The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-16
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Western League VIII Adopt 16S
Game Schedule.
Cooley the, Only One to Favor
the Short Route.
ARE in A BAD TANGLE.
Unable to Straighten Out the
Sunday Dates.
American League Adopts the
154 Game Plan.

Chicago, Feb. 16.-The Western
league will play 16S games during the
coming season. While no formal vote
has been taken on that question, an
overwhelming majority of the club
owners have announced themselves as
being in favor of the longer season.
The season probably will open on
April 20 and close on October 4.
Dick Cooley of Topeka is the only
magnate who has said he is strongly
in favor of T. 154 game schedule.
From present indications it appears
the 1873 game draft will be the only
one submitted to the meeting. This
draft calls for the opening on April
20, and the closing on October 4. The
geographical conditions of the circuit
are causing most Of the trouble which
still confronts the committee Denver
is isolated from the other seven clubs
i'll such a manner that it makes it
almost impossible properly to appor-
ton the Sunday dates. AS it now
stands four clubs will have II Sun
days at home two will have 13 and
the other two II.
The committee has practically given
up the task of trying to straighten out
the Sunday dates and it probably will
leave that to the league.
that it be allowed to hold another
meeting before submitting the sched-
ule. This delayed the regular meet
ing until late in the afternoon.
American VIII Play 154 Games.
Chicago, Feb. 16.-The American
league continued its annual schedule
meeting here today. 1t is expected
that today's session will end the meet
| ing. The schedule will probably be
announced at the close of todayS gath
| ering
| The first business to come before
! the meeting was the adoption of a new
| agreement to replace the original
one, which expires in November OF
this year. There appeared to be a
decided feeling in favor of making the
new agreement perpetual. This was
/ discussed thoroughly at yesterdays
! then in order that the club owners
| might have more time to consider such
| an important question
| The 154 game schedule was unani-
ted was approved without any changes
National Is Undecided.
| New York, Feb. 16.-Ffve to three ir
favor of tn 16S game season was ap
parently the way the National league
magnates stood when the struggle ovel
| the playing schedule was resumed to-
day.
| tional league destinies worked into 81
| chaotic situation as that revealed b!
| the failure SO far to agree on playing
dates for the coming season. Six vote:
are necessary for the adoption of
schedule. The lineup when adjournment
| was taken yesterday was
! Ebbetts, Brooklyn; Murphy. Chicago
Robinson. ST. Louis; Brush, New York
and Fogel. Philadelphia, for the Ions
season, and Dreyfuss, Pittsburg; Herr
mann. Cincinnati, and Dovey, Boston
for the 154 game schedule.
Both sides today declared their inten
ton to stand pat and the prospects TO
speedy reconciliation did not appea
| bright There were numerous consulta
tions among the magnates during tn
morning and in some quarters hop
was expressed that when they got 20
gether in the afternoon for the resump
tion of their regular session. some sor
of basis for compromise might b
reached.
The bitter factional feeling engender
ed by the Ward-Heydler deadlock a
the December meeting, seemed to hav
| broken out again, however, and it wa
difficult to guess what common groun,
for an agreement could be reached b,
| the cOntendinP elements.