| Show BASEBALL SEASON 0 P P caylor on an the outlook for the national game A SENATOR FROM THE DIAMOND how flow allen alien of Nebra sica win was to t alio it 0 upper riot me 0 of f Con contreas greas ten henmi to a N ot to go lor practice la the Reb reserves erves M 13 THING mas VL ns created for tome good pu purpose r that precept is taught to us earldin early in life anil and we try hard to believe it nut but there have been times in the life of every baseball crank when lie wondered lether Nil w the umpire s 0 dehony in e h OY an exception to the rule A 0 recently anjou announced ic circumstance however puts even the despised umpire into tile cla class of created things w kiich have a pur purpose posic nn an object in life all umpire in the fur far west was nim the cause of a man mail going to the united states senate the story goes that senator alien newly elected from nebraska formerly figuried as a baseball manager niA nager in lis his natie nathe state ilis his ambition was at that time to acet up a vi liming inui team and capture a championship all might have gone well mell and manager allen alien possibly this springtime would bane am e been dickering tor for the service of 0 some phenomenal t atler or some g r reat slugger bad his baseball life not been severed by a miserable umpire nm one day the of rending official rendi ed cd a decision against manager allen alien s club which so dieg disgusted rusted idin him that ho he resigned and swore of off from his allegiance to the game to wean himself froin that which lie ile aoi loed ed he be entered politics and tho the route led to the united states senate for the tha first time in many years the MR majority of the major league clubs have made no preparations for sending their teams south tor fox early caily preliminary firc practice and not ia all cese years lins has there been a pi ing so EO belated and unfit for preliminary practice throughout the national league circuit it has been customary for the different teams team to report for duty about march I 1 TIAR this year not more than one of the twelve clubs had all its men signed by the middle of march firch IN the pittsburg st louis louisville and chicago Chic igo alone have arra arranged n ged for an early tour through southern terri tory or for a practicing cam laign in LL warm climate the experiences of the past in this respect have been disappointing no club lias has eier i er reached enough above t the be expense of such an experiment to make it entirely satisfactory florida is now wholly avoided us as a training ground because the month of march in abut latitude is too warm and makes the contrast upon a return to the north in april too great to preserve tile tha good effects obtained while down there some severe cases of typhoid fever have been contracted in these florida trips notably that tha t which carried off hubert collins collies of the brooklynn Brook lyns last may ilot hot spring lias has also been abandoned abandon ed as a team training ground principally because of the expense attending 1 stay at that place the tor us A which lich are now pi playing ayin 9 through the southern league circuit may have struck a happy medium it is likely vi fiat at the chief reason why the to majority of the hie clubs made no arrangements for or ante season southern trips this year I 1 w as because they ant anticipated ici a general balking among their players in coming forward to sign contracts contract sunder the reduced salaries their anticipations in this respect lave have not been mi misplaced placed st patricks Patrick day sclay saw more than hau t half bail f of the reserved players of the national league unsigned this is most unusual A builder v chose lose name was finnegan once auhl tile me that he be always bogan began work laying foundas foundations tons utter after st patricks day beal because no inore hard bard frosts came after the ditth of al larch maybe the boys who h play ball have been waiting for st pall icks aty diy in ili tile the hope that the frost might out of the heal Is of the chilly magnates all contracts coot rits begin to run on april I 1 this year in of on march 13 15 as heretofore fore a fact which aich may account for the players tai tardiness diness in making or rather lather accepting epting terms contracts will run ox months this year instead of tevell us as in ili the past when april fools day arrives theio will beery be acry few of last years players unsigned bo be cruse every dy after that late date means a certain income I 1 ecEl viEd or fir missed as the case may be but such men its aa keefe glasscock waid foutz zimmer and accept the situation grace tally fally and take N w hut but tho the magr magnetic gods detrie decree and there are no indications lift left of any serious or lasting I 1 among the other stars A remarkable kable feature of this years opening in campaign is the scarcity of new placers ers among tile the teams as selected boston has ono one in lake a catcher r thu the new yorks have one in mcquaid a california placer tile tho have rione none the v ill try one or t 0 the other nine clubs had picked out 13 of the most prom abing of the ern and eastern league players of lat last season but tile tho national board at its marh mardi ine meeting eting ordered all these 13 15 recruits to lie be returned to their re i clubs or the drafting clubs to pay each for any I 1 w ho might bo be ret retained lined under this order or decision more than half of the new liew men will mill be cretul resumed ned to their minor league clubs club the return of connor and ward to the new ew yorks and the possible engagement of kally belly for the same team lias has worked up tip an unusual interest in the metropolis M lich will probably have considerable influence nl luence throughout the country Louis villes chances for sunday games are anro slim aud short their new gio at parkland ai aio a situated in a highly reAp respectable ecta neighborhood and tile the town cor council lucil has the placing of sunday games a there thin will ge be a 1 bitter disappointment to tho louisi illo and a liea y blow financially v for ears the thu louisville club lias bits depended on oil sunday games to pull them out of their the chicagus Chica Chic aguy suK under the schedule of dates daies for 11 03 u still ill beat the record in jumping in ili the 10 days from sept I 1 to sept 10 they will travel 1 2600 1 miles ou on aug 29 9 30 81 31 they play in boston then they go to chicago they play tile the Biltl morea sept 2 3 4 on sept C 0 8 0 9 they aru are due for games in phi philadelphia lade ph in after abich they will return to chicago chicag 0 to play tho the sept 11 1213 this is the first on oil record I 1 believe whole a club meia es a journey of alyma extra uli miles es for the sake ot of three transferred games to its 0 onu u I 1 grounds cr 0 1 P |
