The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-04-05
HOTEL CORRIDORS.
FRUITFUL TO
REPORTERS
did You Ever Manage a
Baseball Team?"- Trav-
eler Gives Advice.

Did you ever manage baseball
team Frank Voss of Milwaukee,
Wis.,, who Is registered at the Dacotah
hotel, had a far-away look en- his face
when he asked the question that
seemed to indicate no answer was ex-
pected. Whenever spring comes along
and see all this baseball talk in the
papers" he continued, II am reminded
OF the strenuous season put In when
young fellow engineering such an
aggregation for my home town.
IF man likes good, warm time,
and loves quarreltng and fighting, let
him get at the head of bunch of ball
tossers that Is making neighboring
towns from some unimportant little
center. The smaller the town the
more; excitement he will get Manag-
ers of the league team get into talking
matches occasionally, 1 suppose, but
III bet that for genuine excitement in
the scrapping line the manager of a
small team has them backed of the
map. Wordy arguments of the most
heated kind are hourly occurrences,
and he can have flstic encounter any
old time he happens to feel inclined
that way, and pretty often it is forced
upon him when he Is not SO inclined.
II he is afraid of anything in the shape
of man he has no business in the
business.
II had a lot of fun the summer I
was leading violent existence of this
kind, despite its drawbacks. l hadn't
ANYTHING special to do that summer,
and when one of the business men of
the town came to memo the town
wasn't Northumberland asked me If |
didn't want to act as playing manager
of a team l readily consented. He put
1t up to me that every progressive
town should have a good baseball ag-
gregation, and I agreed with him. 1t
didn't take me long to round up a
bunch of fellows who were fair at
throwing the sphere around the dia-
mond, and we started cut
I'm modest enough to admit that it
didn't come through my management,
but It's fact that we won on the av-
erage about three out of every four
games played all during the season.
We weren't very good, but the other
fellows were awfully poor. We played
twelve or fifteen different towns, some
OF them two or three times. Most of
our luck came from our pitcher. He
sure was peach.
Being top liners that way, the 9TH
er teams we played, and the towns
they represented, we naturally were
d1sliked most heartily, and this dislike
frequently manifested itself in SUBJ
stantial form. had a game bunch,
WHO wouldn't back down before tribe
of Indians, and there were times when
the whole outfit was called upon to
rescue some unfortunate comrade in
distress. quarreled more and fought
more that summer than l ever did be-
fore or since. Together with the small
profits coming from the gate receipts,
and the larger profits resulting from
bets won, managed to make fair
thing out of the season from the stand
point of money
Il worked five years in the house
before my people started me out on
the road" said ]. L. Daniels of Min
neapolis at the Northern. "The salary
l was getting was pretty small one,
too, and more than once l was on the
verge of quitting my job. l probably
would have done so, but father
wouldn't have it that way.
1T was pretty hard to plug along on
small salary when my former school,
mates were nearly all of them making
more money at other lines of work.
Father used to tell me that it was
prospects more than immediate salary
that counted with young fellow, and
l since have found that he spoke the
truth. Many times have found occa-
sion to thank my lucky stars that
lived up to his wishes, and stuck to
the place In the wholesale house.
didn't have as much money to spend
as the other fellows, but as they spent
all they made was just as we'll off
when the end of the year came around.
After while caught up with the
fellows who looked out for immediate
salaries and thought nothing of their
prospects, and then the first thing I
knew l was getting more than they
were. went on the road, made good
and got several raises. Now l have
what consider an excellent position,
with good prospects still ahead. About
one out of my old gang, as the boys
say, Is as comfortably situated as /
am, and he is SO situated only because
he was content to follow something
the same as did. Every young fellow
should settle on some line of business
and stick to 1t, regardless of the wages
he gets to begin with. The money he
has over and above the amount it
takes to pay actual living expenses
does the average young fellow little
good, and often he is better off on a
small salary than he would on a big
noe if he is not of a saving dispcsi-
ton, and few young me are"
m am rnnuo naolusanen