The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-01-05

National League.
Chicago--A team that has had mar
Vicious success under a remarkably
able manager. The man who owns it
knows only Financial baseball" and
cares nothing for anything except gate
receipts. He has discharged the best
executive-player in the business, al
lowing a rival league to get him. Never
personally popular with the fans, the
owner of this team apparently is do
ing everything in his power to ALLEVIATE
his clubs following. Baseball experts
declare his performances in 1912 have
assured the prosperity of the rival
Chicago team in 1918, ever if his riv-
ais never win a game.
New York-This club makes money
only when it is winning. and
therefore it wins. 1t does fair WORK
on the diamond, but shines partlcu-
larry in baseball politics. Because its
rivals, the Yankees, were unable to
make a creditable showing in the pen
nant race the New York National
league team has been a mint. If it
can continue to keep it's grip or the
pennant and continue to elect the
leagues president, it has not as much
to fear financially as the other teams
in the league.
Philadelphia-A blot on baseball.
The team does well enough on the
field. but the nature of the politics
played in the control of this club
makes men like Comiskey ashamed of
the game. The team has been Taft
lied and M~urphy-ized and Fogel-ized
until it is a wonder it is still on earth,
There was $50 in the treasury, accord
ing to report, when the last accounting
was made to the That about
tets the story. To expects fans in
Philadelphia to support a team on
trolled by a man who is wrecking the
whole league is too much.
st. Louis-The Cardinals won't make
M money in 1913, according to the st.
Louis critics. The team had a splen-
did following in the days of Stanley
Robson, who was noted for keeping
his word.' Since his death the team
has fallen into the ownership of a
woman who knows nothing about
baseball, and whose published inter
views are concerned chiefly with the
dollar mark. Under Mrs. Britton's
stirring leadership the team has re-
pudiated it's written contracts, has
discharged a manager for whose serv-
ices rival cams in the same league
are bidding, and %alienated the fans in
other ways. All Of which is fine for
the American league.
Boston-Never much of a winner
financially, it may do something in
1913. The Boston teams new owner
ship is the silver lining to the entire
National league. Gaffney is a young
man with high ideals. He learned a
lot about the company he was in when
he attended the Fogel hearing in New
York.
American League.
Chicago-A team that can pack it's
park without n always on top ad-
vertising. owned by a man who has a
national reputation for fair dealing,
who treats his manager, his players
and his public we'll and gets good
treatment in return. Put this team
anyWhere-first or second division, on
top or at the bottom-and Chicago will
be proud of it, because the fans are
proud of the mar who owns it. Never
has been a loser financially and never
will be. 1t is in the right ~league-it
wouldn't feel at home over in the Ma
tional.
New York-This team has made a
little money, even while playing poor
ball, and if it ever gets up into the
running it ought to be better than a
bank. AS has been said before, the
one thing needed was a manager OF