Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-31

To the readers of the Evening Star:
A Happy New Year.
Greetings have been received as fol-
lows:
J.P. N:
Wishing you a very happy and
prosperous New Year and hoping that
your column will be as interesting
during 1914 as it has been in the past,
l remain, your sincere friend.
HAROLD J. DIBBLEE.
The same to you, Harold.
j. P. NJ:
As happy a New Year that can only
be had, is the wish to you and your
column of sports.
GARRICK DRAMATIC CLUB.
Per Jos. A. Muller.
The same to you, my thespian
friends.
The signing of Joe Tinker and
other baseball notables with the
OUTLAW" Federal League has given
the scribes plenty of opportunity to
draw ON their imaginations for sem
sational stories. Everybody seems
bent on springing tales of players re-
ceiving offers Of from $4,000 to $751;
900 q year in salaries, and in some
instances an entire organized base
ball club Is shifted right over to the
OUTLAWS" The big men in the game
are paying no attention to the fake
stories, and when 1t is put up to
them they simply say: Let 'em
liel"
The situation today in the Tinker
case Is the same as It was yesterday.
That the player has signed a con-
tract with the OUTLAWS" there isn't
a shadow of doubt. He says so in a
telegram to Abe Yeager, sporting ed
itor of the Brooklyn Eagle, which
follows:
'Have signed with Federal League.
Terms much better than Brooklyn.
Could have saved them money If they
had considered me before closing
with Cincinnati. Sorry can't play
there next year, but Federals are a
big league and mean business.
JOE TINKER"
That should settle all discussion
about Tinker not being with the Fed
eral League and 1t shows that the
OUTLAWS" mean business. What
they will be able to accomplish is
another thing. That their prospects
of success are slim is generally ad-
mitted, and the tendency among the
organization magnates is to ignore
them. The more attention the "regu-
lars" give to the Outlaws" the more
they will thrive, and while 1t Is we'll
to protect your own goods 1t is also
we'll not to call too loud other peo-
pies bluffs!
C
The Federal League isn't joke by
any means and its hackers may be
looked to give battle as long as they
can stand the pressure. From the
present outlook, 1t would seem that
the outlaws haven't a show in the
world to hurt the major leagues, but
they might do a lot of harm to the
International League. In fact, from
the course the outlaws are pur-
suing, 1t would seem to indicate that
they intend to make big play on
the International League territory,
but how far they will get along re-
mains to be seen, of course. The
bad boys" are in three International
League cities already and the whole
scheme seems to be an effort to start
third big league, in which case
there would have to be a lot of COM
promising.
C.
With all the fake stories going the
rounds, the surprise is that the
"Rumor Factory" has not located q
Federal League club In Newark be-
fore this. Our hated rival has
shown tendency to be very strong
for the outlaws and the battle the
paper put up for the outlaw" cy-
clists was deserving of a better fate
1t is right on the job and is out
strong for the OUTLAW" Federal
League and yesterday 1t printed q
fake story about five of the Newark
players being offered contracts tc
sign with the outlaws" Gus Get2
received letter not long ago from
Federal League sources asking him
to state his terms, and Jack Dalton
jolSingly remarked that he had beer
offered $4,000 for a five-year contract
The ball players, naturally, will en-.
! joy the situation and will use the
Federal League whenever they car
; to boost their salaries.
G
A Federal League club in Newark
might come to pass, but so far moth
ing has been done around here t.
locate the proposition. With clubs il
Baltimore, Buffalo and Toronto tn
International League Is likely to b.
affected, but the outlaws" will hav'
to go some to beat out the regulars
, in baseball 1t will take millions o
dollars to float such proposition a
! the Federal League promises to be
and tremendous losses are sure to b.