Norwich bulletin., 1911-02-16
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New York, Feb! 15s-For bonus said on good authority to be $5oo, ,00O tne National League of Professional Baseball Clubs in session hero today made twenty year contract with 8 prominent sporting goods firm for the use or 8 baseball of its manufacture as tne oh1cial league ball. It is the same Kind of ball that has been used by the Natlonal league for the last sixteen years. and in adopting it again the club owners rejected an offer by a Gin clnnatf firm. said to have been $325,000, Tn twenty annual instalmeifts of $16.- 250, of which half was to be in cash and half in baseball supplies.
 Leagues Pay Nothing.
 1t had been commonly supposed, even among the players, that the big leagues paad about 97 cents apiece for balls Nments today show that they not only pay nothing, but receive all the balls oney use free and Q considerable sum of cash besides.
 The exact terms of the contact were not disclosed, but they are understood 70 nave been cash offer. accompanied by a $500,000 certified check and "all the balls the eight clubs could use in playing championship games"
 The ball in question is made in Chi cago and the contract begins with the season of 1912.
 Scnedufe Adopted.
 The leage schedule was adopted to- day without change and the schedule already prepared and sent out stands for the season. This shows that all of the clu1hE will travel a grand total of S9,733 miles during. te1 season. Chica- go gets the worst of the schedule, ac- cording to baseball men. The club must travel 14,479 miles and has nine conflicting dates. It is the only club which conflicts. but all except one are on Sunday and the exception is on a Saturday, President Murphy of the Chicago club is said to have protested on a number of the features of the schedule, but he was overruled.
 The club mileage for the season, &C., cording to the schedule, will be as fol- lows: Boston 11224 miles. Brooklyn 9,397, New York Id, STA, Philadelphia s. 426, Pittsburg I3, 590, Cincinnati 1G,S62, Chicago 14,579. and St. Louis 11,0S1.
 Few Conflicting Dates.
 In St. Louis all conflicts have been eliminated for the first time, and each league has thirteen Sundays to itself or 50 per cent. of the whole.
 There are but two scheduled double headers, both in Boston. One was made necessary to avoid an extra trip by the Brooklyn club to Boston, and the other to avoid a conflict. None of the east ern clubs plays two series iiT succession Witn the same Clup. Il HIS Viii dO <tN q } with a weak club being pitted against a strong club feP a long stretch o1 games. In the west this succession o1 dates occurs fotfr times, but it is linn ited to seven games in one stretch ano six games in the other three cases.
 Each club plays on 26 Saturdays out of possible 26.
 Cincinnati and St. Louis play an ex tra Sunday, which is duo to a possible over night jump from the east to Gin cinnati.
 Each eastern club has two Saturdays and two Sundays in the west. This new feature was worked out by MT Dreyfuss. Under this plan in the trips east and west the Saturdays and Sun days rotate in regular order and the visiting club does not appear the sec ond time except after the other three clubs have played.
 The salary of President Thomas J Lynch was increased from $9,000 tt $1e.o00 a year.