The Jersey City news., 1905-10-28
COLLEGE LEAGUE
Latest Baseball Rumor Says
the Universities Will Unite
to Play Next Season
COLUMBIA HEADS THE LIST
LETTERS HAVE BEEN SENT TO
THF MANAGERS OF OTHER
WELL-KNOwN COLLEGES AND
A MEETING is LIKELY TO BE
1 HELD.

The project of an intercollegiate base
ball league which was suggested last
spring by William A. Tilt, captain ei
the Columbia baseball team, is slowly
reaching maturity.
Letters have been sent out to the MAI
ayers of Yale, Harvard, Princeton,
Pennsylvania, and Cornell asking that
their suggestions and ideas on the sub
ject be prepared, and then a meeting of
the colleges interested may be held some
time in the near future
1t is proposed that league be formed
of such size that it will be possible by
playing series of two games apiece to
have a schedule of not too great length,
that satisfactory settling of baseball
supremacy may be obtained.
Furthermore, college baseball will be
placed upon an organized basis of unity.
and by means of the organization much.
of the quality of the game will be in
creased.
There will be an inestimable advan-
tage in having baseball put upon plane
similar to that of track athletics and
rowing, where at least there is an inter-
collegiate association which has some
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tainly will benefit by having a league
among the colleges.
The chief difficulty. naturally, will be
in arranging schedule that will prove
satisfactory to the college faculties. No
college will permit its students TO make
during term time extended trips that call
for long absences.
Therefore, it viii be necessary to form
q leagueamopg colleges not very far re-
moved geographically from one another.
1t will be possible for almost any one Of
clude game in a one-day trip, excepting
Cornell and special permission might be
had in each college for the game with the
Ithacans.
According to the plan it would be
home and home affair. Each college
would play one game abroad and then
one at home With six colleges, each
playing two games with the other five
there would be but ten games on the
schedule of the league.
The plan of the organization would be
bership would be voted upon by those
already in the league, and careful con-
sideration would be taken of the adapt
ability of each institution for member
ship.
OF course, having the best percentage
in the league series would mean that
such team was champion of the inter
collegiate league That, in any event,
would be more satisfactory than the alb
solute indeterminate condition in which
most college teams finish the season.
Some years it is possible to pick out
team that is better than all the others by
virtue of victories, and at other times
there would be dozen claimants with
equal apparent right to the champion
ship.
The idea of the lesgue, started by
Capt. Tilt has received endorsement
from ither colleges, notably Yale The
letter which Capt. Tilt has addressed
to the management of the teams in other
colleges is brief and asks them to sug1
gest some time and place in New York
where it may be convenient for them to
meet and discuss this plan.
An outline is given by saying that this
is to be league formed originally among
the six colleges and to be expanded later
as the constituent colleges may see fit.
The suggestions about schedule and
other matters are as set forth above, and
are put in so that the managers will
know and be able to discuss before hand
the objects OF the conference.