Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-21
Atlantic League Outlaws" Resemble
Hugh Joke.
LARGE EATERS IN JEOPARDY
Burlew q O,Neill to Sell Racing
Stable-Gans May Fight o'Brien
Gotham Golfers Sore.

ers of the two major leagues will be pack
ing their grips and getting ready to start
for the southern spring training grounds.
To most of the players it will probably
seem that time had wings this winter and
that their vacation since last season has
been very short. 1t does seem though
1t has been only a couple of weeks since
those thrilling worlds championship games
in Chicago, and as if the time could not
yet be near at hand for the 1907 cam
paign to begin.
But ii is only little more than five weeks
ahead when the players Of the Chicago.
Philadelphia, Cincinnati and New York
clubs will report for duty to go south and
but week behind them will follow the
Washington and other teams.
After the teams have once struck the
south and settled down to work the eyes
of the base ball world will be turned that
way and every bit of news that comes up
north will be read with enthusiastic eager
ness. The fans will want to know how
the veterans have wintered and how the
youngsters are showing up in practice.
Naturally there will be the usual disap-
pontments anent the new men who will
look better than they really are, because In
the practice their work will be compared
with that of the veterans The colts will
shine by comparison because they will lump
right in and show the best that is in them
In order to attract their managers atten-
ton, while the shrewd veterans will start
IN slowly and not take any chances with
their arms. and their legs either for that
matter. until after they have been thor
oughiy thawed out and the weather has set
tied so as to avoid colds. glass arms and
iameness. The real merits of the young
sters can therefore not be judged until after
the old-timers have struck their gait, when
a true basis of comparison is first offered
the managers. One of the most difficult
problems OF manager Is to make his Sc
Iections every spring. Few managers
cape mistakes in making these spring selec-
lions. the time for them to size up their
talent being too short
The threatened invasion of the outlaws,
working under the title of the Atlantic
League. into the ranks of organized base
ball. has caused more discussion than 1t
Is really worth. To compare the Atlantic
League to the Tri-state organization is like
racing street car horse against a thor
oughbred. The Tri-state League was of
the unique order. the hackers of each club
going down into their pockets every fall to
make up the big shortage that always re-
suited. and how long would the promoters
OF the Atlantic League stand for this sort /
OF thing II the Atlantic League Is fully
organized the chances are that it will not
last day after the 4th of July People
who have played and worked in the cities
named for the Atlantic League have only
smiles when the proposition is preached to
them. None Of the cities can draw out flies
on weekdays and almost all will depend on
Sunday games to make up the deficit There
is no rivalry like that existing in the Tri-
state. and when the hackers of clubs in the
Atlantic League see the players getting
all the money they will throw up their
hands and quit like flash The men
backing the Atlantic League are in the
game for money alone. while the Tri-state
leaguers We're in it for sport and enjoyed
nrnA linz 70 TO- b.
the organization cut in the base ball papers
OF the country.
1t is to he regretted that President John
son was not successful in his fight for
later opening for the American League in
the spring, and this point is especially ap-
plicabe to Washington. Last season the
opening game butted into the Benning
races, and as a result the crowd was short
about 5000 to 5000. who would have been
there but for the opposition. This season
the opening game will be played here April
II, which comes on Thursday. and that
series with either Boston or New York
will have to conflict with the last three
days of the Benning meeting.
The local management at first thought
of postponing the opening in this city by
transferring the games to either one Of the
two cities concerned, but the early spring
weather would be big handicap and 1t
was finally decided to stand to the original
formidable as in the larger cities, as the
followers of base ball in Washington do not
a rule fancy the racing game. But there
is still q loss of patronage that would look
good at American League Park, and 1t is
to be regretted that later start cannot be
made so that everybody can turn out and
make the opening day a hummer.
We will get Boston or New York Tor the
opening game, and as 1t will be the first
opportunity the local fans will get Of seeing
the team work under Manager Cantillon
A. - OH will he
the sufferer this year instead of the ball
park.
The proposition put forward by President
preyfuss of the Pittsburg club to allow
each player 81 a day for his meals instead
of the club putting up the money in bulk,
as heretofore has created end of dis
cussion all over the country. Mr.. Dreyfuss
claimed that his players ate entirely too
heartily and that 1t impaired their work
on the field. and IL this be true he has
certainly hit the right plan to prevent
over indulgence in this line. II this plan
would be adopted by all the clubs of the
National and American League. 9S per cent
OF the players would greet ii with glee.
OF the seventeen players. assigned on
average to each club. there would be found
but three or four who would pay dollar
for each meal AS "A rule they are great
eaters when some one else is paying for
II. but To see them curl up when the
money comes out of their own pockets
presents really Iunny SlSnt
Ball PLAYERS are frugal as a rule. When
on the road. with the club settling the
bills they demand the best hotels and
the best OF accommodations, but at home
when they pay their own bills, such a
difference, They pass up the hotels for
second-story side rooms.
Secretary Navin OF Detroit says the
men will accept the So and then HE them
selves 10 a hot dog emporium where
they will invest in a hearty dinner some
what as follows:
Baked beans. cents
Bread and Butter. cents.
Cup coffee 5 cents.
Safety razor cut roast beef, cents.
Total. % cents.
OF course breakfast and lunch will not
be nearly so expensive. and the result will
be a corpulence of the bank roll, but at
the sad expense of coterie of weakened
athletes and correspondingly disappoint-
ing result in the percentage table.
Elmer Bates In the Cleveland Press re-
lates a little incident of last years train
ing trip that shows how much money the
players will try TO save.
Going from Birmingham to Indianap-
oils Secretary Barnard gave each of his
men 81 TO pay for meals en- route. At the
finish ten of the twenty-one players still
had s. of the original 81. and three OF
the men missed the train at Louisville
while hunting for ten, TWEEN, thirt'