The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-05
Surplus Stock of Yankees Will Be Sent
Here-Stallings Is Part Owner and
Manager=-Wil Take Charge at Once.
Voted Metropolitan Sporting Man Purchases Controlling Stock
in Local Baseball Team After Dsposing of His Montreal
Franchise .Burnham Gets Big Price for His Interests
New Leader of Nine No Stranger to Newark Fans.
BY BERT DODGE.

AN George T. starungs bring to Newark an Eastern League baseball
pennant during the seasono o 1908?
That is a question which, in some form or other, came uppernost
nj he minds of all local fans when it a announced late yesterday that the
former manager of the Buffalo Eastern League team had purchased the control
OF the local club from Walter W. Burnham, who, up to last night, directed its
Manager Bmnham has been almost universally condemned in this CITY.
eyr since the Newark Eastern League club a organized. in 1907. for falling
to land the Colts anywhere near first place in the race for HI coveted bit IF
banupa which represents the championship. To Ill complaints Manager Burn
ham has replied that he had to suit his pattern to the cloth possessed" He
says that stalngs has connections with big league masnates which should
prove to be big factors in trying fol a pennant. He admits that he has never
been able to form close relations with leaders in baseball, and to this fact, as
well as tbs claim that he never possessed the means Ito purchase the players
needed to get to the tor he ascnbes the failure of the Newark Eastern League
team to ver climb higher than fourth place in HI ace.
Watching the exchange of coin last night in Jersey city, where starings
me Burnham and the other local stockholders who sold out. it could hardly.
escape the attention Of an observer that. even if Burnham had to bear in mind
enonsb 70 make himself m oyercoat,
Coming to this city with what he admits W. a small bankron. h has.
managed to socuree ontrolof a arge majority OF the shares q the local or
sanitation 1t was said asst night tina he twenty shares he owned When the
own theses and, indeed. all nut a few shares in the hands Of the Wiedenmsyers
The sum which was handed over the Burnhams last night wa in the
side a personal me it is plain that Frank Farrell. of thu New York Amer-
cans cans IS m.oreafa. f nur mn nonm raS'S a ,a S Snmare cl ms b @h h ne S n6ar u uv
for ome time that until it became certain that Farrell would be able to dis
Club would be made good. Farrell had a farm in Montreal but it va toe far
out Of a mass of indefinite limitations to he effect that he would make
n rather tangible fact. That was that cansoh is apt to b e a baokstop for
the Colts next season. Manager Bunham has been diekering with him and
made right car4seh is in the state of Washington just nov but starings will
snug sum as the enumeration for wearing Newark uniform.
Unless there is a change for the better Frank Chance. tn manager and
FIRST haseman Of the Chicago Cubs the worlds champions may not be able
rHs in the left foot, which began to develop last year as the result Of a bruiso
every possible treatment, but it seems is if Chance would have to submit
to tn knife in order o Re entirely cured. Chance is considerably worried
for he fears that his career al a barpayer may be cut short
Though the ll in athletic activities especially those of the outdoor van-
city, during the winter, still continues there's are hopeful signs IN Of these
is that the youngsters are beginning to send lin their notices to the sporting
editor telling all about their plans for the coming baseball season" These
contributions which Wn soon become so numerous a to threaten to force out
of the sporting columns all other news began to drop in about January l.
meetings. and ELECTION Of officers" inc "the signing of new plavers.
arc SO numerous that ne can't help looking for other signs o. spring, even
il the mercury does insist on doing business near tho zero stand.
Wrestling affairs have a tendency o develop some sort o. a compHca-
ton both before and during the actual struggle on the mat, and the much
heralded meeting between George Faekenschmdt. the RUSSIAN Lion" and
Frank aotch, M American champion. seems to be 10 excentton to the rule
big affair. but ". ". Mithg, a Milwaukee promoter, now comes forward
With the assertion that Iackenchmidt has signed a contract with him
WItig is said to have posted $4,000 as a guarantee of his ability Il. pull oft
the match, and it looks a if his claims We're based o. rather substantial
grounds Wherever it is decided. it is certain that the bout will attract more
interest than n struggle between artists on the mat held in years. with
all due respect for dotohs ability and a natural patriotic desire to see the
American win, it is the writer's opinion that Hackenschnidt will dispose
Of the Westerner in about the sam fashion that he downed Tom jenkins in
Madison Square Garden about two years ago The strength and activity of
cKensenm Torn a omolhatlon hard to overcome doteh Is clever and
able to put the screws m his opponents in a painful way that usually
Prak any hod at eo@h secures even should II be that toe hold" tol
which the American invariably resorts when all other attempts to down an
adversary fail.
Clarence Hobart. the tennis player is out with a statement to the effect
Tennis Association lot fairly done He first asserts that te COMMITTEES is
rot efficient. nasmuoh u only one member of it is a player of any rromL
Feelings to nleged favorfdsp shown to p p LeInsd C1oIer Km4 perr and
circles,
Considering the brief time that the swimming team of the Newark Y. NJ
q A. has had to become adept in the tank its success against the prominent
y M. G. A. teams thisyl nifty has been remarkable The Brooklyn, Man
haitian, orange, Passaic nd other swimming combinations have tried to lower
the ehors OF the local hatatofla experts n AVE failed. The Newark lads
have been equally successful 1t home or away. Raymond L. Smith, the local
youngster who holds tho National YIN c. A. records for the short distance
vents Is the star pertorpe or the team bt his mates are all capable
especially Captain Ayerson, the Newark High School an-aromd athlete. The
Newarkers will seek new honors tomorrow night in the tank of the Bedford
Branch J. M c 4, tank, in Brooklyn