Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-27

has been to it so far has been given
to the Evening Star readers.
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| President George L. Solomon gave
out the following statement late this
morning:
1.-THE report that 1 was to be frozen
| out of the Newark Club is absolutely
untrue, and in conference with my
associates in the Newark Club, |. e.,
Messrs. Ebbets, McKeever and Medi-
Gus, this was positively confirmed by
all interested, nor has the Newark
Club been offered for sale by any
one of the gentlemen named.
ut is true that Mr.. Ebbets has saio
that so far as he individually was
concerned, he was willing to see the
| Newark Club pass into local hands,
his position in baseball always hav-
| ing been that local capitalists should
control all minor league organiza-
| tons, and not be operated by major
| league clubs, but 1t does not follow
| that Mr.. EbbetS's interests would be
sold alone, as he for one minute
would not think of disposing of his
holdings without the matter being
satisfactory to his colleagues. You
can rest assured that the Newark
Club will not be sacrificed, but like
any other business proposition, if
there are any local capitalists eager
to obtain the Newark baseball fran
chise and contracts with players, the
| matter might be arranged upon a
| fair valuation satisfactory to all con-
cerned.
LAS far as 1 am personally con-
cerned, l should like to remain at the
head of the Newark Club; my as
! sociations with the public, press and
players have been of the most agree
able character We will win the cham
pionship this season and l expect the
team to repeat in 1914 at least
at would take a pretty good sum
of money to get me out of baseball"
Solomon seems to be talking through
his hat Nothing has been published
in the Evening Star about any plan
to freeze him out nor has anything
been said as to Mr.. Ebbets selling
his Individual interests. Solomon, no
doubt, would like to stick around
Newark but the chances are the local
club will be sold.
John J. McDermott might have
criticism, il, after he had won the
big tourney at Shawnee on Saturday,
he had kept his mouth shut" as the
saying goes. Tickled out of his wits,
no doubt, over his victory, McDer-
mott, our national champion, which
fact makes it all the worse, saw fit
to mount a chair and openly insult
| the English golfers who had COM
peted in the affair. A clever golfer,
he has much wit and bristles with
sarcasm. His remark, 1--WE hope our
foreign visitors had a good time, but
we don't think they did, and we are
sure they won't win the national
| open," caused even his close friends
| to blush in shame for him. AS Is well
known, McDermott is q home-bred
| golfer. That in itself Is sufficient
slap for the old country golfers to
bow to. The Yankee has been to
Europe" on two occasions and he did
not fare well. Maybe he was not only
beaten over there, but Inundated as
we'll If so, we haven't heard of any
insults melted out to him and we
don't believe he was badly treated,
even If he was badly beaten. AS q
result of his nasty remarks anent the
J British golfers, we haven't any moro
regard for McDermott. We sounded
| hio hat ha nd txyae W.,
him all the more credit because ne
learned his game over here and rosie
from a caddie to the champion of the
| nation; but 1t is a case now of the
| bigger they are the harder they fall.
McDermott, good golfer and all, has
taken an awful tumble.
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Harry Vardon, Edward Ray and
Wilfrid Reid were the British golfers
within earshot when McDermott
"shot his mouth off," The visitors
are said to have made light of the
remarks, but the Yankee golfers
would have 1t that their feelings were
hurt and that their wounds must be
healed. There was much treating and
much explaining, and the affair was
made so much of that the English
men finally became real "peeved." At
first they said it was nothing; later
they said it was whole lot. Now
they feel that the insult Is a real big
thing, and it has been made so, for
everybody in golf1ng circles is talking
about it..
We haven't heard from England yet
on the affair, but we will. They will
say over there that we are rude and
they will be wrong, but they might
say what they will about McDermott
and not be far off the mark. We are
not taking McDermott's part, by a
long shot, even If he is our open
champion. The fact that he bears
that honoR makes his offense all the
more grievous. While abroad McDer-
mott may have worked up a crouch
over his failure to make even a re-
spectacle showing there, and he
may have held something in until he
had a good chance to spring 1t. In
that respect, he figured well, for he
has received all the publicity one
could possibly desire. But let Eng
land and Englishmen. here and
abroad, understand that McDermott
is standing alone and on his own bot
tom. His sentiments are not our sem