The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-31
National League Managers

/ whatever players they desire to retain
may rot be taken away from them II Is
n safeguard 1t would be out OF the ques-
tion TO induce promoters TO invest so
heavily in placing first-c!ass clubs in the
larger cities, and while IL may seem q
hardship that the minors must lose their
players they receive recompense I'm that
they arc paid rather handsomely for the
development OF good men, and are frc-
quently able TO make both ends meet by
the sums which they receive at the end
OF a season for releases OF players SER
vices.
The Eastern League Is a minor orsani-
zatlon, which almost Invariably is blessed
with an interesting championship race.
This year more than ordinary interest will
be attached to II, because of the changes
which have been made In managers, as
well as In players
The outlook for n successful season in
the association is better than il was in
1906, for some OF the quarrels which be-
set the organization have ubatcd. and
a better spirit prevails among the chb
owners than was the case In the mast
the possible outcome of the race, owing
TO the shifts on the part Of the players,
but is is the general impression that Co
umbus VIII he compelled to fight harder
TO win this year than was the case in
1905, and II such results, the race will
be one Of the most exciting. In all prOba-
bility. IN the history Of the orsaniza-
ton
The Tri-State league will make Its first
appearance as an organization belonging
TO the national agreement. The owners OF
the clubs have given UP the nght. which
they waged for three years against or
gauized baseball, and are at last I'm the
fold where they no longer make trouble
for clubs under protection. Many OF the
old players of the league were retained
by its owners when the settlement was
made with the National association. and
there lis strength enough in the circuit
TO provide a very pretty race for the
championship. There is a feeling on the
part OF some OF the club owners that
there will be a lack OF interest in the
cities which comprise the league owing
TO the absence Of sensations, when some
player of prominence was induced to de-
sert organized baseball 10 join one of
their clubs. but IL is more than proba BILE
that. as the season progresses. the pa
irons OF the games will be better salts
ned than they were in the old days when
they were as likely 10 lose good PLAYERS
as they were 10 win them from some
other allegiance
All OF the minor leagues in the West
start the season with a better outlook
them made money In 1906. and If the
prosperity of the country continues
throughout the present year more Of
them should make money this season
The Western league. the three rs" the
Western association and the Central
league are certainly in better condition.
whole. this spring than they were
three or four years ago
In the South the outlook is every bit
as promising. In no part OF the Union
has baseball picked up and prospered TO
such marked degree within recent years
as II has below Mason and DIxon's line,
and that much OF II is due to the i'm
petus which has been given to the game
by the visits OF Northern teams TO train
in tho spring, is admitted by those who
arc convcrsant with the history OF South
crn baseball.
II Is the opinion Of all who are in
formed as 10 the condition OF minor
leagues in general that they will be more
successful during 1907 than they have
been since they formed their now ia
nous organization, which is the largest
baseball association I'm the world