New Britain herald., 1915-01-23
SC|NSkI MAY PUT . HIS CLUB IN HOOK
Franchise May Be paWned to
 Northampton for One Season.


 of minor league franchises may be- come fashionable this season. This all depends on Bill Scinskis success in Northampton. ScinsEi has offered to lease his New Britain baseball franchise in the Eastern association to the Northampton baseball associa- tion for one year, providing he can get the franchise back at the end of the year without a long session in the courts. Club owners of the Eastern association and the New England Scinskis business coup. They think Scinski is making a wise move un- der the present conditions Should the last efforts to bring about a mer- ger of the New England league and the Eastern association go to smash and clubs be compelled to play with the same old seedy circuits, then there may be a. great rush Of magnates to towns to whom they would want 10 lease their clubs A remarkably lean year in both leagues. unless the merger scheme goes through, is looked for.
 Magnates May Rent All Clubs.
 If the merger plan is completely blocked in the ninth inning of the game now on and if Bill Scinski shows the way to do it, wholesale renting of franchises in the unfortunate leagues may result. But the mag mates will be as wise as Scinski. They, too, will insist on pawn ticket prop erly made out so that they may lift the franchise when things be- come prosperous again. Instead of the Eastern circuit now leaning against the geographical lamp-post, the rent league may include North ampton, Westfield, Dalton, Suffield, Westport, Ct, and Woodmont, Ct. Scinski is hardly in the game of furnishing tips to the rest of the league. He simply wants to put his club on ice for one season, for he thinks that in another year business will be better and that New Britain will have become an ideal place for a ball club.
 Al Vim made an ambitious at tempt to line up Springfield for the independent league. The fact that he failed and for this and other req sons "was sent home" by Head En- gineer Hugh McKinnon does not imply in the least that Al fell asleep on the job. Al made a trip around this city and interviewed fellows who are batting far above the 300 mark in the financial league. To one of these "hitsmitns'' he confessed his plan for the Springfield Feds and that plan <o1l T 1,o of the aforesaid "hitsmiths." The game was to get several local men to put up $500 or more and form a company to run the team. Winn said the Brooklyn Feds had fifteen men ready to turn over to Springfield, but if that would not do, Springfield and the other seven clubs in the league could draw lots and get players from bunch of 100 or more" No club would get stuck, for the whole bunch were world -beaters Springfield was to agree to pay s2OO a month to each of the fellows and the Federal league would pay the difference This would mean. in some cases, said Vim, that the Federal league would chip in $4OO a man.
 Wouldn't Buck Carey.
 The plan sounded good to the listener, who said he would be only too glad to enter the combine were it not for the fact that William E. Carey was now in the baseball busi- ness in this city and that as MT. Carey had a costly investment and was try ing to realize on it as well as fur nish Springfield good baseball, he would not "buck' him. Were there no baseball league here now" said the interviewed one yesterday, that scheme would have been fine and would have liked to hear whole lot more about it. But as long as we have team here MT. Vim could not interest me- This is only an inter esting sidelight on recent baseball affairs here.
 Wnn's plans followed undoubtedly the general campaign of Engineer Mckinnon, who Is now probably try l ing to organize stock companies else- 1 where. Mckinnon has found Fl l packer for his Springfield proposition, J. B. Baxter of Boston, but thus far 1 Springfield is the only team Tn the ! league, although Mack says ten or l eleven more want to get in. He is l looking up packers, or probably try | ing to organize stock companies.