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DKVOTISD TO BASE BALL, TRAP SHOOTING AND GENERAL SPORTS VOLUME 32, NO. 6. PHILADELPHIA, OCTOBER 29, 1898. PRICE, FIVE CENTS. WESTERN POLITICS. IHSIDE FACTS OF THE RECENT WEST ANOTHER VOICE LIFTED ffl ITS ERN LEAGUE MEETING, ENDORSEMENT. Why the Buffalo and Toronto Territory Business Manager Bancroft, of Cincin las Not Secured When the Chance nati, Favors tbe Long Schedule Presented Itself The Cincinnapo- and Makes Excellent Suggestions olis Club a Stumbling Block Again, Regarding Inter-Sectional .Trips. Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 24. Editor "Sp9rt- Cincinnati, O., Oct. 25. Discussing tha !ng Life:" At the recent meeting in Chica prospects for next season, Business Man go there were many little episodes which ager Bancroft, of the Reds, says he is in were neTer intended for publication. The favor of 154 championship games, com magnates worked hard to place Loftus and mencing about April 15 and ending Oct. 15, give the franchise and players of the St. the same as the past season with a rula Joe Club to Buffalo, but the deals all fell forbidding any League- club playing an ex through, and there was a general howl for hibition game during that period. He alsd the extra players of the St. Joe team. The says he favors franchise did not revert to the League, as A THKEE-THIP SCHEDULE was generally supposed, but was owned by between the East and West, instead of tha the Milwaukee, St. Paul and Kansas City four-trip one tried in ©98. In this way a clubs jointly. That is where the hitch club could start East the same as last comes in regarding the effort to place Pres spring, playing three games in each Eastern ident Franklin. Comiskey and Manning are city, or eighteen in all, consuming threa anxious to get their money back, which weeks, the same as last spring, and then amounts to $400 each, and the only way making two more trips with two games* they can do this is to sell some of the St. in each city, of twelve games on a tripk Joe players. which would only keep a club away two HANGING BACK. weeks at a time, and not only play tha The rest of the clubs in the league are entire Eastern cities on each trip, but avoitj not willing to come forward and stand one railroad jump between the East ami the loan on equal shares with the Mil West. This also would give a waukee, St. Paul and Kansas City clubs, CHANGE OF CLUBS otherwise the deal could be patched up in every two days and would keep up th* short order. An offer was made to Frank interest in the game and not make a dull lin to give him the entire team if he would grow stale in a city, as is done when play1© pay the $1200 to the three clubs which ad ing four games in, a series, as was th» vanced the money to carry St. Joe along. case under the ©98 schedule. He say* There is no doubt that Franklin could while none of the clubs have done any bi$ have held the three best men and sold the business in October, every dollar over ex> others for something like $1000, which penses they take in is velvet, as the player* would have made it reasonably cheap, but DALE GEAR, are under contract until October 15 an<j this Franklin declined to do. The Kansas City Star Pitcher Secured by the Pittsburg Club. have to be paid even if the schedule end^ THE BUGHT OF BRIISHISM. October 1. For instance, the Cleveland* . President Killilea, of the Milwaukee Clnb, share in Chicago Saturday and Cincinnati labored hard to have each club iu the West MAUL©S METHOD UMPIRES© FAILURE. Sunday was $1500, netting them probably ern League donate $500. toward purchasing $800 over railroad and hotel bills, thej the Toronto franchise and turning it over Results in Making Work For His Their Lack of Nerve Responsible For getting that much more than they would to Loftus gratis, but this plan also fell if they had disbanded Oct. 1. through. Four of the clubs were willing Outfielders. All Troubles. A GOOD ARGUMENT. lo do this, ©but the Indianapolis Club and Albert Maul, the League©s most effective Taken all in all the umpiring this season has "And," says he, "while some of the club* one other refused to make the appropria pitcher this year, feared but one team, viz., been as good as the game has ever seen. Such advocate not opening the season until Ma;» tion. Had the three given $500 each it Boston. Although Maul was effective at all men as Lynch, Gaffney, Emslie, Brown and 1, facts show that the Reds had only five stages of