The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-02-22
PUBLIC BUNCOED BY BALL
PLAYERS WHO WRITE ARTICLES
Men Whose Names Are Signed Hire Reg
uIar SCribes to Do Work

legged story criticizfng Chief Meyers,
the explosion came. McGraw told how
| ne received a fat sum for the use of
| his name, and that an expert writer
! did the real work
The players expect to be criticized
| by the professional baseball writer.
Indeed, they take that an in good part
I generally being the best friends with
their critics. But when a player reads
the harsh criticism of a teammate, it's
a horse of another color. No man
wants to be held up to ridicuIe by a
IfelloW-player. Continuance of this
practice may seriously interfere with
team work and it is this phase of the
| situation which should have been
called to the attention of the national
commission
The writer during the last worlds
series made careful inquiry into the
subject and had little dif1cu1ty in
finding out just what each ball
name and who did the real work
Chief Meyers the New York catcher
was credited with turning out some
really clever pieces, but his daily
of the New York American. Christy
| Mathewson's accounts were pounded
out by Jack wheeler, a feature writer
connected at that time with the New
York Herald. wheeler also wrote the
criticism found under the name of Jeff
Tesreau, the Giants big pitcher.
Bill FarnSworth, connected with the
Hearst newspapers, interviewed Rube
Marquard each day, and If the Rube
told him all the dope printed it was
no wonder the south paw got himself
in bad with his team mates, for
F'arnsworth spared no tone in his
scathing criticism
Evening Sun, handled the feature
stories the fans supposed Manager
McGraw turned out.
BOSTON NEWSPAPERS IN LINE
The Boston papers slipped this
bunk over on the dear old public just
as nicely as did the Gotham publica-
tions. Cy Young, the veteran twirler,
was engaged by the Boston Post, and
Sam Carrick wrote his stories. Capt.
Heine Wagner, of the Red Sox, was
assigned to Paul Shannon, the base
ball editor of this same paper, while
Catcher Bill Carrigan furnished the
Boston American readers with inter
esting daily stories pounded out by A.
Iris Speaker and Joe Wood were
also in the Hmelight with expert crit
icisn1s written for them by Tim Muir,
Hughey Jennings enjoyed the series
from the press box as did Ty Cobb,
both Of whom contributed to the syn
dictate field Roger ridden of the
his data into shape, and Stoney Mac
Linn of the. Philadelphia Press, was
right at Ty Cobb's elbow when the
Georgia peach lacked a suitable word
or a trife expression
The engaging of these player-ex-
pert writers worked hardship on
many we1l-versed scribes who were
refused by their various papers the
privilege of attending the worlds
series last October. They were simply
turned down cold with some such
let Christy Mathewson and Joe Wood
cover the features of these games and
the Press association will give us a.
good straight away story of the bat
ters, so why should we send you, and
pay your big expense account.
Just SO long newspapers offer in
ducements to ball players for the use
of their names, will the dear old pub
lie be bunlzoed into thinking that the
stars themselves write this expert
stuff. The writer believes that the
D. O. p should be told the truth OF
the matter, then it's up to the fans to
judge for themselves as to the merits
Of any newspaper story appearing I'm
der the name of a well known ball
player, or, in other words. to wonder
if the, player has been correctly
quoted. ~