Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-01-03
TEXAS LEAGUE
OUTLOOK FINE
Declared TO Be in Best
Shape to Please
EXacting Public


San Antonio.. Tex, Jan. 2.--NeVe"
before has the old year wan6 and
the rew year bloomed with suci uni
versal concord lying around loose In
the Texas League as clusters the
landscape Just nov The scoffers re-
fuse to see in it aught but the lrll
before ~ devastation. but others
a. moIe optimistic frame OF mind
discern IN the present condition she
final realization by the circuits mag
mates that peace costs less than war
and Is a lot more satisfactory In
many WAYS.
The few unanswered problems thai
perplex the Texas owners still are
apparently OF too little moment 20 cut
into the present harmony. Unless
some really succulent bone OF conten-
tion shall be thrown into the arena
this condition viii remain as tie log
zeal one n IS assured that the Texas
League go least Is In better shape "a
make money and give the public the
best iu the locker than II has been
for years
The schedule has been accepted
and flied away. GUARANTEES and sal
AIRY limit have been settled and each
club Is erecting its fences and paint
Ing It's baseball seed for the 1872
harvest The sneaking idea will in.
trude that IL Is too good to last; but
this is because OF past happenings
and not because of a weakness In the
present status.
Let the scoffers give them Q
chance. II by July there Is still
peace, even though II be IN the na
ture Of an armed truce. there will b
cause for rejoicing. II any OF tn,
Texas owners feel called on to make
New Years resolutions, LEI hin
merely resolve TO stand pat on tn,
present era OF good feeling Tha
should he easy for the present stat
of able officers and magnates.
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ball horizon that bodies IN to perfec
harmony during 1912 II is the sal
aryslimit This never has failed {,
be the sore spot In any baseball
league where It has obtained. Thai
TOO in the face OF the fact that
clearly is to the interest OF ali hand
To observe IT,
All the fines ever devised will no
prevent violation Of this rule II Oh
spirit OF {sir play Is not general. u
best guard Is an agreement betweel
gentlemen, and be II said that tn
Texas magnates are now working OF
this basis and reducing their clubs &
the limit San Antonio. Waco an
Dallas all are striving toward tina
end. and striving cheerfully. II ma,
mean a hard tug 10 belt in thus. bu
II will be a paying one in the lonI
run
Austin last season proved a pen
nant could be won with a team in tn
limit-the least expensive club In tn
circuit in town not reckoned a
nearly the strongest baseball center
either. What Austin can do other
can accomplish, especially with every
one working together Austin mad
money. too: and some of the other
lost. This Is the clinchlng argument
Observance of good faith alone
needed to cement the agreement
Stringent rules are very good, bu
there are too many by-paths to tn
salary padding jungle for any sucl
Gordon TO cover. II is Up 70 the man
ayers to see II through individually
Given accord on this one matter an
the success of the 1912 race is as
sured
Morris Block of the Bronchos |
gaining for himself the reputation o
being wise one In the scoutin
game. Some years back the genia
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