New Britain herald., 1915-12-16
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oyIdCuSS VIII plty Noi- lege in basketball this winter. Base ball games for the coming spring have also been arranged. Peace terms with the Feds will mean stronger National and Interna- tional leagues. The American league circuit will not be changed. The ne gotiations probably mean that tho l Federal league will so out of busi- ness completely as a baseball quan- tity.
 The International league is in a sad condition. One club owner re- 1 marked at the New York meeting:
 we sunk a lot of money last year trying to fight off the outlaws. We let players go to big league clubs for low prices, sacrificing cash for tho good of the game itself But so far as can see it did no good. Our
 policy now must be case of waiting
 for the big leagues to show the way. Then we will act.'
 'The Braves weren't half as rough as some other teams" voices Mama
 ger George Stallings, "but whenever anything happened to them it was published all around the circuit. We were cham pions that's all, and every body was out to beat us You can
 take It rom me that the team will
 be the same aggressive bunch that it alWayS was. The way things size up hoW' we nave mighty fine chance to show that scrapping will win an. other pennant. Of course by this dc not mean we will be rough or profane. We will just fight, that's all'' Manager Herzog of Cincinnati says:
 some players get a little score at times whom they are called down for making mistakes. but 1t never lasts with a really good player. We are try ing to build up a winning team. and that cant be done by continually pat tlng everybody on the back. I don't think any man on the team will say l am not fair, or that I do not praise good plays as much as I criticize bad 1 ones. There will be no trouble of any kind when we get out there on the field again, all trying to win the game every day. I am very well sat- isfied with the outlook for the team just as it stands. It may be possible to strengthen it in one or two spots, but we look pretty good just as we arc and will put up quite a battle next , season.
 1 The Athletics and Braves will play l d series of games in Florida next spring.
 : John McCiraw hopes to work q | trade for a good outficlder for the | Giants this week.
 The player limits adopted by the major leagues last season are sure to
 be retained
 Harvard and Yale want to play the | Boston Nationals on Braves field next
 spring.
 Johnny Evers says the Feds arc i game but that they are carrying on losing fight.
 Gene McCann of the New London l club is attending the baseball meet 1 ings this week.
 ! Jake Stahl, former manager of the ! Boston Americans, is mentioned as probable Cleveland manager Hans Wagner prefers not to be- | come manager of a club. He has all | the fur he wants as mere player l President Ed Barrow of the Inter-
 national league says he will stick as president as long as there is de-
 mand for him.
 Barney Dreyfuss of Pittsburg would
 have balls batted over the right field l fence in Philadelphia cut down to
 two -baggers.
 No dividend has been declared by
 the Cincinnati club in four years. In
 12 years the club earned 51 per cent.
 of it's original investment.
 The Worcester Telegram is strongly
 opposed to an expanded New Eng , land league bluffing it's way along as
 merger, Says the Telegram
 "Worcester will join hands with Springfield in opposition to an exten- ] sion of the New England circuit with it's syndicate men ruling the roost' } Rochester writers claim the item
 porary annexation" of Springfield Hartford by the International league will hurt baseball. They claim the
 league is hopping around Hike a mountain goat" and will fall unless the major leagues come to it's rescue. In the event that the majors again
 forget the International, the latter
 Is advised to run as an independent organization.
 Says Garry Hermann: 1T am of the opinion that so long as the base ball war continues the game cannot possibly be benefited, and I am for
 the game before all else. think, too, the Federal league is far more wor- r1ed than we are. They certainly have l done the two major leagues all the harm they possibly can do. There will be no more jumping on the part of , our stars. The independents by ar- bitrarily breaking so-called ironclad
 contracts with such men as Chief Bender and Russell Ford, pricked the
 bubbles of illusion that had attracted , would-be contract violators.'
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