Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-03
LIST Of WISE ONES
IN THE BIG LEAGUES
Comiskey Is Ranked With Mil
Iionaires and a Number of
Others Are Wealthy.


ball affords one road to riches for the
thrifty, Industrious diamond star. Some
have amassed fortunes of colossal pro-
portions during years Of success in the big
and little leagues. and many, acting at
the instance Of warm friends daily In
touch with the goings and comings Of
the financial world. have doubled and
trebled these savings. Others, taking a
struck 1t rich.
Chances for accommodating great wealth
are better now than in the palmy days Of
Goldsmith. Spalding. Brouthers. Arson,
Bennett or Flint, for the king pins now
adjoining the championship clubs are
drawing princely salaries in comparison
with the earnings OF the former greats.
says one base ball authority.
Wise men of the base ball armament
are unanimous in the selection Of Charles
A. Comiskey, owner Of the Chicago White
Sox, as the richest man now identified
with the game who acquired his start IN
life while wearing the spikes. But no.
body ventures even a hint as to the bank
quoted among the millionaires. however.
and the man behind one Of the biggest
base ball plants known to the pastime.
Sailed His Dimes.
Comiskey sailed away his dimes and
nickels at regular intervals while wear
ing the brown at st. Louis and later
seized his opportunity to further swell
the savings, until today Comiskey stands
at the top Of the heap among the flnan-
cial kings of base ball.
Connie Mack, known in private life as
Cornelius McGillicuddy, who is driving
his Athletics at q furious pace in the
American League pennant scramble, has
always led a frugal life, laying away his
earnings as a player until the bank book
boosted of something really substantial.
Later Mack swung his dynamic forces
into line with Benjamin Shibe, owner
Of the Philadelphia Americans. and the
Connie Mack of today. TALL rawboned
and angular. possessed OF wistful, pene-
trating eyesight and q bench manager
par excellence, is reputed immensely
wealthy. Mack is said to have a fourth
interest in the Athletics, receives a reg
for one-quarter Of the clubs profits.
Ned Hanlon, one of the early pillars of
the national game and the present boss
Of all he surveys at Baltimore, sunk his
savings as a player in real estate ven
lures in Pittsburg; later acquired an in
terest In the Orioles, as well as the Phil
adelphia club, and the rest was easy sail
ing Today Hanlon ranks among the
truly rich men Of the game. Then there
rs George Tebeau, chief
at Kansas City. The sale of the Louis
Vile franchise netted George 100000 in
American plunks.
PENIS Next Governor.
John K. Tener. once a Chicago idol. Is
serving in Congress and making his
nome near Pfttsburg. Jesse Burkett.
known in the old days as one of the
greatest batters in base ball annals, has
stored away many q dollar. He is now in
charge Of the Worcester club. together
with Jimmy Collins. who left Minneapolis
last season to assume command of the
Providence team. When his playing days
are over Collins hopes to run a plant Of
his own In the big league.
Take the case OF Fred Clarke. The
maker Of worlds champions doesn't have
to depend on the salary he draws from
Barney Dreyfuss. or the cut that went
to him when the Pirates COPIED the
worlds title. Somewhere in the great
corn belt OF Kansas at a place entitled
Winfield, Clarke owns punches Of land
Originally Clarke secured his start by
purchasing land near Des Moines. Later
oil was discovered on the property. Then
Fred started to count the big money.
Hans Wagner. always simple liver,
ham and egg repast even when swell
feeds are at his disposal, goes along year
after year sticking away the major por-
ton of his pay. which is said to be $4,000
per annum for services rendered with
the mighty bingle stick. The Flying
Dutchman still resides with his chickens
and buzz carts! at the old homestead,
Carnegie. Pa.
Old Cy Well Fixed.
Cy Young Of the Maps is a farmer of
high degree and has much wealth near
Paoli, Ohio, after twenty-one years serv-
ice.
Tommy Leach. Sam Lever and Deacon
Phillippi are other members of the Pr
ratical crew who have learned to count
their savings in five figures. it is said.
chiefly because they saved in the early
days Of their diamond activities. Clark
Griffith. chief of the Cincinnati Reds, is
ranch owner at Craig, Mont, and every
season finds the Fox among the shippers
to Chicago's livestock market.
Fielder Jones. who piloted the Chi
cago White Sox to the worlds cham
pionship in 1905 and later retired to de-
vote all his energies to the hunt for
riches in the apple orchards of Oregon, is
named among the rich ball players. So
is Billy Sullivan, one OF the star back
stops OF the American League. Mike
and Joe Cantfllon, men behind the
Minneapolis club Of the American Asso-
citation. have saved many and many a
dollar from their base ball ventures
George Stallings. who sits on the
bench and directs the fighting of the
of his coin into a plantation near Au-
gusta, Ga. Willie Keller, for years one
OF the most noted scientific batsmen in
the game. is said to control a string