Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-05
n ANAGER JOSEPH McGINNITY,
IV1 of the Newark Eastern League

lVl of the Newark Eastern League
club, will represent Newark at
the meeting of the National Associa-
ton of Professional Baseball Leagues
to be held In the Auditorium Hotel,
Chicago, Tuesday, November Is. Nc
Ginnity has no intention in attending
other than to get acquainted with other
minor league magnates. OF course, if
n deal crops up wherein he sees an
advantageous result for himself and
the club he may put it through. He
has no definite plans in this respect,
however. McGinnity will leave here
with Mrs. McGinnity on the 18th and
will combine business with pleasure,
taking the trip as a short vacation
away from Newark.
No Spring Trip, Perhaps.
It Is just possible that the Tigers
will not leave Newark on a spring
training trip next year McGinnity
favors a shorter season or a later open
ing, and is considering the ACCESSIBILITY
of making this suggestion at the SEIZED
ule meeting of the Eastern League.
Many of the big league magnates are
apparently coming to this way OF
thinking-that of abandoning spring
training trips and opening later in the
year. 1t cost the Newark Club some
thing like 50, 500 last year to take the
team to Danville for a month. McGin-
nifty vas lucky, as were the other base
ball managers, because the weather on
their return to the North was ideal.
Such is seldom the case, however, and
as a rule the players arms and legs
are stiffened up the moment they leave
the sunny South for the opening games
in the North. Year before last the
Tigers trained at Milledgeville, Ga, on
George Stallings's farm. While in the
South the players were in fine condi-
ton. but Upon returning North they
slumped fearfully, owing to the hange
in climatic conditions.
Joe's Plan.
The plan which McGinnity is con-
sidering is to have his players report
about four weeks before the season
opens. Were the opening game to be
played on May 1, as McGinnity -sug-
gests, it would be possible to have his
players report on the first of April.
That would enable the team to play
four Sundays at home before h sea-
son opened and would give the fans an
excellent chance to get a line on the
new team. McGinnity says that If the
magnates do not favor a shortening OF
the season he will make a motion that
the season in the Eastern League be
opened a week later and run a week
longer, as the weather is generally
better in the fall for baseball than In
the spring.
There is a great deal of dickering
eyery wear at the Eastern League meet
ing. too" said McGinnity, because 1t is
impossible to open in the Canadian
cities before the 18th of May. owing to
the late spring in that section. Now 1t
is necessary to have two separate open
ings, one in the East and n in the
West. Were the season opened later II
would be possible for the entire league
to get under way iii two days. same as
the National League does. Newark
could open here with Jersey City and
open at Jersey City on the following
day. while Baltimore and Providence
could do the same. In the other section
it would be Buffalo and Toronto, and
Montreal and Rochester"
Looks p. It. Again.
From the lack of formidable opposi-
ton, it looks as though P. 7. Powers 1s
certain to retain the presidency of the
Eastern League for another year. Bar
row is hardly strong enough to make a
good showing, and If Powers was ever
ENTITLED to reelection it is this time, for
he had a very good year. His one slip
up was that on the McMillan-Roches-
ter-Toronto and Montreal controversy.
and that was policy. McGinnity says
that he is unable to get a line on which
way the wind is blowing. Everything is
abnormally quiet for so short a time
before the election. Last year Powers
was talking to the press and fortifying
himself in every way. This year he has
kept mum. Powers probably does not
care to throw up a $1,000 a year salary,
and will run again, for if he saw the
tide was turning he Would have with