The Washington times., 1906-01-07
List to the Plant
About Our Amateurs
Smon-pures Want SO Much Money for Play
ing Ball There's Nothing Left for the
Manager-OnIy One Refused
CHARLES T. CARPENTER
(0f Altoona, Pa,

With the new year have come new
plans and schemes. and among those
who are bestirring their brains betimes
are the managers of amateur baseball
teams
The managers of teams in the various
leagues are not the only ones who are
looking around for material. The ener-
getic young men with money mania
upon them who operate the independent
amateur teams are also adeld and
signing men for the coming season.
But there is a fly in their ointment
they are filled with despair The future
is dark and there promises To be little
return Tor the gigantic mental efforts
they make 10 turn All honest penny.
Want All the Money!
The trouble is the amateurs" want
all the money and would leave none to-
the managers.
Oh. the pity of it ala Alas and ala-k
aday! To think the amateur" players
should be SO eXscting-
Said one Disguised maraser;
IT'S jolt OF building up the strongest
amateur team in the District IS not
what IL used 70 be. The Players insist
upon getting 30 mucn for t.eir services
who furnishes The original capital ar
ranges dates. takes tickets. ana does all
the other hundred and one things which
are necessary but which are NOT cOnsid-
cred by those not IN the same businss:
No Pay, No Play.
After we have attended to an the
preliminary work and have assumed all
the risk and have finally made IS, what
happens Why, every mothers son Of
tie ten men We have on team comes
around and wells for $50 as his share
It's d fact-they wouldn't reimburse the
manager for the cost of printing the
tickets, If ne holds out a fiye-spot for
mis- trouble they say he is robbing them
and make fancy motions around his
head with the bats.
If / only cleared 50 cents on a game
they would want cents apiece, ana tell
me TO walk home, tha- the mild exer-
else in the early eventde would do me
good. They are all alike and if / man
age a team at all next summer / am go
ing 10 do some hocus-pocus. no-mous-
tdche-to-doceiye-yO I-WondeT-w here-ir-
Went business TO square myself for last
season. / am not in the game for my
health and want some return for the
burrows in my alabaster brow sir ce
began 10 promote amateur baseball
Also Unreliable
These amateurs have French
actress looking like a Jolly fat m,,n at
a beefsteak feed when il comes TO
peeyishaess and demanding their
rights. Tney have the little busy bee
in the same class with "a bear n the
middle Of his six-months' winter snooze
in the matter of skipping uimbly from
place to place. One day YOU have EN-
all signed up nice and tight 10 play for
you until the season when no home is
complete without "A busted waterpipe,
and the next day your ten pets are di-
yidins their time between playing for
somebody else and going fishing
Thus DO they trife with your af-
fections and dates until they hear you
are arranging a big, juicy game in
which there will be bunch OF grand
Observation-Disclosures money in sight
when they turn up as promptly as d
s0ldier-vote Representative proposing
private pension bills on opening day,
and demand that they be given a slice
of the good thing. If YOU reprOve them
with harsh words or refuse to take them
back into the fold they promptly go over
10 the rival team and work a horrid re-
vengc by beating the tar out of your
giddy collection of hastily gathered mis-,
ITS on the day OF the big game
or course tie other manager has the
same trouble, and / have a chance To
set his fretfui little men away from
himi but seems TO me by the time i