Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-19

staring him in the face, is a big Joke
and II would be a good thing IL som
day one of those bumptious fellow
were compelled to make good wit
their threat. All we can say is tina
Tinker is a lucky guy, and tn
thought flashes over our mind tina
Ebbets, Tinker and the whole caboo
die of them are making all this fus
for the good of the game in pub
licity way.
over the Tinker affair Mr.. Ebbet
and Charley Murphy, of Chicago, ma.
have a passage at words. AS to tn
E, outcome of such a battle 1t would b.
a most difficult thing to select thu
winner. On the go-off Murphy, who Il
quick beginner, would probably
show the way. but in the long ruI
Charley Ebbets would not be far Il
any. behind. Murphy, it seems, is re-
| sponsible for the outbreak In thai
he has been talking on the quiet witt
Tinker, although the laws of base,
ball, under such circumstances, posi-.
lively forbid such a thing. Ebbets
has told Murphy so and he has warned
him to keep his hands off Tinker, but
the Chicago man seems to delight In
dares and in double-crossing every
body every time he gets a chance.
O.
In the old days Charley Murphy
was able to get away with a lot of
cunning stuff" but he Is sure to
find the road of bluff and buster a
hard and dreary one under the rule
of John K. Tener, the new National
League president. Mr.. Tener, like
Ban Johnson, is going to rule his
league with a stern hand, and he
won't allow Murphy or any other
magnate to make fool of the league
or fool of himself for that matter.
One of the first big things that Presi-
dent Tener will accomplish is either
the tanning or the banishing of Muir
ply. 1t is simply surmise-a guess
on my part, but it Is very likely to
come true
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Cincinnati is the butt. of the base
ball world and it hasn't a friend In
the game or for the game, it would
seem. The fans have made fools of
themselves by their acting toward the
players and the managers and the
newspapers have joined in most I'M
dignified chorus. Few men in the
game want to play with the Reds and
a manager goes into the town with
fear and trembling. In Cincinnati
they expect everything from the ball
team yet the people out there give
the team nothing but abuse. 1t is a
great town Cincinnati-but not to
play ball in.
O.
Knowing Cincinnati as we'll as we
do, we glory in the nerve of Charley
Herzog, who has accepted the stu
pendous task to manage the Reds
next season, and we hope he will sue
coed. He is an excellent player, and
he Is aggressive, but If he was forty
times a better man in every way he
would never get a fair show in Cincy.
Good luck to him for his game at
tempt, but we pity him in his under
taking. No ball player has ever
known what it Is to suffer until he
plays for while in Redland After
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join class @ club rather than go
back again. The day may come,
though, when Cinoy will get its just
deserts. 1t may eventually be used
by major league baseball clubs as a
place of punishment for disobedient
men of the diamond. Good morning.
judge!" in the baseball court could
be followed by "Ten days to Cincin-
natip' Such punishment would be
terrific, we'll admit, but the penalty
would have to fit the crime, of course.
Charley Herzog, we say again, we
pity you. You have ruined your base
ball career in a hurry.
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France, for a new bird in the boxing
game, is getting very fresh. She
wants to tell the U. s. A. what to do,
but she will find her reuests turned
down rather eoldly. In order to be
able to advertise the Langford- Jean
nette bout to be held in Paris as a
worlds heavyweight championship
affair, the promoters are anxious that
Jack Johnson's title be taken away
from him. No, that can never be- We
over in these United States don't be-
lieve in such. In battle great honors
are won, and in battle they must be
lost, Is our motto. Whether Johnson
deserves consideration or not is not
the question. He is the champion,
and just as much a champion as the
champion of any game in the world
He may lose it by being beaten or by
relinquishing 1t, but you can't take ii
away from him and then proclaim
you're honest No, we will not allow
France to rob Johnson of his title,
even though Johnson has done many
things to deserve such treatment.
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Charley Brickley as captain of this
Harvard football team should have
been a sure thing. but 1t wasn't. 1t IL
understood that Brickley had some
well-developed opposition and for q