The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-09-03
BASEBALL PAYS
RECORD PROFITS
Season About to Close Best FL
nancially Magnates Have
Ever Known.
BY MANHATTAN.
BY Leased Wire to The Tribune.


NEW YORK. Sept 2.-Whatever else
| may happen in the world OF baseball the
| season OF 1911 will 20 down In tho an
nails OF the National league as the most
game.
Why? Simply because for the greater
part OF the season at least four and
sometimes five teams have been within
reaching distance of the pennant and
the other three teams have been at
times at least sufficiently dangerous 80
that no game has been credited in the
percentage column until II has been
played
Fandom has been excited all over the
country as II never has been before and
no such consistent crowds have ever been
seen at baseball games as have paid
their good money 10 see the National
league contests this season.
The owners of the leading clubs will
! make fortunes and the owners OF the tail
enders even need not fear they will have
| to shovel snow for a living this sea-.
| son.
In the American league also the bank
accounts OF the magnates show signs of
| dropsy, though there has been. no such
| exciting races the National league
has shown.
The close race in the National league
has again brought up the question Of the
cess, OF team. am a firm believer
in the proposition that the manager is
half the battle. For instance. ] believe
man like McGraw, Clarke or, Chance
make it a pennant contender. Bill Dah-
lon, in fact, may yet do that same thing.
as was done with the Phladelphias.
Man for man. ] cannot sec that, as In
dividual players, the Giants have very
much on the Brooklyns. but the New
York, club Is baseball team. while the
took practically the raw material which
had held persistently tail-end position
and by putting the team spirit Into them
has brought them within sight Of the
In the American league Washington is
another example. With perhaps the best
pitching staff In the league and fine in
bottom. In the hands Of Connie Mack
It is probable the Washington team would
be near the top,
Chance Is Disciplinarian.
Eran6 Chance Is perhaps the greatest
the Cubs must play ball and play all
the time for all he Is worth, This Is
the reason perhaps for the splendid
showing the Cubs always make. There
would put two OF his star PLAYERS on the
bench. with the race as II is, like Chance
did with Joe Tucker and Heine thinner
man,
why Is II that there are nearly twice
as many 800 hitters In the American as
In the National league? Is it because Of
From the fact that the Nationals general
ly win the worlds pennant II rather looks
as though the pitchers and scorers are
responsible for the high batting averages
Cy Young declines TO go out Of the
game. having signed on with the Boston
Nationals. Tumy has as fine lot OF old
shall be astonished II they don't make
things hum the tail end OF the season.
Young recently pitched shut-out game
against the Pirates.
The New York Giants are the boss base
steaers. OF the ten leading base -stealers
In the National league. no less than six
are In the Giant uniform,
squad OF men when the Philies go south
next spring. Fogcl declares he will have
a roster OF seventy five players. to pick
optleder Carvath of Minneapolis
Pitcher Stanley OF YOUNGSTOWN, Catcher
Killifer OF Buffalo and Pat ODea. the
of Vermont team; Baxter Schultz. Bren-
nan, Slaughter. Pruett and Miller are to
recalled.
Night and day workmen are rushing the
each afternoon has found a little more
space for the spectators, which means
little more money for John 7. Brush be-
cause In these parIous times the attend
ance is limited only by the capacity The
crowd Saturday is being recorded as the
largest that ever saw ball game in New
York, but 1t seems doubtful n 1t ex-
ceeded that OF the opening day. STILL
the people found the most amazing points
OF vantage, and there was not a vacant
spot anywhere within the gigantic
stands.
Jennings's Men Crippled
The statement from Cleveland in con-
nectjon with the sale by New Orleans to
Cleveland Of Frank Manush. third base
man. that McGraw could not see Manush
with telescope alongside OF Arthur Dev-
lin. may he correct. but McGraw did not
overlook the possibilities OF the young
fellow entirely. AS is indicated by the fact
that he held onto him for quite a while
before finally turning him back to New
Orleans.
The fair minded lover OF baseball
ord has @ 1S oae1 ADDED to nS he hospal Ss list
was compelled to play Yesterday in the
bs OF tha sent hite
large all season and. II Jennings sees the |
pennant go TO any other. club. hc can
safely poin, TO his bunged-up stars and
them, lie would have ronped home In |
first place. Though every big league !
team meets with its injuries. the Tigers |
year. their best men caving In whuu
most needed
The Phillies are making a brave fight
apparently the race against odds Is too
much Tor the Quaker City ball players |
Step by step the. PennsyIyaniaps are go
Giants. Philadelphia felt the loss of |
Titus and Magee keenly. hut when Man
ager Doom had the misfortune OF break |
ing his leg In ST Louis the KEYNOTE of |
the baseball machine was crushed Soon |
after the ed-topped manager was forced |
out OF the game the Quskers showed |
signs Of weakening. Lately IL resembles !
the auto trying 10 climb a steep hill with |
one cylinder For every effort upward |
IT slides couple Of PAGES backward
The official football rules for 1911 are |
out. The code is practically as 1t wns |
last year. with few minor changes, |
which simplify the. Interpretation OF /
rules relating TO the forward pass When
the rules committee met last falI they
decided TO stand pat on the code, and |
appointed a suhcomrnittee 10 make any |
changes which would simplify the code |
Many complicated expressions and m |
volyed phrases have been simpIified |
especially In relation to the forward pass
play. The committee who did the re-
vising was made mp Of Walter Camp, |
Yale; Il. x. Hall, Dartmouth and DR. |
Carl 5, Williams of Pennsylvania. !
Percy Haughton OF Harvard. who was |
on the. codifying committee last year, i
has retired.