The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-06-11

sells to others. The reason that this
subject is touched at all is due to the
letter. | am free to stand on the
housetop and say that when the fans
lose all interest in the makeup of their
team, then the game will die, and it is
only by asking such questions as the
one which came to me through the
mail, with several others, and | will
answer them all in due time will the
game of baseball, as played under its
present system, flourish and win out,
and I hope this will satisfy my new
friend "ObserVant.' whoever he may
be. 1 don't know him, but if-he cares
to he can stop me and make himself
known, for he has asked a sensible
question.
Tommy Martins Flag.
BY this time you all know that there
has been a certain plan adopted by
the Tiger club to let the Newarkers
know when there is a game of ball
and when there is not one Town at
the Tigers lair. Tommy Martin, that
quiet little secretary of the Tiger club,
and who is second in the Bengal class
to George T. himself, thought that
there should be another way to notify
the fans when a game vas postponed
at the park, and he "~thunked' out the
flag business. Now Tom is from BUT
falo. the home of a former President
of this United States and the place
where one of our beloved Presidents
met his death at the hands Of a cow
ardly assassin, and he thought of the
flag signal. He knew that the Stars
and Stripes could not be used to ad-
vertise anything, so he got another
kind of a flag that stands for nothing
else thar to simply tell the fans that
when that flag is floating to the breeze
on Market street there is a game and
when the pole is bare there is no game,
Have you seen it yet?
knockers Did This.
You may have read by this time of
the acquittal of an actor over in New
York who was accused of serious
crimes. The accused was found inno-
cent, and he stands today before the
world a much m~aligned person. l
spoke the other day of that serious
sin of knocking, and I mention this
actor affair to show how easily a per-
sons good standing in a community
can be injured by squareheads and
Accommodating guys who stalk forth as
weisenheimers.
L earnestly hope that all the resolu-
lions l have heard made by ms who
declare they will expose the knocker
at Wiedenmayer's Park will be kept.
| Then the good name of Newark will
not be dragged all over the Eastern
League circuit. 1t is not very nice
to go out of town and hear a sporting
writer say to his chums, Down in
| Newark the FANS there roast their own
team" 1t is the hardest blow of al
TO get this flung in your face and not
be able to truthfully stand up and say
that 1t is a lie. stop the knocking and
then your representatives will be able
to defend the best fans on earth col
lectively.
Local Boy Succeeding.
1 see where a Savage, of Orange
won another fight. To look at'Dan ano
then to hold a conversation with hin
you would think he was in charge OF
some Sunday school class. He hasn't
the appearance of the ordinary pug
you see roaming around the streets
with a peaked cap, a dirty sweater
inc a couple of bull dogs trailing be.
hind Dan is a mild-looking chap. HI
has chosen the fighting game to gel
some wealth together, and as long as
he goes about it in the same style he il
going now every one of his friends will
wish him a successful journey. It i
hard to keep Newark out of the sport.
ing world.