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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-20
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ATEW YORK, July l9,-organlzea
mi baseball is admirably fortified
against possible opposition, In
the big leagues especially is this
true, The best territory is already rep
resented in both major leagues, and
being firmly established, could put up
long game at "cutthroat with any
aspiring "outlaw' enterprise The
major leagues have very wisely utilized
the vast earnings of the ten years or
peace by laying hands upon the cen
tralized locations where park SITES
Nigh be desired, and by building mag
nifcent steel and concrete stands, with
all attendant conveuieuces, where the
populace has been educated to the very
highest standards that obtain in base
Because of the fact that baseball has
outliyed it's infant days of wood, base
ball is safeguarded tenfold over, say.
even FIVE years ago. Every American
league club save New York boasts the
most modern type of plant and Pres,-
dent Farrell s building operations are
under way. The majority of National
league clubs are fortified in the same
manner, and those that are not will be
within a wear or two. When this is &C.
complished there will have been raised
against possible opposition of third
major league something like $4,000, 900
in real estate and fixtures alone.
Playing Material Scarce.
Presuming. however. that capital
would be willing TO risk such con-
siderable outlay on mere speculation,
that in itself would go very long way
I'd
enterprise. The greatest safeguard to
the peace and prosperity of organized
baseball as at present instituted is the
dearth Of frstclass PLAYING material.
The club presidents of the various big
leagues expend annually several mil
lions of dollars in still hunting for
talent and in gambling upon the minor
league prospects unearthed by the
sleuths.
One does not have to look farther
than the home doorster for an illus.
tration of the famine throughout the
sticks. No one in baseball pursues q
more liberal policy than Frank J. Far
rell, president of the tailend New York
Americans He has spent thousands
upon thousands Of dollars during the
past Eve years. but his team is ri9ht
where it was when Griffith threw M his
hands in 1906, 1t will take Frank
Chan,e year OF two TO build up q
club capable Of making favorable
showing and then he may count him
self lucky. There Is no sentiment in
baseball
Value of the EARN
The only way for major league clubs
to get PLAYERS NOWADAYS is to 60 out
and dig them from minor league OBJ
security, develop them and plant them
where they may be called upon in the
time Of need. A ball club is no
stronger than Its reserve strength.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-20
Organized Baseball Is Safe
Against |'Outlaw'' lnuasion
Well Fortified With Valuable Plants in Every
Populous Center; Scarcity Of Playing Mater
ial Also Makes Position Invulnerable.

Connie Mack was possibly the first
manager TO realize the full Importance
of the farm" He has bright pros
poets planted from coast to coast. He
calls upon the Jewels as they are
needed. BY getting the, Jump on rivals
it stands to reason that the crafty
Connie has built up the most wonder
ful reserve force that can we'll be
ina agined. Connie stands conspicuously
as an example that "to him that hath
shall be given
Yet in his business relations with his
associates Mack is cold as ice. He
pursues the well-known policy of cling
ing tenaciously to everything OF value
in his possession. Never for an in.
slant would be entertain the idea of
sparing some of his surplus strength to
league. Idling on Comics S bench are
a bunch OF reserves that would add
first division strength to most any of
the American league second division
clubs. Philadelphia would be foolish TO
part with any of them, for its financial
success depends directly upon the abil.
itv of the White Eelephants to beat
out all opposition. Strengthening an
enemy is not one OF warfare s approved
ers, is an example. Cleveland tried
every way to keep this fellow from
Chance. The Maps couldn' Z use him
lust now but they wished to plant him
in Toledo. where he might be called
upon later on if needed.
Clubs Not Balanced.
As result of the scarcity Of the
Cobhs, Speakers Johnsons, Mathewsons
and Archers. those clubs that have been
favored with the best. talent are habit
uallv rapping at the door If not enjoy
ing the upper stories of the great
amusement structure, BY the same
token. it must be confessed that both
major league clubs are but Unbalanced
The weaker teams do not begin to
class with the leaders and usually the
race is over by midseRson. In the old
American league davs Ban Johnson. in
his war on the National circuit, grab.
bed all the best talent Of his rivals and
so evenly distributed il throughout his
eight club circuit that most every en-
trant had a fair chance when the cur
tain rune up each spring.
Something should be done to give the
weak teams of the two major league
clubs better chance with a strong
1t seems that a great deal of the best
talent is going TO seed with the first
division clubs. Organized baseball has
been rather too lax in the application
August 20 major league clubs are al.
lowed to carry twenty-five PLAYERS and
at other times Of The year thirty five
PLAYERS. These numbers appear alto
rether too liberal. It might be a good
plan to get back TO old conditions when
eighteen PLAYERS was considered a
wealth of luxury for any club.
There is no way to supply the de.
mand under the present extravagaut
policies BY limiting the rosters the
field will also be limited and the really
high-class players more evenly distrib-
utsd,
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-20
Notre Dame Furnishes Stars,

