and Boston must have caught the hot en-
of the deal.
However, until the magnates do get to
gether there can be nothing but specula
ton regarding the result, and from pas
experience in guessing what that health
bunch will do, there is hard Job ahea
Of the professional prophet. Everyone
simply holding his breath and gettln
ready to duck the pieces IL the cras
should come.