Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-10

Special Dispafch Ia Inc star
ST. LOUIS. September 1o.-Base ball
beckons to the young American man
and holds out lures of gold. Ana the
young American man is found wanting.
He would answer the call and 1oiio"
the lures. but he can't travel at the
speed demanded by base ball so ne
fails. The American young man mas
been weighed in the base ball balance
and found wanting. 1t is Meme, mene'
tekel upharsin' for true, as far as base
ball and the young American goes
The above is the opinion of two nota-
BILE men OF st. Louis. Manager OConnor
of the Browns and Manager Bresnahan
of the Cardinals Il have $4,000 that
/ will pay to fifteen capable young base
ball players" said Manager oConnor
yesterday. ITO any man VINO VIII come
TO me for a months trial now. ana az
the end of that month pleases me, VIII
pay x1,.ao down and 5000 next season.
ITO any man that will tell me where
l can find a good, clever. young pan
player whom l can get Tor Sl,ooo cash,
will pay $3.50 as a premium, ana l
will agree to pay the young player VINO
pleases me at least $4,000 next sea
son.
ITO any young man who comes 10 me
free Of contract with any team | VIII
give a trial. and if / engage him for
next year l will agree to pay at Ieast
$4,000 a season. i may pay him so,Voo
a season 1t all depends upon how good
he is.
Weary of the Young American.
Il am getting weary of the young
American. / see his pictures in the
magazines principally in the ready-made
clothing ads. He is broad-shouldered,
padded perhaps, square-jawed, resolute-
looking long-limbed and imposing.
Il see his pictures in the romances;
also square, jawed, long-limbed and reso-
lute-looking. He is lean of limb and slen-
der of waist, and looked like a ball play
er should look.
Il am looking for about fifteen of his
sort who can play good ball. l am will
ing to pay these fifteen more money than
they can get doing anything else on earth
where personal merit alone counts.
81 have been reading for some years
now that this is the age of the young
man. i have read what DIR. Osler said
that all men are done at forty and
should be chloroformed at sixty. 1 have
been reading about old clerks having
to give up their $50 a month jobs to
young men. / have read that this is a
young mans age. i have ben reading in
the muck-rake, uplift magazines about
what young men are doing in the world
until i have been ready to resign, crawl
into my hole and pull ii in after me. l
have looked at Al SchweitZer every day
for six months and felt i should resign
and that he should have my position as
manager of the Browns because he is
kid. / am veteran.
Jack Wants Some Stars.
Yes. I have been reading about the
great young men of America. Funny
that l can't get some of them in my
business. / could use fifteen right now
and right along. I'll guarantee them big
salaries on the nail and bright futures
Let any right-minded, economical young
man make good with me. III he shows
me, / will give bond that in five years
he will be worth $4,000 and have a bril-
liant future. He will need neither edu-
cation. good clothes. good address, col
lege manners, capital, friends, pull; moth
ing but to be able to play good game
of base ball. / have heard young men
complain of being unable to get along
because they have no influence. no pull.
no capital, no clothes. etc. Well, they
need none of these things to make good
with me. Let young man who thinks
he can make good come out to Sports
mans Park any morning after Ia o'clock
and ask for me. / will furnish him raj
ment, a glove, shoes and bat. All he
needs is his own four bones to make
good with me. If he shows me 1 will
nave MIN OH the Todu " wealth. III lNo
hours.
Il do not know what is the matter with
the young American. If man advertises
for a man to drive wagon. wages 50 a
week he will have 100 applicants. If L
advertise for a man 10 play ball, wages
s., 600 year. l will not get call.
1T seems to me that the young Ameri-
can finds the wagon and 50 a week more
of his size than the base ball field and
5000 a season of six months. They will
tell you that there are lots of grand
young men in America waiting oppor-
tunity Well. | have sent opportunity
knocking at the doors of every profess
sional ball player in the land this year,
opportunity with money in both hands,
and l have been unable to find the right
man. / have. like modern Diogenes,
sent men with lanterns in their hands
into every nook and Granny of the United
States looking for young men who could
PLAY ball for me and get from 5000 to
about fifteen positions l have open for
applicants. In all. there are 2D nice
positions open in two leagues this fall.
So far we have found no men 10 fill
them. If we find ten capable of filling
the 200 positions open We will count our
selves lucky.
Ridicules the Youth of Today.
Personally. / think the young Ameri-
can man is good merely for ready-made
tailors to hang padded coats upon, as
model for pipe and cigarette makers To
use in their ads, for posters for college
rooms or to drive delivery wagons or
push pens in counting houses The aver
age wage earning power oi me youiis