Big league scouts are finding rich
picking these days at the University of
Notre Dame. That Indiana institution s
classy baseball team has just about been
torn In two by the head hunters from
the majors, who are signing the Notre
Dame men as fast as they can collect
the signatures.
Williams, an outHelder. has been
copped by the Cubs; Lathrop. pitcher. is
with the SoX; Granfleld third baseman,
has signed with the Cincinnati Reds, and
O'Connell shortstop. has gone to the
Grand Rapids team OF the Central
league.
And now a Chicago boy has been
drafted from Notre Dame by Peoria oil
the ThreeEye league.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-20
rho cincinnati Base IIit.

The Cincinnati base hit vas shown = up
In one on OF the white x.4ankeef efrss sansds and
at New York Lord vas ,hosa on throw to
SSeneeSinpsugh Seess n, was too late to set Lord
stiIi Peckinpaugh had ample time ss 70
throw Chase out at first, When ne faatt G,at
IN IN, Under the new scoring rule. IL
rhase had beaten the ball to first by sn
eyeiash. instead Of being out sy IS severn, ysifn
feet. he would have been erealiea wl.w ist,
had a first been made on runner going
~ second.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-20
Every Youngster Is Urged to
Take Part in Competi-
tive Games.
BY J. R. GRIFF1THS,
Public Fairgrounds Supervisor.

~ EVEN Fairgrounds Of Salt Lake
City have been established to pro-
vide for the healthy recrea ton Of
~ child and adult. to secure health
and general muscular development
by carefully-selected exercises to secure
through various activities the end Of
education-social efficiency. 'They aim
to counteract the evil tendencies already
hard at work and to provide for both
child and adult an antidote to the dIsin-
tegrating, diseducational. denloralizing
effect Of specialized ation." There Is need
Of public moral cleanliness and provis-
ion for moral object lessons, so that the
lessons of the stables, the alley. the gut
ter. the saloon and brothel will find no
place empty waiting to be filed" and
play seems the best method OF supplying
this need.
Very recently an educator has said that
the most necessary thing in our modern
educational system is the proper control
OF leisure. Get the man during his lei
sure time and direct his thoughts and
actions during this time. and there need
be no fear OF his becoming an outlaw.
Crime is bred In the idle moments; hence
II this possibility for vice is removed by
providing amusem ent and properly d.
recting IT. there Is definite need OF
recrea tiOn centers
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-20

THE Pirates have at last begun to
Il hit their stride and indications
seem to show that they will finish
strong in the National league race. At
the beginning Of the season they were
predicted as the strongest team in the
older organization and critics seemed
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-20

to think that they would make run
away race for the flag. They fell down
miserably, however, being beaten by
every team IN the league. and not until
last week did they climb into the first
division. Their pitchers s.e becoming e
reliable and the team bids fair to give
the Giants stiff fight for first place
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-20
rowing Race Tomorrow

me Rarry-Pesrce professional sculling
e VIII be rowed over the four mile
9mes river course. London. on Mon
7, july y. The stake is $4,000.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-20
xrs+er c.ontests at ST, Louis.

