Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-17
By Percy Ii. Whiting.


ll~HE Southern league will
some day come TO the
scheme of limiting the num-
Der of ex- big leaguers who will be
allowed to play with each team
saws President Frank Galloway of
the Atlanta Baseball association.
1.-THE situation of business enter
prise in which most of the partners
are losing money is absurd. A lot
of things must be done to keep ex-
penses within reason, and that
seems to be one of the good ways"
Watch and see II 1t doesn't come
off within the next couple of years
IF you'll stop and think, you'll
realize that this baseball thing, as
business, is a joke. The Atlanta
club last year kissed goodbye TO
some ten thousand bones 1t was
little enough for the Georgia Rail
way and Power Company, and they
swallowed the dose like heroes. But
suppose some private individual
owned the club--how long do you
suppose he would stand it?
IL the Southern league club own
ers should get together once year,
write down their profits, If they had
any, in one column their losses in
another. and total II up, If would
show a comfortable loss. Pause and
consider the financial idiocy of a
business that is regularly a losing
thing
or course. some clubs make mon
ev each year. Probably it will av-
erage three a year The other Ave
will generally lose.
Backing a Southern league club
is sure thing gambling with the
other fellow dealing off the bot
tom Of the deck. It's betting against
200 per cent book-for every two
hundred dollars the bookies take in
they pay out hundred The play
ers soon get cleaned at that game.
4 ; a matter Of getting some real
expert opinion on the subject, |
wrote some men down in the Sally
league who know about the inner
workings of the league there. Here
are some expressions of opinion as
TO the working of the ex- big league
rule in the Sally league;
BY NJ. p. coRisH,
president Of South Atlantic Leaoue0
The exact wording OF the three
important rules adopted by our as
sociation prior to the opening OF
our 1912 championship season are
as follows, viz.
No player, except the player
manager, is eligible TO play in this
league whose contract in 1911 was
for salary in excess OF $3.50 per
month.
NO player shall receive more
than $3.50 per month, with the ex-
ceptlon OF the player manager"
No club shall employ. at any
one time, more than four play
ers including the manager, who
have previously participated in
regular scheduled games in
leagues Of higher classification as
follows: Pitchers exceeding ten
games: all other PLAYERS exceeding
twenty games in any one season"
Al reply ~ your request Tor
expression as to how the experi-
ment has worked and whether II
Will be continued this year. will
say the innovation has proven all
that its advocates claimed for H.
and am sure voice the sentiment
Of every club member in saving
there is no desire to return to old
practices.
BY jim FOX
manager OF the Columbus Team0
Limit of four men who have
played in higher leagues a good.
one. / am opposed to twelve
player limit because couple Of
injured men can soon put good
club out of the running Thirteen
men IS as small a limit as a club
can get along with unless they are
lucky. But the other rule is a
corking good one and has helped
baseball in the South Atlantic
league
BY HARRY DODD
Sporting Editor Savannah NevsD
- Viewed from financial stand
sSs point the South Atlantic league
S season Of 1912 did not escape the