Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-03-03
BASE BALL.
SESSION OF "
 THE LEAGUE.
New York Americans Cam not Play in Ridgew0od
 An Interesting Meet ing Yesterday..NOtes.

ing Yesterday..NOtes. l New York, March 3.-Garry Herr
 mann, chairman of the National Base ball Commissioner, has decided that l the New York Americans cannot play
 Sunday games at Ridgewood Park l this season. Hermann will not make
 his decision public until to-day, when
 ill a lengthy document, he will set forth the fact that by playing at
 Ridgewood the New York Americans
 would do the Brooklyn National l League Club ''an irreparaDle wrong He will also emphasize the point that as the New York Americans have permanent grounds on Manhattan Is-
 land, they must be confined in future to the limits of this borough. | In reaching this verdict, Hermann digresses from the direct evidence
 taken at Chicago and makes ruling
 that will create considerable sur- prise.
 | The protest of the Brooklyn club hinged on the question as to whether l the, New York Americans were not
 encroaching on Brooklyn territory in direct violation. of the peace agree
 ment. Hermann was convinced some time ago that there was no violation
 of this kind but still he found it i'm possible to render a verdict against
 the interests of his own league, which remained deadlOcked on the question
 all day yesterday. When Treasurer Frank J. Farrell, of the New York
 Americans was semi icially inform
 ed of Herrmann's ruling last night he said.
 "All can do is to take my medicine ! T 4s ~Nxs n IAxrr r
 rnann's decision, and shall keep my
 word. 1t is, of course, a disappoint-
 ment, but we can't always get the 1 best of it.''
 Herrmann's decision also means,
 that neither the New York nor Brook ! lyn National Leage clubs can play l Sunday games away from their reg
 ular grounds, where such contests are l impossible because of the protests of l neighboring' property owners. The joint schedule committee were l in session all day. The politics of
 baseball played such an important part in this conference that it was rot until nightfall that the9fwo commit
 tees were willing to adjourn until this morning, when another whack at the dates will occur. It is understood that l there will be few if any conflicts in 1 this city.
 The Americans will open the sea son on April 14 here with the Boston
 worlds champions, who will play three games, after which the two ! teams will go to the Hub to open the season on April 19, Lexington Day. l The Americans will be here on Decor ation Day, the banner baseball holiday
 of the year, while McGraw's men will I be away, in the west.
 The Nationals will open the season
 at the Polo grounds with the Bostons on April 19. Each schedule will con- sist of 154 games.
 1 There will be another worlds series next fall between the National and American League champions. This was agreed upon mutually. The ser
 ies will consist of seven games. 1t is said that Hermann, Hart and Robin son were the men who got the Nation
 al League in line on this proposition. l The joint rules committees had a stormy session. Hart, Hanlon and ] Max Fleischmann represented the Ma
 tionals, with Johnson, Somers and Co.,
 miskey acting for the Americans. The
 bone of contention was the foul strike
 rule. A year ago Hart and Fleisch-
 mann pledged themselves to vote for
 the abolition of the foul strike if the
 American League 50 desired after a 1 years trial.
 l When Johnson said yesterday that the American League wanted to have ] the foul strike rule rescinded Hart l said that he and FIeischmann could
 not make good their pledges because
 the National League had instructed
 them to vote for it's retention.
 l Consequently the foul strike re- l mains a fixture until such time as ! both leagues decide to kill 1t. l The committees also agreed on a l rule that will permit two coachers on the lines instead of one as in the past, ] when only one man is on base. The whole code was carefully revised as to cIearness and conciseness. | There was a hot fight in the Natioh- ! al League over two financial proposi-
 tions One was the pooling of holiday
 gate receipts. The argument set forth in favor of this plan was that if on Decoration Day, for instance, it should rain in Boston, the two clubs stalled there should get piece of the receipts
 from the games played on the same
 day in New York, Brooklyn and Phil adelphia.
 Every club in the league except { NEW IOIh W dS III AuFOA OL tAlS pAttAs but John T. Brush put his back to the wall and would not Dudge. So New York will stand pat, while the other seven clubs will pool issues on
 all holidays. ~ | The stockholders of the Philadelphia National League club have been as- sessed 10 per cent on the capital stock
 of $2OO 0OO, in order to raise money enough to start the season. The only
 opponent of the assessment was Bar ney Dreyfuss, the owner of the Pitts
 burg champions.
 I The sale of the Washington Ameri-
 can League club still hangs fire. Vice.
 President Charles Jacobsen arrived in town last night to talk over matters I with Ban Johnson, who announced that the deal with John R. Mclean
 and Congressman Wadsworth was practically off.