The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-03-02
Anew YORK, March 1.-organized

q ATEW YORK, March 1.-Organized
I'm baseball Is g show business.
In It's evolution 1t has gradually
worked away from the true sporting
IsentIments which first framed It's
destinles until now predominates
'desire 10 please. with the mighty dol
|lar prompting this interest.
! Yes, baseball is show business,
WITH all the friIls OF the show busi-
mess. save the hlppodroming feature.
So far. the powers have been able to
guard against hippodrominG by keep
Ing the organiza tons ranks free from
Ithe contamination OF ruthless pro-
Imoters. Many of these have tried to
Nbreak in. Some have succeeded, but
It Is TO the credit of baseball that
none was permitted to last very
liong.
Ii II there had existed any doubt
whatever as to the great stress mod
Iern magnates lay upon advertising
this present season should have very
2desnitely settled the point. There
arc any number OF instances TO point
The way the wind Is blowing. One
docs not have 20 stir out or the great
metropolis 10 find any number OF
Ieonvineing examples.
l]T1 IRST and foremost there was the
yF Frank Chance deal through
which Frank Farrell gained for
his tail-end club not only one OF the
'Ercatest leaders OF all baseball time,
but an advertisement that would have
been cheap at double the price.
doubt II baseball moguls ever fully
appreciated the value Of press agency
before the Peerless Leaders name was
liirst mentioned In connection with
iIthc New York Americans, The space
devoted to the Developments of this
tcasc by the metropolitan journals
'csimply turned green with envy the
"lclub owners OF rival cities.
VI Here was club that had finished
a woe-oegone last, behind a lot OF
teams that had very little class
1T was a team that had loads of hard
t, luck with which to contend in 1912.
"a Is true. but fans looked 10 results.
not alibis,
The New York Americans mad de-
sEenerated into something of a sad
lIjokc TO everyone but Frank Farrell.
! ~ was no joke TO him. who had 10
.lput up the money without hope OF
4 .imiaedlate return. To add to Far
s1reils woes the rival Giants won
pennant and put up such a game
hight against odds that they came
'out OF the worlds series with as
muoh glory as, II less money. than
the Boston Red Sox.
a Farrell opened the winter season
= binder serious handicap. The Giants
: rev the spread heads; the High
Il landers the agate notes. And then
pne morning the news leaked that
: sAmerlcan League powers were
Ansiing for Frank Chance, Probably
, pnknowlnsIy Frank Farrell had
PnlIed the greatest advertising coup
APr baseball history. Everyone all
''py4r the country went TO the story.
Ihe more 1t was discussed the bet
Q ter lis advertising possibilities
/; rew
SPECULATION was rife, Could
N the American league secure the
waiver consent Of National
lreague club presidents? Would
% Murphy stand in the waer? Would
y nance really come TO New York II
ss >e had the opportunity Was he
p*rons In the head. as Murphy insin-
pated2l And thousand other in
i ririss. These were threshed out at
lBr Iqnsth to the exclusion Of all else.
Why the champion Giants in no time
~ Fere playing second fiddle,
81 Conditions played right into Far
yfeils hands all the way. Charles w,
0I durphy had framed dramatic Sit
by the manner in which he
,s u1spoSed OF Frank Chance.
Tbs country was with the Peer
Il ess Leader and opposed TO the au-
y {ocratic club president Murphy had
umped onto Chance In a very un-
portsmanlilee manner. He had
% ruok while the man who brought
y nim four pennants and two world 8
hamIAonsthps in seven years and
Z ever finished lower than third. was
.ss own; while. he was an inmate of a
"a f2spital undergoing ia serious oper-
q And finally. when Chance did agree