The Detroit times., 1912-01-29
GREATEST MISTAKE BALL
PLAYERS MAKE is IN NOT
PREPARING FOR FUTURE
ID. Jones Is An Example of the
Man Who Has Made Him
self Financially Solid
HAS HAD HIS MISHAPS
No Matter When He Is Forced
to Quit Baseball, He Will
Be On Top
By RALPH [. YoNkER.


The greatest mistake made by ball
layers. according to Davey Jones. il
% not providing for the future either
~ saving their earnings and investing
hem or by preparing themselves for
ono business or profession altar
heir playing days are over.
Jones ID q real, honest-Injun exam
PIE OF the kind OF man who Is wise at
his self-providing stunt He has an
bnlcial permit to issue passes to the
road to success. Davey n the pro-
prietor OF one Of the best drug stores
Ia the city and has been for several
years. Yet he has been playing pro-
tessional baseball ever since he left
ccliege.
Davey picked up his nrst knowledge
Of the business In the town where he
went to high school. The village OF
Cambria, Wis, little knew that one
OF the clerks in the local drug store
who was pounding pills after school
hours would at some time be one or
the best known baseball players In
the country. From Cambria, Jones
journeyed to Dixon, Ill, where he
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exhibition game between the school
and Rockford, In the /. /. /. sue.
Davey showed the talent that landed
him a professional berth right away.
And during all the time that he
was pla. ling in the big leagues he has
worked at spare times In drug stores.
He saved share OF the money paid
him by the baseball magnates and In
vested II In his business In Detroit
Now II he finds that baseball doesn't
need him, he IL provided for anyway.
With these credentials, duly deliv-
cred, 1t may do to let Davey tell us
about the baseball player and his job.
sThe trouble with many young fell
lows In the big leagues" says Jones.
SIS that they think II beneath their
dignity to work as drug clerk or
law clerk or surveyor or whatever
may fall to them In the winter, after
they have been earning thousands OF
dollars as ball players in the summer.
They fail to realize that they cannot
last forever.
why we cant get insurance In or
binary companies at ordinary rates.
The risk is considered too great by
most concerns to take any chance on.
The insurance companies are pretty
wise and they know the danger from
the knowledge given them by Stats
tics. A fellow can never tell when
something Is going to happen to put
him out OF the game altogether and
unless he has learned something be-
sides baseball he is up again-t II.
Last summer when l got hit in
the head with the ball. II might have
put me out OF commi. sion for all
time. When was with Chicago l
broke my leg and was so weakened
that / had to go to the minors for
a year. Might have been out alto
gether."
Jones has little to say about what
he IL or is not going to do next year.
He says that he Is making about as
much money In his present business as
he does at baseball, so there is little
to keep him In the gam. His con-
tract with the Tigers runs another
year and he expects to go south this
spring.
s'Panning on his home grounds is
the most disheartening thing a fellow
has to face in the baseball season"
SAYS Dayey. you expect to get roast.
ed and jeered when you're away from
home, but after getting II all the time
while away, II seems to be your due
10 get some encouragement when you
get back home"
J. I'd. Grille hands US one in the
Warrington Star, thusly: