Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-26


hesitate. The trolley cars went bang
| ing by and made their usual thunder
Gus noises going over the miserable
switches in the middle of the block
Nobody seemed to know just what
| to do or say.
your pipe is going out, Mory, y
one brave member of the gang finally
said.
That was the cue for throwing off
the yoke of restraint. Everybody
knew now.
Your pipe is going Quit" That
was the answer, it seemed. The hop
was working and baseball was the
brand on tap.
Eyes, your friend could do all that
| and more, too. He could buy the
Kinney building for $4,000 IL he
didn't run out of smokes" And the
man who said 1t knew whereof he
spoke
C.
All the above talk occurred as a
result of the exclusive stories which
| have appeared in the Evening Star
anent the probable sale of the New
ark Club by Messrs. Ebbets and the
McKeever brothers, Ed and Steve; but
$4,000 wouldn't buy one side of the
local club. The present owners paid
900 for the franchise, and what went
with it. What they will ask for 1t is
not known, but the price will not be
less than the price they paid for it,
rest assured AS an investment New
ark is a winner, and the chances are
better from now on than they have
ever been in the past. From a most
reliable source 1t Is learned that more
than $4,000 has been the profits so
far this season. That is some percent
age, when you come to think of it, on
$4,000 investment. The very best
earnings expected out of sporting
proposition is rs per cent and you
can get all the money in the world,
so to speak, for strictly business
enterprise if you can show the men
with the money bags that the returns
will be 5 per cent. So, you see, the
Newark Club is a good investment
and all the good citizens of Newark
are being told the plain truth and
given all the facts in order that they
may take a peek over the situation
and endeavor to discover whether
they have any sporting blood in
them. On several occasions / have,
in my own way, presented facts about
the possibilities of the Newark Club
and on each occasion I have urged
that local business men become in
terested. but you couldn't get even a
nod from your own town folk. Yet
after the sale is over and after the
club has changed hands you will hear
all the million-do pikers "cuss-
ing their luck because they were not
given chance to buy, and again, no
doubt, if the sale of the club goes
through. you will hear this very same
gentry yelling their heads off be-
cause they are out and knocking the
ones who are in. That is the way,
though, the world over, it seems.
Some persons won't make a move
and they hate to see others make q
move. Newark would be a fine sport
ing town If the pikers had their way
o
Messrs. Million and Uppercu have
talked the matter over and they are
In position to take over the New
ark franchise If it can be purchased
at what they believe to be fair price.
What that price will be is not known.
Although the club is for sale--and
must be sold by orders of the base
ball powers that-be, according to my
authority-it is not a drug on the
market. / have it that Messrs. Ebbets
and the McKeevers couldn't be hired to
dispose of their holdings in this city
II there wasn't feeling in the big
leagues against controlling minor
league clubs. They like it here, 1t
is known. and they are willing, it is
said, to maintain a friendly" inter-
est and to exchange the usual cour-
tesies even If the club is sold to local
capitalists. Ed McKeever, In fact, is
very much set against selling. AS
lous to please his partners and really
wouldn't make move unless all
concerned were willing. But in a
few days there might be something
doing. In the meantime, all the New
arkers who are sure to knock after
the deal goes through are given a
friendly tip now that the club may be
bought If the money is in sight.
O.
1t used to be Peerless Jackie" Clark.
Now it is Fearless Jackie Clark.
When all the other stars are tired to
death and grumbling over their lot,
when the big champions and the little
champions are running to cover with
fright and shaking at the thought of
a new hero taking their places, out trots
Little Jackie" Clark, with his cum
ming little smile and his winning little
bow, and says: Let me to dol" This.
| in way, is the present situation In
the cycling game. A new angle has
come up. Bob Spears, one of the
naughty outlaws" is displaying so
much form since his arrival on "this
side" that the regulars" are in for
tanning him. First. the only and relia-
able Frank l.. Kramer, worlds cham
pion, was selected to meet Mr.. Spears.
That looked like too much of a good
thing, but Kramer evidently didn't
think so, for he asked Manager Min
lon to put the match over for a few
days. Mr.. Million didn't know just