The Western Rowing club OF ST Louis.
will hold its third annual five mile hand
,csn swim in the Mississippi river on
In,y 81 The clubs annual swim for
women viii be held on August 81.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-20
MOTORCYCLE RACING
IS DIFFICULT ART
Many Cautions Necessary in
Teaching Riders to Flirt
With Death.

NEW YORK. July 1a-Tralning young
sters in the art Of flirting with death
may have less complications than de-
veloping youthful ball player for big
league service, but in the matter OF
caution i fail to see how McGraw ex-
ercises more than / have been forced
70 use IN conditioning twenty-five riders
for the present season at the Stadium
Motordrone at Brighton Beach. writes
Arthur Chapple. champion motor cycllst
of 1912. in IN article for the New York
Evening Telegram.
The most natural thing for a new
man to try to do on his first trial is to
open a machine TO its capacity because
he has heard riders say that they can I
stay on the steep surface unless they
are travelling at least eighty miles an
hour.
Now they probably never rode a that
rate before, and. as result when they
attain such a speed the muscles in their
eyes become momentarlIy psralyzed. they
lose control of their machines. take a
spill and even II they come away alive
are rarely willing 10 take another crack
at the speed game on the board track.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-20
Urged to Use Grounds.

Parents are urged to send their chill
dren to take part In games and gym
nastics. The educatve effect Of team
play IN the games makes II very essen
tiaI that every child takes some active
part in games daily for at, least half an
hour, A tournament has been arranged
in indoor baseball. volley ball and catch
ball for the boys OF junior and midget
ages, and for girls in indoor baseball II
and volley ball 1t should also be kept
in mind that all children should have
some idea OF how to stand and carry
the body TO Insure the greatest amount
of health. and i is felt: because Of the
many physical ailments due TO bad stand
ing posture aud the prevalence Of SO
many physical weaknesses among our
children, that every child should be urged
by the parents 10 take some gymnastic
work
The cooperation Of the parents Is So
icited, and they are requested TO inves-
tigate the work being done whenever
they desire. Bv the united efforts of the
citizens and those directly responsible,
the Fairgrounds can be made social CEN
ters for the mental moral and physical
Advancement OF our children, the future
citizens, and for the healthful recreation
of adults, the present citizens.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-20
For Young and Old.

The Fairgrounds are primarily centers
for the directed recreation OF (a) the
children, (b) the adults. Over 1900 chill
dren are taking advantage Of this oppor"
tunity daily. and in the two parks there
is a growing attendance OF adults for
evening recreation. They are under the
direction Of board OF control, a super
visor and thirteen directors, Every ef-
fort has been made by the board of con-
troll to equip these play centers with ap
paratus for the amusement and enjoy
ment of any who attend, and TO provide
direction and material for games, gym
nastics and folk-dancing.
1t is not expected that persons spend
all their time in the Fairgrounds. but IT.
Is hoped that the people Will appreciate
that here are places where they may
enjoy themselves In good. wholesome
recreation without any expense whatso-
ever, Persons who live near by are urged
to form classes or clubs and make ar
rangements for regular work Adults are
especially requested 10 arrange for swim
ming classes and games in the evening
Miss Marion Westerly has been engaged
TO teach swimming at Liberty park. and
Misses Nora link and Agnes Evans at
Pioneer park. This Is an excellent op
portunty for those desirous Of learning
to swim. These teachers are at the parks
daily from o'clock TO o'clock p m..
except Sundays. swimming class may
be arranged for adults in the evening II
there are fifteen or more applicants.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-20

