Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-14
WANTS DREYFUSS TO
QUIT SCHEDULE Job
Ebbets Says Barney Forgets
Promise to Own League and
Works With Johnson.

NEW YORK, January H.-Charles H.
Ebbets. chairman of the National League
schedule committee, may ask Barney
Dreyfuss, owner Of the Pirates, to with
draw from the board. So bitter has the
fight between these two National League
magnates become that the owner of the
Brooklyn club practically charges his
colleague with treason to the National
League.
II am thoroughly Disguised at the
attitude of Dreyfuss." declared Ebbets
yesterday. Evidently he stands hand
in-glove with President Ban Johnson
of the American League to defeat the
scheme for a schedule of 1853 games,
unanimously adopted by the National
League at its annual meeting in this city
last December. Withs myself and Pres
ident Lynch, Mr.. Dreyfuss was appointed
to complete a draft of 1853 games for the
coming season. Instead of going about
this work. authorized by the league, Mr..
Dreyfuss has evidently been hedging with
an old-style one-hundred-and-fift four
game draft, and criticising others who
have nothing but the best interests Of
the league at heart
IF Dreyfuss is an honorable man (and
/ believe him to be honorable). he will
resign from the schedule committee with
out more ado. Truthfully, l can say
that nothing would better please me
than his resignation
Insinuation Displeases.
What most displeases Ebbets seems
to be the statement of Barney Dreyfuss
that the Brooklyn magnate had framed a
schedule that would give Brooklyn all
the better of the Saturday and holiday
dates.
II am not at liberty to make known my
proposed schedule said Mr.. Ebbets.
Neither IS the league bound to adopt
my suggestions. One of the virtues of
the longer schedule that appealed to Ma
tional League club owners was that it
gave each team two more Saturday and
two more Sunday games and an addi-
tional holiday date. Dreyfuss was given
twenty-five Saturday dates last year.
fifteen In Pittsburg and ten abroad. MY
schedule would give him twenty-seven
Saturdays this season, fourteen at home
and thirteen on foreign grounds. Drey-
fuss would get his full share of Sunday
dates away from home, as the world S
champions cannot appear at home on the
Sabbath.
"Dreyfuss criticises the impractical blity
of the longer schedule from the stand
point of excessive double-headers. There
were eight doIble-headers billed for last
year. My draft includes but twelve this
allow long jumps.
Only One Open Date.
MY schedule has but one open date.
BY playing continuously teams never get
out of their stride. The schedule would
last little over a week longer than be-
fore. There are no conflicting sports that
early in the fall. AS to the worlds
series. there is no danger Of it's being in
terfered with. 1t is too firmly intrenched
with the public. The fact that Mr.. Drey
fuss winners took $4,000 at Forbes
Field in the first two games with the
Tigers shows how the fans view this an
nual institution.
IF Mr.. Dreyfuss was so opposed to a
schedule of 1858 games. why did he in
dorse the scheme at the leagues annual
meeting? He needed only three more
votes to defeat the measure. Dreyfuss
was appointed to try to arrange the best
possible schedule of 1853 games Evidently
he has failed in his mission / say he
has forfeited his right to act. and am
ready to indorse Stanley Robson for the
task as soon as Mr.. Dreyfuss is kind