TRADEMAHKBD BY THE SPORTINO LIFE PtTB. CO. ENTERED AT PHIL A, P. O. AS SECOND CLASS MATTES VOLUME 28, NO. 19, PHILADELPHIA, JANUARY 30, 1897. PRICE, FIVE CENTS. WILL WORK©S WORK LEAGUE PROBLEMS. CROWNED AT LAST WITH GRATIFY ONE SENSATION RAPIDLY SUPPLE ING SUCCESS, MENTED BY ANOTHER, His Proposed Central League Becomes Mr, Brush Ably Giies the League Disrap- a Reality The League Elfects Or tion Story Its Quietus Whereupon ganization at a Meeting in EvansYille Pittsburg Advances Another Tale Five Cities Already Gathered in, Calculated to Keep up a Ruction. Evausvillc, Ind., Jan. 22. Editor "Sport- The excitement over the recent Gleve- Ing Life:" The Central Base Ball League la-nd conference has died out, aud base was organized at the Ac.nie Hotel last ball people have settled down to the belief Monday night. Evansville will hold a fran that the subject of the Cleveland confer chise in the organization, and will be re ence was mainly aneut affairs of the presented by a club. as there Brooklyn Club, with a possible allusion tt» seems to be more than ordinary the subject of Sumlay ball. The idea of a interest in the game in this city. Five possible split iu the big League aurt tlMs cities were represented at the meet Ing. name formation, of a new league in the near fu ly. Nashville. Uy AV. L. Work: Terre Haute, by ture is generally scouted, and with good H. F. Senmidt; Cairo, by A. Steifel: Washing reason. ton, by a local gentleman holding a proxy, and President Brush, one of the great irio. Evansville, by Marx Guinberts. Representatives Brush. Byrne and Robisou, who conceived from Memphis and Little Koclc were expected, aud built the present great 12-club league, but failed to put in an appearance. aud thus gave base hall peace aud pros Ga.be Simons, of this cily. was elected presi- dent-secretary-treasurer of the League. This is perity, regarding the possibility ©of a break a very wise selection us Mr. Simons is a hustler, in that organization said the other day: nnd will undoubtedly made a success of the "You cannot drop one club in the West without League. The work of completing the circuit will dropping another in the East, and that leave* not be delayed as Mr. Simons will give the you with ten clubs, an unwieldy organization. matter his personal and immediate attention. In order, then, to get an eight-club basis you The salary limit was fixed at $800. The season must throw two more cities overboard, and that will open Saturday, May 1. and close some time leaves four towns outside the League, aud all in September, the date yet to be fixed. so important in baseball as to constitute a The guarantee of the various clubs of the standing menace to the major organization. League to remain to the end of the season was "They are left iu a position to precipitaU placed at $30;), half of this money to be de a base ball war, and can organize an opposition posited in the treasurer©s hands at the next league with the greatest ease. Then players© meeting of the League, and the balance one salaries would jump in the proportion of ©A to 5, month later. and the conditions prevailing iu 1890 wouli Memphis and Little Itock are applicants, and again be in force. Washington©s request will be held open until "As now arranged all the important cities ara the two-named are communicated with. Messrs. under cover, and nearly all make money. The W. L. Work. 11. F. Schmidt. A. Steifel and Marx larger cities do not make so much as in the Humberts were made the Board of Directors. days when the home club retained its receipts, President Simons was instructed to nvike appli but on the other hand the large clubs are not© cation for national protection. Another meeting called on every season to subscribe for the will be called soon by the president, at which heavy losses of some of the smaller clubs. © final action will be taken. "This satisfactory state of affairs should, in After the adjournment of the meeting, Presi my opinion, appeal to all who have money in dent Simons had ths delegates as his guests at vested in the game and cause them to hesitate , a supner at the Acme Dining Room. before doing anything to disrupt the present or The fact that Mr. Marx Gimiberts lias taken ganization. I don©t want auotiter experience io nn interest in base bull and will be at the head J. CALLAHAN a base ball war, aud I dorf*^believe anybody of the Kvansville Club this vear will be ex who has been through one dtie^Sfe?