Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-22

Newark fans, naturally, are inter
ested in anything that might affec
the baseball situation in this city
and for that reason 1 have been par.
ticularly active TO find out just whai
is doing concerning the proposed sale
of the Newark Club, now held By
Brooklyn and New York interests, &c
party of local business men. Being
on the job, as 1t were, / had q long
talk yesterday with a baseball man
who seemed to know all about what
had been done and what was about
to be done. The man in question,
can assure the readers of the Eve
ming Star, is q straight out-and-out
business fellow, with no axes to grind
and with keen desire to see Newark
men in full control of the Newark
Club some day. However, he doesn't
think that such a thing is possible
at present and he told me so in
no unmistakable terms last night.
ITO begin with" said the man who
knows, "you newspaper men are Civ
ing too much time and attention to the
sale of the Newark Club to Newark
men, because there isn't going to be
any such sale. Moe Reichman and
Tom Blaney have been talking to
Charley Ebbets, but not even so
much as a price has been suggested.
Then, too, when a price Is set 1t
will take something like s125,000 to
consummate the deal. Now, that
sum of money is some sum of money,
you'll have to admit, and 1t is money
that Mr.. Ebbets and his partners
are after and 1t is money they want
in a hurry and want badly. A propo-
sition like the Newark Club can't be
bought on wind, and while it may not
take the whole amount asked to turn
the deal, 1t will require $4,000 at
least to bring about q change of own
ership. Where is all that money to
come from? From Newark business
men, your answer, no doubt, would
be-"
O.
Here my informant went on to ex-
plain to me that 1t would be one Of
the most difficult tasks imaginable to
raise s125,Oo0 in Newark for almost
any business venture one might
name.
"Why," said the man who knows,
"all this newspaper talk is foolish
about thirty business men buying in
the club That would be poor policy.
in the first place, for 1t would be
suicidal TO attempt to run a baseball
club in which thirty persons would
have a say. 1 know baseball, and I
know what I am talking about To
prove my statement, take the Newark
Club as constituted today. The five
men in control-Ebbets, the Nc
Keevers, Solomon and Medicus--all
good friends beforehand, are unable
to get along together. At present
Ebbets is very angry at Solomon, and
he is likely TO be very severe with
Solomon before he is through with
him. Now, how in mischief would
thirty men, say, get along together?
To get thirty men to put in $4,000
each would be some job, and then
every one of them would feel as If it
was up to him to run the club. No
one would like to see Newark men
buy the Newark Club better than I,
but the present negotiations, take my
word for it, will never amount TO
shucks."
o
This information is given for what
it is worth. 1t comes from a man
who has been mentioned as one of the
prospective buyers Of the club and
who is still willing to put up his
money if five or six men would get
together and purchase the holdings.
He ridiculed the idea of some of those
mentioned as buyers of stock and
he mentioned one man who would be
particularly Objectionable If he be-
came financially interested in the
club. It is all right for some of those
pests to go down to the ball park and
root for the team, but If they had
few dollars invested they would be-
come unbearable. Then, too. the wise
man said, persons are making oral
subscriptions who will not come to
time when the collection day arrives
Others are just getting their name in
the papers and are being given a
prominence as baseball men they do
not deserve.
THE Newark club may change
hands, all right, but the deal now on
will never go through, you can bet
on that" said the man who knows,
as we parted.
If you could believe all you read,
the Newark Club is as good as sold.
While the Evening Star printed the
first story of the intention of Moe
Reichman. Tom Blaney and Phil
Krimke to organize a party of
fans to buy the franchise, we
never did say that such trans
action was a surety. We have
advocated all along the possess
sion of the local club by local men
and when we printed an interview
with Charles Ebbets on the subject
it aroused Mr.. Solomon and his
friends and there has been much
muck printed ever since. 1t was at
that time vehemently denied that the
club was for sale, but when the Star
printed the story that Messrs. Reich.
man, Blaney and Krimke were think.