Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-17
BY Percy II. Whiting

<<~HE Southern league viii
some day come to the
scheme of limiting the num-
Der of ex-big leaguers who will be
allowed to play with each team"
saws President Frank Galloway, of
the Atlanta Baseball association.
THE situation of a business enter
prise in which most of the partners
are losing money is absurd. A lot
of things must be done to keep ex
penses within reason, and that
seems to be one Of the good ways"
Watch and see II it doesn't come
OFF within the next couple OF years
TT You'll stop and think, you'll
l. realize that this baseball thing, as
a business, is a joke. The Atlanta
club last year kissed good bye to
some ten thousand bones. 1t was
little enough for the Georgia Rail-
way and Power Company, and they
swallowed the dose like heroes. But
suppose some private individual
owned the club--how long do you
suppose ne would stand It?
II the Srslthern league club own
ers should get together once year,
write down their profits, If they had
any. in one column, their losses in
another, and total 1t up, IL would
show a comfortable loss. Pause and
consider the financial idiocy of a
business that is regularly a losing
thing.
or course. some clubs make mon
ey each year. Probably II will av-
erage three a year. The other Ave
will generally lose.
Backing a Southern league club
is sure thing gambling, with the
other fellow dealing off the bot
tom Of the deck. It's betting against
a zoo per cent book-for every two
hundred dollars the bookies take in
they pay out a hundred The play
ers soon get cleaned at that game
A S matter Of getting some real
expert opinion on the subject, |
wrote some men down in the Sally
league who know about the inner
workings of the league there. Here
are some expressions OF opinion as
to the working Of the ex- big league
rule in the Sally league:
BY N, p. coRIsH.
president OF South Atlantic Leaaue0
The exact wording of the three
ISOLATION prior to the opening OF
our 1912 championship season are
as follows, viz:
"No player. except the player
manager, is eligible to play in this
league whose contract in 1911 was
for a salary in excess OF $3.50 per
month.
NO player shall receive more
than $3.50 per month, with the ex-
ception OF the player manager"
mo club shall employ, at any
one time. more than four play
ers, including the manager. who
have previously participated in
regular scheduled games in
leagues of higher classification. as
follows: Pitchers, exceeding ten
games; all other players exceeding
twenty BHElsH IN any one season
In reply to your request for an
expression as to how the expert
ment has worked and whether it
will be continued this year, will
SAY the innovation has proven all
that its advocates claimed for il,
and am sure l voice the sentiment
OF every club member in saving
there is no desire to return to old
practices
BY JIM FOX
manager OF the Columbus TeamD
Limit Of four men who have
played in higher leagues a good
one. / am opposed TO twelve
player limit because a couple OF
injured men can soon put a good
club out Of the running Thirteen
men Is as small a limit as a club
can get along with unless they are
lucky. But the other rule is
corking good one and has helped
baseball in the South Atlantic
league.
BY HARRY DODD
sporting Editor Savannah News1
81 Viewed from "A financial stand
~ point the South Atlantic league
season OF 1912 did not escape the