New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-07
team in BRONX
Is PLANNED BY
Minor LEAGUE
Rarrow. of International,
Would Shift Jersey City
Organization.
HIS MOVE BACKED
BY BILLY GIBSON
Consent Of Local Magnates Will
BE Needed-Nunamaker Be.
gins Practice.

n. Bronx, aims mater OF many big
league players. will have a professional
ear, q rs own = the plans Of Edward
q. Barrow and Billy Gibson mature.
TIE president Of the International
League purposes shifting the Jersey
citT club above the Harlem River.
Gibson, who is well known as a fight
n,oro.er and restaurateur. has agreed
- back the club. and will build a park
nssr lS9th e.. and Third Az He will
sen Billy Ciyner as manager II the
eesl can be MADE
Mr.. Barrow admitted yesterday that
he vas plsnr!ng 70 invade The Bronx,
ard declared ,hst this was the only
circuit change contemplated by the In
,ernst.onsl League.
eve have decided not 20 50 into Syr-
,euss.' SAID Mr.. Barrow IF the shift
10 The Bronx cannot be made, Jersey
City Will stay IN the league
In order 20 play in The Bronx the
International League must obtain the
consent Of the National and American
League The decision Of the Giants
IN one league and the Yankees in the
other Will probsbly settle the issue in
both examinations. Nh Barrow said
tins. be had g ked over The Bronx plan
with Captain Huston and that the lat
ter had agreed 10 give him ms decIs-
ion In the matter within a few days.
The American League talked over
tie plan 81 is last meeting, but did
not pu. itsef On record in regard 70
the proposition. When the National
League meets here Monday u viii also
take Up the mitter
According 20 Nh Barrow, an Inter
national League team IN The Bronx
would not inJure the Yankees or the
Giants IN the slightest degree. Inc
Polo Grounds is more than six miles
from the place where Gibson plans 70
build. The Bronx has a population OF
sbou. 100000 and has community
spin. which should do much to make a
baseball. club successful!
Leslie Nunamaker, catcher, is the
frs, Of the Yankees 70 begin practice.
lie IS az Hot Springs, Ark, where he
hopes 70 boil of ten or fifteen pounds
before reporting 70 Donovan a. Sa-
rsnnsh, Ga.
The Feds do not intend 70 make 8
tight for Ray Caldwell. Dick Carroll
who signed the Yankee pitcher for the
Buffalo Feds, said yesterday that ne
was convinced that Ray was an erratic
performer and that his leap back 10
Crganized baseball would be a good
thing for the Federal League. II may
be remembered that men in organized
baseball talked in somewhat similar
fashion when Walter Johnson hoped
70 the Chifeds, or Whales, as they have
been renamed.
Robert B. Ward, owner Of the Tip
Tops, left here yesterday FOR Pine
hurst. Later he will 80 TO Browns
Wells 20 see his baseball team
The story is going around that Joe
Connolly, Of the Braves, lent $50 70
q friend shortly before the Boston club
began its great sprint last year. Inc
borrower bet his money az liberal odds
that the Braves would win the pen
nant, and then psrlayed il on their
success in the worlds series. AS
result, he won about $1,000. When he
cav Connolly, Immediately after the
series, the grateful friend gave the
player 80 and promised TO let him
have the rest some time before the
beginning Of next season.
BILL Carrigan's minor league expe-
Hence was short" says a Boston paper
Toronto and Holy Gross were the only
clubs where he played before joining
the Red Sox."
When the ST. Louis Fedora Is reach
Havana the frst week in March, Eddie
PLANK will have the pleasure Of meet
ing once again Charlie Deal, who
scored the only run against him in the
second game OF the worlds series.
More than likely the players will argue
a. 70 whether Strunk should have
caught that two-bsgger and whether
Deals steal OF third base was not
BIZ OF srrant luck. Deal Will take the
negative side on each OF these ques-
lions
Lee Masee hopes 70 drive his players
% hard at Browns Wells that in the
evening they will be too tired 70 90 20
the theatre His task will be simph-
fed somewhat by the fact that Brown
Wells has no theatres.