--. ceedingly good news to the )o;©al admirers of the pim©e. It means that there is to be a busi- One More Sensation. mss man at the head of the organization, for James ,T. Callnhan. the clever young pitcher who has been drafted from the Kansas City Club Now comes editor Pringle, of the "Pitts they know that he is a man who seldom fails 1 the Chicago Club, lias a bright future before him, as he should develop into one of the burg Dispatch." with another weird tala when he takes an interest in any business trans c ack pitchers of the League. He was born March is, 1S74. at Fitch burg, Mass.. and learned of the wildly improbab©e. He makes the action, and he will undoubtedly place a good t play ball with nmatenr t<?:uus of liis native place at such limes as he could get away from astonishing statement that the tour non- club in Nashville. 1 s work, which was that of plumbing, he having practiced pitching after working hours, and SunOav-playing clubs, which have always made such headway that he finally, strange to say. adopted base ball as a more suitable occu stoutly maintained that their oppovsition. to LOS ANGELES PLAYERS. pation than that of plumbing. His professional career began with the Northampton (Mass.) Sunday playing was based ou purely moral team, in 1802. It was his excellent work while with that club that led to his engagement grounds, have agreed to enter into the Men Who Will Doubtless Play on with the New JJedfords. an independent professional tean located at New Bedford. Mass., during the season of 189.©!. and it was while connected, w th the latter club that Manager Ir- Sunday-playing game for the object of Eastern Diamonds. win©s attention was drawn to his work. Culhilian bogrtn he season of IS©Jt with the Philadel breaking it down and killing it by surfeit Los Angeles. Gal.. Jan. 15. Editor "Sporting phia team, of the National League and American Associat on. but finished it with the Philadel in one season. Here is Pmigle©s preposter Life:" Pitcher Harvey, of the Tufts-Lyons Club. phia Olub. of the Pennsylvania State League. In 180(5 he i laved with the Kansas City Club, ous proposition: is the most talked of ball player on the Pacific and was one of the star pitchers of the Western League. He lias excellent speed, good com "It is now very probable that there will bo coast, and is beyond question the best pitcher, mand of the bull, and is cool headed at critica 1 stages of the game. He is also a good batsman a. sensation at the meeting of the National Base with a good brainy catcher to supixirt him. HP and clever base runner. Ball League magnates at Baltimore nest mouth, Is a comer. As he bas plenty of speed, good that the ©little seven© are not looking for. It curves, a very deceptive drop, and ^ left handed, may be that all of the ©big five© will resolve to he would he a valuable man for some club. THE SCORING RULES. WON©T GIVE IN. play Sunday games, and this will prevent the Jay Smith, the Tufts-Lyons third baseman, seven© from getting almost all the money there would be another good man for some state is in the West, as they have been doing. This league team. He is a good hitter, an elegant President Young in Sympathy With Von Der Ahe Still Striving to Slave is no idle talk, nor imagination, for there is fielder and fast on bases. a desire among the four clubs that do not Whaling, of last season©s Wheeling©s team, the Reform Move. Off the Inevitable. now play Sunday gain«s to stwrt in and have Will probably go to Des Moines. Syracuse, N. V.. Jan. 26. President Young has It would never do for Chris \oi\ der Ahe to a share of what is going. There is no doubt Onarles Franck, the clever sbortstop of the taken the pains to write to K. II. McBride. have his legal docket cleaned off. so be has whatever about the existence of this desire, no Francis Wilson team, has had an offer from secretary-treasurer of the Eastern league of resolved to light for another trial of that suit matter how it may be denied, and this desire Pete Lohmuu, manager of the Des Moines team. Sporting Writers, that he is in sympathy with of Mark Baldwin©s. Ou the© 21st inst. J. S. has been prompted by the fact that the Cleveland Bob Shaw, the crack (colored) pitcher of the the League©s effort to have the scoring rules and E. G. Ferguson/ representing Chris Vou der Club is going to resume Sunday games.