Evening journal., 1912-02-09


zieglcr goes to Cleveland for the
good Of the order.
Bill Bullen a come back
Pete Cassidy remembers the day
when he played baseball for $1,000
per. This should be encouragement
enough for amy aspiring back-lotter.
Nothing slow about those All-Wil-
mingtonians or Church Leaguers.
Arms and legs are not all ball
player must possess. He has to have
that old eagle eye.
Peirce's tonight for the sport re-
member.
No. football will not be any childs
game next fall
The more you think over the new
rules, the stronger becomes that con-
viction.
Also there has been rctrogrcssion
away from the open game Say, what
you Will the change from three
downs to four in which 10 make ten
yards Will be nothing but an invita-
tion to all teams to play a line-plung-
ing game.
Frankly we don't care a lot for that
feature of the new rules. The open
game was a good game Instead Of
closing IL up, IL should have been rem
dered more open still There would
haye been plenty Of ways of weaken
ing the defense by a still further
.opening up of things Instead OF that,
however, another down was added in
which to advance the ball ten yards,
and We can look for a revival of the
old, grinding. line-smashing game.
Teams OF superior weight will now
march up and down the field as OF
old, and weight viii be at pre-
MUM.
We shall go hack quite a bit to
tho old days Of beef The lively
young player who made the game so
sparkling last year will now be re-
legatcd TO the bench.
Listen, you amateursl
All the amateur managers arc busy
signing up players and when the sea-
son opens they will be ready for a
strenuous campaign.
About the most thanklcss and hard
est job man ever expects to under
take Is in handling an amateur club.
IL is Without a doubt very unpleasant
experience; it is also very expensive.
IN the first place, the players expect
n Vrinccly salary. when in previous
seasons. say five or six years ago, they
wfre glad to be furnished with their
uniforms.
&Thosc days each player had 20 pay
7 Tor his own outfit. and not only that
but they had TO put up their own
money when playing and help to pay
for the umpire and balls
Aud when their team would win the
players would get the money, but il
they lost would receive not cent
Nowadays it is entirely different. as
some of them don't play unless they
| get their share of the money, and good
players get as high as 81 and SO a
game, while pitchers get more than
that, and If this keeps up In order tc
/ get a good team together man will
have to be a Carnegie or a Rockefeller
-
like a ship without a rudder, each
Sunday the manager having 10 get new
players, and it is hard to get them tc
stick
But the "magnates" stick to the fin.
ish, and at the end Of each season de.
clare that they are through; but. once
in the game. il is hard to leave t.
Some Of the players of the present
school, several years back would ha,
a hard time getting any money. as the
game was played on open fields ant
( lots. and II he would ask for none,
to play would get the merry hal hal
{ AS all of them looked alike. and, "a
stated above, had to put up their owl
, money and take chances. and th'
games were more interesting an,
hard-fought than at the present time
This is not intended as knock to
, ward the players. as the majority o
them are gentlemen and a credit q
, the game.
IIu,r ffnt. a~aft