Show GOOD DAYS COMING i TheN ext Baseball Season Will be a Lively One Er E I 1 THE PUBLIC INTERESTED AGAIN After the Recent Fiasco People Are Anxious to See Gooa BallGuesses ns to the ilakenn of the Teams There is really very little doubt that there will be a great revival in the interest s in the national game in 1S91 Any ono who desires to find out the value of this statement can do so very easily by making a canvass among his personal friends whom he has heretofore known to bo partial to 1 the game He will find that the settlement settle-ment of the baseball war and the prospects lor a continuation of the struggle for tho professional championships such as admirers ad-mirers of the game witnessed in 1SSS and 18S9 have brought back to the fold many a man who lost his interest from the disgust dis-gust aroused by the bickerings which disgraced dis-graced the sport during the past season Among the cranks the most intense interest in-terest is displayed as to the makeup of the teams for next year but on this point very little definite information can now be given f There will be an unusual amount of trading trad-ing and there will be new deals announced nearly every day after the first of the year These will be caused by the desire of certain cer-tain clubs to get rid of certain men and the desire of certain men to play in other clubs than those from which they seceded last year This applies mostly to the cases of those men who were pronounced leaders of the Brotherhood It is the intention of the League to have the players satisfied as near as it is possible possi-ble There is one point though on which they will not permit any interference or allow any trouble to be made That is in the case of the men who left the Brotherhood Brother-hood and stood by their clubs The returning re-turning players will not displace these men and they will not be allowed to queer them in anyway No player will be forced to play with the men who were faithful to the League when it was in trouble but their refusal to do so will not cause the League to make any discriminations on that account During the past week the conference committees of the League and the Amert can association have been busy arranging the final details of the American association I associa-tion circdit and have nearly put things into shape Owing to the determined stand taken by the Toledo club its pleadings to remain in the circuit and the exceeding iiflBculty which will bo experienced in I either forcing or buying it out the project i of putting an association team into Chicago I Chi-cago may be abandoned It seems to me I that it would be good policy to abandon it as it is extremely doubtful if two clubs could ever make a go in Chicago There i has never been the slightest indication that such a scheme would be successful I But whether Chicago or Toledo or Milwaukee i Mil-waukee be selected the circuit when completed com-pleted and the teams which will play in it will be the strongest and best ever known in the history of the organization With Washington Philadelphia Boston and Baltimore in the east and St Louis Louisville Columbus and either Toledo Milwaukee or Chicago in the west there ought to be good fortune in store for every club in the circuit Mr Barnies strong team of last year will be made much stronger by the addition of GriffinShindle and one or two good pitchers who will beat be-at liberty Von der Ahe will have Comis key Robinson King and Boyle back with him and these with the men helm over from last season will give St Louis c team of which it can well be proud The Boston Bos-ton and Philadelphia P L teams of last rear will be kept pretty much the same in the association The places of the men returned to the League will be filled with others almost as good while Washington will have a chance to get together a team worthy of the capital for there never was a time when good ball players were so plentiful One of the things which will increase the enthusiasm in all the cities in both the League and ssociationcircuits will be the new faces in every team and the very equal distribution of playing talent I do not mean by this that there will be eight teams in each league of equal strength but I do mean that the players will be more equally distributed than ever before and that no team in either league will have a walkover walk-over The team which wins the pennant that will be emblematic of the worlds championship in 1891 will have to play a steady game from first to last and most of the time their work will have to be of the most brilliant description THIXGS THAT ARE SAID That Al Spalding would like to have Pfeffer himself unless he can trade him off for Mike Kelly That Johnnie Ward would like to go to Cincinnati and that Cincinnati would welcome wel-come him with open arms I That George Gores emporium business will hurt his chances for a good job next season but that George is doing so well that he will not be apt to feel as badly as Le otherwise might That the League is to take some action against the saloon keeper in baseball which may take the shape of a rule that no man who is in the liquor business be signed That the Wagner brothers are negotiating negotiat-ing with Pat Powers to manage their team should they receive the Athletic franchise That it would be a great stroke of policy should Wagner engage Billy Sharsig whose personal popularity would be a great card with Philadelphia patrons That ball players generally are now inquiring in-quiring who is going to put up sufficient advance money to tide them over the winter win-ter That Eddie Talcott made a pile of money out of the recent stir up in the stock market mar-ket and now looks with equanimity on his losses in backing the late Players league That the appearance of John Morrill and George Wright at the recent house warming warm-ing given by John Clarkson in Boston has roused the ire of certain members of the ball players brotherhood That the public verdict will be that Wright and Morrill did just about right That Spalding is now confident that he will have Mike Kelly in the Chicago team next season likewise Duffy and Ryan That Stevens Murnane McGunnigle Spence and Bancrot will try to organize a New England league in 189L That the Boston team next year will have Clarkson Nichols Getzein Bennett Ganzel Tucker Pfeffer Nash Long Sto vey Richardson Brodie Sullivan Lowe and McGnrr That the League staff will be Lynch McQuaid Gaffney and Powers W L HARRIS |