The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-19
Hughey Jennings Says Good Teams
 Can't Help Others
Detroit Manager Declares Future Stars Can't Be
 Sold for $1,5 300

Detroit, May 1s-"It is no wonder the clubs of the major leagues rather retain their surplus players than let them go under the waiver rules which now obtain in the big leagues" com mented Manager Hugh Jennings of the Detroit club who it has been thought, might turn over to the Browns some of his surplus material for a modest consideration.
 "We have three or four men who are young and who have just shown enough of what they may become that we cannot afford to part with them" continued Jennings. Drake. Smaller. Ness. Cavitt, Lathers are all young and they are all ambitious. If we had to go out and secure young players of their caliber from class A league clubs we would have to pay from s, 800 to $5,000 each, and in turn would get untried material. The men l mentioned would have to be turned over to a rival club for $1,500, the waiver price, if we asked for waivers and had to reduce our squad.
 Every first division ball club is confronted with the proposition soon- CT or later that it has lost sight of the cooperative features of the American league, upon which that organization was founded. We have been besieged as other clubs have with requests from tail end clubs, that we give them our surplus material so that the league may be better balanced, and the sport of baseball receive an added impetus in consequence. .u
 You can readily see our position. If we ask waivers on our young men and send them to a club that really needs strengthening we part with from s3.5oG to s5,oo0 worth of baseball ma terial for the nominal sum of $1,500. Tn1a zine tn a commercial line of business listening for one minute to a proposition of this kind.
 we have only one player likely to be released, pitcher. The others we will probably keep. I would like to place the young men with fast class on the bench rather than lose title to players who cost us much money and time to discover.
 The American league. by the way, was conceived upon a cooperative and let us help each other basis. teams made so little money that they were willing to turn over to the weak CT members a few players in the hope that the added patronage would be beneficial to all concerned. That time has passed. No major league club loses money. Even a rank tailender shows a balance on the right side of lAC lC0SCT "hCiI IilC lIOctc VI dAS1ihAA inhabit the festive pumpkin so often mentioned by the diligent poet. Base ball is a profitable pastime for the owners, some of whom have been suc- cessfu1 in getting the kind of men he wants and some of whom have fail- ed.
 Charles Somers. the Cleveland mag nate, spent liberally, but drew noth- ing better than a second division crowd. Connie Mack blew money like the fellows who buy cents worth of peanuts, but he got the stuff. These are the two extremes in the Ameri- can league in successful and futile eff forts to build up winning organiza- tion.
 The time has passed when the rival magnate slips you anything because he loves you or wants you to succeed. He figures all hands will make a profit, and his will be greater if he has winning club-therefore, retains everything worth while. Baseball is not a sordid, money-grabbing business like running a pawnship or a twenty five cent loan office, but it has be- come filled with enough of the com mercial spirit that nobody is going to slip you anything out of the goodness of his heart.
 The bushes are still full of future greats" but if old Solomon came back he'd have a tough job picking the likely ones.