The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-31
FATHER MAY BUY
son A BALL CLUB
There's Money by Bushels Today In
Operating Minor League
Organization for
Profit.
THINK OF cHAPPELLE
A Hint for Secretary OF State Bryan so
That He Can Keep Plenty Of
Grape JuiceNew
Rowing.

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Grape Juice-New
Rowing.
by Hal Sheridan, written for the
United Press.]
NEW YORK, July 31.--If things
keep up, fond fathers will no longer
be taking their sons upon their knees
and holding before them the examples
OF great statesmen to emulate. Espec-
tally not IL son has a CLEAN in his
eye that looks like money. If father
is wise he will buy son minor league
ball club and live off the dividends son
declares. This business of paying
young fortunes for minor league stars
has passed the stage OF being an
intermittent disease. It's an incurable
habit.
Gaze upon Larry Chappelle, the
White sox $4,000 beauty as the lat
est prize. to say nothing OF others
who have dragged down for their min
or league club owners seven passen-
ger, six cylinder, self-starter prices.
The only thing that ibothers us is why
Secretary Bryan should fret as to
how he is going to keep the wolf from
the door on $4,000 a year, when he
could buy himself minor league ball
club and remain at his desk while his
manager sold one or two players a
season at top prices to major league
owners. It would not only give Bryan
enough to exc out bare existence
and pay for three or four grape juice
banquets per month to diplomats, but
he wouldn't have to leave the Job OF
secretarying to go out on chautauqua
lecture tours and thus subject himself
to criticism whether Just or unjust.
1t would absolutely solve for Bryan
his problem. Simple, isn't it? And
the thought results in this:
oh, what's a minor league, Pa,
That some folks call it great?
is 1t caterwampus tall,
A million pounds In weightf
IOr is 1t just a fiimsy thing
Made up of sand-lot stars,
Who bring the majors to their feet
with periodic jars?
"a minor league, my boy said Pa,
4 Us all you sav, and more,
Far from the field of toll and strife
That makes the majors roar,
The minor league plods through the
i year
with hope from day to day;
And when the majors spot the stars
i they pay, and pay, and pay"
i And there's more truth than poetry
4 Eyes, we mean that literally In the
above. It's getting SO now that with
4 competition SO keen for young avail
able material, the major managers will
go to almost any lengths in the mat
ter of spending real money for minor
Z. league players. The point is thai
:. they are compelled to name a heavy
figure that minor owner will take
and bind the bargain before some
other manager or his scout pops into
view, decides he wants the minor
Lacquer and offers raise on the first
managers bet
/, They are beginning to agitate II
the east, which means that after the
lagitation has worn off and they gel
down to the bite. there may be some
reform in the ancient and honorable
sport Of rowing. There is move
ment under the surface to cut dowr
the distance rowed by young hopefuls
In the big varsity eight cared races
run off annually in these parts. There
have been such movements started
times out Of number, but this year i
really looks like something would BIZ
really done. This applies not only, Il
the races labored through at POUCH
keepsie but the annual Yale Harvard
tussle. Statistics have established
that taken through and through
youngsters who undergo the terrii,
strain incident to four mile race d.
not live as long as the athlete who Il
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man who doesn't mix In athletics a
all.
The idea is therefore. to conserv,
a few years of our young mems live
for work that produces sometime
more useful than boils and overtaxes
, hearts. If the movement is successful
, the big races will be cut to three ant
possibly two miles before man.
: more are rowed. It's that last mile
that saps years out of the colleg,
oarsman's life.
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