- HICAGo, July 1e-The regular
Al professional baseball CONTRACT
the link which welded together
the chain of organized baseball
lis to be tested in the courts.
Arthur F. Holman, former outfielder
and utility man. Of the Chicago Ma
tional league baseball team, through
his attorney, Roy D. Keehn. has filed
suit against the club for $1,000, which
he alleges is due him as back pay
through failure of the club manage
ment TO notify him of the termination
2of his contract
Holman suit is an attack on the
validity of the regular baseball con.
tract, in that he charges system OF
practical peonage, by which the player
' is handled as q chattel Through this
system, according of Hoffman S suit,
\ baseball PLAYERS may be blacklisted -
and kept from earning living at their
profession unless in perfect accord
4 with the club owners.
Calls 1t Peonage.
The system, Holman alleges, holds
fits strength through the ironclad
agreement existing between each and
every club. owner in the National,
american and other leagues operating
under the "uational agreement.
An example Of the peonage charged
|by Holman was pointed out by Attor..
ney Keehn The case was that OF
Larry Chappelle, stellar outfielder, OF
4 the Milwaukee American association
club.
AZ Mrs. Agnes Havenor owns the Mil
waukee club, - said Keehn. ''She de-
cided to sell Chappelle and went about
+ 1t in much the same manner as
kfarmer about TO sell prize steer. She
advertised other baseball club owners
for bids for her prize.
"The bids were opened. The bid
4 of Owner Comskey of the White SoX
ali other negotiations But the player
Ia thoroughly human man-is to. be
sold, Just as negroes were sold before
. The civil war, to work for new mas
fer -
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-20

ATEW YORK, July l9,-Organlzed
nj baseball is admirably fortified
against possible opposition. In
~ lo,n,ar osnaciallv is this
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-20
Value of the Farm

The only way for major League clubs
to get PLAYERS NOWADAYS is to 60 out
and dig them from minor league OBJ
scurity, develop them and plant them
where they may be called upon in the
time Of need. A ball club is no
stronger than It's reserve strength.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-20
|TO TEST BASEBALL
/ CONTRACT IN COURT
Artie Hofman's Suit Against
Cubs May Have Wide
spread Effect.
EPEONAGE IS CHARGED
Outhelder Asserts Players In
dividual Rights Are Never
Considered in Agreement.
.PEoNAGE IS CHARGED

By International News Service
~ HICAGO, July 19.-The regular
A professional baseball CONTRACT
Y the link which welded together
the chain of organized baseball
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-13
CITY HALL HAS SECOND
AWNING FIRE IN TWO DAYS

Blushing brides-t o-be and giddy
prospective bridegrooms were treated
to a spectacular display while await
ing their turn in the marriage license
bureau at the City Hall shortly be-
fore noon today when an awning on
one of the rear windows caught fire.
The scenes of yesterday, when an
awning in the office of City Treasurer
Elmer Day was set afire, and clerks
from the various offices ran helter-
SHELTER with fire extinguishers and
lines of hose, were repeated.
With the condition of Mr.. Days Of
fee still vivid in his mind, however,
Clerk Shapiro of the bureau, blocked
the doors and would allow none OF the
wou1d-be fire-ffghters to enter. The
blaze was extinguished from one of
the upper windows, and as result Of
Shapiro's presence of mind the bureau
shows not mark of the fire.
This time Janitor James Hart was
the hero. After being notified of the
blaze he ran to the upper floor and
PLAYED the contents of fire extin-
guisher on the awning.
1t is rumored about that in view
of the two fires occurring within two
days that the various clerks VIII be
organized into fire brigades to meet
all emergencies in the future. Lack of
organization proved fatal in8the case
of the fire at the city treasurer's Of
flee, and it will be several days be-
fore things are again righted
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-13
TO CONTINUE PROBE OF
OLEO TAX EVASION

CHICAGO. June 13.-Attorney-
General McReynolds is not through
with his investigation of the eleventh
hour compromise of oleomargerine
manufacturers and treasury officials
of the Taft administration by means
of which the manufacturers escaped
payment of a large part of taxes al
legged to have been due the govern
ment on colored oleomargerine.
Mr.. McReynolds made this state
ment here today on his way to Wash
ington from st. Paul, where he rep
resented the government in the mat
ter of the dissolution of the Union
IPacific-S Southern Pacific merger. The
acts of officials of the last admins
tration. he said, would be investi-
gated thoroughly, and if the manu-
facturers evaded taxes prior to the
compromise he said steps would be
taken to collect them. Rumors ema-
mating from Washington that he was
experiencing friction with other mem
bers of the cabinet the attorney
general labeled pure moonshine.'
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-13
JACK O'CONNOR TO TEST
BASEBALL ORGANIZATION

