Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-03-02
SPORTING
GOSSI P

It's pretty soft. his business of be-
ing a champion. II you don't believe
it, ask Johnny Kilbane.
A couple of years ago Johnny was
clubbing along. cleaning up the lesser
Rights in featherweight circles and glad
enough to pull down two or three hun-
dred beans for. doing il. Now. almost
in a single stride-sudden wealth!
There was the SO. 500 he got for beat
ing Attell. another thousand for his
rights 10 the moving pictures, a few
weeks of theatrical engagements at a
thousand dollars a week. the promise
of another bout with Attell with three
quarters Of a $4,000 purse coming
%.Johnny's way, and then. this week, he
stood up in front of a moving-picture
machine for the Tom Jones Photo
graph Company and got $4,000 more
for that.
It was he easiest 1000 he earned
in all his career. Jones's company
took pictures of Ad Wolgast, light
weight champion; Johnny Coulon, ban
famweight champion, and Jim J~effries,
former heavyweight champion.
The fighters were shown training and
playing together.
AttelN looked like a sure winner to
the picture company and Kilbane
wasn't even invited to pose, so there
would be a picture of him in case he
beat Attell.
When the picture people went to Kill
bane, the champion referred them to
Manager Jimmy Dunn Jimmy got the
money.
600
Jack Johnson has been sued for $685.
900 damages by a Chicago girl for in
iuries received when she was hit by a
punching-bag knocked loose by Jack in
! vaudeville act.
900
Australia will send a team to the
Olympic games in Stockholm It viii
he a six-month trip.
900
Most Of the big league club owners
and managers are %plungers in the
Tall and pikers in the spring. They
break their necks in September and
October to get minor league players,
and in March and April keep these
minor league stars on the bench, rely
ing on the veterans whose places they
were purchased to take.
There is nothing stingy about the
lub-owners III the fall. The eight
american League clubs last year paid
STAT 1888 for players purchased outright
from minor Clubs. and gave S2S,65
more for drafted players; total, $780,
9s3
The eight National League clubs
spent $3.50. $50 for new talent.
Players representing almost half of
he sums expended by each league will
pc back in the minors before the season
opens because the owners and man
ayers are afraid TO take a chance that
hey will develop.
The exceptions to the owners and
managers who act like standpat con-
gressmen when it comes to trying re-
ruits, are most successful. They take
hanees.
The great ball teams of the past ten
Years have been built UP with young
players. The youngest two teams in
he American and National League
asst season were the best ones. The
Athletics averaged almost two years
younger than any other American
League team, and the Giants averaged
yer two years younger than any other
National League team.
O~
Says an exchange; Several base
ball writer's on the International
League circuit have it 'doped' out
that the Grays will not be able to
break into the first division the COM
ing season. and that Detroit's contri-
buttons. especially in the line of catch
ers, are very poor. 1T is claimed that
Schmidt has only one arm and that
is the left, which is still able to field
well in the drinking line. but Is of no
use IN pegging out the runners at Sec
ord and third. II is maintained that
sehmidt's salary wing, his right arm,
will I've come back. Very unkind
things have also been said about
Beckendorf, the roly-poly who was
such a frost with the Buffalo club last
season.
Neither Schmidt nor Beckendorf
may deliver the goods, but in the event
hst they NlslI down it is simply up to
Navin and INNINGS to send some