Evening star., 1909-08-29
NATIONAL LEAGUE
MAGNATES NOT WISE
Have More Players Than
Needed, but Won't Help
Weak Clubs.

Manager Roger BreSnahan blameS the
stinginess and short-sighted business
policy of the owners in the National
League for the fact that his team is not
making better showing than it is, and
Roger Is pretty near right, says the st.
Louis Globe Democrat. Proving it, he
cites the facts in his case. Just after
losing four games to Philadelphia Bres-
nahan said. in discussing the matter:
My pitching staff consists of but three
men on whom any degree of certainty
can be placed. Lush, Beebe and Sallee
have worked very consistently since the
opening of the season, and had l just
two more men to send to the mound reg
ularly, in order to allow these fellows to
rest. the Cardinals standing in the
league would be much higher.
Every team that has come to st.
Louis this year to play series of games
1 have tried to make trades with or buy
have proved in vain. Pittsburg has a
string of thirteen pitchers, and some
mighty clever fellows in the crowd. Man.
ager Clarke. though, won't part with one
haps. won't even get to play in a single
game this year, especially if the team
continues around the top, with lighting
chance for the pennant.
The Cubs also have several young
sters whom / have tried to get hold uf,
but Chance. like Clarke, refuses to part
with any of his young players, preferring
to keep them on the bench. New York
has great string Of young stars, but, as
in the case of the other teams. McGraw
is holding every bit Of promising ma
teral"
Boston Club Also Suffering.
1t Is very evident that the st. Louis
National League team is not alone in its
efforts to try and build up a pennant-
winning aggregation either In the Bos-
ton Traveller Louis A Dougher says. con-
corning the trouble Dovey is having in
strengthening his club:
National League base ball is dying
here for want of assistance. American
League base ball is fiourishing because
Ban Johnson knows more in five min
utes than many of the magnates will
ever know, and because where they
whisper, Ban roars. Ban keeps his league
in tidy fashion. trying his best to make
interesting races every year. Ban has
succeeded. Ban Is the goods.
In the older organization things are
going from bad to worse There is no
cohesion among the magnates- Murphy
hates Dreyfuss. Dreyfuss can't get along
with Brush. And there you are. Fine
kettle Of fish. Between them all the poor
old league, fiourishing In Chicago and
New 1OTk, anu QOlHS WStl SHOuSn III
Pittsburg, is dying OF dry rot in Boston.
What do the other magnates care
about it? They are moving along in some
way, somehow; that's all they are busy
about. New York makes hundreds OF
thousands. Boston pays out instead.
Brush calls for aid to handle the crowds
and Dovey sits and watches them go
across the tracks. That's the National
League.
Something must be done and done
<l,o r,H n
succumb to the inevitable. They can't
continue forever. And If he has to quit
here, the next man will be very much up
against the raw trying to make his prop
osition pay him his salt
Too Much Jealousy.
TITS time the National League mag
mates got busy, sat down together. forgot
all their baby quarrels, smoked the pipe
of peace and did something beside tear
each other up the back. It's time they
realized that several cities are being killed
for major league ball. It's time they
realized that Ban Johnson is wise guy.
ever ready to take advantage of the slip
ups of his antagonists. It's time they
strengthened the weaker clubs at the ex-
pense of the stronger.
IF the magnates would turn to and let
Boston have some strong players now
decorating benches in other cities, base
pall IN Boston Woula pe ANOTHER STORY.
If the Doves were capable OF holding
their own, the fans would go to see them.
Boston fans want to see real games and
the American League is enjoying all the
local advantage.
Hermann lets Autrey come here.
Autrey may not be any wonder, but Herr
mann shows the right spirit. It's the
only spirit which will make National
League base ball succeed in Boston. With
out it the game is going to die here, and
die soon, too. When it has passed away
the greatest base ball town in the country
will have been lost to the National League
for the want of little foresightedness.
little brains and goodly share OF COM
mon sense on the part of the jealous
magnates around the circuit"