The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-24
Presidents Lynch and Johnson
 Are Very Enthusiastic
MONEY MADE LAST YEAR
Long Schedule Proposed By the Ma tional League Will Not Interfere With Championship Games
 Next Fall.
By MANHATTAN.

New York, January 2S.-(special. )-Tom Lynch the new president of the National league, predicts great things for the big league this year. But Ban Johnson, president of the American league, who was in town this week, swears by St. Vitus' big toe, that mere humen words cannot begin to depict the measure of glory and success for baseball in 1910. Among the multitude of things said by MT. Johnson are the following:
 Tt requires no great ability as prophet to say that the. year 1910 will be a ban ner year for baseball There is an in- exorable law, apparently, which says that if the national sport is kept free from taint of any kind it will continue to in- crease in popularity.
 Last year every club in the American league made money. The other major leagues also were very successful; the minor league organizations were general ly successful With his ear to the ground and his eye scanning all the voluminous correspondence, not only of the major leagues, but of all the leagues within the pale of the national agreement, the member of the national commission hears the certain signs of prosperity in base ball
 Tt affords me pleasure as executive of the American league to predict the high water mark of prosperity and popularity for the nations greatest game-prosperity for the club owners and profit for every enthusiast who loves the sport. Events of the last few weeks happily have dem- onstrated that sportsmanship and dignity may be depended upon always to keep baseball clean, wholesome and unassail- able.''
 George Stallings, manager of the New York Americans, will split his men up into a first and second team after the bulk of the spring workout in the south. The players will report at Athens, Ga., on March l. The squads will have a month of hard work and will then do some transforming. Among the dates for the second team are: York, Pa, April 12; Harrisburg, Pa. April 13, and Nor folk, Va.
 There need be no fear in the breasts of fandom in either the west or east about those championship games next fall No matter what happens nor how it happens those games will be played to determine the premier baseballists of the earth. Let seet, hail or rain come; let the Arctic winds play about the forms of the players it makes no difference. Garry Hermann of Cincinnati says the games vii be played and what Garry says in baseball usually goes. Hermann says that, if it is found that the long schedule will interfere seriously with the ,l. ,zt,i .l,a But that institution known as the world champion series will not be interfered with.
 By the way in which the Memphis club of the Southern Baseball league has been garnering players lately, 1t begins to look as though the Tennesseans would be out for gore next summer. Second Base- man Warmer and Outfelders Channel and Farrell of the New York Americans will be seen in the Memphis uniform next season. Warmer halls from Hart ford, Conn. Farrell from Marion, O., and Channel from Fort Wayne, Ind.
 We shall see more soccer football next fall than we did last; who shall Say how much we shall see in half a dozen years from now? Soccer triumphed again when the athletic heads of the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois scheduled an association battle for next autumn. Coachers Stagg and Huff plan to introduce soccer as a western inter collegiate sport on November 19. next. at Marshall Field. According to tho two coaches the initial intercollegiate soccer contest will be intended as a formal intro duction and this will probably be the forerunner of a regular soccer schedule among the big eight.
 The row over syndicate basebalp' eclipsed anything else in recent years so far as baseball is concerned. And now comes the cheerix, tnformation from Charley Taft os Cincinnati, brother of the P-ssideSt, that he will dispose of his majority holdings in the Philadelphia Ma tionals before the 1910 season opens so that there cannot be the slightest sugges- ton of trust baseball'' during the com ing summer.
 Billy Abstein, who played first base for the Pirates last year, will be one of Roger Bresnahan's hands during the coming season. Abby will add great deal of strength to the St. Louis outfit and I believe Fred Clarke will later be sorry that he let Billy go
 The Mardi Gras always draws large number of tourists to New Orleans every February. but this year the old French carnival will be assisted in its drawing powers by some irst-class automobile races which will take talent from every section towards the Queen City. The races will be held on February and 6 and some alluring purses have been hung up.
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