the game, his best work was done in several others have been exercising excellent games postponed by the weather the last would have made $3000, which would have judgment in their work. But with all that, nas started the ball rolling nicely. This would the spiing and in the middle of the season. In two weeks in April, against live postponed, the four mouths from April 15 to August 15 he the umpiring been satisfactory? Not by a good for the same reason the first twa have fixed everything, so Loftus would have lost only three games, and it was after August deal. The reason it has been unsatisfactory is taken big Columbus team to Toronto and 15 that his record of defeats increased almost not because of errors of judgment on the part weeks in May, and with all those tbe St. Joe players would have been free as rapidly as his victories. He was less ef of umpires, but because they have failed to make postponed games ten in afl the first four to go to Buffalo. fective against Louisville than any team in good the promises of the magnates that this weeks of the season the Reds played out STUCK ON DENVER. the League, although, so Heinie Peitz says, he season the game would be free from all thos« their entire schedule of 154 games, two of Loftus seems determined to make a try feared Ditching in Boston more than in any disagreeable features that marred the game in them being tie games one in Boston and egain at Denver, and did all in his power other city in the circuit. "It is noticeable," past years and promised and, by the way. still one in Cincinnati last Sunday. With thesa to have the league agree to transfer his said Peitz, "that when Maul is pitching the promise to gradually kill the game. The Brush facts in view I don©t see airy ground for first baseman has but little work. Most of the resolution, with the aid of the umpires, players argument against a 154-game schedule sea club there. This the league members and spectators and the agreement among the fought against, and there is little likeli balls hit go into the air. In Boston the short son, or against playing from April 15 to fences offer excellent inducements for fly balls magnates to put a stop to kicking on the part of October 15. But I do think a three-trip hood that Denver will be admitted to the to get out of the game, and as Maul©s specialty their players, were expected to bring about this league. It is strange what a fancy Loftus is allowing batsmen to hit fly balls, he is much reform. Spectators do not now hear the ob scedule on the lines mentioned above would has taken to Denver, but those who know handicapped by the tennis court, which is called scenity that formerly was shouted so that the be preferable to a four-trip schedule, not say that Tebeau started the bee buzzing. a ball ground by common consent. Maul has stands could hear it. "No player will prefer on©y being less expensive, but would ba The Milwaukee Club stands ready to make not been successful in Boston this year, and chaiges against another and so deprive him of more interesting for the public, who sup that is the reason." his livelihood and none of the umpires have the port the game." concessions regarding the $1200, providing nerve to enforce the rules which are made to the Kansas City and St. Paul clubs meet save the game from decay. The magnates, too, fhem half way. If this is done it is al SW AIM©S SUIT. have not lived up to their agreement to put a NO WILD-CATTING. most certain that Buffalo will be satisfied stop to kicking. However, the public does not and Franklin will enter the Western. The Ex-League Pitcher Now Work- blame the players or the magnates. As the Ted Sullivan©s Cuban Mission to be /Messrs. Killilea, Comiskey, Loftus and ins Ohio Ruralists. umpire has tbe power to put a stop to the row Carefully Worked Out. /Johnson are now working on the circuit "Cy" Swairn, the Tuscarawas bard, has re dyism and kicking on the field h.e is blamed for not enforcing tbe rules. And that is why um Dallas, Tex., Oct. 20. Editor "Sporting Life:" and will report at a meeting, to be held turned to his homlj at Denison, O., and writes Allow me to say to my friends and tbe publics In Chicago, Oct. 26. Should the Toronto ©Cy" Young that he is in the nursery business. piring has not teen satisfactory. Cincinnati "Tinies-Star," that my Havana trip is not intended for any deal fall through, it will not be surprising ©Cv tells me that he is selling trees through hap-haa©ard expedition.