Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-11-03
Gossip of the.


Just when it seemed that Mr.. New
ark Fan had settled down for a long
winter nap, that every bit of baseball
news had been threshed out and hashed
and rehashed so much that there was
not a thing in the world that was new
enough to be discussed. something big
broke yesterday and the pot is boiling
again.
The spark that started the c~onfagra-
ton was a rumor that the Newark
Club had been sold. From that spark
1t seems a billion sparks have sprung,
for their are all kinds of rumors to-
day. The Evening STAR was in COM
nlunication today with everyone who
could have anything to do with any
deal whereby the local Eastern League
franchise would change hands, and
after boiling all the facts down it
looks us though there may be some
interesting developments at any mo-
nient.
Beginning at the beginning, H. Clay
Smith was pried out of his bed at the
Waldorf-Astoria and a rapid .volley
of questions poured into his ear. This
is Mr.. Smiths reply:
THE Newark III has not been sold,
and the matter stands just about where
+ did a few months back, when l set
the price of the club Mr.. William
McManus was here yesterday and
made an offer which l would not on
slider. We have no further appoint
ment, and / do not know whether he
will come Jack with another bid or
not. In the first place l did not come
Last to sell the club, and | will not
unless they come up to my figures.
Some of the metropolitan papers had
the deal all cooked up this morning,
and quoted statements which / never
made.
There is a possibility that a third
of the holdings, but not a controlling
interest in the club, may be sold to a
major league
"Will it be the New York American
League Club or the Chicago National
League Club" he was asked.
NO, neither of these clubs are after
the stock" was Smiths reply.
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at last has come tie baseball mag
mates method of taking from the ball
players competing in the worlds series
the big sums of money they gather In
by being participants, and which the
clubs do not. President Hermann, of
the National Commission, would have
his interleague proposition adopted by
the National Commission. He would
give the players a share in the post
season receipts. There are good points
about the plan-ticket scalping would
be csrbed greatly, cities tn; do not
see all the major league teams would
get a chanc, : itherto not given them,
and the uncertainty of a ST. ort series
to decide a world Q championship would
be done away with.
The abolishm Snt of the worlds series
might give John M. Ward his chance
to organize a players union. because
most certainly the players would
object to the plan.
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The games in the old days between
Harvard and the Tigers always were
hard fought, and like the p~resent-day
Princeton-Yale matches never passed
without unusual incident. Never to be
forgotten is the 1889 game, in which
Harvard. after holding Princeton in
the first half. was swamped Al to Is
by the end of the second, while in 1895
Charley Brewers 100-yard chase of
Suter, of Princeton, is in black type
among the football classics, as is the
touchdown hat the Tigers made
around eX-Captain Arthur Brewer. Of
Harvard. on the first play in which he
engaged to play left end in 1896. In
those days the Tigers surely had
something on Harvard in football,
winning almost with Yale's regularity
from the Cambridge teams. In the last
fifteen years also Princeton has done
better thar Harvard against the New