The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-26
BALL PLAYnRs WHO MADE MONEY
sfany of the stars Have Prepared fer
 Ratny Days.

Many of the stars Have Prepared fer
 Ratny Days.
 Houston Posl.
 Buck Ewing left ar estate valued al sso. 500. But how many other ball players were as fortunate? In me years Ewing was prominent on the d'A mond--froms 1880 10 Ie95--professionaI ball players were not as prOvsdent as they are now Far from it. There were some few who saved their money but the majority of them were on the happy.po-lucky Mike Rely order-- who only looked for what the next day would bring fo~th. and they wo".u take chances on advance IRonev rathsr than what thsl- salarieJ would prod lf~ for the exigencias ot long. hard w'h- ter.
 We have seen King Kel ohta'n century note from Uncle 5l nant during one of the Nat!o si Lea rue meetings, at the Fifth Avenue Hotsi' lay 1t on the bar and leave !t there un- til the barkeap would say. No chahfe- And Rel wou.d h. lnsulted 1T there wa- any change coming.
 But there were few keis In tn'Se days. The .Alme never pr"auc'd anS tsuch pro fife spender as the E"a- 1 Thousand Dollar Beauty" hs was m a class with Juhn l.. Sullivan ana ! both those royal good fellows lived an the same decade. They were. In tacl. i pals. Whenever they met money flowed l ike water. and the juice of the grape i gurgied down the throats Of coat | beavers as well as men about toMn. l Whoever had hls belly up against the l bar'' at the time was Iinpartially wei come, and offence would De taken uh- ! less everybody gulped the hzz l Poor Kelly has gone to the far pe- yond. but the Big Fellow Is still In | the land of the living and "ccpping lhe I coin" by giving sparring exhibitions at fairs In the south and Middle West I But for more than nineteen monthS John U. has net allowed 5oIze to pass l his llpa This Is from indisputaole svl- dence, and the Big Yellow" 10 up "easy street. again.
 | But to the ball players-there asS | more who save their coin nov than TOT merly But some sf the old liners car i buy and sell the new yenerAtion--yes 1 and bv millions. Al SpaldlnS. Al Reach and George Wright are tnuitimiliionv aires. They were fortunate, howeve.', ! in having their lines fall in most ad- vantageous tines to get the money l unnecessarily. to have sailen upoild
 Al $ aiding jumped the Boston club | In 1876. vita Ross Barnes. Jim White and Cal McVey. making the first big 1 four" deal In base ball history .spald- 1 ing had business instincts al the time. He saw the bright prospects Of base hall and was convinced or the game future as the national sport President Hurlbut, of the Chicago club. was lust as optimistic as Spalding and backed the famous pitcher tR starting a su'ah snorting eoodH store on Madison Street. in Chicago. in 1876. From that small start the present firm of Spalding Bro originated, and IL has been phe- nomenally successful ever since Ah gart. ii has grown tn worldwide IaIhe.
 Al Reach started in Phiiadel ma ~ about the same time as Al opaisns did in Chicago, and Wright and lhtsoh in Boston George Wright was In the earIy seventies the most famous short stop in the country. Al SpaldlnE was aonaliv famous as a pitcher, and Al ne,ch as q second basemaA- With the old Athletics, of Philadelphia: tnls trio Of oldltimars are now mltl9h"iIes several tines over, but they are t bls exception. ana the yobtaihsd Ihe' aanctaI su,,cesa thr0nghbussnesemsth ods. o,,. wealthy. Jim O'kouTke, the owner - the Bridgeport club of the Connee1lsus League, can draw hrs check Tor hoFe than any of the cld-timers @lm hte real estate holdings in Bridgeport as well as a law practice that p1is n'1.
  also playing ball today, and ne naA been on the turf since 1878 as pro. Roger Connor has houses and lots a In Waterbury that put hitn in the SlVV'"VV class without the least doubt
 John M Ward has recently pur- chased a magnificent home on Long island. has a trout preserve and other conveniences that only q fortune Of s75, ,O0O can allow Of. Mir. Ward also mas ar axtenslva law practice that brlugs him a very lucrative Income.
 John ]. McGraw has fortune or al least SiOO. O.0OO. MeGra,. makes suc- cess at anything he undertakes Dan BrOuthers. although he has lett Wappinger Falls for the metropolis 'S worth close on to sao.OAo
 Dennis Richardson mas an iDterest ln inc biggest dry goods store in the southarn tier of countess and SIX tlS" ures will about name his wealth
 MT. CoVSem Hurt.