Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-07

Montreal, Feb. 6.-The Eastern
League club owners, after a stormy
| session in the Hotel Windsor Saturday.
finally agreed on the playing dates for
next season. The 1910 campaign is to
open on Wednesday. April 20 and will
close about Sept. 20. Full details about
| the playing dates will not be made
| public until Feb. A. 1t is positively
known that on April 90 the Rochester
team will inaugurate the season by
playing a game with the orioles in
| Baltimore
! On the following day the real open
/, ing will come, Buffalo then being card
ed to play In Newark, Montreal in Jer-
sey City and Toronto in Providence.
| The first games in Canada will be on
May 9, the Shelters getting the Mon
| treal opening and the Orioles assisting
the Maple Leafs in dedicating the new
park in Toronto. AS was the case last
year, the Eastern Leaguers will play
1874 games.
None of the club owners We're par
ticularly pleased with the schedule
drawn up by President Powers, but in
the interest of harmony they agreed
to adopt it, Jacob j. Stein of Buffalo
and Charles T. Chaplin of Rochester, al
ways strong supporters of P. T., were
most active in protesting against the
schedule. Another objector was Jack
Dunn. owner and manager of the
Orioles. He did not like the way his
team Jared in being scheduled for
games a home while the Pimlico races
were going on.
Most Of ba I,In
home Saturday night, the only men
who remained here being ]. j. McCaf-
fiery, president of the Toronto club, and
Joe Kelley, manager of the Maple
Leafs.
Beyond agreeing on the schedule the
Eastern Leaguers accomplished little.
The club owners ratified the new con-
stitution. as drawn up by ]. J. Stein of
Buffalo. and also received the reports
of Stein and Walter O'Mara of Jersey
City. who recently conferred with the
American Association club owners on
the subject of continuing to operate I'M
der the working agreement between the
two leagues that was adopted Il year
ago. From now on the Eastern
Leaguers will go it alone and so will
the American Association men,
In tho future there will be no SAL
airy limit in the Eastern League. The
clubs can carry as many men as they
wish and also will not be bound bv the
hard and fast rule. which has existed
and which has been repeatedly yiolat-
Ell, of not being able to pay more than
$1,000 for any man procured from n
major league team
The Eastern League had a salary
unit last year. but few clubs lived IN
20 II. From now on the managers can
Day rs high salaries as they like and
San carry 20 men. The limit last War
WAS Ia. PROVIDENCE got around this rule
by signing Hugh Duffy as a secretary
NO man hereafter can play with a
Cruz unless he signs a players con-
tract Had this rule been in force last
season Duffy would have been ineli-
sipie 10 play with the Clam Diggers.
The club owners decided to enforce
iuiiy the rule that player could not
De traded or sold to another club four
mouths after the date of the opening
OF the championship season. In 1909 the
toEa.s sold Pitcher "Bumpus'' Jones
10 IRE trays on Aug. 81. and, while
r'eS"eh' Powers eventually enforced
,.e 'e'e ana prevented Elijah from
'i'ching Tor the Clam Diggers, his ac-
.ioh ied TO lot of trouble, and the
Montreal club threatened to sue tho
providence club for the purchase mon
| ey.
Clubs FORGETTING games are to he so.
verely penalized in the future. Teams
so offending will be assessed s9hO for
leaving the field and will not get anv
of the gate receipts.
| Hereafter home clubs will be allowed
to give out only so passes. In cases
this limit of free admissions is exceed
ed. the visiting manager can require