Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-05

WYE all take a laugh at the ex-
Wv pense of President Ebbets, of
the Brooklyn Club, when we re-
call lat he said baseball is only In
its infancy, but really there are several
things about baseball that suggest the
swaddling clothes age. The major
league teams have all just built, ara
building or contemplate bigger parks
than ever to accommodate the eve--
increasing crowds. We find a major
league team or two taking a real
umpire to the South with them to work
in the practise games so as to male
them real contests; we hear talk of
having umpires a certain height; Ma
tional League arbitrators must have
their eyes examined, and all the major
league teams have a trainer with
them all the time. These are but a
few of the improvements that are
going on in baseball all the time. Who
knows but hat in years to come, in
stead of the two major leagues we
have now, there may be three or four?
This is very possible. il not probable.
The agitation in baseball circles
against the raised pitchers box has be-
come widespread, and critics In general
admit that the abolition would improve
the batting. Pitcher Christy Mathew
sons opinion of the proposed elimina-
lion of the mound is as follows:
while 1t would be as fair for one
l+cher as another, there Is no question
that the lowering of h box would take
some of the kinks out of my drop curve.
FL was compelled to start the de-
livery two feet lower, naturally I would
not get as much break on the ball. l
don't think the proposed new rule
would affect the spit-ball pitchers in
the least. It would help u%nderhand
, pitchers like WARRIOR and McGinnity.
But, in my opinion, there would be
Jnore free hitting"
According to statements made by
President Dreyfus, the joint schedule
committee of the National and Arlleri-
can leagues has arranged the schedules
for both leagues SO that each club will
save between $1,000 and 5000 in rail-
rcad fares next year.
He say that each of the clubs has
been travelling many extra thousands
of miles every year hat the joint
schedule body has cut down the num-
Der of m lies to the lowest ebb. He would
give no exact instances of this and
said thai his hearers would have to
await the deliverance Of the new
schedule.
Paddy Sullivan, the fighting Irish
man, stopped Jimmy Dolan. Of Jersey
City In the fifth round of a ten-round
go at the Sharkey A. C. stag, Referee
Jim Buckley calling a halt to the bout
to prevent a knockout. Dolan was out
classed from the moment the battle
started.
Now Barney Dreyfus says: 1--WE will
grant no higher classification to either
the American Association or the East
ern League" People are compelled to
do lots of things they don't like to at
times. These statements, considering
the Injustice of the position of the
Eastern League and the American As
ISOLATION, won't help baseball.
Joe McGinnity and ex-Secretary Tom
Martin paid their first official visit to
President Ed Barrow at Eastern
League headquarters yesterday.
Young baseball men are beginning TO
find their places. How many Of those
being let out may be a Ty Cobb or an
Eddie Collins!
1e ths Sporting Editor Of the Evening Star;
In our opinion Joe McGinnity has
made the biggest mistake of his life
when he sold Jake Gettman to Jersey
City, because Jake is considered one of
the best ball players in the Eastern
League for hitting and fielding. He
was the o popular man on the New
ark cam. We know that he had too
many outielders. but he could use him
for first base. because he can play that
position as well as any one in the
league.
Joe Agler is a good player and we
like him. but he can hit and that's
the trouble. Hitting is the milk Of the
baseball cocoanut. Everybody knows
that.
6ALvATORE WILLIAM AND
FRIENDS.
We cut out some of YOU letter be-
cause we considered the remarks out OF
prder. AS a first haseman Agler far
eurpasses Gettman.-Ed.
~ tho Sporting EDITOR of the Evening Star:
On behalf of Battling Kitty, who
claims the 105-pound championship Of
tho world, and to prove 1t he is willing
to meet n boy who can make the
weight, and they car have a side bet
of $50 UP. Yours truly.
TONY CAIRO.
s27 Summit avenue, Jersey City.
To the Sporting Editor of the Evening Star:
Did Ad wolgast ever fight as a
feather-weight? X. L.
Yes, he did.-Ed.
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