Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-10-06
Gossip of the.


starring back in the "palmy days
would have thought of a windfall like
this sc son will bring to the worlds
series contestants.
They didn't pay any nifty salaries
then. That "palmy day" contention
can't be proven by the size of the pay
envelopes h stars got back in ISL
stars. too, who were real stars for al
least ten years thereafter.
Mike C"King') Kelly was getting
81, 800; Hardie Richardson, $t.25o; Ed.
Williamson, $1.400; Dan Brouthers, the
Wappingers Falls slugger, 1915; Jim
O'Rourke, as player and manager,
$4,000; Deacon Jim White, $l,6O0; Jack
Rowe, $1,250; Ned Hanlon, $1,000;
George A.. Wood, $S75; Jimmy Calvin,
$1,000; Fred Pfeffer, undo lbtedly the
greatest second baseman of his time,
$3.50 (about Eddie Collins's gasoline bill
for a year,; Buck Ewing, the daddy of
all catchers, 1000; Tim Keefe, $1,000,
and big Roger Connor, 5000. And even
in the inflated period which marked
the Brotherhood's brief existence the
highest salary paid any one of these
stars was to Buck Ewing, who is said
to have received 5000, with the others
receiving varying salaries from that
down to $500.
1t makes us of the younger generation
snicISer to hear the old fellows referring
to twenty or thirty years ago as the
palmy 4 ) OF baseball. Maybe they
really think they're right, but the ad-
vance dope on this falls worlds series
contradicts their arguments most sue
cessfully.
Back in 1905, when the Giants and
the Athletics fought 1t out for the
worlds championship, and the Giants
won, each membe- of the victorious
club received 81, ZAP. The share of the
Athletics, including the generous slice
of the receipts given them by the club
owners, was only about $500 apiece.
Figuring on 5000, 900 as the gross re-
c-ipts for the big series this month
and fo games In good weather ought
to bring the gate money up to that
fgure-each eligible player on the win
ming team will receive $3.4OO, and each
one on the losing team $4,000.
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OF all the really funny things. this
is the limit. 1t Is from Davy Jones,
the double-voiced tenor of the Tigers.
He says, Jennings doesn't know how
to handle men,"
Furthermore, Jones charges his
manager with favoritism, giving Cobb
his way in everything.
This must have hurt Jones, judging
from his remarks. Jennings knows
enough about handling men to land
three pennants after hard struggles
through long seasons. Jennings knows
enough about handling men to bench
Jones when he began to hit air instead
of the ball. Possibly this last evidence
caused the humorous remarks of Davy.
900
Glory's a grand thing, as Hughey
Jennings. Connie Mack and other great
leaders of modern baseball can testify,
but the feel of the crinkly banknote is
better. Ask Jim McAleer.
McAleer never took any blue rib
bons because of his managerial sue
cess, but while the others were gather
ing glory, Jim was getting the none
and saving it. He got his job as man
ager of the st. Louis club as a result
of his work for the American League
in the war against the National. Nc.
Aleer, Hugh Duffy M Clark Griffith
were dillgent in their efforts to line
up National League players for the
younger organization, and they were
all taken care of. Duffy and Griffith,
when they failed to deliver the goods,
were kicked out. but McAleer wasn't.
Nc, old Weisenheimer James had got
his fingers onto a block of ST. Louis
club stock, and when the outraged fans
began to clamor for his resignation
Jim calmly demanded a new job before
he would let loose of his stock. That's
why Ban johnson got him the Wash
ington berth.
So McAleer went along. earning a
pretty fair salary and seeking it in
Youngstown, O., real estate until he
had $4,000 worth of property and a
little over. When John I. Taylor an
nounced that he had enough of base
ball Jim exchanged his real estate for
coin in the realm. went back to Youngs.
town and get a steel magnate to back
him, and now he sits alongside Of
Comiskey, Shib. and the other owners
on the way to a fortune.
90
Billy Lewis wound up his training to-
day for his bout with Bert Reyes al
the Sharkey A. c. in New York to-
morrow night. Billy has been work
ing out with Black Bill the past week
and is in good shape. On September II
Bilfy expects to meet Charley Sieger in
the star bout at Troxler's Central In
stitute.