The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-03
Funny Incident That Took Place
on Local Semi=Pr0
Team. :
BY EDWARD P. DUFFY.

This is e true story. A baseball
player was sold for q package OF TO-
bacco and a bundle of cigarette papers.
The sale ooh place in his city. 1t oc-
CURED last year. There have been
many stories of sales where a player
was sold for this or for that trifie by a
manager whose patience had been ex-
hausted because of his capers. but it
remains for Newark, l think, to hold
the record for this kind OF business.
You ask how and where the thing hap
rened In this city that the newspapers
did no. get 1t. You ask the name Of
the player. know him. Everybody
who plays ball in Branch Brook Park
! every day and night knows him and
can reeite the details ad libitum.
The sale occurred in Branch Brook
Park. 1t does not involve a profess
slonai player. to be sure. but 1t was
legitimate. and the sale was put through
with all the red tape of a professional
sale.
The player. Doc Foster. was "a
member of the Day Glass League, the
members of which while away their
time looking for work while out OF a
position by playing in the county park.
One afternoon Dec" who was alter
nately a good and bad player. was par
~ticalarly bad. II happened to be one of
those. MISUNDERSTANDING affairs so com
nol In the park. In the twenty-fourth
inning, with the score a tie at forty.two
runs each. Doc who was playing first
base, dropped a thrown ball, allowing
the winning run to cross the pam. This
incsnsed the players, who vowed that
they would never play with doc"
again.
y hurried conference of the leaders
was held, with the result that the bad
first baseman was sold to the opposite
tear, for the above mentioned price.
DOC" refused to jcia the new cam.
He wanted half of the purchase money.
His former teammates. however, who.
by the way. number eighteen and nine
teen to a team for these gnmes. were
not sparihg OF the tobacco and 1t was
gone before an hour. After watching
the games for three days sitting on the
grand stand, where he could not let his
feet hang. Foster relented and Joined
the team to which he was sold.
There are a whole lot of other hap
penings of this kind In this unknown
league. From time to time / am going
to tell other tales.
Manager Glassen and Captain Oar
Schooner. OF the Ironsides and National
Turner's. told me Saturday that they
would not stop working for the benefit
of Mrs. McCarty. the widowed mother
Of the boy who was fatally injured at L
game between these two teams, until
they had accumulated 81, 900 for the sad
Ldened mother. This is certainly a wor-
thy effort. Every one should help the
big ~heartedness of these ball-players,
who feel the loss of the life second ouiy
to that of the sorrowing mother.
The phenomenal work. of ABE" Cohen
in centre field for Bloomfield Saturday
against Watsessing han a deal to do
with the Bloomfield victory. He made
six put-outs and two assists. Two Of
the catches were wonderful. One was
the capture of a Texas Lacquer. the
other the catching of a deep fly in cen-
ire nelA after which, by a great throw.
he doubled a man at first base. Tim
brook pitched a nice galne too. He let
the Watsessing crowd down with three
hits.