New-York tribune., 1918-05-02


It was said that the game of Monday
next between the Yankees and the Red
Sox would be played as scheduled on
tha. day, and to balance the additional
contest which that Of Sunday adds to
the prospective series with Boston a
game would be taken out of the sched-
ule later in the season.
Nobody around the offices Of Colonel
Jacob Rupert and Lieutenant Colonel
I. L. Huston who would venture an
opinion as to the future of Sunday base
ball for metropolitan major league
located. An air of the vaguest mystery
seemed to prevail. Further than the
immediate Sunday attraction the mat
ter appeared to rest in the hands of
God-or Ban Johnson-so far as the
Office force knew.
To one up tree it looked very much
as if Mr.. Johnson, who seems primarily
responsible for the Jersey Sunday ball
propaganda, is determined to avail him
local sentiment. Mr.. johnson can very
easily present test case without inn
pugning the honor and integrity of or
ganized baseball or of sullying the
sacred treaty rights Of the national
agreement.
May Prove "Bloomer"
The New International League cham
pionship schedule will not open until
May 8, some days subsequent to Sun
day next. If the Harrison attempt
should prove bloomer---as un-
doubtedly it will, the Jersey fans hav-
ing determined upon a general boycott
what grace he may and pander to the
New Class A. A. circuit, which at pres
ent seems to bear his personal grudge.
Meanwhile the new international
League does not intend to submit to
violation of its sacred territorial rights
on the part of the big and hoggish
brothers of organized baseball. Presi-
dent John H. Farrelrs record is quite
as clean as that of Ban Johnson. His
influence on the game, as an honorable
secretary of the National Association,
which controls minor league affairs,
has been quite as potent an influence
to good as Johnson's more clustering
endeavors, even if Mr.. Farrell has
been content to let his good deeds
speak for themselves.
Farrell is of the quiet type, not to
be easily aroused, but still Of unflinch-
ing spirit where q matter of principle
AA circuit which he represents is not
being fairly dealt with unless it Is
guaranteed its rights under the terms
Of the peace pact. Mr.. Farrell stands
ready to fight for these rights, even to
the length of war against the two
major leagues. His club owners will
back him in any step he deems advis-
able.
Also the most influential baseball
writer's of greater New York will back
up Mr.. Farrell and his associates
against the wanton encroachment of
any major league outfit that can see
right only in might. 1t may be whis-
pered that the scribes, far more than
the magnates, have made of the game
the grand success it has attained.
All Debts Paid
The new International League has
proven it's integrity by paying off all
tho debts of the circuit it succeeded.
1t has even suffered the spoilation Of
player rights at the hands of the Ma
tional Commission. If the National
Commission so much as dares to vio-
late territory rights, guaranteed by the
national agreement, then it has only
itself to blame for whatever expose
may develop.
The National Commission, unlike
Caesars wife, is not beyond reproach
and suspicion AS these words are
written, like the financially gorged
python into which it seems to have
changed it is digesting $4,000 it picked
from the pockets Of the Toronto club
Of the old, as we'll as the new, Inter
national League. This sum repre-