The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-10

Time was when the successful base ball player felt that his future was assured If he became prominent enough on the field to make his name a drawing card for saloon. But with improved department in the pali mark and cleaner living outside. the players have begun to cast around for other means than saloon-keep4ne to afford them a livelihood after age or accident has forced them into re- tirement.
 The natural ambition of the vast majority of intelligent ball players is to become managers and owners oi clubs. 1t Is their life business tc know the game and they turn natur. ally to, the line in which they feel best equipped. Necessarily, success. full manager has to be more or less oi a player and to have had some ex- perienee. but all the good managers have not been star performers.
 Billy Murray, manager of the PhH- adelphia National League team, which has done so well. this season, was never of major league cali5re as player, although he has been in the game all his life. Joe Cantillon, the Washington manager. was originally a railroad brakeman, played In the Pa- cifc Coast and other minor leagues, then became an umpire. later success fully managed the Milwaukee team, and in 1907 became a full-hedged ma jor league manager.
 Charles w. Murphy, the spectacular president of the Chicago National League Club, was FsportinS writer. He established a bran-new profession by becoming press agent for base ball club--the New York Giants something never heard of before. or since. Mir. Murphy's sudden rise to became the worlds champion was pe- culiar, Captain Adrian c. Anson, the famous batter and first baseman of the Chicago club for many years, ac- Quired a large block of its stock, but because of a quarrel with James A. Hart, president and owner of the ma jority of the stock. was never able to have dividend declared. Anson open cd a billiard hall in Chicago, and to guarantee his rent, turned his stock over to Charles P. Taft, of Cincinnati, brother of the presidential candidate, who owned the building. MT. Taft took over the stock when Anson failed to pay.
 One day while at a game in ChI- eago Mr. Murphy heard Mir. Hart say that because of his bad health he would sell his controlling interest in the Chicago club for $100,000. Mir. amount. He hurried to Cincinnati and explained 10 MT. Taft that here was a great chance for him to acquire the balance of the stock and make An sons forfeited share a profitable in vestment instead of a mere decoration for the safe shelves. Mir. Taft did not know much about professional base N1t hoo IrS showed 1t had been making some $20,- 900 a year for five years. he took a chance. put up the $1O0,000. and made MT. Murphy president of the club as his personal representative. MT. Mur- phy is now supposed to be independ- ently wealthy.
 Hans Wagner. probably the greatest batter that ever lived, never did much except play ball and do whatever his hands found to do around his home town of Carnegie. Pennsylvania. His salary has been over $5.000 per yea. for seven or eight years, and this year he is supposed to be getting $10,- 000 or even more
 Hughey Jennings. the Detroit man. ager, was a breaker boy in the mines of Pennsylvania. After working his way up through minor leagues and becoming short stop of the Baltimore ENTC6-LllHS CIdulpAOAS OL 4oVO~4oOo- lS97 his ability as a player and his pleasant personality made him in great demand as a coach for college teams He was finally engaged by Cornell and coached budding diamond stars there for several years. ImproV- ing his opportunity, he studied law at Cornell and the University of Nary land. and became a full-hedged legal light.
 Barney" Dreyfuss owner of the Pittsburg club. and man who has made fortune out of the game was forced into baseball by his health While employed in Louisville as the hnancia! man of one of the largest dis tlling houses in the world. he was or dered by his physicians to quit ofice work and adopt something that would keep him out of doors. He bought the Louisville ball club. Later he bought the PIttsburg club of which ht has been president since 1900.
 Harry C. Pulliam. president of th' | National League, was city editor ol | The Louisville Post. then became heat of the Louisville club for the year. l 1897 1898 and 1900. He displayed such keen and active mind for th' executive handling of baseball prob lens that when the National League l was reorganiZed in 1903. as a resul i of the big war with the young Amer ican League. he was elected presiden to restore the older organization t.
 the exalted position it was rapidl' losing.
 Bcn B Johnson, President of thu | American League, was never "a bal player. He was sporting editor O. | The Cincinnati Commercial Gazett' when he seized upon the opportunit! for organizing a new major league 1 Fielder Jones' manager and center
 fielder of the Chicago White Sox. 19O
 champions of the world. is extensivel.
 Interested with his brother in Texa
 oil lands and in timber lands in th
 Northwest. Every season he an
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