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Show INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE IS "COMING BACK" 77 wr j r mmiz Three Major League Veterans Now With Minor Organizations. (By ED G. BARROW, President of the International Baseball League.) The International league is "coming back" thiB season. Its prospects have not been so bright for a long, long time. The war is over, confidence is restored re-stored and the baseball conditions are normal again. Of course, the war caused us some suffering but it won't be long before our organization will be back on the same high plane as before the advent of the "outlaws." The 1916 make-up of the league will be the same a3 in the old days a compact circle made up of the best cities in the East. And so we all are more than hopeful that brighter days have come. The return to Newark and Baltimore Balti-more is gratifying. I am confident that before the season is over the fans in both cities will be completely satisfied with the brand of baseball they will get. James Price and Fred Tenney, the new owners of the Newark club, have made themselves popular by announcing announc-ing that they will have no major league connections. Another popular move was the decision to play the games in Newark instead of in Harrison. Har-rison. Jack Dunn always gave Baltimore Bal-timore baseball of major league caliber, and with no opposition there this season he Is bound to win the fans back to the support of his Orioles. Ori-oles. Richmond no doubt will make a much better showing in the way of attendance this season. "Billy" Smith is a shrewd and capable manager, mana-ger, and his hustling qualities will make him popular with the fans. I j look for the Virginians to have a very successful season all around. The change to local ownership has stirred things up in Providence, and the fans no doubt will rally to the support of "Billy" Draper, the new owner of the club, who is very popular popu-lar throughout Rhode Island. President Chapin of Rochester made a ten-strike when he secured little Tommy Leach to manage the Hustlers. Hus-tlers. Tommy has always shown that he possesses managerial ability by the way he has gone about building build-ing up a team for his new boss. The "midget" undoubtedly will be just as big a favorite in the International league as he was In the big show. Pat Donovan and his champions should have a banner season in Buffalo, Buffa-lo, now that they have the field all to themselves there. The large number of Canadians that have gone to the war front has made baseball conditions in Toronto and Montreal a little uncertain. How-ever, How-ever, the people of Canada are great lovers of outdoor sports, and they no doubt will patronize the ball games liberally. Baseball is about the only form of outdoor amusement left in Canada that has not been seriously affected af-fected by the European war. Joe Birmingham Bir-mingham at Toronto and Dan How-ley How-ley at Montreal, are both clever and experienced managers, and are backed by real sportsmen, who have shown their liberality and gameness on many occasions in the past. All things considered, the outlook for the International league is very encouraging. |