| Show ith how the recent meeting of league was conducted d j ai LT some of ill alio cann cnn object ato t it it I 1 la ava rt ili li actual arit tace twill Sn Iarien will come bovin n ilor or other ohi r chit dint chat bit anes 41 vi train acted t mill 1 lily ly at the j annual meting gnei larg Z n P 1 of 0 the NIL I 1 Z aj legue of pip pi P J ball chicago than wai alln given out ici to the ir 1 li public the history of that cel boily body rop aci of tle tie press havo have bee carefully excluded from its it li ings n g a the delegates anre pledged to secrecy and tile tho r aiesi esi dent acet who Is ii also secretary I 1 Is instructed to gi thernest the ther hireling just such things a us may be decided va aae and beneficial to I 1 tile the rint ionn game tile moar tant business transacted lit at these meetings is thu often suppressed sup presed cd and only lcara out and readies reaches the columns of 0 newspapers new papers v beeks and sometimes months afterward aal tile late annual meeting teems ems to have been no exception to the iho general rule the magnates afre in session two days and p put pirt ot of one evening and yet the amount of their ext execution cution its announced through president young was not enough to keep w wideawake 1 I reawake nun inca of average Int intelligence ellig ei cc busy two hours it is admitted however by many of tile the delegates in a tacit way war that it a good deal of the inee meetings tings work is lo co be for a time kept secret As soon boon as tile tho melting adjourned a rumor prevailed that tho the magnates hall had fixed salary limit for of president young would neither aff irlia nor deny the news but mr air youngs reticence thereon means nothing enk is so BO devilish sly that joey nag stock was never su in it with him I 1 do not believe that any sal n as agreed to such a plan waa w rus proposed it the special injecting inciting ia new york at the l lose loe o of last season and was pi promptly re lecter st louis X oidis the limit fixed it at cf and Ilo bison of cie cleveland veland even a n maxi total of 0 for mch inch club boston and 1111 brooklyn Uro oklyn would lot listen to nuy eccli suggestion brook yn will not under any ally circum circumstance st ance be lound by a salary limit however ili high h or ow this I 1 k know noar officially and it if any calary limit plan was proposed at a the chiago meeting the brooklyn Krook lyu club refused to libe it or be bound thereby just as astae they effused to be a party to tho the june salary re luction scheme they however are in fa of a radical reduction in salaries bin but propose to do the work themselves with mt jut the aid of marked lines A galary limit rule amounts to little radically tactically though it may be used theo clieo to bring players t to 0 terms it etwas wai ried once before by tho the league andya waded fit t pleasure by lying p cyr fim in j rs s salaries in excess edress ofa amit tor for some Uch technical servile service li as ap taD assi biant captain assistant nry ary or dressing room superintendent rho i ulo iule became such a farce til th tt it it wn wa x pealed lifter after one chort season of misuse there is is no doubt whatever that the caggio cag iio ni nica cn to drag salaries ajl ries down radi ally for next bear ear this year the clubs club averaged over sa s1 in their team pity the avii av acta ta age e dext year will riot not hi bo sacco that means a cut of nearly learly AD opar per cent tit it will not force tal griea eucla nucla n cli if any below the euins paid to play rs irs in 8 and lson when the kime tine vas nas at hr be height of its pi prosperity the two ze e of and 1801 1831 ran salaries up to hige arc and nd the tumble was sure 0 come that tile tho players at last realize ho he false falso measure of their recent c empen actions and aru art I 1 cady to descend to a bul bui bess basis is shown by the willing manner n which nearly rica fly rill ell of the pitts pittsburg ierg play rs signed for next year at reductions aver gina sa A per cent As I 1 predicted the pentagonal diamond diccy was scarcely noticed by the mag bates it hiis Y 3 not even honored with menion in ili president youngs bulletin to the importers cli tile the playing rules haie been to ton a committee tor for revision re and bo be committee will report at the spring elie schedule dule meeting this course has pre ailcy in ili the iho league tor for years the elie torn coni clittee coni consists conits ts of 1 inrush Il aru rush b llyrne and von ler I 1 font chis 1 I ills indicates that nn all abali ion of abe lie lilt flat bat may maybe be suggested by be committee crush asid and hyrne byrne both lave t with tho the regulation aund bat in their teams and these play ki much disgust dis us tullon upon thelise the if i ilia lie flat bat in a practice vi which aich once re inbred skill clr is a great tinker f rules culps and many malty charl changes ts will be sug eted tile the abolition of tho the schedule committee lid aid the placing of the work in ili tho the hands if f president boing was the best piece of ait oi oit k of tha t he mec meeting ting sir mr young can call ba rusted to make a schedule with mith perfect airney aril entire impartiality schedule have been noted tor for the prod galaty they practiced in dividing up ul other clubs till all the good dates date alich the members of the committee could la tot mt get away with themselves of c ourse course the double season monstrosity 13 la idaway for nit all time th was ex eted its lt fete fate w as determined before the ot oi daur was convened cou next year rear there vill ill bo be hut but ono one championship unit und it will se ii a light fight to ti it without vit hoit a berks of finals baals in october it is A i rather remarkable tact fact which ha has i ot lot often acen dk cussed that very seldom oes a professional player attempt 0 play football foot bill second Bast bastmann inart dmd f this lon team is in the George georgetown fooL football ball team so ar A as I 1 know ito I 1 the only p if iho national Nati oual league of who taking a any part in ill the now m line baseball Hi alaers would excel at daball duball it if saw lit jit tu lu take it up at till nil nd of if the bast basab ill ison As n rulo they ro re pin lit fit tire are s SH ut ift I 1 anners active u the aluir r feet feel end endowed oed with great strength I 1 I 1 lid jid aio quick bukk to accept nit an ad vanta t I 1 clieve that some of the iho league teanis jill it very little training could defeau ither the yale harvard II arvard or princeton levens some years ago the boston bostan baseball tear team ook doh up cricket at the end cod of 1 the liu bearun in nit bent to augland nuil nd easily caily defeated aba cat cricket lit in great much i the surprise Hiir irise ud d degust of inn Eng Engli lisi bli nu aia in i 0 11 cm |