ST. LOUIS. June 1s.-John J..
o'Connor. manager of the st. Louis
Club. in the Federal League, has re-
tanned attorneys to file suit in the
Federal District Court to test the le-
gality of the organization in baseball
The petition will ask $4,000 dam
ages for O'Connor's Punishment as
manager of the st. Louis Browns,
and will name each of the eight
clubs in the American League as de-
PENDANTS.
The petition, which already has
been prepared charges that the ma
tional agreement is a violation of the
Sherman antitrust law.
The petition attacks the legality Of
the reserve clause, in contracts by
which a team can hold a player IN
reserve after his contract has ex-
pired. The petition charges that the
leagues have bought and sold men
as chattels and has denied to players
the right to earn a living in the busi-
ness for which they have been
trained.
One of the attorneys in the case
said yesterday that the suit would be
filed on Saturday or Monday. This at
torney said he thought O'Connor
would ask for about $4,000 damages,
yet if the jury finds that the Sherman
law has been violated the court must
treble the damages named in the YER
dict. Under this law a verdict of
$4,000 would be raised to $4,000
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-13
PLAYING WITH MATCHES
BOY is BADLY BURNED

The too frequent story of the alb
sent mother and the box of matches
was reenacted this morning in the
case of 4-year-old Albert Osborn, Of
40 Spring street. His mother, Louise
Osborn, had gone to store and left
the boy at home. He climbed up on
a chair, and secured the illicit play
things from kitchen shelf.
When his mother returned she
found his nightgown in flames, and
the boy already badly burned. With
"A neighbor- she eytinguished the
flames. The burned boy was taken
in the ambulance to the City Hos
pital, where it was found that his
burns were serious. covering his face
and one side of his body. His con-
dition is critical.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-13
FIND NOTE FROM SUICIDE
CONFESSING TO MURDER

NEW ORLEANS, La, June ID
What is believed by police to be the
confession of man driven to suicide
by remorse for the murder of an
aged farmer near Auburn, Ia, five
years ago, for which crime the dead
mans son is now serving life SEN
tence, was revealed here yesterday
when the contents of a note found
in bottle on a Mississippi river fer
ryboat were made known.
The note, dated May 3 and signed
Jesse Miller, Pittsburgh described
the murder of the farmer, whose
name the writer said he did not
know. The writer said he was
tramping through Iowa in the early
part of 1908, and at a farm house
asked permission to sleep in barn
Upon the farmers refusal he knocked
the old man down with heavy stick
and ran away. He afterward learned
that the blow proved fatal and that
another man had been convicted of
the crime. Miller is supposed to have
drowned himself by leaping off the
ferryboat.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-13
CURRENCY REFORM IS
DISCUSSED BY CABINET

WASHINGTON, June 13.-Currency
reform was discussed at the cabinet
meeting today in an effort to COM
pose the differences of opinion among
Democratic leaders on all essential
features.
1t is said that Secretary McAdoo
and congressional leaders are not in
full accord as to the extent the gov
eminent should participate in the
financial system. Secretary McAdoo
is said to be in favor of the govern
ment issuing all currency. while
Chairman Glass. of the House bank
ing and currency committee, is said
to favor giving the proposed regional
reserve associations the right TO is
sue currency in place of the existing
national bank notes which would
gradually be retired.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-13
PNEUMONIA is FATAL TO
BIRD WHICH KILLED SAILOR

sPLAINFIELD. N. J., June 1S.-Percy
H. Cook, of Scotch Plains, one
time owner of three savage birds, a
species similar to that of the os-
trich, known as the New Guinea one
waffle cassowary, has lost the last
of his collection. when the creature
died of pneumonia.
The bird stood six feet high. weighed
200 pounds and cost $1,000. When
en- route to this country two years
ago from New Guinea. this bird killed
a Chinese sailor by stabbing the tar
with its inside claw.
A year ago, Mr.. Cook, battling for
his life. killed one. of the birds which
attacked him. Another he donated to
a zoo in Philadelphia.