The Corpus Christi caller. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1918-1987, 1918-12-10
HICKEY ADOPTS SLOGAN
BASEBALL AS USUAL"
IN STATING 1919 PLANS

ny The Associated Press
Chicago. pre . ptflniic plans fpf
redemption of baseball ia The American
4 Association hgNi arAson win bc sstord
upop "a tho annual meeting OF Nluh
owners in Minneapolis next Friday
m. peaitiVe announcement VAS made
/ today hS Thomas >. Hickey president
~ the association that the Kamc would
bc resumed
~liascbal az usuai. "a President
tiickcN's optimistic view az the situu
/ tion
Il an confident baseball viii come
bank STRONGER than ever, be said. "lr,c
situation bccomrs brighter each week
Tho speedy rehabilitation Of American
forcrs on iand and aca means thar
America In my iufrment Is duo for q
biz revival IN al sports"
Apparently IA, club owners hold IT.
~. fear ~ ONIONS ~ miefortN,c fnf the
mcctinE d 20 be- held an tho thirteenth
ot IN, month with Friday another a.
legged hoodc" thrown In fur good meas
ure.
wv nrc so confident that tho game
WIN come hack that we NIGH, as we'll
hay our plans on Friday tho thirteenth.
as any other day President Hickey
snAd
The meeting wa called hrapttu the
protest 81 q n wnihcn president ofI
I tho louisville club. VINO sought 70
have IL postponed until March when
Z he believed. conditions would be more
favorable The other club owners
however. thought otherwise
Appointment of schedule commit
tee deciding on Tho number NJ games
20 he played and tho date on which
10 open the season viii he among tho
chief questions The general fcciing
Seems TO be for schedule Of 40 games
and the opening Of the season no, he-
fore Nay O.
a y Tmme president ~ the Nil
waukcc club. WIFI seek adoption Of %
novel scheme nlonded to revive tho
old timc fighting spirit amonE play
. ers ana stimulate interest Ia pennant
races President rimmt viii propose
TINT ono cent OF every pnid admission
FOR The entire season b. vet aside asI
"a general fund 70 ie divided among
the clubs according 20 The position IN
which they finish
MY plan Is 10 have certain per
centase Of such a fund. which would
total about $4,000 for The season d..
vlded among the frat seven Clubs"
president Timmo explained "csvc
4 Twenty-Five ia thirty percent 10 Tho
club winning the pennan, twenty live
) or twenty percent for the team finish.
ing sccnnd and 50 on. down the line
"rhis, ! believe, would put the game
hnck on It's old time fighting basis
such aa existed years ago. Tho trouble
with baseball In the past has bean that
III OF the interest ccnecrcd in the lend
ing club, despite the fact that teams
"a sceoad and third place were often
supcrlnr but were unable to retain the
lead borausc OF injuries 10 players
Civ" those men something To fight To-
and the desired results will then bc
achieved"
Tho feeling among the club owners I
according 70 all reports leans 10 the /
employment Of young blood" next
aeasoi,, especially tho playcsa who have
bren developed on tho diamonds ~ tho |
environments The cry OF high salaries
Is heard from all quartcia and Tho club I
owners arc apparently unanlmous that I
radical action VIII have to bc taken (
10 place tho SALARY question ON 4 sound I
bnsis An ARE agreed that tho salaries !
II former years were entirely too high I
10 assure business success
Something IN regard to tho employ |
mont OF new managers Is expected 10 |
develop az tho meeting ii has boon
officially announced that Jack Egan |
of Providence. 4 T.. who piloted the |
Milwaukee club last season viii NOT |
return From Louisville cnmrs the
word that William J. Clvmrr. long "a I
favoritr WITH the Louisville baseball /
public viii in an probability again as
sumo management Of the Coionels ia. I
Caniillon. for wears manager OF tho
Minneapolis club has been mention
ed an the possible leader ~ the nil T
wsukro club
VIM" an Of the club owners main I
tain an eloquent silence on Tho sub
lcc', II ~ reliably repaired that the
association - between Siuu. 900 and /
sl5o0oe on tie lsiS hob tailed season
which WAS abruptly ended cary Ia
August aa result OF the work or
ilghl' orlnr President Hickey dc
clnges he has no information on the IA
diNidual LOSSES and the club owners
themselves are unwilling 10 say any
thing about the bundle OF COIN they
dropped ia their attempt 10 keep the
h1N rolling
President Hickey believes the ecom
mnniiy ownership" ~ the MINNEAPOLIS
club VIII be huge success in 1910
Forty influential business men ia Min
nenpolis purchased the club shortly be-
fore the suspension Of the season last
August and consequently they had no
opportunity TO- develop their pinua.
George Is Ileldon. president of me
Minneapolis Athletic Clnb Is the pr,ai-
dent ~ Tho baseball club.